Acronis
Acronis Inc.
|
| Type |
Privately held company |
| Industry |
Computer software |
| Genre |
Technology |
| Founded |
2002 |
| Founder(s) |
Serguei Beloussov [1], Max Tsypliaev, Ilya Zubarev [2] |
| Headquarters |
300 TradeCenter, Suite 6700, Elm St. Woburn, Massachusetts[3], U.S. |
| Number of locations |
Seventeen offices (17) [3] |
| Area served |
Worldwide |
| Key people |
Jason Donahue[2][4] CEO |
| Products |
Acronis True Image[5] , Acronis Disk Director[6], Acronis Online Backup[7], 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, Seagate DiscWizard[8] |
| Revenue |
$170 million (2010) [9] |
| Website |
www.acronis.com |
Acronis, Inc. is a computer software company that makes products for computer backup, disaster recovery, bare-metal restore, system deployment, and storage management in Windows and Linux systems.
History
Founded in 2001, Acronis is a privately held company[10]. Originally focused on disk partitioning and boot loader software, they moved into backup and disaster recovery software based on disk imaging technology. Their flagship product line was Acronis True Image until 2009, at which time it was replaced in the corporate environment by Acronis Backup & Recovery 10.
In July 2003, Acronis appointed Synapsys Systems (Pty)[11] Ltd as their authorized distributor in South Africa.
Products
Acronis provides backup, disaster recovery, and partitioning software for both the home, and small and medium enterprises. Their core focus is working with disk blocks, which provides the technology for additional products such as system deployment and disk partitioning.
Consumer product technologies
- PC data backup and restore
- Disk cloning and data migration
- Disk imaging software
- Partitioning software
- Hard drive recovery and disk booting
Corporate products solutions
- System deployment
- Database backup and restore
- Disaster recovery
- Data center migrations
- Bare metal recovery
- Reducing storage space
- Virtualization
- Continuity planning
Enterprise products overview
In June 2011, Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 (ABR)[12] was released, an enhancement of the previous Acronis Backup & Recovery 10, which replaced their previous flagship product, True Image Echo. ABR provides disaster recovery, backup, and storage management solutions, and covers the following range of products:
- Server versions: Advanced Server, Virtual Edition, SBS Edition, Server for Windows, Server for Linux
- Acronis Backup & Recovery for Workstations
Disk management and other specialty products:
- Acronis Recovery for Microsoft Exchange,
- Acronis Recovery for MS SQL Server
- Acronis Disk Director 11 Home
- Acronis Drive Cleanser 6.0*
- Acronis Snap Deploy 3
See also
References
- ^ "Serguei Beloussov". Serguei Beloussov. Linkedin. http://www.linkedin.com/pub/serguei-beloussov/0/3a/81b. Retrieved 16 June 2011.
- ^ a b "Founders and Management". Company Profile. Crunchbase. http://www.crunchbase.com/company/acronis. Retrieved 16 June 2011.
- ^ a b "International contacts". Contacts. Acronis Inc. http://www.acronis.com/company/international/. Retrieved 20 April 2011.
- ^ "CEO". CEO. MarketWire. http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/acronis-names-industry-veteran-jason-donahue-as-ceo-907961.htm. Retrieved 16 June 2011.
- ^ "Acronis True Image Home 2010 Award". Acronis True Image Home 2010 Award. PCAdvisor. http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/software/3209443/acronis-wins-pc-advisors-best-pc-utility-award/. Retrieved 16 June 2011.
- ^ "Acronis Disk Director 11 Home review". Acronis Disk Director 11 Home. PCMag. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2381123,00.asp. Retrieved 16 June 2011.
- ^ "Online backup launch". Online backup launch. ZDnet. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/virtualization/acronis-launches-online-backup-targeting-smbs/2228. Retrieved 16 June 2011.
- ^ "Seagate DiscWizard™ User's Guide" (PDF). Seagate Technology LLC. 29 March 2010. http://www.seagate.com/support/discwizard/dw_ug.en.pdf. Retrieved 20 April 2011. "The unique technology developed by Acronis and implemented in Seagate DiscWizard [~snip~]" Retrieved from "DiscWizard". seagate.com. Seagate Technology LLC. http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?locale=en-US&name=DiscWizard&vgnextoid=d9fd4a3cdde5c010VgnVCM100000dd04090aRCRD. Retrieved 20 April 2011.
- ^ GFI names industry veteran Walter Scott as new Chief Executive Officer GFI Software 28 October 2008
- ^ "Acronis review". Acronis review. TheRegister. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/05/acronis_review/. Retrieved 16 June 2011.
- ^ "Acronis releases new versions of True Image imaging, backup, recovery tools". New Acronis versions launched. ITWeb SA. http://196.30.227.9/sections/software/2004/0408110811.asp?A=CHA&S=Channel&T=News&O=C. Retrieved 11 August 2004.
- ^ "Acronis Backup and Recovery 11 Released". Acronis Backup and Recovery 11. Acronis Inc. http://www.acronis.com/pr/2011/06/21-10-42.html. Retrieved 21 June 2011.
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