Acronis, Inc., a developer of storage management software, announced a national distribution agreement with Walling Data Systems to offer Acronis True Image products individually and bundled with other complementary software and services. The backup software creates an exact server disk image for complete server backup and disaster recovery providing organizations with the most comprehensive, reliable, and cost effective server protection.

    To launch the partnership, Walling will also provide all of it's customers with a specially priced bundle that includes Acronis True Image 11 Home, bundled with Grisoft's award-winning AVG Internet Security or AVG Anti-Malware products. Walling Data Systems will offer Acronis products into its existing corporate, education, and government markets, as well as to its base of more than 1,200 technology resellers.

    "Our relationship with Walling Data Systems helps Acronis further expand our reach of the Acronis True Image product in the enterprise, educational and home markets," said Eric Dougherty, director of channel sales for Acronis. "Walling Data Systems customers now have access to award-winning backup, and disaster recovery products, giving them greater peace of mind when it comes to protecting and restoring their computers."

    Acronis True Image is a disaster recovery and backup software that allows users to create an exact duplicate image of their disk drive. Should the drive become damaged, the operating system corrupt or files accidentally deleted or overwritten, the image of the hard disk can be used to restore the disk to its known, good working state. Walling Data Systems will offer Acronis products into its existing corporate, education, and government markets.

    "We are committed to providing our customers with nothing less than the absolute best quality products and support available," said Luke Walling, President and founder of Walling Data Systems. "Acronis products consistently exceed our expectations and allow us to provide our broad base of end user customers and resellers with a rock-solid disaster recovery and backup solution that is easy to use and deploy."

    Backing up disks and partitions is performed in a different way: Acronis True Image Server stores a sector-by-sector snapshot of the disk, which includes the operating system, registry, drivers, software applications and data files, as well as system areas hidden from the user. This procedure is called “creating a disk image,” and the resulting backup archive is often called a disk/partition image.

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