Dublin – 1st October 2007... Acronis ® Inc. (http://www.acronis.eu), a leading provider of advanced disk imaging solutions, announced today that it has signed a non-exclusive agreement with Commtech, Ireland’s leading value added distributor of IT products, to distribute the Acronis family of award-winning corporate software solutions in Ireland.

Under the terms of the distribution agreement, Commtech will distribute the Acronis True Image (ATI) corporate product range including ATI Workstation; ATI Enterprise Server; ATI Server for Windows; and ATI Server for Linux.  In addition, Commtech will distribute Acronis Snap Deploy and Acronis Disk Director Server.

The agreement further extends Acronis’ reach into the Irish market where Commtech has strong existing relationships with a nationwide network of resellers and Internet service providers and an excellent reputation as a trusted IT security, networking and virtualisation solutions distributor. 
 Justin Owens, managing director at Commtech, said:  “We are happy to be partnering with Acronis, a brand that is recognised for its end-to-end reliable disk imaging and disaster recovery software solutions.  Working with Acronis will ensure that we continue to provide our clients with the highest quality and most cost-effective solutions.”

Kevin Moreau, general manager for Acronis UK & Ireland, said: “We will be working closely with the Commtech team to make our award-winning backup and disaster recovery software solutions available to a broad range of organisations across Ireland.”
The family of Acronis solutions will complement Commtech’s existing virtualisation and storage offerings, enabling the company to provide its customers with fast and reliable backup, recovery, deployment and migration software solutions.  The agreement also calls for close cooperative marketing and support between the two companies.

Commtech will promote Acronis’ software to its new and existing resellers and, in return, Acronis will provide Commtech with dedicated technical support and training, as well as detailed product guidance and direct sales support for Commtech’s key clients.

About Acronis
Acronis is a world leader in providing advanced, scalable storage management and disaster recovery software that helps enterprises safeguard their information and assures the availability, security, integrity and recoverability of their infrastructure. Acronis' patented disk imaging and disk management technology have won broad industry acclaim and numerous awards for excellence in data protection, backup and recovery, system deployment, and server migration for both physical and virtual machine servers. Its flagship product, Acronis True Image, is a leading commercial disk-imaging and bare-metal restore solution for Windows and Linux servers, as well as an automated system portability and migration tool. Since 2002, Acronis True Image has been the solution of choice for tens of thousands of customers, from small to mid-size businesses to the Fortune 500 in the banking, professional services, healthcare, technology, retail, government and manufacturing markets.

A global company, Acronis has offices in the United States, Europe and Asia. For additional information, please visit www.acronis.eu or contact Julie Grivel Delillaz, Acronis’ PR & marketing leader – julie.grivel.delillaz@acronis.com

About Commtech
Commtech is a leading, value added Irish Distributor specialising in IT security, virtualisation software and voice products & services. Partnering with key leaders in the industry, Commtech offers superior new technology coupled with technical training, consultancy and support services to satisfy local market needs and requirements. 

Commtech works with a nationwide network of resellers and (ISPs) Internet Service Providers, supplying best of breed products such as: (IT Security & Networking) SonicWALL, McAfee, Secure Computing, Barracuda Networks, Websense, Juniper Networks, Attachmate, GFI and Kerio; (Virtualisation) VMware, Vizioncore, PlateSpin, Neoware and Acronis: and (Voice) Avaya and Altigen VoIP.

For more information, please visit www.commtech.ie.

Or call

Justin Owens   Commtech              +353 1 8091230       
Jillian Godsil  Practice PR & Events             +353 53 94 296 76       

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