Acronis unveils new certification programme

Acronis is replacing its existing certification structure with a new training and certification programme to support the launch of its latest line of disaster recovery products.
The vendor says Acronis Academy is a more comprehensive programme, offering technical and sales training at different levels. Some courses will culminate in a detailed online certification test. In addition to the onsite training, Acronis Academy will also include online sales training and seminars. The first two courses currently available are:
 
ACE
Acronis Certified Engineer (ACE) – Technical certification available for individuals in channel or end user organisations. Offering a two day on-site training class, the Acronis Certified Engineer course provides knowledge transfer about its migration and disaster recovery solutions, including the Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 portfolio.
It delivers guidance on project implementation, roll out and troubleshooting. Providing best practice advice on a businesses’ disaster recovery strategy and how to take advantage of technologies such as virtualisation and deduplication, Acronis says it enables administrators to better manage their IT infrastructures and ultimately save costs.
 
ACT
Acronis Certified Trainer (ACT) – In-depth technical certification for IT professionals. To become an Acronis Certified Trainer, you need to pass the ACT course. Distribution partners can run the Acronis Academy training course once their trainer has completed the ACT course.  Acronis Academy courses are run by qualified, professional trainers.
Nitesh Bharadia, technical director at reseller b2Lateral Ltd, attended the trial version of the course. Bharadia comments:, “Having the well qualified trainers on hand to educate us and answer questions has vastly improved my knowledge of disaster recovery solutions. It was great to gain a deeper insight into the Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 product portfolio and I am already using this knowledge to boost sales and improve our customers' experience.”
Existing ACEs have a grace period of six months to upgrade to the new training programme and retain their certification status. Sales training and additional technical training courses on subjects such as database backup will be launched next year.