London, UK, 24th March 2015 - HEG today announces its
commercial partnership with world leading generation data
protection provider Acronis, to deliver a new Backup as a Service
(BaaS) product offering, specially designed to protect users' files
and applications on their home or work PCs.
The Acronis platform will allow HEG to offer it's more than one
million small and medium sized customers a fully integrated
alternative to complicated in-house storage systems, securely
hosted in HEG's state of the art data centre facilities. HEG will
offer full system image backups, allowing users to back up all
applications, files, and user accounts into one compressed file.
There will also be an easy recovery so that users can restore their
PCs in an instant, with no additional tools needed. Other features
include personal key encryption, cloud backup and universal
restore, allowing users to move their system to any PC, no matter
the make or model.
Research from Contingency Planning & Strategic Research
Corporation found that 96 per cent of all business workstations are
not being backed up. Further research from PricewaterhouseCoopers
found that seven out of ten small firms that experience a major
data loss go out of business within a year.
'We are committed to tackling the growing need for small
businesses in particular to protect their most important
information. As we move towards more flexible working environments,
there is a greater threat of damage or loss to single machines.
This partnership will help to expand HEG's offering to businesses
and individuals by going beyond securing website and critical data,
to files and applications on PCs. This web-based service will allow
customers to securely back up their most important files to our
data centres, giving them added peace of mind,' said Dr. Andreas
Palm, CEO Mass Hosting, HEG.
'HEG is a market leader in the European hosting space and we are
delighted to be able to announce this partnership. Team with HEG
will allow us to build on our momentum of bringing security to both
businesses and individuals. Working together, we can help to
deliver a critical customer need,' added John Zanni, Acronis Senior
Vice President & Cloud General Manager.
HEG and Acronis will commence their partnership in 2015 with the
intention on launching across HEG's key brands.
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About HEG
Founded in 1997, HEG is the largest privately-owned hosting
group in Europe. It manages in excess of 6 million domains, and
offers more than 1 million customers mass, customised, managed and
cloud web hosting alongside multiple cloud based software
applications. The Experton Vendor Benchmark 2014 listed Host Europe
GmbH in the leader quadrant of the category 'Public Cloud - IaaS
solutions.'
As the biggest domain registrar in the UK, and largest
virtualisation provider in Europe, HEG is the default choice for
businesses seeking high quality service, with first rate
performance, at a competitive price. With its leading brands:
123-reg, domainFACTORY, Heart Internet, Host Europe and intergenia
AG, HEG has a market leading presence in the UK, Germany, Austria,
Switzerland and Spain.
Über Acronis:
Acronis ist ein globales Cybersecurity-Unternehmen und bietet die einzige nativ integrierte Plattform für Cybersicherheit, Datenschutz und Infrastrukturmanagement für Managed Service Provider und IT-Abteilungen. Acronis-Lösungen helfen Unternehmen dabei, ihre IT-Umgebungen zu identifizieren und zu schützen, Bedrohungen zu erkennen und darauf zu reagieren sowie Daten wiederherzustellen und zu verwalten, um Datenintegrität und Geschäftskontinuität sicherzustellen.
Acronis ist ein Schweizer Unternehmen, das 2003 in Singapur gegründet wurde. Das Unternehmen verfügt über 15 Büros weltweit und beschäftigt Mitarbeiter:innen in mehr als 60 Ländern. Acronis Cyber Platform ist in 26 Sprachen sowie in über 150 Ländern verfügbar und wird bereits von über 21,000 Service Providern zum Schutz von mehr als 750,000 Unternehmen eingesetzt. Erfahren Sie mehr unter www.acronis.com.