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15 April 2025  — 3 min read
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15 April 2025  — 3 min read
The NIS 2 Directive: A wake-up call for health care disaster recovery strategies
The NIS 2 Directive is here, demanding robust disaster recovery strategies for health care. Learn about increased liability, patient safety risks, and why resilience is now non-negotiable.
08 March 2021  — 3 min read
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08 March 2021  — 3 min read
Why every MSP should invest in a disaster recovery solution?
As a managed service provider (MSP), you offer your clients a variety of IT resources to remotely manage part or all of their IT infrastructures, which can include managing their operating systems, applications, databases, networks, endpoints, as well as ensuring security, compliance, and backup. Many organizations will buy your services because it is a less expensive option or, more importantly, because you bring the right tools, expertise, and best practices to support more complex, mission-critical IT functions.
08 March 2021  — 3 min read
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08 March 2021  — 3 min read
Alternative to Azure Disaster Recovery
Site Recovery is an Azure disaster recovery (DR) solution that replicates workloads running on your Windows/Linux servers or VMware/Hyper-V virtual machines (VMs) into Azure and orchestrates failover and failback events when a disaster happens. Replicating to Azure eliminates the costs and complexity of maintaining a secondary data center and includes the ability to:
08 March 2021  — 3 min read
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08 March 2021  — 3 min read
Reflecting on women in tech for International Womens Day 2021
International Women's Day is the perfect time to think about the strides female IT professionals have made over the years. While women make up nearly half of the employed adults in the total workforce, recent findings by Catalyst reveal that women hold only a quarter of the jobs in the tech industry. The idea that there are fewer women in the tech field isn’t what surprised me. The shock came when I realized that number is even lower than it was in 1980. For all of the efforts to open the field, the number of women in tech roles is actually declining!
02 March 2021  — 2 min read
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02 March 2021  — 2 min read
Acronis Cyber Infrastructure 4.5: Introducing new updates
Data has become the world’s most valuable resource, and is at the core of everyday operations for nearly every business. Organizations and service providers are always looking for ways to improve the efficiency and reliability of their data centers — and to meet the shifting needs of their userbase with minimal expense. Today, we’re announcing a significant update to Acronis Cyber Infrastructure that will introduce new capabilities and performance enhancements, improving manageability while strengthening the security and availability of business-critical data.
12 February 2021  — 3 min read
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12 February 2021  — 3 min read
What is managed disaster recovery?
Managed disaster recovery (DR) is a service offered by third-party cloud providers who manage a business’ disaster recovery by replicating their systems and data to a private or public cloud and orchestrating the failover and failback process. Managed DR is also called Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS). Companies of all sizes used managed DR and pay for the services via a contract or on a monthly or annual fee.
12 January 2021  — 5 min read
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12 January 2021  — 5 min read
What is cloud recovery? - Acronis Solution
When disaster strikes, you will want to quickly restore your (or your clients’) most valuable data, systems, and applications. Backup will only get you so far; sometimes recovery from backup can take days or weeks to be fully operational. Cloud recovery goes beyond traditional backup or data center storage to reduce the time it takes to resume normal business operations.
12 January 2021  — 6 min read
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12 January 2021  — 6 min read
What is cloud-based security and how does it work?
Many organizations are moving their applications and data to the cloud rather than incurring the costs of purchasing hardware and running/maintaining on-premises applications. Likewise, other organizations manage their data in on-premises systems but store their backups in the cloud. Regardless of which approach your organization chooses, you may still have many questions about cloud-based security.
12 January 2021  — 5 min read
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12 January 2021  — 5 min read
Cyber protection threats during the coronavirus pandemic
There’s no doubt that 2020 was the year for the record books! Yes, the world now knows what a viral pandemic can do but many of us have also learned what a cyber pandemic can do too. More than 80% of global companies admitted in a recent Acronis survey of 3,400 IT managers and remote workers that they were not prepared to switch to remote work to combat cyber protection threats. Furthermore, Acronis found that 92% of global companies needed to adopt new technologies to combat remote working threats.
08 January 2021  — 3 min read
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08 January 2021  — 3 min read
The Next In-Demand MSP Service: Managed Antivirus
Managed antivirus services are emerging as one of the new high-demand areas for managed service providers (MSPs). The managed services industry, already worth $207.4 billion and posed to grow to more than $300 billion in the next five years, is preparing for this influx of interest in managed antivirus solutions and vying to position themselves as the leader on the subject.
06 January 2021  — 4 min read
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06 January 2021  — 4 min read
How to remove ransomware encryption from your computer
According to the Acronis Cyberthreats Report 2020, 31 percent of companies worldwide reported being attacked during 2020. Ransomware encryption looms as one of the most prominent and dangerous of cyberthreats and with remote working dominating the landscape in 2021, it is expected that cyber-attacks will only increase. As a comparison, our experts at the Acronis Cyber Protection Operations Centers (CPOCs) discovered that more than 1,000 organizations around the world had their data leaked following a ransomware attack in 2020.
06 January 2021  — 4 min read
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06 January 2021  — 4 min read
Cloud Solution Provider Program – Acronis
Acronis sets the standard for next-generation data and cyber protection. Discover how the Acronis #CyberFit Partner Program – our cloud solution provider program – makes selling cyber protection easy, versatile and affordable.
29 December 2020  — 1 min read
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29 December 2020  — 1 min read
Transitioning from Reactive to Proactive: The Evolution of Disaster Recovery
During the past few decades, disaster recovery has evolved from copying every document (creating mountains of paper) to saving backups on tapes, and from recovering documents stored on floppy disks to cloud backup and recovery. What once took days or even weeks to accomplish can now take hours or mere minutes. The modern speed of disaster recovery has been spurred on by what’s happening around us, so Acronis took an “inside-out” look at what was going on in the world and how developments in disaster recovery responded in this infographic.