Acronis Family Packs ($80)

Acronis, Inc. introduced two special packages for the backup and hard drive management of multiple PCs or laptops to help consumers protect and manage all of their household computers.

Acronis is licensing two of its home user products to allow them to be used on multiple computers. Acronis True Image Home 2011 Family Pack offers comprehensive support for the backup and recovery of systems, applications, settings or files on Windows computers. Additionally, Acronis Disk Director 11 Home Family Pack enables hard disk drive management for better performance. Both are licensed for use on up to three computers per household, reflecting the growing trend towards second and third computers in households.

According to a recent survey from the Pew Center, in 2010 59 percent of adults had a desktop computer and 52 percent had a laptop computer. This illustrates the fact that many households have more than one computer in use at any given time. The Family Packs offer a solution to protect all the computers in a household.

"A PC or laptop is now an integral part of almost all home activities and is used by all ages. With more personal information, in the form of online banking files, photographs, music downloads and online shopping records residing on computers, it is more critical than ever to protect this data," said Lisa Robinson Schoeller, director of product marketing, at Acronis. "The Family Packs offer the benefits of the Acronis family of award-winning backup software and disk management software at an affordable price."

About Acronis True Image Home 2011
Acronis True Image Home 2011 provides home users with backup and disaster recovery of systems, applications, settings and personal files. From a graphical interface, you can define where, locally or online, and how often to backup a PC. In addition, Acronis Nonstop Backup provides continuous system and data protection, preventing data loss. Users can implement a backup strategy and define backup to multiple destinations including a Secure Zone on their PC. Additional protection is provided by the Try&Decide feature setting up an isolated environment, where users can safely test new applications or browse websites.

About Acronis Disk Director 11 Home
This all-in-one solution for disk management and partitioning combines a number of Acronis tools, such as Partition Management for creating partitions of any type; plus, resizing, moving, copying, splitting and merging your volumes, while leaving data intact. It also allows to change cluster size automatically while resizing FAT16 or FAT32 volumes and to preview changes made in partition layout before applying them to disk. With Acronis Recovery Expert, recover volumes on a basic MBR disk that were accidentally deleted or damaged due a hardware or software failure. In addition, Acronis Disk Director 11 Home supports Windows 7, has an option for disk cloning, Dynamic Disk support, mirror/stripe volume support, and installation of multiple operating systems on one computer.

Price and Availability
Acronis True Image Home 2011 Family Pack is available through the Acronis online store for $79.99. Acronis Disk Director 11 Home Family Pack is available through the online Acronis store for $79.99.