Acronis vmProtect announced

Acronis has announced Acronis vmProtect 7, introducing new management options, VM replication and support for Exchange, to improve and accelerate backup and disaster recovery practices for VMware vSphere servers.

In addition to its intuitive web-based interface, Acronis vmProtect 7 integrates seamlessly with VMware vCenter, allowing administrators to use one console to manage all their tasks. It now offers advanced replication capability with failover and failback, and the ability to run a virtual machine directly from its backup, dramatically improving the times to recover. Even in the event of total server failure, bare metal recovery (BMR) allows an entire machine to be recovered to dissimilar hardware, significantly reducing downtime. With support for Microsoft Exchange objects, Acronis vmProtect 7 eliminates the need to create a separate Microsoft Exchange backup when searching for a specific email or lost contact.

Jeff Boles, Sr. Analyst, The Taneja Group said, "Our current hands-on testing is rapidly proving that this new version builds on performance with a number of key innovations, This includes broadened application stack protection (MS Exchange), replication, bare metal hypervisor recovery and advances in recovery flexibility. Coupled with a virtual appliance deployment model that makes for the fastest install time in the market, these next generation improvements give vmProtect7 a serious leg up in the race to the most seamless, comprehensive, and easy to use virtual protection in the market.  In our view, that advantage is poised to equip customers with TCO breakthroughs in their virtual infrastructure management."

Bill Taylor-Mountford, President, APAC at Acronis said, "Respondents to our global survey1 admitted that they routinely take risks with the valuable data by not backing up their virtual machines as regularly as their physical ones. For some administrators, backup and recovery is still too complex or difficult - it doesn't have to be. With Acronis vmProtect 7 we continue to deliver a solution that supports the priorities of the virtual server administrator by making the process intuitive and fast."