Acronis Backup as a Service Enhances Cloud Service Portfolio and Solves Customer Data Protection Challenges
London, December 10, 2014 - Acronis®, the global leader in new generation data protection, today announced the availability of Acronis Backup as a Service version 3. Acronis Backup as a Service delivers high value data protection capabilities that create new revenue streams for partners without a large upfront investment.
Powered by the Acronis AnyData Engine, Acronis Backup as a Service provides unparalleled deployment flexibility, including a turnkey solution for service providers hosted in Acronis data centers, a hybrid offer with Acronis hosted management console leveraging service provider's local storage, and a complete service provider hosted and managed deployment.
Service providers like ITKontoret as well as key distributors have adopted Acronis Backup as a Service to expand their service portfolio to include backup and recovery in order to create new revenue streams without large upfront investments. The service is easy to adopt, provides a pay-for-use model and provides complete protection that customers require, including support for workstations, Windows, Linux, physical and virtual servers. Underscoring the growing trend of distributors building their businesses by provisioning cloud services, such market players are now delivering Acronis Backup as a Service through their Cloud Services Division.
"Acronis Backup as a Service enables us to effectively protect our customer's data with a tailored, comprehensive, reliable, and cost-effective service for our partners and customers" said Andreas Wiren, CTO at ITKontoret." We are able to provide them with one stable and standardized hybrid solution in which the customer data stays in our own data center while the platform is being handled by Acronis. This saves troubleshooting and manpower and makes the lives for our customers and us much easier."
Acronis Backup as a Service is a multi-tier / multi-tenant solution, providing local and hybrid storage of backed up data, local backup on customer premise, and local recovery plus recovery from cloud. The service provides advanced security, including SSL encryption of management channels and in-transit and at-rest AES256 data encryption. Acronis has provided reliable cloud backup since 2010, and recently opened data centers in Germany and Japan to complement those in place in United States, France, Russia and Singapore in order to support international cloud business growth.
"Opportunities abound for service providers, including backup, secure file access and sharing and disaster-recovery solutions," said Serg Bell, CEO and co-founder of Acronis. "Acronis Backup as a Service gives them the ability to offer advanced data protection to their customers with an easily managed and monitored high-margin service that delivers security and scalability."
Learn more about Acronis Backup as a Service by visiting https://www.acronis.com/en-gb/provider/backup-as-a-service/
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Acronis is a global cyber protection company that provides natively integrated cybersecurity, data protection, and endpoint management for managed service providers (MSPs), small and medium businesses (SMBs), and enterprise IT departments. Acronis solutions are highly efficient and designed to identify, prevent, detect, respond, remediate, and recover from modern cyberthreats with minimal downtime, ensuring data integrity and business continuity. Acronis offers the most comprehensive security solution on the market for MSPs with its unique ability to meet the needs of diverse and distributed IT environments.
A Swiss company founded in Singapore in 2003, Acronis has 45 locations across the globe. Acronis Cyber Protect is available in 26 languages in 150 countries and is used by over 20,000 service providers to protect over 750,000 businesses. Learn more at www.acronis.com.