Acronis Added to Scale Computing Technology Alliance Program

Scale
Computing, Inc. announced a partnership with Acronis International GmbH.

Acronis joins Scale Computing’s Technology Alliance Program extending the
growing ecosystem of trusted, reliable application providers surrounding Scale
Computing’s HC3 product.

"We
are excited to expand our feature set through this partnership with Acronis,"
said Patrick Conte, EVP and GM of WW field operations for Scale Computing.
"We are currently building an HC3
ecosystem of top application providers which our VARs and customers can trust
for quality, value-added features that are necessary to their business
operations."

The partnership provides HC3 customers with a solution for data protection and DR with secure data
migration, using Acronis Backup and Recovery 11.5 Virtual Edition, a flexible
solution that supports all major hypervisors.

Scale Computing has transformed their
affordable scale-out storage cluster into a hyperconverged solution that
combines servers, storage, and virtualization into a product
that delivers virtualized infrastructure-as-an-appliance. With no
virtualization software to license and no external storage to buy, HC3 lowers
out of pocket costs by as much as 75% and simplifies the
infrastructure needed to keep applications running. It makes the deployment
and management of a highly available and scalable infrastructure as easy
to manage as a single server. It removes the complexity of managing a
virtualized environment, eases the challenges of working with multiple vendors,
and enables IT departments to actually focus their time on the applications.

"HC3
is an advanced hyperconverged virtualization solution that opens a new market
of SMB users who could otherwise not afford or maintain a virtualized
environment due to the complexity of traditional architecture," said
Steve Erdman, SVP, global business development, Acronis. "HC3 will help us reach new midsize
businesses and provide them with uncomplicated enterprise data protection
solutions that enable them to maintain data availability efficiently."

Backup and Recovery 11.5 Virtual
Edition complements HC3 in providing agent-based backup of VMs, bare metal
recovery of an entire image, and physical to virtual data migration. With
integrated file, system, machine and granular application backup and recovery,
Acronis offers a flexible solution that can evolve with an the needs of the HC3
customer. It supports all major
hypervisors, and offers automated staging to the cloud as an option for
off-premise storage, and added layer of redundancy.

For first-time virtualizers and small IT departments, a complete 3-node HC3
cluster capable of 15 – 30 virtual workloads starts at under $25,500 and
includes all servers, storage and virtualization, along with 24×7 support. HC3 customers may purchase Backup and Recovery 11.5
Virtual Edition with exclusive bundled pricing from their VARs immediately and through June 30, 2013.