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Acronis Announces Virtual Server Migration Software

Tuesday, 07 November 2006 by Michel Roth

Storage management software company, Acronis Inc. announced Monday the launch of Acronis Full Circle, a software application that allows IT organizations to move an entire server's data to and from physical and virtual servers. Full Circle is based on FAST (Fast Accurate Simple Transmission) engine technology that enables users to migrate and convert data seamlessly between physical and virtual environments, the company said. The "virtually aware" technology automatically customizes the data being migrated to its new environment, it added.

Full Circle works with multiple operating systems, including Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 and Linux, and a variety of hardware and virtual servers on the market, according to Acronis of Burlington, Massachusetts. With an average server lifespan of 18 months, organizations have to constantly upgrade their hardware without jeopardizing their data, Acronis said. IT managers and systems integrators need s a server migration application that is not only fast and easy to use, but that also can meet migration challenges both on and off the data center floor, it added.

An application such as Acronis Full Circle will be of benefit to virtualization projects by ensuring that time and money is not consumed by server migration needs, according to Foedus, a value-added reseller based in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Foedus specializes in providing virtualization infrastructure services and technologies to companies large and small worldwide, and in just the last six months the number of virtual server migrations have skyrocketed, the company said in a statement.

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