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13 February 2015  — 1 min read
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13 February 2015  — 1 min read
INFOGRAPHIC: The Hosting Provider Opportunity Selling Backup as a Service
Businesses are desperate to have hosting providers offer a local and cloud backup and recovery solution they can trust. The market is set to explode in the next few years, so now is the perfect time to jump in.
12 February 2015  — 2 min read
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12 February 2015  — 2 min read
Healing Data Centers with Bare-Metal Recovery
Phew. The worst is over. You have identified, caught and dealt with the virus that threw you and your bosses out of the comfort zone for days. You have shut down all the affected servers – the data center is safe.
10 February 2015  — 2 min read
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10 February 2015  — 2 min read
Staff mobile data risks highlighted
According to InfoWatch’s Global Data Leakage Report the first half of 2014 saw 32% more leaks than in the same period in 2013. An estimated 450 million records were compromised, including financial and personal data across multiple sectors, with approximately 89% of information leaks involving personal data. With the number of smartphones and tablets on the rise, and a decrease in traditional PC sales, attacks on mobile devices are maturing. By 2017, Gartner predicts that the focus of endpoint breaches will shift to tablets and smartphones from traditional PCs.
27 January 2015  — 2 min read
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27 January 2015  — 2 min read
Three Reasons Why Mobility Overwhelms SMBs
Companies of all sizes are facing the demand of two popular employee trends – the want to use personal devices at work and the desire to work remotely. These trends are prompting many employers to implement mobility features that will embrace data across any and every device within their organizations.  While mobility is a game changer regarding real-time collaboration and productivity for companies of all sizes, SMBs are at a disadvantage with budget limitations and often limited to no on-site IT departments.
14 January 2015  — 3 min read
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14 January 2015  — 3 min read
Safely Migrating Server Workloads
Most businesses have physical servers, virtual machines, or a combination of both supporting production operations.  These organizations also have a variety of production workloads such as Microsoft® Exchange for email, SharePoint® for collaboration and content management, and various vendor-supplied or internally-developed applications running SQL database servers.
07 January 2015  — 2 min read
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07 January 2015  — 2 min read
The Power of Professional Data Protection
Welcome to the new Acronis.com blog! Experts from Acronis and the IT industry will regularly publish a series of posts examining important topics in data protection and secure file sharing and synchronization. The power and importance of professional protection will be a recurring theme for future business and technical discussions about secure mobility, cloud, backup, and disaster recovery in real-world hybrid environments. At Acronis, we often talk a lot about our holistic approach to intuitive, secure products. This series will explore why they’re important and what professional-grade capabilities mean to people in their personal and business lives, telling their stories of protection and recovery.
18 December 2014  — 2 min read
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18 December 2014  — 2 min read
Acronis Academy eLearning Platform: Access to Training Anytime, Anywhere
For years Acronis has brought customers anytime, anywhere access to their data. Now we’ve expanded that anytime, anywhere commitment to Acronis Partners with the launch of the Acronis Academy eLearning Platform, a learning management system (LMS) designed to provide Acronis Partner staff with sales and technical training.
10 October 2014  — 1 min read
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10 October 2014  — 1 min read
Now Hiring: Data Protection Officer?
The European Union is continuing discussions regarding new data protection laws that, if approved, would have ramifications for how companies manage and protect their customers' data. Among the effects would be a requirement that companies hire for a new role: data protection officer.
09 October 2014  — 3 min read
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09 October 2014  — 3 min read
How Cloud Computing is Changing Data Protection in the Channel
Increased adoption of cloud computing, virtualization and other big IT shifts are rewriting the relationship between technology vendors and their channel partners. These shifts are having big affects further downstream, too, changing how resellers and managed service providers (MSPs) offer value to their own customers. Andrew Hamilton, director of engineering and professional services at Unitiv, a leading enterprise IT systems provider, discusses how his company serves its customers’ data protection needs amidst the changes.
08 October 2014  — 3 min read
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08 October 2014  — 3 min read
Seven Benefits of Enterprise Virtualization
The following is a guest post by John Grady, senior manager of product marketing at XO Communications:
07 October 2014  — 2 min read
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07 October 2014  — 2 min read
Behind the Cover: Protecting the Digital Data Backbone of a Print Magazine
Before that glossy magazine hits the shelf, a lot of work takes place behind the scenes. Freelance writers are hired, stories are edited, photos are chosen and sorted — and all of these elements are compiled using editing software. Losing the final version of a feature story, or misplacing a commissioned photo, adds further time and effort, so it's essential that publishers back up everything to keep the production schedule on track.
03 October 2014  — 1 min read
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03 October 2014  — 1 min read
How the Shellshock Vulnerability Puts The World's Data at Risk
Security experts recently discovered a new software vulnerability that could affect millions of devices and servers across the globe. It’s called Shellshock, and experts are still trying to determine just how big of a threat it is. The consensus, however, is that it poses even more risk than the Heartbleed bug discovered earlier this year.