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September 27, 2023  — 9 min read
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September 27, 2023  — 9 min read
Best practices for MariaDB Backup
Suppose your organization uses MariaDB to manage your existing databases as an alternative to MySQL. In that case, you probably already know that you have many different options for securing and backing up your databases or restoring them if you ever experience an issue.
June 29, 2021  — 2 min read
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June 29, 2021  — 2 min read
Acronis announced as first integration in new ConnectWise Recover Complete BDR platform
Managed service providers (MSPs) play a critical role in delivering IT services to businesses of all sizes. Empowering MSPs with the tools needed to keep clients protected is vital, which is why Acronis is proud that our innovative cyber protection solution for service providers, Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud, was selected as the first integration for the new ConnectWise Recover Complete BDR solution.
June 03, 2021  — 2 min read
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June 03, 2021  — 2 min read
TAG Cyber names Acronis Distinguished Vendor in Q2 2021 Security Annual
Acronis has been named a TAG Cyber Distinguished Vendor in 2021, and part of the benefits of this designation include being featured in the firm’s flagship “Security Annual” quarterly reports. To this end, TAG Cyber’s Q2’21 report was recently published. The report is, for a lack of a better word, a “beast.” It is over 100 pages long and includes 10 op-eds, 13 interviews with industry executives, and five technical whitepapers. While we certainly recommend the entire thing, we also know your time may be limited. That’s why we made a summary of the report that streamlined the content that was most relevant to the Acronis community. Let's take a quick look at what's included.
May 06, 2021  — 1 min read
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May 06, 2021  — 1 min read
Top 5 Vulnerabilities of SMBs
Cyberattacks can cause several different types of losses to your business. Loss of access to vital customer information or critical financial data can be detrimental. Brand reputation can be impacted if customers lose faith. Knowing where your business is vulnerable to a cybercriminal’s endeavors is the first step to cyber protection and mitigating risk.
May 03, 2021  — 4 min read
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May 03, 2021  — 4 min read
World Password Day 2021: '123456' is still a bad idea
To help stop the wave of Post-it notes that say “Password1!” this World Password Day, we asked Acronis Cybersecurity Analyst Topher Tebow and VP of Cyber Protection Research Candid Wüest to offer tips for building strong passwords and a prediction of how the use of passwords will change in the years ahead.
April 28, 2021  — 2 min read
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April 28, 2021  — 2 min read
MSPs gain expanded protection capabilities, improved UX, and management flexibility
As service providers protect a wide range of machines and environments against an ever-expanding threat landscape, it’s critical that the solutions they use to power their services can keep up. To ensure our partners have the capabilities they need to keep their clients’ endpoints protected, our April 2021 release for Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud incorporates some highly sought-after features, as well as UX and time-saving improvements.
April 19, 2021  — 3 min read
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April 19, 2021  — 3 min read
Ensure IT productivity when provisioning machines
Time is money…so to optimize your limited IT resources you should be able to provision all the machines you need at once – as quickly as you can provision one – is a much better approach. Acronis Snap Deploy makes that easy, but new capabilities will improve your IT team’s productivity and efficiency even more. Let’s take a look.
April 16, 2021  — 3 min read
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April 16, 2021  — 3 min read
New integration: MSPs can now manage Acronis via Kaseya VSA
We’ve worked hard to ensure Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud – which unifies backup, cybersecurity, and protection management capabilities in one solution designed for MSPs – integrates with the popular RMM and PSA systems that service providers rely on. Recently, we added to our list of integrations so that Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud can now be monitored and run via the Kaseya VSA platform.
April 13, 2021  — 2 min read
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April 13, 2021  — 2 min read
Canalys adds Acronis to Endpoint Security Performance Index
With the launch of Acronis Cyber Protect in 2020, we began to compete in other sectors above and beyond backup and recovery. With integrated anti-malware, vulnerability assessments, and URL filtering, Acronis started looking more like an endpoint protection solution – and it seems the analyst community took notice. Most notably, the market research firm Canalys recently began including Acronis in their Endpoint Security Vendor Performance Index, and our unified solutions performed very well.
March 31, 2021  — 5 min read
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March 31, 2021  — 5 min read
New no-charge licensing reimagines cyber protection for MSPs
Since launching Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud nearly a year ago, we’ve also listened to our partners’ feedback on the kinds of changes that would help them succeed even more. We heard you. You asked for the flexibility to add cyber protection to every device at an affordable price while having the flexibility to add advanced services to the most critical workloads. Based on that input, we’re introducing an exciting new licensing model that’s taking things to a whole new level for our partners ... so as of today, we’re incorporating all of our service provider solutions into one, unified solution – Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud.
March 30, 2021  — 3 min read
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March 30, 2021  — 3 min read
Acronis True Image now supports Apple Silicon Macs
If you are following the IT news and especially if you're a Mac user, you surely are aware of the introduction of the first Macs with the M1 chip last November. The M1 chip is the culmination of more than a decade of Apple's work creating chips for the iPhone and the iPad. Today, we are happy to announce that Acronis True Image, the only personal cyber protection solution, now supports Apple Silicon.
March 23, 2021  — 2 min read
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March 23, 2021  — 2 min read
Charting a low-risk path to modern disaster recovery
Several new forces have converged to highlight the urgent need for disaster recovery (DR) and to transform its business case. The sudden shift to remote work, the growing reliance on SaaS applications, and a surging cyberthreat environment have created daunting new challenges to preserving 24/7/365 business uptime. The high cost and relative inflexibility of traditional DR solutions call for new thinking, architectures, and implementations – including a path forward that minimizes business risks. With companies experiencing an average of 14 hours of IT downtime annually, resulting in 545 hours of lost employee productivity, there is a better way ... and we'll be sharing it at DRJ Spring 2021.
March 17, 2021  — 3 min read
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March 17, 2021  — 3 min read
Introducing Acronis DeviceLock DLP 9.0
Insider negligence is responsible for a whopping 52% of all data breaches, with a further 17% due to malicious insider action, according to independent research from the Ponemon Institute. The average cost of insider-related incidents is now $11.45 million, having risen 31% over the last two years. When businesses don’t take steps to secure their systems and data from insider threats, their very livelihood is at tremendous risk. Today, we’re announcing a significant update to Acronis DeviceLock DLP that will introduce new monitoring tools, analytic capabilities, and discovery support for additional workloads — improving our signature data loss prevention solution and further securing business-critical data from the most common form of cyberthreat: insider activity.