Customizable solution now available through partner community
in EMEA And North America
Houston, Texas, Tuesday, August 2, 2011: iland Internet
Solutions, a premier provider of cloud infrastructure services, and
Acronis, a leading provider of easy-to-use disaster recovery and
data protection solutions for physical, virtual and cloud
environments, today announced the global expansion of their joint
cloud-based business continuity solution, with the launch of
iland's vCloud Services site in the UK. This is iland's second
vCloud services site, the first being in the US, announced in
2010.
The companies' 18-month partnership remains focused on providing
their partners and business of all sizes with the flexibility to
quickly recover both locally and in the cloud with a single, easy
to use solution. By leveraging Acronis Backup & Recovery®
11 the vendor's flagship product for physical and virtual
servers, and iland's vCloud Services, a VMware vCloud Powered
Service, organizations can quickly and easily restore operations by
securely harnessing the power of an entire virtual datacenter for
the recovery of data or their production environment.
iland and Acronis certified partners in North America and EMEA
can take this solution to market as a co-branded offering or under
their own brand. By providing subscription-based licensing for
Acronis Backup & Recovery 11, iland's partners are delivering a
cost effective solution while maintaining complete control over the
restoration process.
"We've worked with iland in the United States for some time now
and it's great to see them open a data center in the UK. A third of
US companies do not have offsite backup[1], yet cloud
adoption is expected to expand by 87% this year[2], so
this is a great market opportunity. The extension of our joint
venture presents huge benefit to both end users and the partner
community,' said Izzy Azeri, general managing and vice president,
Americas at Acronis.
A growing number of organizations are using online backup to
protect their data by cost-effectively streamlining the recovery
process to a secure cloud computing environment. Acronis Backup &
Recovery® 11 is installed on production servers and
replicates data and system state over a site to site VPN to a cloud
based repository at iland. Once the initial backup is received
only the de-duplicated changes are compressed and replicated to the
repository, minimizing storage requirements. By extending the LAN
environment via VPN, a single server or a collection of servers can
be restored in iland's vCloud Services environment with a few
clicks, providing flexibility during downtime.
iland vCloud Services deliver an entire virtual datacenter
through a simple and secure self-service portal built on VMware
vCloud Director. This enterprise cloud infrastructure empowers
users to restore systems in minutes and simply pay for their
consumption.
"We thought it was important to extend the capabilities of the
iland Continuity Cloud to provide our customers and partners with
the means to recover a portion or even their entire environment
within minutes," said Dante Orsini, iland VP, business development.
"The Acronis team shares this vision and through our integration
of vCloud Services we are delivering a powerful solution that goes
beyond cloud hype by providing an easy to use platform for the
protection and recovery of data and systems locally and in the
cloud".
"We have evaluated several cloud solutions and frankly not found
a platform that would provide our team with the ability to manage
the recovery of files and systems quickly without breaking the
bank" explains Keith Williams, Managing Director at Netexperts, a
UK based IT Professional Services organization. "iland's joint
offering with Acronis is leading the way forward for our clients as
we are able to deliver a single integrated solution for backup,
recovery and even production cloud capacity on our terms."
This joint solution is available today. For more information or
to enquire about the new partner certification please visit:
http://www.iland.com/data-replication/acronis
[1] Acronis Global Disaster Recovery Index, January
2011
[2] Acronis Global Disaster Recovery Index, January 2011
[2] Acronis Global Disaster Recovery Index, January 2011
About iland Internet Solutions
Iland Internet Solutions, VMware's 2010 Service Provider Partner
of the Year, provides a range of hosted cloud infrastructure
services in the US and Europe that enable customers to leverage
enterprise class infrastructure in the form of virtual data centers
with flexible billing and capacity models. Solutions include secure
hosted environments for virtual servers and desktops, test and
development, cloud-based disaster recovery, and hybrid cloud
services to maximize the value of existing VMware based
environments. For more information, please visit www.iland.com. Follow iland on
Twitter: http://twitter.com/ilandcloud
About Acronis:
Acronis is a leader in AI-native cyber protection, unifying data protection, cybersecurity, IT operations and hybrid infrastructure to deliver business continuity, security and compliance with less cost and complexity. More than 21,000 service providers trust Acronis to protect over 750,000 businesses in 150 countries. Acronis is headquartered in Schaffhausen, Switzerland. For more information, visit www.acronis.com.