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06 June 2025  — 3 min read
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06 June 2025  — 3 min read
Hypervisor mobility: the practical escape hatch engineers need in 2025
Classic disaster recovery asked you to keep a warm VMware site on standby, burning host licenses and power while it waited for a crisis. Hypervisor mobility erases that waste.
14 January 2018  — 2 min read
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14 January 2018  — 2 min read
Microsoft’s Patch of Meltdown-Spectre Proves the Need for Backup
The ancient Greeks once warned about “the cure being worse than the disease.” Unfortunately, that’s exactly what’s happened when Microsoft released its patches for the Meltdown-Spectre vulnerabilities. Microsoft’s fix is bricking some computers, proving once again that creating a backup before installing any system update is critical.
09 January 2018  — 1 min read
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09 January 2018  — 1 min read
Acronis Responds, Protects Users from Spectre and Meltdown
New security research has been made public revealing the Meltdown (CVE-2017-5754) and Spectre (CVE-2017-5753 and CVE-2017-5715) vulnerabilities in modern processors. These vulnerabilities allow programs to break the isolation between applications, which means malicious applications could access the memory of another program running on the same machine. (For a detailed attack description, please visit https://spectreattack.com/ or https://meltdownattack.com/.)
08 January 2018  — 4 min read
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08 January 2018  — 4 min read
Ransomware Forecast 2018: Expect Cars, Homes, Medical Equipment and Wearables to be Targeted
Ransomware continues to threaten anyone using a Windows, macOS, or Android device, and individuals and business owners alike are paying ransoms because they don’t adequately protect their systems. While anti-ransomware solutions are available for devices like laptops, PCs and mobile phones, other Internet of Things (IoT) devices remain at risk. Our 2018 Ransomware Forecast looks at what threats we may soon face.
03 January 2018  — 3 min read
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03 January 2018  — 3 min read
How Acronis VARs Can Package, Market and Sell GDPR-Compliant Data Protection Products
The European Union (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) that is coming into effect on May 25, 2018 presents a great opportunity for Acronis value-added resellers (VARs) to offer GDPR-compliant products to companies and organizations affected by the new regulation.
02 January 2018  — 2 min read
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02 January 2018  — 2 min read
3 Steps to Reduce Work Stress and Grow in 2018
If your New Year’s Resolutions list includes “reduce stress,” “make smart investments” and “over-deliver,” you’re not alone. Dreaming big at the beginning of the year is easy to do. Certainly those who look to the previous year for key lessons to learn from are probably at an advantage.
29 December 2017  — 1 min read
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29 December 2017  — 1 min read
Eggnog Reflections
As I’m sitting here sipping on my eggnog, I’m thinking about how much changes in a year. These words were not even a common part of my vocabulary 12 months ago: ransomware, Bitcoin, ICO, digital identity, GDPR, blockchain, AI and machine learning.
27 December 2017  — 2 min read
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27 December 2017  — 2 min read
Faster Global Internet Speeds Good News for Cloud Users
Today’s internet speeds worldwide are 30 percent faster on average than last year, according to the recently published November 2017 Speedtest Global Index from Ookla, a global broadband speed test company that operates the famous speedtest.net website.
24 December 2017  — 7 min read
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24 December 2017  — 7 min read
Digital Evolution: The Trends to Watch in 2018
The only constant in the world is change, and that is especially true in the field of technology. So what changes can we expect in 2018?
21 December 2017  — 2 min read
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21 December 2017  — 2 min read
Understanding GDPR Through the Lens of Sarbannes-Oxley (SOX)
The European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is coming into effect on May 25, 2018, and for many companies, the challenges presented by this new regulation may be reminiscent of the USA’s Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) from the early 2000s. Just like GDPR, SOX was designed to increase data transparency, and just like GDPR, it had a global effect, including on many companies outside of U.S. jurisdiction.
21 December 2017  — 7 min read
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21 December 2017  — 7 min read
A Look Back as We Look Ahead: 2017 in Review
Here we are at the end of another year, and what a year it was. Twelve months ago we made predictions for the year ahead – let’s see how we did.
20 December 2017  — 5 min read
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20 December 2017  — 5 min read
5 Reasons iCloud Photo Library Might Not Be The Best Choice
We all know that certain photos are irreplaceable and priceless.
20 December 2017  — 3 min read
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20 December 2017  — 3 min read
Acronis Storage Accelerated by Intel Library
Every piece of data is required to be stored somewhere. We all know about hard drives, optical discs, tapes and other means of storage. But cloud storage and software-defined storage are the two modern methods of storing data, especially when we talk about large volumes. Acronis entered Software-Defined Storage (SDS) market in 2016, pioneering it with Blockchain based data verification. Acronis Storage is an SDS solution that allows service providers and end-users to quickly and easily transform heterogeneous hardware into protected, enterprise-grade, scalable storage to improve your total cost of ownership.