Alliance Partner Solution Brief

Fast and Easy Image-Based Backup, Disaster Recovery, and Data Protection for Your HC Virtual Machines

HC Key Features: o Enterprise-ready hypervisor o HA Virtualization with no SAN or NAS to manage o Unified management o Support for all major guest OS types o Hardware accelerated virtualization o Support for virtualization-optimized versions of Windows and Linux guest OS and drivers o Scale-out growth o Storage and VM availability

Acronis Backup & Recovery Advanced Platform Features: o Fast and intuitive image-based backup o File, folder and network share backup o Bare-metal recovery o Recovery to dissimilar hardware o Granular file recovery o Support for all major file systems o P2V tools for easy migration fro physical servers o Cloud Storage option that can turn your HC3 deployment into a hybrid cloud

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Small to medium-size businesses need solutions that provide virtualization and high availability data protection without the complexity of today’s current multi-vendor architectures. In today’s environment, a typical virtual deployment is a heterogeneous mixture of up to five or more vendors that provide servers, storage, switching, virtualization and backup solutions. According to CRN Magazine, it is this labyrinthine that is stopping roughly 70 percent of small businesses from virtualizing their data centers. SMBs wants affordability, high availability and complete data protection delivered in a simple, easy-to-use homogenous environment.

Advanced, Easy-to-Use Virtualization, Backup and Recovery

Scale Computing has created the most advanced, easy-to-use virtualization system on the market with HC . SMBs quickly and easily reap the cost savings promised from virtualizing since storage, servers and virtual machine management technology are integrated into a single operating system. Sold as a three to eight-node appliance, HC is the most flexible, stackable and reliable virtual infrastructure of its kind.

Acronis is a leading provider of migration tools, backup, disaster recovery, and data protection for physical, virtual and cloud environments. Hosts, virtual machines, folders and files can be protected for fast and efficient recovery if a disaster occurs. Acronis Backup & Recovery® Online is an integrated cloud storage offering that creates a hybrid solution protecting critical data in a secure cloud datacenter when combined with HC . It leverages Acronis’ patented disk imaging and cloud computing technologies to capture files, as well as server operating systems and applications. Backups are stored online in a remote, secure location that is fully secured via government-grade encryption.

Use Acronis to accomplish P2V by doing full system backups of your physical servers and using the hardware independent restore capabilities to restore those images into HC VMs.

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Alliance Partner Solution Brief

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HC , Server, Storage, Virtualization in one running Acronis Backup and Recovery 11.5

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Acronis is leading the next wave of data availability, accessibility and protection solutions to simplify today’s complex IT environments. Acronis technology enables organizations of all sizes to manage the always-on anywhere data access demands of users, reducing risk against the loss of valuable corporate data, and controlling management and storage costs. With proven technology for data migration and disaster recovery for physical, virtual and cloud environments, and secure enterprise file-sharing and synchronization regardless of type or platform, Acronis is enabling organizations to embrace new IT strategies and options such as BYOD and Mac in the enterprise.

About Acronis About Scale ComputingScale Computing develops scale-out clustered IT infrastructure products for small to medium-sized organizations based on its patented ICOS [Intelligent Clustered Operating System] technology. Scale’s HC seamlessly integrates storage, servers and virtualization into a scalable, turnkey infrastructure that’s as easy to manage as a single server. Designed specifically for IT generalists, HC is ideal for those who have not yet adopted virtualization due to cost and complexity, enabling them to run highly available applications.

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Once migrated, you can continue to use Acronis to backup those HC VMs on a regular basis. Designed to bring simplicity, high availability and reliability to SMBs, the Acronis and Scale Computing alliance results in a complete virtual datacenter package that unwinds the labyrinth of relationships and complexities needed to virtualize. Combined, Acronis and Scale Computing have created a simple, easy-to-deploy virtual “datacenter-in-a-box” that includes just two vendors.

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By partnering with software providers, Scale Computing continues to deliver on their promise of bringing easy to use and affordable products to small and midmarket IT departments. Additionally, Scale Computing VARs can expect to offer a high-value, comprehensive solution to their customers with a true single source solution for their virtualization needs. Visit www.scalecomputing.com to learn more.

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