Software enables virtual server migration.

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Designed for seamless transfer of server's data, Full Circle is based on Fast Accurate Simple Transmission Engine Technology (FAST), that enables users to migrate and convert data between physical and virtual environments. With wizard-based controls that customize migration process, software allows users to migrate live and historic data. Full Circle is compatible with multiple hardware platforms, virtual servers, and OS.



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Acronis Full Circle Enables Virtual Server Migration, Conversion



PARIS, November 17--

- Unique Acronis FAST Engine Technology Makes Server Migration Speedy, Accurate and Simple

Acronis (http://eu.acronis.com), the technological leader in storage
management software announced today the launch of Acronis Full Circle, a
software application that allows IT organizations to move an entire server's
data seamlessly to and from physical and virtual servers.

Full Circle is based on FAST (Fast Accurate Simple Transmission) engine
technology that enables users to migrate and convert data seamlessly between
physical and virtual environments. This "virtually aware" technology
automatically customizes the data being migrated to its new environment. Full
Circle works with multiple operating systems, including Windows XP, Windows
Server 2003 and Linux, and a variety of hardware and virtual servers on the
market.

"With an average server lifespan of 18 months, organizations are
constantly tasked to upgrade their hardware without jeopardizing the life's
blood of their businesses, their data," said Walter Scott, CEO of Acronis.
"When you consider the explosion in virtual servers and mobile employees,
it's clear that what IT managers and systems integrators need is a server
migration application that is not only fast and easy to use, but that also
can meet migration challenges both on and off the data center floor."

Acronis Full Circle provides:

- Virtual Environment Flexibility - Full Circle supports
multiple hardware platforms and operating systems, including both 32- and
64-bit servers and VMWare, Microsoft and Parallels virtual environments

- FAST (Fast Accurate Simple Transmission) engine: The conversion
and migration engine was designed specifically for such
physical-to-virtual and virtual-to-physical conversions. The engine is
fully integrated with the Acronis disk imaging technology and can migrate
systems to dissimilar hardware

- Fully customizable - Full Circle's wizard-based controls allow
users to customize the migration process and migrate an entire system or
specific files to another server

- Minimal disruption - With Full Circle, IT has the option of
migrating either live data or data at rest with either an on-line or
off-line migration

- Historic Data Retrieval - Full Circle is currently the only
product that allows users to migrate historic data. Used in conjunction
with Acronis True Image, which takes a snapshot of a server for backup
purposes, Acronis Full Circle can take the backup image and migrate that
to a new server

- Speed - Since Acronis Full Circle automatically modifies data to
meet the criteria its new environments, migration times are reduced from
days to hours and hours to minutes

- Ease of Use - The wizard-based controls driving Acronis Full
Circle enable IT directors to delegate the migration process to less
skilled data center employees, which frees ups senior personnel for more
strategic assignments

Acronis Full Circle complements the existing Acronis line of storage,
backup and disaster recovery products. Once data has been moved from server
to server with Acronis Full Circle, organizations can continue to backup and
restore both their physical and virtual servers using Acronis True Image.

Pricing will be announced when the product ships in volume. It will be
sold through the company's direct sales staff and through resellers. The
product is due to ship in volume in December.

About Acronis

Acronis offers storage management solutions that are technically advanced
for mission-critical applications and easy to use. The company provides
disaster recovery, backup and restore, partitioning, data migration, and
other storage management products for enterprises, corporations, and
consumers. A global company Acronis has offices in the United States, Europe
and Asia and sells its products both direct and through resellers and retail
outlets.

Source: Acronis SAS

For additional information, please visit eu.acronis.com or
contact
PR Leader
Julie Grivel Delillaz
media_eu@acronis.com

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