Acronis® launches Self-Service Backup solution for VMware® vCloud®

Acronis has announced the release of Acronis Backup & Recovery® for vCloud®, enabling enterprises of various sizes and service providers tocomplement VMware® vCloud Director® with self-service backup and recovery. It allows tenants and administrators to eliminate downtime and protect their virtual machines in public, private and hybrid clouds. Using Acronis’ innovative technology, service providers can now build a complete infrastructure-as-a-service offering using vCloud.

Thursday, 29th August 2013 Posted 11 years ago in by Phil Alsop

Co-founder and new CEO Serguei Beloussovbrings his knowledge of service provider business, from more than ten years as the CEO of Parallels®, to Acronis’ expertise in backup. With more than 50 advanced backup technologies released to date, Acronis is now enabling backup-as-a-service with Acronis Backup & Recovery for vCloud. While VMware vCloud Director allows tenants to control their VMs directly, Acronis’ new solution provides them with additional full self-service backup of their Virtual Machines (“VMs”).

Acronis Backup & Recovery for vCloudFeatures:
· Easy-to-use self-service Web console forusers to control backup and recovery of their VM’s;
· Integration with VMware vCloud Director simplifying backup and recovery of entire machines, including vCloud configuration and other metadata;
· Fast and reliable agentless backup technology for virtual machines behind Acronis® vmProtect™ and Acronis Backup & Recovery; and
· Seamless on-premise-to-cloud migration and disaster recovery to the cloud.

“Buy-in to our private cloud was hindered by the lack of a suitable backup solution,” said Adrian Parks, Senior Systems Specialist at the University of Oxford. “We were using in-guest agents, but this was not ideal and not our preferred option. The Acronis solution solves this challenge by providing a VM backup solution that interfaces directly with the vCloud Director APIs.”

“Acronis knows backup, and if you want to deliver infrastructure-as-a-service, you need effective backup,” said Acronis CEO Serguei Beloussov. “Before this breakthrough, self-service technology from Acronis, protecting vCloud VM’s was difficult and time consuming. Now, Acronis has applied its expertise in backup and knowledge of service providers to build the only self-servicebackup solution designed specifically for VMware vCloud, making it easier and safer for enterprises and service providers to run critical applications in the cloud.”