Acronis

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Acronis Inc.

Type	Private
Founded	USA (2000)
Headquarters	USA
Key people	Walter Scott, CEO
Industry	Computer software
Products	Acronis True Image Acronis Snap Deploy Acronis Disk Director Suite
Revenue	Not disclosed
Website	www.acronis.com

Acronis Inc, a company incorporated in Delaware, produces hard disk utility software, including disk-imaging backup and recovery, partition management, boot management, and data migration software. It also develops software for virtualization migration and conversion for purpose of migrating a physical server to a virtual server (such as VMware or Microsoft Virtual Server), or what is also termed P2V. Its best-known product is Acronis True Image, which allows a software image of a computer to be made and which can be reinstalled on the same or another computer. Most software is produced in different versions starting at low-priced software for single computers up to versions for companies with many desktop and server computers.

Acronis' headquarters are in Burlington, MA, USA with additional offices in the United States, Europe and Asia. The company originated in Moscow, Russia, where software development and technical support continues. Walter Scott, who formerly ran Imceda Corporation until its sale to Quest Software, became CEO in 2005 ^[1]. Acronis has taken venture funding from New York private equity and venture capital firm Insight Venture Partners^[2].