Acronis Backup & Recovery® Virtual Edition Receives Award
For Virtualization Product Of The Year 2012
WOBURN, MA, April 26, 2012 - Acronis, a
leading provider of disaster recovery and data protection for
physical, virtual and cloud environments, today announced that it
has received the Virtualization Product Of The Year award for its
next generation backup and data protection product, Acronis
Backup & Recovery® Virtual Edition, from the Green I.T
Magazine awards in the United Kingdom.
In recognition of Earth Day
(April 22), the awards honor products, services and projects
that contribute to and promote a more environmentally aware
approach to IT practices today. Supported by the UK's Department of Energy and Climate
Change and iomart
hosting®, the Green I.T awards include categories for Recycling
Project of the Year, Sustainable Design Product of the Year and IT
Operator of the Year, amongst others.
"The adoption of virtualization can bring benefits to businesses
of all sizes," commented David Blackman, general manager, North
Europe, Middle East and Africa at Acronis. "The fiscal savings from
fewer physical servers, using less power and taking up less
physical room has direct environmental benefits as well - less
energy consumed, fewer resources used and therefore less impact on
the environment. We are proud to have been recognized as a leader
in this growing market."
Acronis Backup & Recovery® can help businesses to accelerate
their adoption of virtualization by providing integrated data
migration tools with innovative, fast backup and recovery
technology. Acronis supports all major hypervisors including
Microsoft® Hyper-V, VMware vSphere®, Citrix® Xen®, Red Hat®
Enterprise Virtualization and Parallels®. Critical data can be
quickly recovered from and migrated between a virtual, physical and
cloud environments from one easy to use solution.
The winners of the Green I.T Awards 2012 are highlighted at
www.greenitwards.com.
Green I.T is published by Barrow & Thompkins Connexion Ltd. In
the UK, whose publications also include Storage Magazine, Network
Computing and Computing Security.
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.