Marcelo Andrieu

Marcelo Andrieu

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20 October 2016 — 2 min read

Acronis

20 October 2016 — 2 min read

Universal Software-Defined Storage (SDS) – A Better Way to Manage Your Storage Infrastructure

What is SDS? So, just what we need, another acronym. Right? But what we do need is a way to manage storage software separately from the underlying hardware. That’s SDS — Software Defined Storage.

01 September 2016 — 2 min read

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01 September 2016 — 2 min read

68 million reasons to keep consumer-grade apps like Dropbox out of your business

11 December 2015 — 2 min read

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11 December 2015 — 2 min read

3 Must Have Apps to Keep Your Mobile Salesforce Productive and Secure

In today's world, sales people are naturally mobile. Although non-sales people tend to view successful sales people as “demigods,” there is no doubt they are often dynamic, have “nerves of steel,” make things happen, and are always available. For all of these reasons, your salespeople must have access to resources 24x7.

16 June 2015 — 3 min read

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16 June 2015 — 3 min read

Hey IT Managers – What You Need to Know About Macs in the Enterprise

It’s a fact that Macs have gained a lot of traction in SMBs and enterprises over the past few years. You cannot deny it: Employees love their Macs. Why? Macs are especially good at certain tasks like design, creative services, and production. They are easy to use and reliable with more and more employees that use Apple devices in their personal lives asking to use them at work. And of course, they are cool.

01 May 2015 — 2 min read

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01 May 2015 — 2 min read

Leverage Your Storage Investment for More ROI with Sync & Share

In today’s business world, we need to justify every dollar that we spend, lowering costs, and delivering a return on investment on everything we do. Nowhere is this more true than in IT, where Big Data, Mobility and BYOD are changing the way we work across the globe, requiring companies to an IT depratments to invest and change to remain competitive.

24 February 2015 — 2 min read

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24 February 2015 — 2 min read

Acronis Access – Scalability, a scary thing…

Over the years, working with and listening to thousands of customers of all sizes, we’ve learned a lot about what they need, their challenges, and the effect of what we do in what they do. We’ve also noticed that some concepts, or the words that simply represent them, are just scary to our IT friends. Scalability is one of them.

12 January 2015 — 2 min read

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12 January 2015 — 2 min read

Why you need Secure Sync and Share for mobile…

Not too long ago (even 5 or 10 years seems an eternity) life was easy. Most of us were tied to our desks. The ones that were not, like sales people, would carry boxes with printed materials and price lists in the trunks of their cars. Remote workers would dial in and connect via VPN to access their file servers.

22 November 2013 — 2 min read

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22 November 2013 — 2 min read

activEcho 3.0 – The User Side of Things

If you read my previous entry, you could tell that I’m all about talking to customers in IT first, then putting my head down to deliver what Enterprise IT groups are demanding in terms of control, security, management and visibility.

14 November 2013 — 2 min read

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14 November 2013 — 2 min read

Acronis activEcho 3.0 Delivers Enterprise-Grade Control and Security for Corporate File Sharing and Syncing

The advent of enterprise mobility has radically affected the way organizations conduct business. No matter whether you are talking to customers from markets as diverse as Pharma, Health, Financial, Education, Publishing, Advertising, Government, Legal, or service providers, it’s a fact that mobility is here to stay. But while it brings all kinds of benefits it also creates a new set of challenges.

25 July 2013 — 1 min read

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25 July 2013 — 1 min read

Simple Steps to Network Security: Device Passwords and Key Locks

Allowing employees to use their personal mobile devices for work can provide a multitude of advantages: productivity, simpler connectivity, access to the resources they need from virtually anywhere. But along with the benefits, bring your own device (BYOD) opens the door to risks, including security vulnerabilities, data leakage, compliance and potential liability issues.The magnitude of the problem is big, considering millions of these devices are lost, stolen or misplaced every year (120 thousand phones were lost in Chicago taxi cabs alone last year…).