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- Acronis, Inc. (www.acronis.com), the technological leader in storage management software, announced that the Manpower ervices offices in Calgary, Alberta, is standardizing on Acronis Snap eploy as part of its program to train temporary employees. laptop battery

Manpower Services, part of the worldwide Manpower Inc., is a world leader in the employment services industry. Manpower s global network of over?, 400 ffices in?2 ountries and territories allows the company to meet the needs of its clients in all industry segments, whether they are global, multi-national or local companies. thinkpad

At Acronis, we consider it our responsibility to provide not only world-class disaster recovery and deployment tools, but also to add to our clients bottom line by eliminating excessive expenses, reducing labor costs and making their operations more efficient. Manpower Services is a great example of how a company is doing just that - improving its bottom line by becoming more efficient and productive. microsoft

Manpower Inc. (NYSE: MAN) is a world leader in the employment services industry; creating and delivering services that enable its clients to win in the changing world of work. The?16 illion company offers employers a range of services for the entire employment and business cycle including permanent, temporary and contract recruitment; employee assessment and selection; training; outplacement; outsourcing and consulting. Manpower s worldwide network of 4, 400 ffices in?2 ountries and territories enables the company to meet the needs of its 400, 000 ustomers per year, including small and medium size enterprises in all industry sectors, as well as the world s largest multinational corporations. The focus of Manpower s work is on raising productivity through improved quality, efficiency and cost-reduction across their total workforce, enabling clients to concentrate on their core business activities. Manpower nc. operates under five brands: Manpower, Manpower rofessional, Elan, Jefferson ells and Right anagement. More information on Manpower nc. is available at www.manpower.com. laptop computers

Automatic file backup and system recovery program is included in New Mexico Software Acronis, the technological leader in automatic file backup and system recovery software, announced that New Mexico Software, Inc. has signed an OEM agreement to include Acronis True Image in its recently announced TORC product line.

TORC is a software appliance and web service backup solution designed to enable the installation, scheduling, storage, retrieval, and restoration of either full partition or partial file backups of almost any computer or server via any standard web browser to insure against disaster. The system, which uses Acronis True Image as its disaster recovery cornerstone, can be used by virtually any company or enterprise. It automatically schedules full, differential or incremental backups via a browser interface for a single system or thousands of computers. laptop computer

TORC stores the backup images on a hosted or central appliance and enables restoring full partitions or selecting files from each image in case of disaster. Using this interface, the product provides access anytime and anywhere there is an Internet browser and connection, allowing users to instantly return their computers and their business to full operating condition should a system suffer a logical or physical failure. desktop computer

We love the capabilities and power of the Acronis technology, and that the simplicity of the software developers kit enabled us to rapidly develop a unique model for automatic backup and offsite storage and retrieval of images, said Troy C. Lapsys, president of the server division at New Mexico Software. Acronis gives us the flexibility to craft a managed service that provides all of the mission-critical capabilities a company needs, regardless of if they have one server or workstation or a thousand servers and workstations. Acronis met and exceeded our expectations for quality, ease of use and support. notebooks

The number of small to mid-size companies is expanding exponentially, as is the amount of data they produce, said Walter Scott, CEO of Acronis. We are pleased to work with such a forward-thinking company as New Mexico Software that is providing crucial disaster recovery managed services. Such relationships expand the reach of Acronis technology and provide essential services to a broad-based user community. lenovo

Acronis Names John Murgo as Chief Financial Officier Acronis announced the appointment of John R. Murgo as executive vice president and chief financial officer. Murgo reports to CEO Walter Scott.

Murgo joins Acronis from OpenServices Inc., a leading software vendor in the security information and event management market, where he served as executive vice president and chief financial officer. Earlier he served in various positions at Process Software Corp., eventually becoming president and chief executive officer. He also was the chief financial officer of web applications vendor Dirig Software Inc. and HPSC Inc. hard drive

In addition to his financial duties at HPSC, Murgo served as the acting chief operating officer where he was responsible for all SEC filings, investor relations and other financial responsibilities. He drove a $50 million recapitalization of the publicly held firm in order to reduce the company s cost of capital and better secure its financial base. As a result, the company regained sound financial footing as well as the confidence of its shareholders and shortly thereafter was sold to GE Capital. travelstar

It used to be, when you backed something up, you backed it up to files or you backed it up to tape and the first you have to do in order to restore something, is to regain the operating system. Now, it it s a Windows Server or if it s an Exchange Server that can take you forever. I mean you re talking about days worth of trying to get the server back into a stable state with the right updates and the right service packs and just exactly the way you have it. Those days are gone, aren t they gateway

Stephen:

The days of rebuilding every machine from scratch - you could do it, if you want to, there s no reason to. Now, you can take an image; restore that image, either to the same hardware or (and this is very important), different hardware. And it doesn t matter. It ll restore right back to a known good state. And here s the kicker, now. A lot of companies are considering the installation of virtual servers as a way of reducing the number of physical boxes that they have in their building. You ve got to cut costs, everywhere. How do you cut costs on the IT side Well, you reduce the number of physical servers and increase your number of virtual servers. Virtual servers may have a different hardware configuration (the box that you re moving your data from), and with Acronis True Image Universal Restore, we actually have the ability, now, to take that image of a physical box, say you might have it on a Dell Server, and restore that image to an IBM Server, running VMWare, or Microsoft Virtual Server 2005. And whatever the physical devices are in that server, we can allow the user to add those drivers during the restore process and the system will be back up and running again, as if you were putting it right on the same piece of hardware. laptop parts

Alan:

Katrina has taught us that, because it our existing computers get waterlogged, and let s say they re a year old, you cannot find identical equipment. There s just no way that you can. You want to get up and running as fast as possible. And I guarantee you; it s not going to be the same equipment, not even close. software

Stephen:

You don t even necessarily know what the same equipment is. You might buy servers from Dell, you put one in a closet as a hot backup - it might have different hardware. And unless you re going through the machine and checking each card and each chip to make sure that the motherboards have the same network chip on there. It could be a nightmare, (an absolute nightmare). hard drives

Alan:

As anybody who s ever tried to work with dis-similar hardware knows that Windows, and especially a Windows Server is not forgiving. You see that Blue Screen of Death, because it either tried to load a driver that it couldn t find or it loaded a driver that it need and the first thing it does is basically, upchuck and leave you high and dry. electronics

Stephen:

Let s say you re buying multiple servers from Dell. Dell s a great example. Some of the different hardware into the various boxes that they ve got, based on what they have at hand. You might be getting a Maxtor drive this time and Seagate, the next time. You might get one vendor s Raid card, today and another one, tomorrow. Even worse, let s say you turn a PO for 20 servers. You might get 20 different cards, all in the same order. They all arrive at your office; all the boxes look the same. But the internals are different. Now, how do you move an image from one to the other Without some type of Universal Restore capabilities, you ll be at it all night. canon

Alan:

You also have the ability to do remote restore, because a lot of times the Admin person is not in the physical building, because he s managing multiple sites for one large corporation. desktop pc

Stephen:

We don t really care if the server is 10 feet away, 10 miles away, 10 states away. We have the capability to have a server either boot from boot media, if you re there, you can certainly use a boot disk. Or you can boot directly from the image, or even better, you can boot over the network. An IT Manager in Philadelphia can boot a system in Louisiana just as easily as they could boot a system in Lithuania. It doesn t matter where you are, anymore. desktop computers

Alan:

Any time that we re doing backups, especially for a very large company or a corporation, we really need to have notifications, because, as I said, we may be completely offsite, and we may be managing multiple buildings in different cities and we want to know what got backed up and it something does go bump in the night , we don t want to have to go read a report what didn t get done. We want to get an e-mail that says, hey, this machine is having problems . think pad

Stephen:

Well, only can we provide you with an e-mail. We can also provide you with a pop-up on your screen, we can send out message, MSN Messenger. I believe we re adding a page, so we can call your pager or your cell phone and reach you. I m not sure if that capability has been added. I ve talked to our engineers frequently and that is on the list of capabilities to be added. repair

In a report from market research firm Gartner Inc. entitled Predicts 2005: IT Operations Must Transform Service Delivery*, the firm noted that IT operations groups will focus on managing end-to-end IT services in 2005. By standardizing IT infrastructure, re-engineering IT management processes and implementing automation, they will become more business-centric. data recovery

Corporate IT directors, system integrators, and OEMs are looking for standardized solutions from world-class vendors that will reduce infrastructure and support costs while ensuring the fastest deployment of user systems, added Stephen Lawton, Acronis director of marketing. Acronis Snap eploy offers the stability of proven disk-imaging technology with the convenience of multicasting an image to any system, be it local, mobile or remote. We recognize the need for an organized, cohesive approach to systems and software deployment and now can offer IT departments, system integrators, and OEMs alike with a complete solution to meet these needs. cisco

Acronis opens sales office in Herndon, VA This is Acronis Press Releases page. You can read about new Acronis office that will handle channel, direct sales from the Atlantic to the Rockies. New office will handle channel, direct sales from the Atlantic to the Rockies June 27, 2005, South San Francisco, CA

- Acronis, Inc., the technological leader in storage management software, announced it has opened a sales and support office in Herndon, VA. The office will serve customers from the East Coast to the Rockies. keyboard

Acronis has been growing exponentially over the past few years, said Max Tsypliaev, CEO. Sales have tripled each of the past three years and the demand for Acronis enterprise-class disaster recovery software continues to escalate. Opening a second US sales office will allow Acronis to serve our corporate customers and channel resellers more effectively. monitor

To that end, Acronis plans to significantly expand its sales force over the coming year, he continued. Acronis will be adding senior-level sales executives, along with specialists in channel, OEM and direct sales to better serve our Fortune 1000 and Global 5000 clients, which have very specific and time-critical needs. Meeting those requirements, as well as the needs of our government-sector clients, are all contributing factors to this expansion on the East Coast. desktop

The new sales office will serve corporate customers from the Eastern seaboard to the Rocky Mountains. Sales to corporate customers in the Western part of the nation will continue to be handled out of the South San Francisco office. infosys

Video Gaming Technology taps Acronis for disaster recovery, server cloning Acronis announced that Video Gaming Technologies is standardized on Acronis True Image Enterprise Server for its disaster recovery, networked server backup and disk cloning solutions. Video Game Manufacturer Standardizes on Acronis True Image Enterprise Server June 28, 2005, South San Francisco, CA

- Acronis, Inc., the technological leader in storage management software, announced that Video Gaming Technologies (VGT), Inc., of Roebuck, SC, is standardized on Acronis True mage Enterprise erver for its disaster recovery, networked server backup and disk cloning solutions. VGT is the manufacturer of computerized video games, such as Las Vegas-style blackjack and video slot machines, generally found in casinos. refurbished laptops

VGT needed a solution that could quickly and accurately clone servers for deployment to the field, said John Plunkett, the information systems director at VGT. We also were looking for a backup and recovery solution for our enterprise servers. We reviewed a number of other imaging products, in addition to shareware and freeware alternatives. Acronis was quick and worked without any flaws; it surpassed our expectations. wipro

Acronis True mage Enterprise erver meets all of our requirements and now resides on 10 of our 40 enterprise servers, including our mission-critical servers., he added. We can now clone servers for deployment in a few hours, rather than a few days. We also have peace of mind, knowing that each server running the solution can be restored within hours, in case of failure. lap top

Overcoming disaster recovery and disk cloning bottlenecks, as well as providing world-class technology, service and support, are the hallmarks of Acronis, said Max Tsypliaev, CEO of the company. Enterprise IT directors and chief information offices know that Acronis stands for quality and works diligently with its partners and customers to develop products that meet the demanding requirements of industries ranging from gaming to manufacturing. refurbished

Acronis is a strategic partner for each of our enterprise customers, added Stephen Lawton, Acronis director of marketing. We view every enterprise as its own challenge with its own special requirements. There are no cookie-cutter solutions where one size fits all. Each IT director has specific needs and desires, and it is our responsibility to meet each need for each unique environment. memory

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The Acronis Group Server allows you to view and manage backup tasks for all systems in the network from the Acronis Management Console. storage

How does the Acronis Group Server Work Step 1:

Install the Acronis Group Server on a system in your network Step 2: Open the Acronis Management Console and connect to the system where the Acronis Group Server is installed Step 3: Begin viewing and managing backup tasks by selecting one of the following options: seagate

• View Group Status - View the status of the machines in your network running Acronis True Image Agents from one location. You can quickly troubleshoot any issues with backup tasks by viewing whether backups were completed successfully or not. computer sales

• New Group Task - Create backup tasks for several machines in your network at once. computer hardware

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Backup and recover a local system or local disks with Acronis True Image Local Versions Acronis True Image includes a local version of the product, a component for backup and restoration of a local system that does not require remote access. Acronis True Image Local Versions allows you to backup local disks in a minute! * Home

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Acronis True Image includes a local version of the product, a component for backup and restoration of a local system that does not require remote access. mainframe

How does the Acronis True Image Local Version Work Step 1:

Install the Local Version of the product Step 2: Open the Acronis True Image application and begin managing backup tasks on the local system. The main options in the local version are: samsung

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• Clone Disk - Transfer the operating system, applications and data from the local disk to a new one network

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• Create bootable rescue media - Create CDs, USB flash keys, ISO images, and Remote Installation Server (RIS) packages that can be used to boot any failed system in your network. Please note that the Local Version is the only component that includes the capability to create bootable rescue media. desktops

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The Acronis Management Console provides remote administration, ensuring that all systems in your network, regardless of your domain and workgroup structure, can be accessed and managed from one location. hosting

How does the Acronis Management Console Work Step 1:

Install the Acronis Management Console on any machine in your network. It is important to note that the Management Console can be installed on as many machines as you need. For example, if you have three administrators responsible for managing your backups, you can install the Management Console on the three systems used by these administrators. Moreover, this component can be used to manage both servers and workstations running Acronis True Image. netfinity

Like many of the other programs here, Acronis True Image also includes a boot disk builder, but you have a choice of building one of two varieties of the boot CD: a safe variety with a minimal driver set (i.e., no USB/SCSI drivers) or a full flavor with a broad spectrum of hardware drivers. This lets you build and boot the disc that works best on your computer, since the drivers are provided by Acronis, not by your own computer, and the full set of drivers might not work on every machine. internet

Acronis True Image has a couple of unique features that I ve seen (and liked) in previous versions of the program. You can create what s called the Acronis Secure Zone, a hidden partition to which data can be backed up on the same disc, but securely and away from interference by other programs. When the zone fills up, the oldest backup data is deleted, in much the same manner as Microsoft s own System Restore function. Snap Restore, which requires the Secure Zone, lets you boot the OS from a computer and resume work while it s still being restored from a backup. The process is remarkably seamless and resilient, but again, you need to have a system-directory backup in the Secure Zone for this to work. cheap computer

Terabyte Unlimited is responsible for one of my favorite PC utilities of all time: BootIt Next Generation, a disk-, partition-, and boot-management tool that does more than many programs costing twice that much. For that reason, I ve routinely given their other utilities a good hard look as well, and they have at least one tool that fits into this roundup: Image for Windows, which ships with its companion application Image for DOS. digital camera

Image for Windows s no-nonsense interface doesn t get in the way when you just want to make a system-wide backup. Image for Windows lets you make full partition and disk backups from within Windows, including the currently-running system partition. The resulting backups can be written out to a local or network drive, or to CD or DVD, and can be spanned across multiple discs. If you make a backup set to CD or DVD, you can also set up the first disk in the set to be bootable. This way, if you want to restore everything without having a copy of Image for Windows handy, you can just boot the first of your backup discs and start the restore process there. The size of a backup set is automatically split into 2GB files - to avoid conflicts with, for instance, the file-size limitations of the FAT32 file system - but can also be split into other chunks, such as 648MB, for burning to CD. It isn t possible to back up files and folders selectively, though, just whole partitions. printer

When you install the program in Windows, you re also prompted to install a tool called PHYLock. This allows you to back up files in use by the system by making a snapshot of them at a given moment in time, so any changes made to the system after that point are not reflected in the backup. (It s also possible to boot Image for DOS and make a full system image offline, but this way you can do the backup without disrupting other work.) I backed up a basic 15GB image with 5GB of actual data in about six minutes using the default options. xseries

Restoring an image from scratch can be done in a couple of different ways: You can restore within Windows to another partition or you can boot a CD or floppy built with the program to perform an offline restore. Backups can be restored from any media you ve copied them to, including a hard drive mounted natively and available through BIOS or connected via a USB/FireWire connection. However, you can t restore across a network in DOS mode; you need to have the file available locally in some form before it can be restored. The image files created by Image for Windows are compatible with all other Terabyte products, including BootIt Next Generation. maxtor

The single biggest drawback is the lack of an incremental backup option. For instance, you can t make a snapshot of a partition one week and then back up only the changed files the next week; you have to back up everything at once. (There s also no way to do individual folder backups.) This makes it hard to use as a regular backup solution, unless you don t mind staking out the time required to do a full system backup. That said, Terabyte plans to include just such a feature in their next major upgrade to the product. data storage

Norton Save And Restore

Norton Save and Restore is actually the newest version of Norton Ghost; call it Ghost 11.0, if you want to. Ghost itself was originally a standalone program, booted from floppies, that was used to perform drive-to-drive and computer-to- computer imaging. Symantec bought the program, rebranded it Norton Ghost, and added features from PowerQuest s Drive Image product (also bought by them). Save and Restore keeps all the good things from Ghost, but it s essentially an incremental upgrade and not an entirely new product. hitachi

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