Acronis talks about backup, P2V and 64-bit
Acronis, most likely best known for its Acronis True Image products, was interviewed again on Let's Talk Computer's.You can read the transcript here or listen to the audio in RealAudio or Windows Media format.
Asked about backup of virtual machines, Stephen Lawton from Acronis, said: "... with Acronis True Image Universal Restore, we actually have the ability now, to take that image of the physical box, (let's say you might have it on a Dell Server), and restore that image to an IBM Server, running VMware or Microsoft Virtual Server 2005. And whatever the physical devices are in that server, we can allow the user to add those drivers during the restore process. And the system will be back up and running again, as if you were putting it right back on the same piece of hardware."
Later in the interview he also covers the 64-bit aspect of backup with Acronis: "... 64-bit hardware is becoming a standard in certain industries, which is the financial services industry, where not only are they saying, "we're only going to buy 64-bit hardware", to be future approved, but we're only going to buy 64-bit applications future approved, as well." When you start combining 64 and 32-bit, it can be a real challenge. Acronis has looked at this and we now have full 64-bit-support support. We don't care what the hardware is. Again, we're hardware agnostic; we're software agnostic. You can have 64-bit software applications, 32-bit, you can have them both on the same machine."