VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Acronis has announced the official opening of its international headquarters in Singapore. For Acronis, launching the international headquarters in Singapore is also returning to its roots, as the company was founded in Singapore in 2002, started sales operations in Asia. Singapore is a strategic choice for the international headquarters to focus on rapidly-growing Asian market, and continue successful international operations from this neutral technology and business hub. “Singapore is a convenient location for international technology business. The country is well connected to the rest of the world; more than 50% of the world’s population and economy is in the distance of 8-hour flight from here. Singapore serves as a business and technology hub in Asia, and this is important for us, as we believe that in 5 years more than 50% of Acronis revenue will come from Asia. Also, it is important that Singapore is a neutr...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Acronis Technologies has announced a few predictions for 2014 which is related to the security demands needed to drive innovation in Cloud storage. According to the Director of Product Management at Acronis, Sergey Kandaurov, first and foremost, customers will increasingly change how they choose what to store and where to store it. Additionally, smaller service providers will emphasize their proximity and personal service to woo customers and differentiate themselves from larger, more dominant Cloud service providers. Despite Dropbox's high prospects and valuation, companies will start to block access to services like Dropbox and shift from public clouds toward private, more secure clouds hosted on their premises, allowing data to remain under their own control. As more and more people choose to store their business-critical workload in the Cloud, issues of business continuity will become front and center. With larger volumes...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Acronis has been included in the Gartner Enterprise Backup & Recovery Magic Quadrant for 2012. 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. Alex Pinchev, President & CEO, Acronis said, “There are three major challenges facing data management strategies today. The explosion of data creation, the wide spread 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 ne...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   According to a recent survey conducted by Acronis, small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) around the world are planning to adopt server virtualization in 2012 at a faster pace than large enterprises. However, the survey also identified widespread backup and disaster recovery shortcomings for virtual servers amongst SMBs.  IT managers at 6,000 SMBs in 18 countries were surveyed for the Acronis Global Disaster Recovery Index 2012. They predict that 29% of their servers will be virtualized by the end of the year, a growth rate of 21%. This is 50% higher than the pace identified in a recent Gartner report that predicted virtualization adoption by enterprises is to increase by 14% over the same period. Bill Taylor-Mountford, President, Asia-Pacific, Acronis, said, "Virtualization has become more affordable and relatively easy for SMBs to implement - the high growth rate of virtualization adoption should not be a surprise. Si...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Acronis has released that Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 Virtual Edition has been enhanced to include new features for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 and can be previewed from the new Red Hat Market Place forum. A free trial of Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 Virtual Edition is also available exclusively on Red Hat Market Place and includes the migration of three production workloads from physical or other virtual environments to the new Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 platform. Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 Virtual Edition supports Windows and Linux servers and all major virtualization solutions including VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 in one solution, with unlimited P2V and V2V migrations included. Acronis' integration of its Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 Virtual Edition with the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization API enables new capabilities for Red Hat Enterprise Virtua...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Acronis has appointed Alex Pinchev, as its President and Chief Executive Officer. Prior to joining he was the President, Global Sales, Services and Field Marketing at Red Hat. "Acronis has built its reputation on providing easy-to-use, cost effective solutions for data protection, backup and disaster recovery for government organizations, businesses and home users worldwide. As we enter the next phase of the company's growth, we have a very strong customer base, a great partner ecosystem, talented team and a portfolio of intellectual property that will be leveraged to take advantage of the growing opportunity within the virtualization and cloud markets," said Alex Pinchev, President & CEO, Acronis. For More Details See www.varindia.com

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Acronis has entered into a new distribution relationship with Avnet Technology Solutions to provide protection for businesses threatened by potential technology disasters in Thailand and Vietnam. Under the new alliance, Avnet will sell, market and support Acronis' suite of disaster recovery and data protection solutions to resellers and managed service providers (MSPs) throughout Thailand and Vietnam. William Chu, President, Avnet Technology Solutions, Asia Pacific said, "Disaster recovery and data protection solutions present a tremendous revenue opportunity for value-added resellers, especially in the mid market. With Acronis solutions, we will provide channel partners with the technology and resources they need to successfully address this market opportunity and help them build competitively differentiating business practices that help organisations of all sizes simplify and automate backup and disaster recovery processes, includi...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Acronis has hired Alex Pinchev as President and Chief Executive Officer. Pinchev will join Acronis on January 17, 2012 and replaces Jason Donahue who has served as Chief Executive Officer since 2008. Pinchev has served as a Member of the Acronis Board of Directors since November 2010, and will continue to serve on the Board of Directors as the Chief Executive Officer appointee. Pinchev said, "Acronis has a winning combination of talented employees and market leading technology, with a broad channel ecosystem and a great global customer base. With a successful business in data protection and disaster recovery solutions for physical, virtual and cloud environments, Acronis now has the opportunity to further develop its routes-to-market and expand its technology presence. I am excited to join the talented team at Acronis and to meet the growing demands of our customers worldwide." Ilya Zubarev, Chairman of the Board, Acronis said, ...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Acronis has announced the availability of Acronis Snap Deploy 4, the latest version of Acronis' automated solution for deployment of data and systems to multiple PCs, virtual machines and servers. Acronis Snap Deploy 4 assists IT administrators and lab managers within organizations, to copy exact images of data and systems and move it from one device to another. It also enables IT departments to standardize and control their infrastructure by deploying a standard master image, and reduce costs and time by automating deployment. The solution is based on Acronis' patented disk imaging technology and takes a snapshot of an entire operating system, its applications and data, creating a master image that can be installed onto multiple machines. The centrally managed solution can be deployed for the benefit of new machines or to reimage an existing machine back to a master image. "Deployment can be a repetitive and painful task for ma...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Acronis has launched a fast and simple-to-use backup and disaster recovery solution for VMware customers. Acronis vmProtectTM 6 has been engineered exclusively for VMware vSphereTM servers (v4.0, 4.1 or later) using ESX and ESXi hypervisors. It provides businesses with a simple-to-deploy, easy-to-manage disaster recovery solution for agentless back up and quick recovery of their VMware virtual environments. Priced at US$499 per CPU and with unlimited P2V (physical to virtual) migrations, Acronis vmProtect 6 represents an affordable backup, migration and disaster recovery solution for the growing number of businesses moving to a VMware virtualized server environment. Bill Taylor-Mountford, President, Asia Pacific, Acronis said, "Protecting VMware servers should be neither complex nor costly. By using a solution that speaks directly to VMware requirements, businesses can accelerate their virtualization adoption. IT managers need never ques...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Acronis has announced Acronis Backup and Recovery 11. This new product will 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. In a market where disaster recovery and data protection are traditionally provided in two separate solutions, Acronis is the first to announce a product that provides the two elements of file-based backup and system-level recovery in a single, affordable, and easy-to-use product. This allows organizations to reduce complexity, as well as software maintenance and management costs. Acronis Backup and 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 bec...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Acronis has appointed Robert Yang as Vice-President of Sales for Asia. Robert's responsibilities will include seeing business directions and go-to-market strategies, as well as maintaining Acronis' strong presence in the SMB marketplace across the Asia region. Robert brings with him more than 20 years of experience in the United States and Asia-Pacific region, with excellent track record in cultivating sales, strategizing channel developments and growing market shares across verticals in high growth organizations such as Teleplan, Hitachi Data Systems and Seagate. "I am joining Acronis at the strategic intersection where it is expanding the capabilities of its backup and recovery solutions as a leading provider for the SMB markets. I am looking forward to working with the local expert teams and channels to continue to create compelling business value and find better and faster ways to deliver our solutions to our customers,...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Acronis has launched Acronis Backup and Security 2011, an updated solution to safeguard critical data and systems from both internal and external threats. The latest edition delivers three elements for home computer protection - local backup and disaster recovery, online backup and Internet security. Acronis Backup and Security 2011 provides comprehensive information protection that combines award-winning backup and recovery with Internet security, delivering a comprehensive alternative to existing point solutions. This combination of backup and security technologies allows users to back up systems locally for fast recovery of both data and their entire PC, protecting them against user error, disk failures and system failures, and to implement industry leading firewall, anti-virus, parental controls and other security protections. Acronis Backup and Security 2011 also provides online backup - an additional layer of protection with remote l...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Acronis has launched the industry's first Global Disaster Recovery Index, a barometer which measures IT managers' confidence in their backup and recovery operations. The survey of over 3,000 small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) conducted by the Ponemon Institute revealed that while attitudes towards backup and recovery differ widely around the world, businesses everywhere want a single backup and recovery solution for physical, virtual and cloud environments. The vast majority (68%) of IT managers agree that their greatest challenge in a hybrid environment is moving data between the three environments, yet the average business currently uses at least two or three separate backup solutions, making disaster recovery (DR) more complicated. The survey also highlighted that many IT managers are failing to back up their virtual environments as often as their physical counterparts. Despite an expected 50% global increase in the deploym...