Technology Alliance Between Starboard and Acronis

Starboard Storage Systems, Inc. and Acronis, Inc. announced a partnership that will deliver a storage platform capable of consolidating mixed workloads with backup in both physical and virtual environments.

They are committed to providing customers with complete business continuity solutions. Together, the solution will deliver storage, data protection and recovery that will increase performance with SSDs, consolidate mixed workloads and simplify backup across both physical and virtual environments.

The Starboard AC72 Storage System is designed to simplify managing mixed workload environments that include unstructured, virtualized and structured data. The company eliminates many storage pain points through technology that is designed for SMBs, and built to deliver SSD acceleration tiering and dynamic storage pooling delivering twice the performance of traditional NAS and SAN systems.

"We are pleased to have Acronis as a Starboard Storage technology alliance partner, so we can jointly provide customers simple primary storage, enhanced performance, simplified backup and more reliable data protection," stated Starboard Storage Systems CMO, Karl Chen. "In today’s world of unstructured and virtualized data hyper-growth, ensuring management simplicity, performance and data safety is of paramount and growing concern. This is a shared core value of Starboard Storage and Acronis."

As a technology alliance partner, Acronis will provide data protection and disaster recovery via Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 for physical and virtual environments and Acronis vmProtect 7 for VMware with vCenter integration, VM replication and Microsoft Exchange support that provides rapid recovery times for businesses worldwide.

"When we learned that the Starboard AC72 Storage System enables the consolidation of mixed workloads and optimizes performance, we felt that our backup and data protection products were a great fit," said Seth Goodling, Virtualization Practice manager at Acronis. "Together we are delivering one of the highest performing, most secure, easily managed and cost effective solutions available for operating mixed workloads in both physical and virtual environments."