Acronis Snap Deploy 5

Acronis International GmbH announced Snap Deploy 5, a tool trusted by over 27,000 organisations for system deployment and provisioning.

It increases IT, worker and student productivity by allowing educational institutions, corporate training centres, and any organisation responsible for large enterprise deployments to refresh workstations and provision mass deployment on devices.

With Snap Deploy 5, IT can refresh workstations and devices twice as fast, returning them to their standard configuration or deploy updates to thousand,f machines as fast as they could provision one system. This ensures employees, students and other users can work from devices free of viruses, downloads or spyware attracted by a previous user.

The product is also compatible with Windows 8.1 and the MS Surface tablet, for additional flexibility.

“At my primary school, every two to three weeks we reimage about 300 workstations, ranging from Windows XP to Windows 7, so students can effectively work during labs or for class,” says Tom Lawson, network manager, UK-based primary school. “Without Acronis Snap Deploy, it’d take me a week to reinstall everything on a single computer. Now I can do 300 in three days, increasing my productivity and allowing me to focus on supporting students and managing issues that may crop up on the server. This is also important for my students with special needs, after each reimaging, their computers are exactly the same as before, diminishing confusion and letting them focus more on learning each day.“

Snap Deploy 5 creates an exact system image of any standard configuration that an organisation chooses and deploys the image to multiple PCs and servers. Through a dispatch and central administration point, the product provisions bare-metal initial deployments to many workstations and servers, and is ideal for on-going deployment to the same or different hardware in education, training, and lab environments. With its Universal Deploy feature, the product empowers IT managers to provision hundreds of workstations or servers, regardless of the architecture, as fast as they can provision just one. From setting up devices for a batch of new employees, to resetting school computers between new classes, Acronis Snap Deploy provides the flexibility to deploy to multiple OSs including Windows Server, PCs, Microsoft Surface, and Linux.

The disk imaging technology for Snap Deploy 5 is powered by the Acronis AnyData Engine and creates an exact disk image of any standard configuration – the OS, files and all applications – and simultaneously deploys the image to multiple machines in one easy step. It also automatically manages machine-specific configurations. The AnyData Engine powers all Acronis new generation data protection DP products, allowing IT managers to use one or more products, or add on additional products based on their specific needs.

“Acronis Snap Deploy has been a popular, trusted and dependable solution for an established period of time, helping our customers and clients mitigate traditional risks of deploying images across dissimilar hardware and their environments,” said Dafydd Evans, Business Development Manager, 101 Data Solutions Ltd. “Our customers recognise the product’s ease of use in counteracting business pains of deploying images, especially in this period of change. 101 Data Solutions believes this product fits nicely with our ethos, which is to provide our customers with high quality solutions that are reliable and designed to work.

“Businesses know the costly implications of not replacing unsupported images with brand new images, Acronis Snap Deploy provides a solution that is easy to use for technical teams, a solution that operates within the constraints for financial controllers and a solution that gives the board, peace of mind with very limited impact on the business.“

New features in Snap Deploy 5 include:

• 2X faster deployment

• Windows 8.1/2012 support

• Acronis Universal Deploy

• Windows tablet deployment

• Linux deployment

• Support of images prepared with Sysprep

• Site licensing option

• Acronis Backup format support

“Acronis Snap Deploy is a testament to our commitment to delivering simple, easy-to-use products for any organisations’ new generation data protection needs,” says Serguei Beloussov, CEO, Acronis. “The new speed – twice as fast – in Acronis Snap Deploy 5 helps IT move even quicker to provision multiple machines. This is ideal for refreshing computer labs and diminishing workload on IT. It’s a product our customers and partners can gain immediate value from.“