Agreement Expands Acronis System Software into Top Retail Distribution Channel
INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana April 29, 2002 PTG Software, a division of Pearson Technology Group (NYSE: PSO), announces an exclusive North American distribution agreement with Acronis, the technological leader in system software development. PTG Software will facilitate the distribution of the Acronis line of PC system tools and utility products to its major retail customers.
"We are truly confident that this relationship between PTG and Acronis will greatly benefit our two companies," said Paul Reese, title manager, Technical Products, PTG Software. "The addition of Acronis is a key strategic move to increase our distribution offerings across key segments of the software market."
Under the terms of the agreement, PTG will provide Acronis distribution into all leading retail channels and outlets. PTG and Acronis will also work together to expand Acronis' PC system tools and utility product line.
"We are pleased to announce this distribution agreement with PTG Software," said Maxim Tsypliaev, president of Acronis. "A true industry leader with a large retailer customer base, PTG Software will help Acronis become the recognized leader in system software in North America.
In April, PTG will deliver two award-winning Acronis titles to its retail customers Acronis OS Selector 5.0 Deluxe and Acronis Migrate Easy Deluxe.
Acronis OS Selector 5.0 Deluxe (www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/osselector/) is a popular multi-operating system hard disk drive partitioner and boot manager. The versatile software allows PC users to run multiple operating system environments on a single PC, including Windows®, Linux®, and Sun Solaris® among others. It also allows PC users to edit and resize NTFS, NTFS5, FAT16, FAT32, Ext2Fs, Ext3Fs and ReiserFS files systems functionality found exclusively in Acronis OS Selector 5.0.
Acronis Migrate Easy Deluxe (www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/migrateeasy/) is a hard disk drive upgrading program that allows PC users to effortlessly migrate existing system data to a new hard drive in minutes, while retaining their operating systems and all data. Acronis Migrate Easy Deluxe supports all PC operating systems.
PTG Software also plans to distribute additional Acronis titles in the coming months, including Acronis TrueImage Deluxe, a leading hard disk drive imaging solution, Acronis PrivacyExpert, a comprehensive Internet, hard drive and system data removal solution, and Acronis PowerUtilities, a 'greatest hits' compilation of award-winning Acronis system utilities. Other Acronis titles will be announced soon. To receive the latest news on Acronis products, please visit www.acronis.com and sign up for the product announcement newsletter.
关于 Acronis：
Acronis 是一家全球性的网络安全公司，为托管服务提供商 (MSP)、中小型企业 (SMB) 和企业 IT 部门提供原生集成的网络安全保护、数据保护和终端管理。Acronis 解决方案非常高效，旨在通过最短的停机时间识别、阻止、检测、响应、纠正当下肆虐横行的网络威胁以及实现之后的恢复，从而确保数据完整性和业务连续性。Acronis 凭借其独特的能力，可满足多样化和分布式 IT 环境的需求，为 MSP 提供市场上最全面的安全解决方案。
Acronis 是一家瑞士公司，于 2003 年在新加坡成立，全球设有 15 个办事处，员工遍布 50 多个国家。Acronis Cyber Protect 在 26 个国家/地区提供 150 种语言版本，已被 20,000 个以上的服务提供商用于保护超过 750,000 家企业。请访问 www.acronis.com 了解更多信息。