Woburn, MA, 18 June, 2012 - Acronis, a leading provider
of backup and disaster recovery solutions today announced that it
has been included in the Gartner Enterprise Backup & Recovery Magic
Quadrant for 2012¹.
Acronis has been positioned in the Niche Players quadrant, with
its unified platform that supports backup and recovery tasks for
physical Windows or Linux machines, all major hypervisors
(VMware®, Microsoft®, Citrix®, and
Red Hat®) and data within Cloud environments from one
management console and one solution. Acronis is the only vendor to
provide a solution that can restore a virtual machine to any
hypervisor. Initially targeted at businesses with limited or no IT
function, Acronis is expanding application and Cloud support to
broaden the scope of this highly scalable product for data
protection and disaster recovery for organizations of all
sizes.
The report highlights that the industry is about to undergo a
period of change citing:
- By 2016, one-third of organizations will change backup vendors due to frustration over cost, complexity and/or capability; and
- By 2015, at least 25% of large enterprises will have given up on conventional backup/recovery software, and will employ snapshot and replication techniques instead.
"There are three major challenges facing data management
strategies today," commented Alex Pinchev, president & CEO of
Acronis. "The explosion of data creation, the widespread adoption
of virtual environments and the introduction of unstructured cloud
storage options are driving new and very real complexity into the
traditional backup and recovery market. With the maturity of disk
imaging, snapshot and replication technology, the challenge is not
within the backup, but the speed at which data can be found or
machines restored with near-zero downtime. The next generation of
backup and recovery technology must recognize and respond to these
challenges."
This latest report highlights the challenges facing enterprise
buyers by only including vendors with a broad-based and
heterogenous backup application, although in reference to the
expectation that by the "end of 2016, 45% of large enterprises will
have eliminated tape for operational recovery," tape capabilities
were no longer a necessity for inclusion.
[1] Gartner "Enterprise Backup and Recovery Magic
Quadrant" by Dave Russell, Alan Dayley, Sheila Childs, Pushan
Rinnen, June 11, 2012.
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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.