Acronis Launches Service Provider Licensing Program

Acronis, Inc. (www.acronis.com), a provider in storage management software, announced that it is now offering Web hosting providers with the ability to make Acronis True Image available to their customers as a value-added service.

Now, hosting companies can image customer's Web and mail servers automatically, providing the customer with an exact duplicate image of their server as part of a disaster recovery and business continuity strategy.

Two hosting providers partnered with Acronis to launch the Service Provider Licensing program: 4Service Inc. of Encino, CA, and Wyre Forest Computer Solutions (WFCS) Ltd. of Worcestershire, UK.

"4Service specializes in disaster recovery/offsite data/business continuity and our clientele is primarily small and midsize businesses," said Andreas Raab, director of professional services at 4Service Inc.

"Only 38 percent of businesses have any kind of business continuity plan in place to keep them operating in the event of a disaster or disruption, according to the market research firm Dynamic Markets Ltd.," he added.

"WFCS takes its customers' business welfare very seriously," said Paul Sillars, CEO of Wyre Forest Computer Solutions. "Data loss can be devastating to a company, large or small.

We are building a special web site, www.serversimplicity.com, in order to provide world-class business continuity and disaster recovery solutions to our Web-based clients.

"Hosting providers become very close to their customers, since our business continuity plans will track closely with theirs. We've tested the disaster recovery offerings and we selected Acronis True Image for our customers because we know it's the most reliable and most efficient product in its class."

"Hosting providers are more than just commodity vendor," said Max Tsypliaev, CEO of Acronis. "They are business partners with their customers, providing them with mission-critical outsourced services."