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03 May 2017  — 2 min read
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03 May 2017  — 2 min read
Acronis Active Protection: A Leg up on the Backup Competition
You can’t predict ransomware attacks, and your attempts to avoid them may fail. You can follow computer backup best practices, but even then there is no guarantee that devious cyber criminals won’t uncover your weaknesses. That’s why Acronis True Image 2017 New Generation integrates ransomware protection technology in the form of Acronis Active Protection.  Independent IT security research company MRG Effitas tested eight consumer backup products against ten ransomware families with some surprising results!
26 April 2017  — 1 min read
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26 April 2017  — 1 min read
Quick Insights With Acronis Backup 12.5 Dashboards
Acronis Backup 12.5 Advanced dashboard provides a number of customizable, dynamic widgets that give an overview of your backup infrastructure and backed-up devices.
18 April 2017  — 1 min read
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18 April 2017  — 1 min read
Protecting Large Hybrid IT Environments With Acronis Backup 12.5
The IT environments grow at a faster pace than the companies they serve. A decade ago, a company with 30 employees would have had half a dozen servers, a couple of dozens of PCs, and that’s it. Nowadays, there may be: Few old physical servers still housing important data and applications Virtual hosts, holding couple dozen virtual machines (VMs), with different applications, and even different hypervisors 35+ PCs and laptops — including some Macs 20-30 VMs in the cloud – in Microsoft Azure, Amazon EC2, Google, or other IaaS cloud Applications and data in the cloud – most probably Microsoft Office 365 Few dozen corporate mobile devices – tablets, phones All of these devices contain important company data, and need to be backed up – and your existing backup solution may not be able to support all of these, or easily scale along with your hybrid IT evolution. What should you do?
12 April 2017  — 3 min read
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12 April 2017  — 3 min read
Incremental Recovery of Backups From the Cloud. Why Is It Essential?
If three library books on one shelf were misplaced or destroyed, should you have to replace the entire shelf of books? If you picked up your dry cleaning and dropped one shirt on the ground, should you have to re-launder all of the clothes? Of course not. Complete replacement would not make sense because it would be more expensive, more time consuming, and take more resources to complete. And so it is with recovering cloud backups.
06 April 2017  — 1 min read
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06 April 2017  — 1 min read
Protect Your Business From Ransomware With Acronis Backup 12.5
Acronis Active Protection™ is coming soon to Acronis Backup 12.5, the world’s fastest and easiest backup! Acronis Active Protection is an advanced ransomware protection technology. It actively protects all of the data – documents, data of all types, your system, backups and even your backup application.
23 March 2017  — 8 min read
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23 March 2017  — 8 min read
VMware: "To Quiesce or not to Quiesce?"
Back Up Your Virtual Machine the Right Way! Many articles have been written about making virtual machine snapshots, but most of them are too conceptual and high level. This post discusses the practical side of making virtual machine (VM) snapshots on a VMware vSphere® platform for use as backups. We will answer the questions: What is a quiesced snapshot? Why use it? What problems can be encountered when you quiesce?
22 March 2017  — 4 min read
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22 March 2017  — 4 min read
An All Too Human Error Recovered From With Acronis True Image
An interview with William (Bill) van de Water, an Acronis True Image customer, about personal data backup and recovery.
15 March 2017  — 2 min read
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15 March 2017  — 2 min read
Top 5 Tips for Good SharePoint Backup
Microsoft SharePoint is a popular online collaboration tool used by many companies around the world. Since its introduction in 2001, the product has captured a large share of the market. Just like your email, databases, ERP and CRM systems, SharePoint is now a business application that you must include in your data protection strategy in order to ensure maximum business continuity. However, SharePoint’s scalability and multiple deployment options can make backups challenging.
10 March 2017  — 5 min read
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10 March 2017  — 5 min read
Learn About the Acronis True Image Account Feature, and Get a Bonus 5GB of FREE Cloud Storage
Read on to learn what doors the Acronis True Image “Account” screen opens. Plus, we’ll share how anyone (even non-customers!) can receive 5TB of cloud storage free to back up iPhone and Android data.
07 March 2017  — 15 min read
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07 March 2017  — 15 min read
Should I backup before installing Windows 10? | Acronis
Microsoft recently announced that development of the latest Windows 10 Update (dubbed the Windows 10 Creators Update) has entered the final “bug bashing” testing phase. That means it will likely hit the streets as soon as April 2017. There are many lessons to be learned from the original Windows 10 launch, so read on to find out how to protect your critical data and ensure a smooth Windows 10 update experience.
02 March 2017  — 5 min read
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02 March 2017  — 5 min read
Acronis True Image 2017 Update 2 is Available Now!
This update brings the New Generation features to the Standard edition of Acronis True Image 2017, except Acronis Active Protection, Acronis Notary, and Acronis ASign, which remain exclusive to Acronis True Image 2017 New Generation Premium Subscription.
24 February 2017  — 6 min read
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24 February 2017  — 6 min read
Eric O’Neill: Most of Ransomware Attacks Affect Home Users
Frank Jablonski, Acronis Vice President of Global Product Marketing, talks about cyber security with Eric O’Neill, an accomplished public speaker and security expert, who lectures internationally about espionage, cyber security, fraud, and hacking.