Acronis Backup & Recovery Updated to V11.5

Acronis International GmbH announced an unified platform for data protection and DR with its latest release of Acronis Backup & Recovery.

The unified platform can grow and develop with the dynamic needs of enterprise networks, while reducing TCO and delivering a faster, more efficient data protection strategy.

It enables customers to purchase licenses for only the agents and application support they need, with the ability to access more functionality ‘on demand’ as their environment changes. This can reduce the management burden of procuring, learning and integrating additional products as networks evolve, thereby reducing time and cost with one solution that can be managed across physical, virtual and cloud environments.

"The fast pace of change within a corporate environment is introducing new challenges for DR," said Dave Russell, research VP, Gartner. "Big data, storage virtualisation, cloud-based backup and a continued reliance on tape and disk means that IT organisations need to respond quickly to user demands for system and data availability. Moving systems and data securely between multiple platforms without extended disruption to employee productivity is a mandatory requirement today."

Acronis is also addressing the increased adoption of cloud infrastructure for storage optimisation by introducing disk-to-disk-to-cloud staging into its unified backup and recovery platform. Automated disk-to-disk to-cloud backup shortens the backup window for live physical and virtual machines and simplifies management of both destinations. With Acronis Backup & Recovery, IT administrators can now get the benefits of both local and cloud backup in an unified experience.

"We launched Acronis Backup & Recovery in June 2011 as a single solution for hybrid enterprise environments," commented Dmitri Joukovski, VP of product management for Acronis. "Today, the volume and velocity of corporate content creation and mobile computing adoption are introducing new data challenges for IT organisations, and, as a result, uncomplicated and flexible solutions for data protection and storage optimisation across multiple environments are in demand. The integrated, yet modular approach of Acronis can give IT organisations the confidence that whatever network development they may face tomorrow, easy access and availability of their protected data, no matter where it resides, can be achieved."  

The new functionality upgrade also includes granular recovery for Exchange and the option to buy support for Exchange Server, in addition to the support for Active Directory, SQL Server and SharePoint applications relied on by enterprises worldwide, that are already included within the platform.

Acronis Backup & Recovery is a unified platform from which an organisation can centrally manage data protection and DR tasks for physical, virtual and cloud environments from a single management console, and move data between environments quickly and easily. This can offer a reduction in management overhead and TCO, as the platform can manage Windows and Linux, and all major hypervisors including Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation, vSphere, Hyper-V, Citrix and Parallels, and integrates with Acronis Cloud storage in one installation. By using same technology in all environments, it enables the recovery of machines to dissimilar hardware, and between physical and virtual environments.

Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 is available from the company and resellers worldwide.