Acronis is introducing a new training and certification programme to support the launch of its latest line of disaster recovery products. Acronis Academy is a professional education programme aiming at providing in-depth technical and sales training for channel partners and end users.
Acronis Academy replaces the existing Acronis certification programme. It will provide a more comprehensive programme, offering technical and sales trainings of different difficulty.
The Certification Training for becoming an ACE (Acronis Certified Engineer) covers all topics from the most basic explanations about online and offline imaging up to the most complex scenarios with thousands of machines, Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 is able to secure.
Benefits of becoming certified includes:
- NFR software
- Listing on Acronis Partner Locator
- Only Certified partners will be eligible to register deals and get more margin!
The topics covered in this 2 day training, including a lot of hands on experience and exercises during the course and ending in a multiple choice online certification test:
- Backup Technologies
- Installing Acronis Backup & Recovery 10
- Backup Preparation
- Backup Creation
- Remote Installation of Acronis Backup & Recovery 10
- Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Restore
- Acronis Universal Restore
- Legal requirements
- Licensing Acronis Backup & Recovery 10
- Virtual Environments
- Complex networked scenarios
15th and 16th February
at London Rosebery Avenue Centre
25th and 26th February
at Leeds Russell Street
18th and 19th March
at Birmingham
Agenda
Day 1
9:00 a.m. Registration & Coffee/teas
9:15 a.m. Introduction
9:40 a.m.
- Backup Technologies: explains all about different approaches for backup, like file backup, offline and online imaging.
- Installing Acronis Backup & Recovery 10: here you will learn all about the installation process of Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 in easy scenarios and you will learn your way round with the redesigned GUI
11:00 a.m.Coffee Break
11:15 a.m.
- Backup Preparation Part 1
- Backup Creation Part 1
12:00 p.m.Lunch & Networking
13:00 p.m.
- Backup Preparation Part 2
- Backup Creation Part 2
15:00 p.m. Coffee Break
15:15 p.m.
- Remote Installation of Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 is covered in the next chapter, which is necessary for usage of ABR10 in more complex scenarios with a lot of machines to be secured.
- Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Restore: This chapter explains how the restore process takes place and what you might have to consider here in order to get proper results.
17:00 p.m. Finish
Day 2
9:00 a.m. Registration & Coffee/teas
9:30 a.m. Introduction
9:40 a.m.
- Rescue Media explains how to use the Rescue media best, covers some best practices and explains how to use the Rescue Media in complex scenarios. Even some Linux Basics are being covered.
- Acronis Universal Restore is covered in an own chapter including an hands on exercise where you will learn how to use the Acronis Universal Restore feature.
- Legal requirements relating to archiving and backup are being covered, based on German and european rights, to explain the necessity of backup and archiving even from a legal perspective.
- Licensing Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 explains a lot of licensing scenarios and gives some background information, that might come in handy when selling the Acronis Products
11:00 a.m. Coffee Break
11:15 a.m.
- Virtual Environments explains the challenges with the backup of virtual environments and how Acronis Backup & Recovery (especially the Virtual Edition) might help. Installation of the Acronis Management Server and the Acronis Storage node is covered in the chapter about
12:00 p.m. Lunch & Networking
13:00 p.m.
- Deduplication is being covered in one dedicated chapter followed by additional informations about the
- Command Line Interface basic information about the other Products from Acronis (Snap Deploy, Recovery for MS Exchange and MS SQL)
14:30 p.m. Coffee Break
15:00 p.m. Certification test
17:00 p.m. Finish