Vendor seeks to partner with more virtualisation
resellers
SCHAFFHAUSEN, Switzerland, 12 January, 2012 - Acronis, a leading provider of easy-to-use disaster
recovery and data protection solutions for physical, virtual and
cloud environments, today announced that it has added 3,000 new
partners in the last six months of 2011, following the introduction
of its new Global
Partner Programme, bringing its worldwide total to over 25,000
partners.
The increase in the number of registered channel partners has
been partly attributed to the introduction of the new Global
Partner Programme which significantly improves the tools, assets
and support available to Acronis partners. It is a multi-tier
progression-based programme offering financial benefits, expanded
use of support tools, special pricing, technical training and
marketing collateral.
"The value proposition of the partner programme appears to be
resonating. More resellers are choosing Acronis, which coupled with
good satisfaction rates of our current partners in
Europe¹, is demonstrating that our strategy is working.
Acronis continues to be a company which truly cares about its
partner community," commented David Blackman, General Manager
Northern Europe and MEA, Acronis.
Acronis has also recently introduced two new products to enable
channel partners to provide solutions for backup and disaster
recovery for the growing number of SMBs wishing to move their
infrastructure to a virtual environment. Acronis
Backup & Recovery® 11 Virtual Edition provides
integrated data protection and disaster recovery to IT
administrators with an infrastructure including physical, virtual
and cloud platforms, and Acronis®
vmProtect™ 6, which provides backup and recovery for VMware™
vSphere® environments. Independent tests show Acronis
vmProtect to be three times faster than the leading competitor to
install and start to backup VMware vSphere virtual
servers.²
Acronis is focused on recruiting virtualisation specific
partners to match its product set which enables simple and fast
backup. By registering on the Acronis partner
portal and becoming an Acronis Authorised partner, resellers
are entitled to certain benefits, such as receiving a free Acronis
vmProtect 6 NFR covering 4 CPUs.
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.