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Acronis integrates disaster recovery and data protection in single platform
Acronis integrates disaster recovery and data protection in single platform
By SMBWorld Asia Editors | May 10, 2011
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Acronis has announced Acronis Backup & Recovery 11. The new product is designed to help organizations simplify their disaster recovery and data protection needs across physical, virtual and cloud environments by providing its established disk imaging technology fully integrated with purpose-built data protection and backup features such as catalog and search.
The company says Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 is an integrated solution for the backup and recovery of images, files and Virtual Machines (VM). Support for applications such as Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft SQL Server will become available later.
“For most companies controlling, backing up and protecting data is still not an easy task. Technology can be complex, installation painful and implementing a full disaster recovery plan is a daunting task for many,” explains David Russell, Research Vice President at Gartner. “Many businesses are seeking an easy-to-use and easy-to-manage technology that solves all their needs in one solution.”
Recent research shows that the average company is using two or three solutions for its disaster recovery and data protection needs. Available later this quarter, the unified Platform of Acronis Backup & Recovery 11, will provide a data centric view independent of the backup archive, allowing users to control their data wherever it is held, be that in a physical, virtual or a cloud world.
“Running separate solutions can drive up costs and integration between technologies, even from the same vendor, is difficult. Add migrations to the backing up of data across physical, virtual and cloud environments and it’s clear that IT managers today are relying on overly complex legacy technologies,” explains Jason Donahue, CEO at Acronis. “Through this new integrated platform, we expect business to benefit from simplified data protection and management as well as the flexibility to choose what they need when they need it.”
Among the features of Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 features include new data protection capabilities, improved disaster recovery, improved support for tape drives and tape libraries, and an improved GUI.
The new version is also capable of restoring and migrating to dissimilar hardware for Linux environments. The version's deduplication performance has also been improved, the company says.
For virtual environments, Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 is capable of simultaneous backups of multiple virtual machines for VMware ESX(i) and Microsoft Hyper-V - allowing increased performance for backups of virtual environments.
A new feature is a single agent for multiple VMware ESX hosts, which increases efficiency and simplifies management of backups for VMware vSphere configurations. Other new features include LAN free backup (reduced CPU and network consumption) and support for Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV), for Microsoft Hyper-V environments.
Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 also supports the cloud environment with increased online backup capacity. For a workstation, storage space is doubled to a maximum of 500GB. For a server, storage space is increased by 50% to 1.5TB, and for virtual machines, capacity has been doubled to 4TB.
Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 will be available at $1399 per server from Acronis channel partners worldwide. The solution will be available later in Q2 with support for Microsoft Exchange Server and Microsoft SQL Server becoming available at a later date.
Customers in the region include Trans Eurokars, NTUC Income and St Vincent Hospital.
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