Acronis Press Release 11/10/04

Phoenix Global Software launches Acronis True Image 8.0 into UK retail.

Acronis True Image 8.0 delivers comprehensive workstation protection - the complete disk imaging, system disk backup, and bare metal restore for workstations and home PCs.

London - October 11, 2004 - Acronis, Inc., the technological leader in storage management solutions, has launched Acronis True Image 8.0, the latest upgrade to its expanding family of award-winning workstation and server disk imaging, backup, and bare-metal restore software. Acronis True Image 8.0 is the easiest, most convenient and intuitive disk imaging, backup and system restore software you’ve ever seen. It’s automated, wizard-driven operations make the backup and restore functions extremely to complete.

Acronis True Image 8.0 allows users to create the exact disk image of live workstations for a complete file and system backup, providing a comprehensive and cost-effective protection solution.  The disk image file includes amongst others, the computer data including the operating system, programs, software updates and patches, data files, configurations, preference settings, e-mails, pictures and MP3 files. After a fatal system failure, you can restore the entire drive contents to a known, working state or simply replace the lost or corrupted files and folders.

Based on the Exclusive Acronis Drive Snapshot disk imaging technology, Acronis True Image allows you to create an online system backup without the reboot to keep the system productive. The product provides the fastest bare metal restore dramatically reducing and, therefore your IT costs.

New features included in Acronis True Image 8.0 are the ability to exclude paging/hibernate files from the disk image and assign the priority for the disk imaging process to enable the PC to prioritise between disk imaging and other applications. This reduces disk backup time and storage. True Image 8.0 also allows for the verification of a disk image before executing the Restore command and File system checking after restoring an image.

Main Features:

- Create the online disk backup image.
- Restore the entire system and/or individual files and folders.
- Create and restore online disk backup images in Windows without reboot.
- Schedule automated backups.
- Create incrementals disk backup images.
- Built-in disk image verification tool.
- Clone and upgrade disk drives.
- View backup logs.
- Automated, wizard driven-operations.

?The necessity of having a reliable backup of your system has never been more crucial,? said Max Tsypliaev, CEO of Acronis. ?As corporate, mission-critical data continues to migrate to the desktop and multimedia PCs become more entrenched as essential parts of consumers? leisure time, guaranteeing the accessibility of data and applications is paramount. In addition,? he continued, ?being able to perform a bare-metal recovery of lost corporate data in minutes rather than hours or days delivers benefits directly to the company?s bottom line.?

?Users have become more dependent on their computers, and time is a most precious commodity,? said Stephen Lawton, director of marketing. ?Creating a smaller, more efficient image will significantly increase the speed of creating the image, and eliminating temporary data will significantly decrease the size of the image. Together,? he continued, ?these features, along with more verification processes, further ensure that the images users create will be exact duplicates of the disks. The images will also be created and restored faster.?

Price and Availability:
Phoenix Global Software Ltd. will republish, market and distribute the Acronis family of security, disaster recovery and PC/server management products to retail outlets in the UK, Ireland and South Africa. Acronis True Image 8.0 is available from all leading UK retailers including Amazon and PC World stores at an RRP of ?29.99 inc. VAT.

About Acronis:
Acronis offers storage management solutions that are technically advanced for mission-critical applications but easy to use. The company provides disaster recovery, backup and restore, partitioning, boot management, privacy, data migration, and other storage management products for enterprises, corporations and consumers. Acronis has offices in the Unites States, Europe and Asia and sells its products through retail outlets, resellers and on the Web. For additional information, please visit www.acronis.com

About Phoenix Global Software:
Established in 2003, Phoenix Global Software has already gained a foothold in the European software distribution and republishing market. The UK business is the sister company of Phoenix Software SA, which is a well established IT distributor and republisher in South Africa, founded in September 1999.  Phoenix supplies a wide range of new and established software products to distribution in the United Kingdom and Sub Saharan African channels. The company focuses on software that is niche and aimed at various vertical markets, delivering software to the retail and reseller channel via strong relationships with UK distribution.  Its subsidiary, Computrolley.com, supplies direct to the corporate, education and end-user channels. Phoenix Global Software has an ongoing mission to provide leading-edge products, providing market leadership opportunities by always bringing new and exciting applications to the market place.

For more information, about Phoenix Global Software and its range of titles please go to:
www.phoenixglobalsoftware.co.uk