Acronis
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| Type | Private |
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| Founded | USA (2000) |
| Headquarters | USA |
| Key people | Jason Donahue, CEO |
| Industry | Computer software |
| Products | Acronis True Image, Acronis Disk Director Suite, Acronis Migrate Easy, Acronis Backup & Recovery series, Acronis Recovery for Microsoft Exchange, Acronis Recovery for MS SQL Server, Acronis Snap Deploy, Acronis Disk Director Server, Acronis Drive Cleanser |
| Revenue | $120 million (2008) GFI names industry veteran Walter Scott as new Chief Executive OfficerGFI Software 28 October 2008 |
| Website | www.acronis.com |
Acronis, Inc. is a multinational computer software company, dealing in the area of scalable storage management solutions, data protection and data recovery software. Acronis’ products can be used to back up, restore, and migrate the operating system, applications, settings, folders and files. Other products include disaster recovery and storage management, disk imaging and bare metal restore technology used for business continuity, data protection, disaster recovery, system deployment, and server virtualization in both Windows and Linux environments.
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[edit] History
Acronis was founded as a privately owned company by the IT entrepreneurs Serguei Beloussov, Max Tsypliaev, and Ilya Zubarev in 2000. The company was focused on backup and data recovery software based on disk imaging software technology. Until 2009, Acronis’s main product line was Acronis True Image, which included utilities for both home users and enterprise environments. The scope of their product line eventually grew, extending to protection of database and messaging systems, and support of virtualized platorms. In 2009 the company released a new advanced product line: Acronis Backup and Recovery, succeeding the True Image family. Data deduplication has since become a new option in all its corporate products as well as online backup in its home product Acronis True Image Home 2010.
[edit] Markets
Acronis is a global company, which operates in the United States, Europe and Asia, providing data protection and recovery solutions for the healthcare, banking, professional services, construction, technology, retail, state and local government, educational institutions and manufacturing markets.
[edit] Products
Acronis provides disaster recovery and partitioning software for the home, small and mid-size businesses and enterprise. Acronis backup and recovery stuff based on disk imaging software technology helps both home and corporate customers protect their digital data. Home stuff allows customers easily backup, restore and migrate their PCs data, operating systems, settings or files. Acronis products for home and small offices are:
- PC data backup and restore
- Disk cloning and data migration
- Disk imaging software
- Partitioning software
- Hard drive recovery and disk booting
Acronis enterprise storage management products help organizations backup and restore systems from routine failures, speed up migration projects and respond quickly to both virus attacks and natural or man-made disasters. The Acronis line of products works with both physical and virtual servers, as well as workstations. Acronis provides a variety of business products for:
- System deployment
- Database backup and restore
- Disaster recovery
- Data center migrations
- Bare metal installations
- Reducing storage space
- Virtualization
- Continuity planning
[edit] Products
[edit] Home products overview
Acronis home products cover a variety of users’ needs, providing backup, data recovery and partitioning software.
- Acronis True Image Home The company’s award-winning[1] computer backup software Acronis True Image Home is designed for PC protection and allows users to backup and restore their PCs or laptops.
- Acronis Disk Director Suite is a hard drive partition manager, which helps perform operations with hard drives and disk partitions.
- Acronis Migrate Easy is a migration software designed for disk and data migrations and for a new disk deployment.
[edit] Enterprise products overview
[edit] For servers
The previous Acronis' enterprise product line True Image was replaced by Acronis Backup & Recovery products, which cover companies' needs in disaster recovery, back up and storage management. The line is designed for servers and workstations, connected in network.
- Acronis Backup & Recovery10 Advanced Server
- Acronis Backup & Recovery10 Server for Windows
- Acronis Backup & Recovery10 Server for Linux
- Acronis Backup & Recovery10 Advanced Server Virtual Edition
- Acronis Backup & Recovery10 Advanced Server SBS Edition
- Acronis Snap Deploy 3 for Servers
Products provide protection and quick restore for messaging and database systems:
- Acronis Recovery for Microsoft Exchange
- Acronis Recovery for MS SQL Server
- Acronis Snap Deploy 3 for Servers
Products for server disk management, which ensure better server performance and data privacy:
- Acronis Disk Director Server 10.0
- Acronis Drive Cleanser 6.0
[edit] For workstations
- Acronis Backup & Recovery10 for Workstation
- Acronis Backup & Recovery10 Advanced Workstation
- Acronis Snap Deploy 3 for PCs
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Acronis backup software awards
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