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June 06, 2025  — 3 min read
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June 06, 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.
March 31, 2020  — 5 min read
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March 31, 2020  — 5 min read
Seventeen tips for Hyper-V disaster recovery that could save your bacon
The cyber world can be a perilous one. Even though you may never know exactly when a disaster will occur, you should always be ready for any scenario that may unfold across your data center. We have compiled a list of 17 tips that you can use to help you keep your datacenter ready for any type of disaster that may occur.
March 31, 2020  — 2 min read
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March 31, 2020  — 2 min read
Virtual machine management and administration
Experience simple processing with faster results to create and manage your VM lifecycle.
March 31, 2020  — 5 min read
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March 31, 2020  — 5 min read
Hyper-V Linux: The benefits and limitations
In my 20+ years of experience in the IT industry, I’ve seen few—if any—clients who use a Windows environment exclusively. It’s a heterogeneous world. The reality is, most organizations prefer to choose from a variety of operating systems, software, hardware and hypervisors; depending on what best suits the information needs of the organization.
March 31, 2020  — 17 min read
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March 31, 2020  — 17 min read
What is Hyper-V: The authoritative guide
Whether you’re just beginning to look into virtualization platform options for your company, or you’re a new Hyper-V user trying to get up to speed, it can be a challenge to find all the information you need in one place. That’s why we created this guide — to give you an all-in-one resource you can bookmark and refer back to as often as you need to, so you can get up and running on Hyper-V more smoothly.
March 31, 2020  — 3 min read
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March 31, 2020  — 3 min read
Hyper-V checkpoints: Why, when and how to use them
Before making changes in Hyper-V, whether it involves software configuration changes or a new software update, it's a good idea to first create a Hyper-V checkpoint.
March 31, 2020  — 17 min read
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March 31, 2020  — 17 min read
What is Azure? A complete guide
In a 2017 survey, Microsoft Azure was identified as the most-used public cloud, and the one most likely to be purchased or renewed, according to 28% of survey respondents — the highest percentage for any public cloud provider. With results like this, it’s no wonder the number of businesses interested in Azure continues to climb.
March 31, 2020  — 5 min read
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March 31, 2020  — 5 min read
Seven tips for Hyper-V monitoring that you'll wish you'd read sooner
Learn how to better manage your Hyper-V environment and improve performance. In this article, we’ll walk through how to optimally configure your VMs and servers. Then, we’ll provide a number of tips for Hyper-V monitoring.
March 31, 2020  — 5 min read
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March 31, 2020  — 5 min read
Hyper V vs VMware vSphere: Which solution Is right for you?
When it comes to IT planning and budgeting, you want to make sure you are getting the best return on your investment. With this in mind, we created this Hyper V vs VMware vSphere comparison to help you determine which hypervisor is right for you and your environment.
March 30, 2020  — 5 min read
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March 30, 2020  — 5 min read
The Results are In: Cyber Protection Week 2020 Survey
This World Cyber Protection Week, we expanded our annual data protection survey to cover more of the digital challenges and concerns that face modern IT users – whether they’re at home, at work, or relying on a service provider that protects a portfolio of clients. This year’s results paint a clear picture: People and organizations are acutely aware of the risks on the horizon but they are much less certain about how to easily, efficiently, and securely prepare for and overcome them. Let’s dive into the findings of our 2020 survey.
March 30, 2020  — 4 min read
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March 30, 2020  — 4 min read
Views from the Beta: Case Studies Reveal Real-User Opinions of Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud
Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud recently moved out of private beta and into public beta, making it available to any service provider or cloud distributor who is interested. This is the final step before the general availability (GA) of the product, slated for next month.
March 30, 2020  — 3 min read
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March 30, 2020  — 3 min read
Celebrating the Final World Backup Day
For nearly 10 years, Acronis has been a proud evangelist of World Backup Day ... but today, backup is no longer enough. While backup remains a key component to complete data, application, and system protection, traditional backup solutions aren’t keeping pace with challenges that face the modern digital world. It’s time to evolve the way we protect the data and devices we rely on. That’s why we’re raising the bar this World Backup Day: welcome to the first-ever World Cyber Protection Week.
March 27, 2020  — 4 min read
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March 27, 2020  — 4 min read
Acronis Warns: Coronavirus Will Increase Cyberattacks Against Healthcare Targets
Criminal activity spikes during times of crises as cybercriminals try to take advantage of the situation. Unfortunately, today’s situation is no exception: most concerning is the vulnerability of healthcare facilities such as hospitals, where the systems that care for patients and lab work are often linked. Acronis believes we have a responsibility to the public, so we need to warn everyone: we foresee a further increase in ransomware attacks targeting private and government hospital systems in the coming weeks.