Acronis Unified Platform

Considering changes in the field of data protection at the enterprises, the Acronis company announced in March, 2013 expansion of traditional solutions for data backup and recovery of infrastructure after failures and also start of new complex strategy which purpose is ensuring safe storage and data availability. Universal implementation of virtualization and cloud computing and also distribution of tablets, smartphones and devices based on Mac Apple in corporate environment significantly increases risk of loss and information leak. In these conditions data protection cannot be provided by means of already low technologies from different developers. The purpose of Acronis company is protection and safe data movement irrespective of type of the platform or Wednesday. To help the different organizations it is easy to cope with the growing risks, the company expanded possibilities of the complex platform of data protection.

In 2012 sales of solutions of Acronis for data protection in virtual environments grew almost by 60% worldwide. Such growth, along with permanent growth in a segment of cloud computing, is the convincing proof of increase in demand for advanced and innovation platforms which allow to simplify difficult IT infrastructures at the enterprises and to use a single system of data protection in all environments. In view of emergence and development of hybrid IT architecture, the enterprises need new approaches to the organization of protection and data storage in such difficult environments.

"Many companies hurry to implement new technologies at the enterprises, without having developed at the same time effective policy for data protection. Nevertheless, IT specialists of these companies bear responsibility for data protection, considering the existing technologies and the possibilities of the environment characteristic of the enterprise. And still it is necessary to emphasize that it is possible to work with data only if they are reliably protected at all levels, regardless of the platform or Wednesday, - the president and the chief executive officer of Acronis company Pinchev Alex notes. – The Acronis company developed the complex platform thanks to which the customer can expect higher level of data protection in comparison with the existing developers. As data protection and ensuring their availability are the most important in our strategy of product development, at the moment we focus the main attention stored and safe data movement and also reduction of risk of loss and information leak in hybrid environments of storage".

Developments of Acronis company include complex architecture which allows the organizations to integrate means of protecting of the data created on Mac Apple devices (it it was also announced today) and also expansion of opportunities of the Acronis Unified Platform platform which includes new plug-ins for the applications containing large volumes of data and which are generally placed in virtual environment, for example, by the Microsoft SQL Server now.

"We see how Big Data, virtualization, cloud computing and also increase in number of employees who use in work at the same time several mobile devices is irreversible change trends in the field of a storage system, - Laura Dubois, the vice president for developments in data storage area of IDC company emphasizes. – Our research shows that the following wave of virtualization will lead to the fact that users even more often will use several hypervisors. The organizations will face more difficult mechanisms of management and security issues".

Since 2002, from the moment of emergence of the first product, the Acronis company concentrated efforts on developments in the field of data protection for all platforms or Wednesdays, trying to provide simple data movement and efficiency of data storage. The technology of creation of images which is a core of competence of Acronis company provides availability of each object, the file, the device or a system, regardless of its arrangement. The Acronis Unified Platform platform supporting all main hypervisors exists in the market about two years and is checked by the numerous companies worldwide. Expansion of the platform allows the companies of any size to be flexible concerning questions of ensuring movement and protection of crucial data and also access to them.

The technology of backup with single pass (Single Pass Backup) which will be shortly patented combines two methods of backup. At such approach there is no need to provide protection of applications separately, therefore, process of backup and data recovery takes less time. When developing software modules the Acronis company made use of the wealth of experience in area of solutions for data storage and file systems, having made possible recognition of type of applications both at backup, and at data recovery. Thus, a system finds only files and data necessary for the application, reserving and recovering them practically in seconds. Such approach is very convenient during the work in virtual environment as when using traditional solutions for backup and data recovery for stay and recovery of the separate file or an object at first it will be required to recover a status of all virtual machine.

"Among shortcomings of solutions on virtualization on more powerful servers – complication of architecture and increase in requirements to data availability, - Dmitry Zhukovsky, the vice president of Acronis for management of a product portfolio comments. – For protection and ensuring availability of crucial applications it is necessary to put emphasis on the simple mechanism of data recovery. Be it only one line in the database, one file or all database – the administrator should locate an opportunity to independently detect and recover them by means of one transaction, without special tools or knowledge".

The universal technology allows the companies to carry out the procedures of recovery providing high rates of directive term of recovery (RPO) and directive recovery time (RTO), crucial and necessary for applications, even on virtual machines. Technology of backup with single pass (Single Pass) and recovery within one process will be able to recover both instances and databases, and separate folders and files. The Acronis Backup & Recovery platform supports hypervisors Microsoft Hyper-V VMware vSphere Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, Citrix XenServer and also physical servers on Windows and Linux that provides a possibility of transfer and data protection irrespective of type of information environment. Thus, recovery of a status of any virtual machine or the separate file can be implemented on any free virtual machine with preserving of an identical configuration without need to create a separate environment for this process.

Thanks to support Microsoft SharePoint and SQL Server, in addition to already existing support of Microsoft® Active Directory and Microsoft Exchange, the Acronis company simplifies process of ensuring protection and data availability of applications in any environment.