If you’ve seen the news lately, maybe you read that a Los Angeles hospital paid a ransom of nearly $17,000 in bitcoins to hackers because “paying was in the best interest of the hospital and most efficient way to solve the problem,” according to the medical center’s chief executive, Allen Stefanek.

There is not a single IT organization out there today that’s not taking mobility and everything related to it very seriously. More employees than ever need to access company information and documents to do their jobs from any place, at any time. It’s all about productivity, customer satisfaction, service, closing deals, and the bottom line.

Last week, we expanded our new Global Partner Program with the addition of the Acronis Partner Program for Cloud. In case you missed it, you can read the press release here.

My name is Gary Dietz. I’m the new Product Marketing Manager for  Acronis True Image - best backup software.  The following story is true and the names have not been changed to protect the innocent. (Although, as you’ll see, data was in fact protected.)