OREANDA-NEWS. January 08, 2015. MERLION is glad to announce about beginning of the partner program with Acronis, leading producer of solutions for backup, emergency recovery and protection of data, solutions of the corporate class, intended for use in mobile devices. Within the program MERLION and Acronis concluded a distribution agreement on supplies of the whole line of software products to partners in Russia.

Director for Distribution of the VAD division of MERLION Anton Lukyanov highly assessed the reached agreement: "Acronis solutions in the field of data backup have already proved themselves in the Russian IT-market. Many of them are leading in this niche. We are glad to cooperate and already ready to offer the newest data backup systems for home and corporate users to the partners".

"Cooperation with the largest diversified distributor in the Russian market is extremely important and promising for Acronis. MERLION has a reputation of a reliable, responsible and experienced partner that always fulfills its obligations. This years the clients of MERLION will be able one of the first to get high quality products in the field of backup from Acronis", - Head of Acronis Representative Office in Russia and CIS Sergey Malgin comments.

The line of products, available in the warehouse of MERLION, has an updated product for personal use - Acronis True Image 2014, certified for work in Windows 8. First of all, the opportunities of data backup in cloud, implemented in it, should be mentioned. 5 Gbytes of disk space shall be provided for the most important data for one year free of charge. Due to the mechanism of increment backup, only those data will be saved, which changed from the time of the last working session of this backup- utility.

Cloud technologies are also actively used in the newest versions of corporate products, in particular Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5, making backup copies of data in servers and workstations. This line of software products, like all solutions by Acronis, is distinguished by the simplicity of use. With their application literally with several clicks of the mouse one can ensure complete protection of the average-size infrastructure – make a copy of images of servers and workstations Windows or Linux with restoration without pre-installed software on machines, protect virtualized environments VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix Xen (and others), as well as individual files or data of Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft SharePoint and Microsoft Active Directory.

When selling the software by Acronis partners of MERLION will also be able to apply for assistance not only to the specialists of Acronis, but also to the officers of MERLION Engineering Technical Center.

The growing demand for backup systems both in the home and corporate markets allows the partners to look at cooperation prospects with optimism. For the companies, engaged into solutions in the field of backup, opportunities, opened by the agreement between MERLION and Acronis, will also be rather useful for further business development in interaction with the manufacturer and VAD-distributor