The data migration tool offers the addition of a new disk wizard, hardware support and the Small Computer System Interface; available at $39.99.

Acronis, Inc., a provider of storage management software, yesterday announced that it has released Acronis Migrate Easy 7.0, a data migration tool.

According to the company, among the new features in this release are a new user interface similar to that of the company's flagship product Acronis True Image 8.0. It also offers the addition of a new disk wizard that enables a user to partition and format a new disk, and hardware support for parallel ATA (IDE), serial ATA (SATA) and the Small Computer System Interface (SCSI). Available at $39.99, the software wipes data from an old drive after the data has been moved to the new drive and verified as being usable.

"Strategically, Acronis Migrate Easy 7.0 underscores our commitment to provide the storage and systems management tools that consumers, businesses, and drive vendors require. Whereas three years ago you would normally find a 20 GB disk drive in an off-the-shelf consumer computer, today you'll typically find a 160 GB drive in those systems. Users with older systems and companies that need to upgrade storage but don't want to replace their entire desktop inventory recognize data migration as a cost-effective and natural approach," said Stephen Lawton, director of marketing at Acronis.