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January 27, 2015  — 2 min read
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January 27, 2015  — 2 min read
Three Reasons Why Mobility Overwhelms SMBs
Companies of all sizes are facing the demand of two popular employee trends – the want to use personal devices at work and the desire to work remotely. These trends are prompting many employers to implement mobility features that will embrace data across any and every device within their organizations.  While mobility is a game changer regarding real-time collaboration and productivity for companies of all sizes, SMBs are at a disadvantage with budget limitations and often limited to no on-site IT departments.
January 14, 2015  — 3 min read
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January 14, 2015  — 3 min read
Safely Migrating Server Workloads
Most businesses have physical servers, virtual machines, or a combination of both supporting production operations.  These organizations also have a variety of production workloads such as Microsoft® Exchange for email, SharePoint® for collaboration and content management, and various vendor-supplied or internally-developed applications running SQL database servers.
January 07, 2015  — 2 min read
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January 07, 2015  — 2 min read
The Power of Professional Data Protection
Welcome to the new Acronis.com blog! Experts from Acronis and the IT industry will regularly publish a series of posts examining important topics in data protection and secure file sharing and synchronization. The power and importance of professional protection will be a recurring theme for future business and technical discussions about secure mobility, cloud, backup, and disaster recovery in real-world hybrid environments. At Acronis, we often talk a lot about our holistic approach to intuitive, secure products. This series will explore why they’re important and what professional-grade capabilities mean to people in their personal and business lives, telling their stories of protection and recovery.
December 18, 2014  — 2 min read
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December 18, 2014  — 2 min read
Acronis Academy eLearning Platform: Access to Training Anytime, Anywhere
For years Acronis has brought customers anytime, anywhere access to their data. Now we’ve expanded that anytime, anywhere commitment to Acronis Partners with the launch of the Acronis Academy eLearning Platform, a learning management system (LMS) designed to provide Acronis Partner staff with sales and technical training.
October 10, 2014  — 1 min read
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October 10, 2014  — 1 min read
Now Hiring: Data Protection Officer?
The European Union is continuing discussions regarding new data protection laws that, if approved, would have ramifications for how companies manage and protect their customers' data. Among the effects would be a requirement that companies hire for a new role: data protection officer.
October 09, 2014  — 3 min read
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October 09, 2014  — 3 min read
How Cloud Computing is Changing Data Protection in the Channel
Increased adoption of cloud computing, virtualization and other big IT shifts are rewriting the relationship between technology vendors and their channel partners. These shifts are having big affects further downstream, too, changing how resellers and managed service providers (MSPs) offer value to their own customers. Andrew Hamilton, director of engineering and professional services at Unitiv, a leading enterprise IT systems provider, discusses how his company serves its customers’ data protection needs amidst the changes.
October 08, 2014  — 3 min read
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October 08, 2014  — 3 min read
Seven Benefits of Enterprise Virtualization
The following is a guest post by John Grady, senior manager of product marketing at XO Communications:
October 07, 2014  — 2 min read
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October 07, 2014  — 2 min read
Behind the Cover: Protecting the Digital Data Backbone of a Print Magazine
Before that glossy magazine hits the shelf, a lot of work takes place behind the scenes. Freelance writers are hired, stories are edited, photos are chosen and sorted — and all of these elements are compiled using editing software. Losing the final version of a feature story, or misplacing a commissioned photo, adds further time and effort, so it's essential that publishers back up everything to keep the production schedule on track.
October 03, 2014  — 1 min read
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October 03, 2014  — 1 min read
How the Shellshock Vulnerability Puts The World's Data at Risk
Security experts recently discovered a new software vulnerability that could affect millions of devices and servers across the globe. It’s called Shellshock, and experts are still trying to determine just how big of a threat it is. The consensus, however, is that it poses even more risk than the Heartbleed bug discovered earlier this year.
October 01, 2014  — 3 min read
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October 01, 2014  — 3 min read
Information Explosion: Top Trends to Handle the Data Deluge
The following is a guest post by John Grady, senior manager of product marketing at XO Communications:
September 29, 2014  — 1 min read
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September 29, 2014  — 1 min read
Data Breaches Breed Loyalty Program Distrust Among Consumers
With company data breaches on the rise, consumers are becoming increasingly wary of sharing personal information with the brands they love. And with good reason. According to a recent survey, 43 percent of U.S. companies, including both Target and Home Depot, have experienced a breach this year. Even the companies that haven't experienced a data breach are feeling the effects of the growing distrust — especially in the travel industry.
September 26, 2014  — 2 min read
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September 26, 2014  — 2 min read
Data Breaches Hit Nearly Half of U.S. Companies in the Past Year
Treading on the heels of the Home Depot's announcement that 56 million credit and debit cards were jeopardized last week, new research shows that 43 percent of U.S. companies experienced a data breach in the past year. That’s a 10 percent increase from the previous year.