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March 24, 2025  — 17 min read
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March 24, 2025  — 17 min read
The Best RMM Tools for MSPs
Remote monitoring and management (RMM) is a category of IT management tools that are designed to enable service providers to monitor and control their client systems remotely.
October 10, 2016  — 3 min read
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October 10, 2016  — 3 min read
Disaster Recovery Is Your Ultimate Backup
Hurricane Matthew took the lives of hundreds of people in Haiti last weekend, then steamed up the southeast coast of the United States, threatening lives, businesses, roads, bridges: everything in its path. It caused widespread power outages, flooding, and network havoc throughout Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina.
October 07, 2016  — 4 min read
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October 07, 2016  — 4 min read
How Motorsport Sponsorship Can Drive Your Business and Your Brand
Sponsoring a sports team can be beneficial for your company but you need to choose your sport wisely to get the most traction for your brand, your products, partners, clients, and employees.
October 07, 2016  — 4 min read
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October 07, 2016  — 4 min read
There Are Many Ways to Repel Ransomware, Only One Way to Defeat It
In our continuing series on the new malware menace known as ransomware, we’ve looked what it’s like to suffer a ransomware attack, why it’s become a weapon of choice for online criminals (they’re making gobs of money off it), and why it has grown so quickly (hackers are copying the SaaS industry’s highly-leveraged distribution model). Given how likely it is that you or someone you know will get hit by a ransomware attack in the coming months, now might be a good time to shore up your anti-ransomware defenses.
October 06, 2016  — 6 min read
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October 06, 2016  — 6 min read
Mikhail Grachev: Data Is the Winning Force in Motor Racing
If you’re into touring car racing, you’d have heard about the TCR International Series. And if you heard about the TCR International series, you’d have probably heard about the Swedish WestCoast Racing Team. And if you heard about WestCoast Racing, you’d have heard about the driver Mikhail Grachev. And if you heard about Mikhail Grachev, you’d probably realize by now that he is one of the best drivers in the Series, with four victories already in his pocket this season.
October 05, 2016  — 4 min read
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October 05, 2016  — 4 min read
Extreme Data Recovery: Author Runs into a Fiery House to Save Unpublished Novel
Two weeks ago we heard reports of an author who risked his life sneaking past the firefighters into a burning house to save his laptop. It had the only copy of his latest novel. “When I heard my house was on fire,” Gideon Hodge said, “I ran up to the perimeter set by the firefighters, then walked calmly until I saw an opening that no one was watching. That was when I bolted for it!”
October 04, 2016  — 2 min read
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October 04, 2016  — 2 min read
Hidden Costs Of Backup: Front-End Capacity
We are all too familiar with the concept of hidden costs. You work with suppliers and/or vendors, and it looks like their published pricing matches your expectations. That is until you get their quote (or worse, the invoice), and you see a very different figure. What happened? There were fees, charges or the licensing models that you have not taken into account. It could happen in every aspect of your life and work, and backup solutions are no different. Let’s talk about potential hidden costs you need to be aware of.
October 03, 2016  — 6 min read
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October 03, 2016  — 6 min read
Protecting Your Customers' Systems and Data with Acronis Backup Cloud and LabTech RMM​
LabTech administrators can now deploy, manage, and monitor Acronis data protection on remote devices without leaving the comfort of their management console. Here on the Acronis Backup Cloud team we pride ourselves in building tools and integrations that make it easy for any IT service provider to protect all of their customers’ data using the programs and processes that they already have in place.
October 02, 2016  — 10 min read
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October 02, 2016  — 10 min read
Datacenter in a Suitcase: A Day in the Life of a Racetrack IT Engineer
Imagine having to take your datacenter with you everywhere you go. Daniel Martland does: it’s his job. Being a Trackside IT Engineer for Formula One racing team Scuderia Toro Rosso takes him to over 20 different countries every year. It’s a challenging job, he says, but at the end of each race, there is a great sense of fulfillment, another weekend well done.
September 29, 2016  — 3 min read
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September 29, 2016  — 3 min read
Ransomware by Itself Is Scary. Ransomware-As-A-Service Is Much Worse
Ransomware gangsters steal a page from the legit software industry’s distribution playbook Ransomware has emerged as the most prolific new malware threat of the 21st century, with online criminals expecting to reap a billion dollars from victims from it in 2016. We have talked here about how ransomware works (it infects your PC, server or phone, encrypts your files, and demands an online payment in return for the decryption key) and why so many criminals are getting into the ransomware business (it’s an extremely profitable racket). We expect the ransomware epidemic to continue to mushroom in size, becoming a multi-billion dollar business in 2017, making it inevitable that you or someone you know has to pay a hefty ransom or lose their files forever. How is this crooked business growing so quickly, despite the efforts of law enforcement and the IT security industry to thwart it?
September 28, 2016  — 3 min read
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September 28, 2016  — 3 min read
Acronis Backup 12 Closer Look – Amazon EC2 Backup
There is no surprise that overwhelming majority of companies are choosing cloud solutions, and when it comes to infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), most go for the market leader – Amazon EC2.  Yet, not many cloud users realize that the cloud data also needs protection. According to various reports, a whopping 80 percent of organizations using cloud services have lost business data.
September 27, 2016  — 1 min read
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September 27, 2016  — 1 min read
Backup or Bust: Advice from a Serial Computer Crasher
What’s more stressful for a high school senior than college application season? Not much. Unless, like me, you spent the last days before application deadlines rewriting your college essay because you lost your original copy when your computer crashed.
September 26, 2016  — 4 min read
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September 26, 2016  — 4 min read
Ransomware Is the Bootleg Liquor of the 21st Century
Criminals are swarming to the ransomware business — and targeting you — because it’s highly profitable. Last week, we offered a high-level overview of the malware menace known as ransomware: what it’s like to be victimized by a ransomware attack (it’s no fun to discover that your hard drive has been encrypted by a malicious program), how the criminals extort money from businesses and consumers (if you don’t pay an online ransom, you never get your files back), and how big this illegal business has become (ransomware criminals will extort $1B from victims in 2016, says the FBI).