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08 August 2017  — 4 min read
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08 August 2017  — 4 min read
5 Steps to Make Your Eclipse Photos Shine
A total eclipse of the sun doesn’t happen very often. In fact, it doesn’t happen every decade or even every century. According to NASA, the opportunity to experience one where you live usually comes around once every 375 years. So the total eclipse that will be visible from a wide swath of the United States on August 21, 2017, is going to provide a cool, once-in-a-lifetime diversion for a huge part of the population.
19 June 2017  — 3 min read
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19 June 2017  — 3 min read
Proving Backup Authenticity with Acronis Notary™ and Blockchain
Acronis Notary™ creates digital certificates, based on checksums of your files, and then stores these certificates in the blockchain database, Ethereum, to ensure they can never be modified.
31 May 2017  — 6 min read
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31 May 2017  — 6 min read
Acronis Backup 12.5 Is Here!
Data protection is never going to be the same with the latest release of Acronis Backup 12.5 — the world’s most innovative backup solution suitable for companies of all sizes. It comes in two editions: Standard and Advanced, with an easy in-place upgrade. It means you can start small with a few physical, virtual, or cloud systems, and then easily scale out to protect your entire business on-premises, remote location, in private and public clouds, and even mobile devices. Best of all, with a unified touch-friendly web-based console you won’t spend much time or effort to protect small or large environments.
25 May 2017  — 3 min read
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25 May 2017  — 3 min read
Backing up Multiple Hypervisors with Acronis Backup 12.5
Acronis Backup 12.5 protects your entire multi-hypervisor environment from a single touch-friendly web-based console. You will see all your VMs and hosts in the same place, allowing you to schedule your backups, test them, and recover when needed even to a different hypervisor, physical system, or the cloud.
12 May 2017  — 3 min read
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12 May 2017  — 3 min read
Off-Host Backup Processing in Acronis Backup 12.5
Acronis Backup 12.5 Advanced allows users to offload backup processing operations to a different host. It comes with advanced backup management operations, like staging, replication, validation, and retention, including D2D2C, D2C2T, and even C2D.
05 May 2017  — 1 min read
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05 May 2017  — 1 min read
Comprehensive Reporting in Acronis Backup 12.5
Acronis Backup 12.5 Advanced allows users to automate detailed and visual reporting in order to comply with corporate regulations.
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?