Press Release: Acronis True Image Home 2010 Plus Pack

For over seven years from 1999, I worked at Pacific Internet Ltd, as one of its LAN Administrator. Some of the duties include technical support to in-house staff, taking care of the Intranet servers, file & print servers, maintaining & updating the antivirus servers, ethernet, wireless & PABX routing & patch management, laptop and PC deployment & maintenance, provide backup support and disaster recovery documentation & technical writing.

The highlight of the job, was when I was tasked, as part of a team effort, to work on patch management & deployment solutions. At the enterprise level at that time, the only solution available was the Bare Metal Restore, available via 2 or 3 big names like Symantec, Legato etc. We proceed with BMR as that works well where it comes to server management. It was not until 2004, when Symantec releases LiveState Recovery, that we found a solution for laptops & desktops. We have been depending a lot onNorton Ghost, creating a new image for each individual system, and refreshing the image, everytime there are major system upgrades & updates, and definitely keeping the antivirus signatures updated. It was tough work. LiveState Recovery was a big injection in the rear that we sorely needed.

Now, by end of 2009, Acronis has released, at consumer level, an add-on tool, to the Acronis True Image Home 2010. It is called the Acronis True Image Home 2010 Plus Pack. The obvious direction of this story, is the similarity this add-on tool has with Symantec Live State Recovery.

You do not have to worry about keeping different versions of a backup to restore. Regardless, if you have a Netbook, laptop or PC, you can use the created image and restore to any of them. Your image will definitely be a little bigger, to store and anticipate the additional drivers for unexpected systems, but you definitely need not have to worry that once your working desktop expires, you will not have it working on another system, which is not similar to the one you used.

Here are some additional information you may wish to take note.

Supported Systems

• Storage Media
  • Hard Disk Drives
  • Networked Storage Devices
  • FTP servers
  • CD-R/RW, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, BD-R (NEW! Blu-ray)
  • ZIP^®, REV^® and other removable media
  • PATA (IDE), SATA, SCSI, SAS (NEW), IEEE1394 (FireWire), USB 1/2.0 drives
• Supported Operating Systems
  • Windows 7 all Editions (x32/x64)
  • Windows Vista all Editions(x32/x64 SP2)
  • Windows XP (x32 SP3/x64 SP2)
  • Windows XP Professional(x32 SP3/x64 SP2)
• Supported File Systems
  • FAT16/32, NTFS
  • Raw Images support
  Additionally: Acronis True Image Plus Pack works with the Acronis True Image 2010 standard edition, but not with the Acronis True Image Netbook Edition(refer to my previous post) or previous editions of Acronis True Image Home.
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  NEW Acronis True Image HOME 2010 PLUS PACK ENHANCES BACKUP AND RECOVERY FOR ADVANCED HOME USERS

  Add-on solution extends portfolio of system and data protection solutions

  Singapore, November 4, 2009 — Acronis (www.acronis.com.sg) is today launching Acronis True Image Home 2010 Plus Pack, an add-on solution that offers advanced home users the flexibility to restore their files, applications and operating system to dissimilar hardware. The solution also provides support for dynamic disks and Microsoft Windows Preinstallation Environments (WinPE).

  NEW Acronis True Image HOME 2010 PLUS PACK ENHANCES BACKUP AND RECOVERY FOR ADVANCED HOME USERS

  Add-on solution extends portfolio of system and data protection solutions

  Singapore, November 4, 2009 — Acronis (www.acronis.com.sg) is today launching Acronis True Image Home 2010 Plus Pack, an add-on solution that offers advanced home users the flexibility to restore their files, applications and operating system to dissimilar hardware. The solution also provides support for dynamic disks and Microsoft Windows Preinstallation Environments (WinPE).

  Acronis True Image Home 2010 Plus Pack is the latest addition to the Acronis family of backup and recovery products. It is available as an add-on solution to Acronis True Image Home 2010. It includes three components traditionally reserved for Acronis’ corporate line, making them available for advanced home users.

  The solution includes Acronis Universal Restore, which ensures that if a machine is lost or stolen, or if a user wants to use a new or replacement machine, their data and applications can easily be exactly replicated to a physical or virtual machine – regardless of the make, model, or installed components.

  In addition, the new product provides support for dynamic disks which offer features such as multi-partition and fault tolerant volumes, and easy partition size adjustment. With Acronis, backup and restore of dynamic volumes is easy. Users can restore dynamic volumes onto bare-metal disks or to existing dynamic disks.

  The solution also supports WinPE and allows users to install the latest Microsoft drivers, customized scripts, applications and plug-ins more easily and quickly, speeding the recovery process.  As a result, when users boot from their rescue media with Acronis True Image Home 2010, they are able to use more hardware than the existing one, and perform customised execution.

  “Acronis has lately extended its consumer portfolio in order to meet specific home user needs. The powerful features in this enhanced solution cater for home users seeking advanced backup and recovery capabilities,  delivered in an easy to use format, In addition, Universal Restore offers the ultimate flexibility, ensuring that your data and system is protected even if your machine is lost or stolen,” explains Jason Donahue, Acronis President and CEO.

  Pricing and availability

  Acronis True Image Home 2010 Plus Pack is available now to download at http://www.acronis.com.sg/homecomputing/products/trueimage/plus-pack.html. Acronis True Image Home Plus Pack requires Acronis True Image Home 2010 standard edition to be installed.

  Recommended retail price is US$29.99.

  About Acronis

  Acronis is the leading provider of storage management and disaster recovery software. Its patented disk imaging and management technology enables corporations and individuals to move, manage and maintain digital assets in physical and virtual environments. With Acronis’ backup, recovery, server consolidation and virtualisation migration software, users protect their digital information, maintain business continuity and reduce downtime in computing environments. Acronis software is sold in more than 180 countries and available in 13 languages. For additional information, please visit www.acronis.com.sg.