With more organizations moving large critical databases to virtual environments,
Acronis
today announced that it is adding support for Microsoft SQL Server
and Microsoft SharePoint to its award winning Acronis Backup &
Recovery Unified Platform for virtual and physical environments. The
new modules are the latest extension of the Acronis platform to support
the most popular data-intensive applications, reducing the complexity
and time taken to restore applications and their critical data in every
environment.
The patent-pending Single Pass Backup combines two backups in
one, eliminating the need for separate strategies for the protection of
applications and reducing time required for the operation. By
leveraging Acronis' in depth understanding of storage and file systems,
the new modules are 'application aware' when both backing up and
restoring, making it possible to find and restore only the files or
objects required from the application, in seconds. This is a particular
advantage when working in a virtual environment as traditional backup
and recovery solutions must restore an entire VM before an individual
file or object can be found.
"Two of the unintended consequences of greater production
server virtualization are the increase in complexity and greater demand
for the availability of critical data," commented Dmitri Joukovski,
vice president of product management for Acronis. "The real focus for
maintaining protection and availability of critical applications should
be on ease of restore. Whether it is an individual email, a single file
or an entire database, these can now be quickly located and recovered
through a one step, one administrator process without the need for
specialized tools or knowledge."
The technology offers increased flexibility that can enable
organizations to achieve the aggressive RPO and RTO measures demanded
for applications -- even those on virtual machines. The Single Pass
backup and one process restore enables instances and databases, as well
as individual files and folders to be restored. Acronis Backup &
Recovery supports Microsoft Hyper-V, VMware vSphere, Red Hat
Enterprise Virtualization, Citrix XenServer and Parallels Server
BareMetal hypervisors, and physical Windows and Linux servers, which
allows data to be moved securely and seamlessly between every
environment of choice. This enables the recovery of any machine or file
to any other available machine, reproducing an identical configuration
and environment is not required for a fast recovery.
By adding Microsoft SharePoint and SQL Server to its
existing support for Microsoft Active Directory and Microsoft
Exchange, Acronis is simplifying the complexity of data protection and
availability for applications in every environment.