Quoting from the Acronis official announcement:
Acronis, Inc., a technological leader in storage management software, announced that it has joined the VMware Technology Alliance Partner Program.
The program allows Acronis to optimize its Acronis True Image and Acronis Disk Director products with VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3, virtual infrastructure software for partitioning, consolidating, deploying, backing up and managing servers in mission-critical environments.
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As a VMware technology partner, Acronis will further enhance the ability of its disk imaging and disk management products to work closely with VMware products…