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“At my primary school, every two to three weeks we reimage about 300 workstations, ranging from Windows XP to Windows 7, so students can effectively work during labs or class,” says Tom Lawson, Network Manager with a UK-based primary school. “Without Acronis Snap Deploy, it would take me a week to reinstall everything on a single computer. Now I can configure 300 computers in three days, increasing my productivity and allowing me to focus on supporting students. This is also important for my students with special needs, whose computers stay exactly the same after each reimaging, diminishing confusion and letting them focus more on learning each day.”

“Throughout the years John has proven his ability to drive meaningful growth and adoption of cloud and hosting services,” said Serguei Beloussov, CEO and co-founder of Acronis. “As more businesses of all sizes realize the need for reliable, secure and dual-protection cloud backup, John’s expertise and knowledge of the channel and market will allow Acronis to deliver our impressive and expanding cloud portfolio to these businesses across the world. He’s going to lead the Cloud business unit to build its current success.”

Serguei Beloussov, CEO and co-founder of Acronis, explained, "To protect their data, customers need a reliable backup technology, storage and infrastructure to restore systems in case of a disaster. Acronis has delivered an advanced backup solution for years with full system backup, and the ability to restore to any hardware. Then we added Acronis Backup-as-a-Service to provide cloud storage for backup data. With the addition of nScaled technology, we provide a capability to restore to the cloud, and customers can restore their operations without waiting for replacement hardware to restore on-premises. Now, Acronis provides the most complete, easy and safe cloud backup solution for any infrastructure and any environment".

Acronis True Image 2015 new features include:

Acronis ExtremeZ-IP Version 9.0 features:

Japanese cloud provider Tsukaeru.net, has been a BackupAgent partner since 2010 with thousands of users of cloud backup. CEO of Tsukaeru.net Jason Frisch comments: "I am happy to hear that BackupAgent and Acronis are joining forces. We're excited to see what happens next, with the additional support, resources and technologies that Acronis can provide".

In May 2014, Acronis and research firm IDC conducted a worldwide, cross-industry survey of small and medium-sized businesses (<1,000 employees) concerning their data protection and disaster recovery needs. The survey revealed that the majority (76 percent) of businesses prefer their data to be stored no more than 150 miles from their location. This finding, coupled with concerns resulting from recent data security breaches, highlights the need for data protection solutions offering cloud storage close to home.

Junca moves into his new role with 17 years of experience in all aspects of International software sales management & business development, including over 13 years in partner centric management roles both at Microsoft Corporation and Acronis. Previously, he served as GM for Acronis in EMEA, where he developed the company's initial footprint in the region prior to joining the North American headquarters in 2011. Most recently, his primary focus has been the growth of North American business through strong channel partner recruitment, alignment, and enablement. In this new role, his primary goal will be to expand the North America partner group into a best-in-class sales model.

Global findings include: