Acronis® vmProtect™ 7 Adds VMware®
vCenter™ Integration, VM Replication and Exchange Support To
Accelerate Recovery Times For Businesses Worldwide
Woburn, MA, 6 March 2012 - Acronis, a
leading provider of disaster recovery and data protection solutions
for physical, virtual and cloud environments, today announced
Acronis® vmProtect™ 7, introducing new management
options, VM replication and support for Exchange, to improve and
accelerate backup and disaster recovery practices for
VMware® vSphere™ servers.
In addition to its intuitive web-based interface, Acronis
vmProtect 7 now integrates seamlessly with VMware®
vCenter™, allowing administrators to use one console to manage all
their tasks. It now offers advanced replication capability with
failover and failback, and the ability to run a virtual machine
directly from its backup, dramatically improving the times to
recover. Even in the event of total server failure, bare metal
recovery (BMR) allows an entire machine to be recovered to
dissimilar hardware, significantly reducing downtime. With support
for Microsoft® Exchange objects, Acronis vmProtect 7
eliminates the need to create a separate Microsoft®
Exchange backup when searching for a specific email or lost
contact.
With the adoption of virtual servers continuing to accelerate
beyond the enterprise into small businesses at a predicted growth
rate of 21%¹, the automated Disaster Recovery Plan
provides an easy to use step-by-step guide for anyone to
confidently and quickly recover a machine, even remotely, following
a system failure.
"Our current hands-on testing is rapidly proving that this new
version builds on performance with a number of key innovations.
These include broadened application stack protection (MS Exchange),
replication, bare metal hypervisor recovery and advances in
recovery flexibility," commented Jeff Boles, senior analyst at The
Taneja Group. "Coupled with a virtual appliance deployment model
that makes for the fastest install time in the market, these next
generation improvements give vmProtect 7 a serious leg up in the
race to the most seamless, comprehensive, and easy to use virtual
protection in the market. In our view, that advantage is poised to
equip customers with TCO breakthroughs in their virtual
infrastructure management."
"Respondents to our global survey¹ admitted that they
routinely take risks with the valuable data by not backing up their
virtual machines as regularly as their physical ones," commented
Dmitri Joukovski, vice president, product management at Acronis.
"For some administrators backup and recovery is still too complex
or difficult - it doesn't have to be. With AcronisvmProtect 7 we
continue to deliver a solution that supports the priorities of the
virtual server administrator by making the process intuitive and
fast."
Still priced at $499 per CPU, and with unlimited P2V (physical
to virtual) migrations, AcronisvmProtect 7 represents a fast
backup, migration and disaster recovery solution with great ROI for
the expanding number of businesses moving to a VMware®
vSphere™ environment. Customers who have purchased
Acronis® vmProtect 6™ with maintenance are entitled to a
free upgrade to Acronis vmProtect 7.
¹ Acronis Disaster Recovery Index, 2012. For a
copy of the full report please visit:
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.