17 May 2021
Press release

Acronis appoints 4Sight Dynamics Africa as its new Cloud Distributor in Central Europe, Middle East and Africa, continuing its rapid expansion in emerging markets

SCHAFFHAUSEN, Switzerland, May 17, 2021- Acronis announced today that it has added 4Sight Dynamics Africa, a subsidiary of 4Sight, the multi-national and diversified technology group, as a cloud distributor for Central Europe, Middle East and Africa, thereby continuing to intensify its investments and development on the African continent.

4Sight Dynamics Africa, with an existing partner ecosystem now spanning over 51 countries will represent Acronis as a cloud distributor across the entire Africa, but also Middle East as well as Central Europe. "Whilst we envisage that we will offer and support the full ambit of the feature rich Acronis platform, we believe that many of our resellers will be focussing specifically on the backup and disaster recovery capabilities together with the Acronis Cyber Protection features", said Nick Botha, Managing Director at 4Sight Dynamics Africa.

4Sight has a rich history on the African continent dating back to their first Alliance territories setup as far back as 2006. Since that time both the traditional Alliance Branches as well as the purely focussed cloud reseller base have grown in representation now spanning virtually the entire Africa and Middle Eastern region.

Peter French, General Manager for Middle East and Africa at Acronis says, "there is a growing demand from customers for an efficient protection of their critical data. Acronis' solutions such as Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud answer that need by offering both innovative possibilities including anti-ransomware technology and hybrid cloud architecture. By adding 4Sight Dynamics Africa as our newest Cloud Distributor, we aim at tackling the large demand for cloud solutions with integrated backup, anti-virus, anti-malware, and DRaaS. Businesses in Africa are understanding more and more the need to keep their data safe and any solution that provides integrated data protection and cybersecurity for enterprise, as Acronis does, is currently in highest demand."

"We are excited about the opportunities we will be able to unlock for our channel partners through the partnership with Acronis. It has been said that data is the oil of the new digital economy and in this current global pandemic and we believe going forward post pandemic times, data protection and cybersecurity will remain a top priority for all organisations of all sizes. The ease of use and breath of the Acronis platform was key to our selection of Acronis as specialised security vendor and as a cloud distributor, we look forward to helping Acronis expand its footprint through our wide network of channel partners," adds Botha.




About Acronis:

Acronis is a global cyber protection company that provides natively integrated cybersecurity, data protection, and endpoint management for managed service providers (MSPs), small and medium businesses (SMBs), and enterprise IT departments. Acronis solutions are highly efficient and designed to identify, prevent, detect, respond, remediate, and recover from modern cyberthreats with minimal downtime, ensuring data integrity and business continuity. Acronis offers the most comprehensive security solution on the market for MSPs with its unique ability to meet the needs of diverse and distributed IT environments.

A Swiss company founded in Singapore in 2003, Acronis has 15 offices worldwide and employees in 50+ countries. Acronis Cyber Protect is available in 26 languages in 150 countries and is used by over 20,000 service providers to protect over 750,000 businesses. Learn more at www.acronis.com.
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