Korea-Singapore, November 20th, 2015 - Acronis®, a global leader in new generation data protection, today announced the availability of Acronis Backup Cloud and the Acronis Service Provider License Agreement (SPLA) Program in the Korean market. Korean service providers can now take advantage of the Acronis Backup Cloud offering to rapidly bring new data protection services to market and grow revenue.
The cloud computing market in Korea was worth $558.8 million in 2014 and is expected to reach $677.5 million in 2015, growing 21%, according to a recent LG CNS study.
The strong growth in the cloud computing marketing in Korea is expected to continue, following the Korean's government's support for advanced cloud computing and infrastructure expansion. Korea's recently adopted Act on Promotion of Cloud Computing and User Protection, known as the Korean Cloud Act, identified the cloud as key to innovation and operational efficiency and encouraged Korean companies and organizations to implement cloud services.
Acronis meets the country's demand for cloud-enabled services by enabling existing hosting companies and service integrators to sell, manage and deliver high value data protection capabilities that create new revenue streams without a large upfront investment.
Acronis Backup Cloud for Service Providers
Acronis Backup Cloud is a comprehensive, yet simple, complete, and cost-effective hybrid local and cloud backup and recovery solution that equips service providers to solve their customers' data protection problems. Leveraging the power of the Acronis AnyData Engine, Acronis Backup Cloud delivers a highly customized, complete, and reliable service that backs up data from any source and recovers to any destination and system.
Designed for service providers, Acronis Cloud Backup provides a pay-for-use model with zero entry costs and delivers complete protection for business customers, including support for workstations, Windows, Linux, physical and virtual servers. Underscoring the growing trend of distributors building their businesses by provisioning cloud services, existing and new partners in Korea can now deliver Acronis Backup Cloud to local customers.
"Acronis offers many opportunities for service providers, including backup, secure file access and sharing and disaster-recovery solutions. Acronis Backup Cloud 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," said Jan-Jaap Jager, General Manager of the Acronis Cloud Business Unit.
Acronis SPLA Program Launched in Korea
The Acronis Service Provider License Agreement (SPLA) is designed for service providers who want to license and host the latest eligible Acronis data protection solutions to provide backup and disaster recovery services to end customers directly or through resellers.
The Acronis SPLA program covers Acronis Backup Advanced, Acronis Backup Advanced for VCloud, and Acronis Storage products, which can be licensed on a monthly basis to provide data protection and disaster recovery as-a-service solutions to their end customers.
"Korea is a very important market for Acronis. We have a number of high profile customers here and our business continues to grow rapidly ever since we opened Acronis Korea branch in 2009. Acronis Backup Cloud and the availability of Acronis SPLA program in Korea will be welcomed by local service providers, who are keen to secure their share of this rapidly-growing cloud services market," said Sunny Suh, Acronis Korea Country Manager.
About Acronis
Acronis sets the standard for New Generation Data Protection through its backup, disaster recovery, and secure access solutions. Powered by the Acronis AnyData Engine and set apart by its image technology, Acronis delivers easy, complete and safe backups of all files, applications and operating systems across any environment-virtual, physical, cloud and mobile.
Founded in 2003, Acronis protects the data of over 5 million consumers and 500,000 businesses in over 152 countries. With its more than 100 patents, Acronis' products have been named best product of the year, and cover a range of features, including migration, cloning and replication.
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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.