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10 April 2025  — 7 min read
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10 April 2025  — 7 min read
The best cybersecurity practices for individuals : Essential tips for maximum security
Personal cyber protection is the sequence of steps necessary to secure our vital data against all potential cyberthreats.
02 April 2020  — 3 min read
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02 April 2020  — 3 min read
Top Cyber Protection Week Survey Takeaways for IT Pros
As the first-ever World Cyber Protection Week begins to wind down, we’re taking an in-depth look at what the results of this year’s survey mean for IT professionals around the world. With this IT pro-focused review, you’ll learn where your peers are excelling, where they aren’t, and how you both stack up to – and can get ahead of – the pack.
01 April 2020  — 3 min read
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01 April 2020  — 3 min read
Nine Stories of IT Support Perfect for April Fools’ Day
In honor of World Cyber Protection Week and April Fools’ Day, we’re celebrating the essential – and often frustrating – work of IT support staff by taking a look back at horror stories of dealing with users at their most foolish. We scoured some of our favorite sources for terrible tales of tech support to find nine excerpts that might make your average day seem a little bit better, by comparison.
31 March 2020  — 7 min read
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31 March 2020  — 7 min read
How Cyber Protection Trends are Evolving in 2020
This year’s World Cyber Protection Week survey results offer a wealth of insight into how individuals and IT professionals are approaching the challenges of increasing complexity, cost, and vulnerability. And while there’s a great deal personal users, IT professionals, and service providers can learn from these survey findings, viewing them in a silo ignores some important, broader context. To offer a clearer picture of what this year’s survey means, we’ve compared our 2020 findings with responses from personal users and IT professionals in all of our previous survey iterations. This comparison presents a robust perspective of how data-defense priorities have evolved over time, and how cyber protection’s modern, comprehensive approach to safeguarding data, applications, and systems is poised to become even more necessary in the months and years ahead.
31 March 2020  — 5 min read
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31 March 2020  — 5 min read
Seventeen tips for Hyper-V disaster recovery that could save your bacon
The cyber world can be a perilous one. Even though you may never know exactly when a disaster will occur, you should always be ready for any scenario that may unfold across your data center. We have compiled a list of 17 tips that you can use to help you keep your datacenter ready for any type of disaster that may occur.
31 March 2020  — 3 min read
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31 March 2020  — 3 min read
Agentless vs Agent-Based Antivirus Software: Making The Right Choice
An ever-present challenge in business virtualization is keeping setups secure from intrusion. In a conventional architecture, antivirus and anti-malware solutions are essential for safeguarding and hardening against malicious attacks. The problem is that antivirus programs can be quite resource-intensive, diverting substantial computing resources away to handle malware scans. On a physical machine, this may only use a modest percentage of total computing performance capacity. On agent-based virtual machine configurations, however, this computing resource drain is often multiplied.
31 March 2020  — 4 min read
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31 March 2020  — 4 min read
What is an SDN switch?
In the traditional IT environment, a network switch (also called switching hub or bridging hub) is defined as a piece of hardware that utilizes packet switching to receive, process and forward data between devices within a computer network. Today, with the global rise of server virtualization, traditional network switches are being gradually replaced with software-defined network controllers (SDN switches) that rely on the code as opposed to network bridges and hardware.
31 March 2020  — 17 min read
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31 March 2020  — 17 min read
What is Hyper-V: The authoritative guide
Whether you’re just beginning to look into virtualization platform options for your company, or you’re a new Hyper-V user trying to get up to speed, it can be a challenge to find all the information you need in one place. That’s why we created this guide — to give you an all-in-one resource you can bookmark and refer back to as often as you need to, so you can get up and running on Hyper-V more smoothly.
31 March 2020  — 3 min read
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31 March 2020  — 3 min read
Hyper-V checkpoints: Why, when and how to use them
Before making changes in Hyper-V, whether it involves software configuration changes or a new software update, it's a good idea to first create a Hyper-V checkpoint.
31 March 2020  — 5 min read
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31 March 2020  — 5 min read
Seven tips for Hyper-V monitoring that you'll wish you'd read sooner
Learn how to better manage your Hyper-V environment and improve performance. In this article, we’ll walk through how to optimally configure your VMs and servers. Then, we’ll provide a number of tips for Hyper-V monitoring.
31 March 2020  — 5 min read
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31 March 2020  — 5 min read
Hyper V vs VMware vSphere: Which solution Is right for you?
When it comes to IT planning and budgeting, you want to make sure you are getting the best return on your investment. With this in mind, we created this Hyper V vs VMware vSphere comparison to help you determine which hypervisor is right for you and your environment.
30 March 2020  — 5 min read
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30 March 2020  — 5 min read
The Results are In: Cyber Protection Week 2020 Survey
This World Cyber Protection Week, we expanded our annual data protection survey to cover more of the digital challenges and concerns that face modern IT users – whether they’re at home, at work, or relying on a service provider that protects a portfolio of clients. This year’s results paint a clear picture: People and organizations are acutely aware of the risks on the horizon but they are much less certain about how to easily, efficiently, and securely prepare for and overcome them. Let’s dive into the findings of our 2020 survey.
30 March 2020  — 4 min read
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30 March 2020  — 4 min read
Views from the Beta: Case Studies Reveal Real-User Opinions of Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud
Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud recently moved out of private beta and into public beta, making it available to any service provider or cloud distributor who is interested. This is the final step before the general availability (GA) of the product, slated for next month.