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May 20, 2025  — 22 min read
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May 20, 2025  — 22 min read
From banks to battalions: SideWinder’s attacks on South Asia’s public sector
Acronis Threat Research Unit (TRU) uncovered a new SideWinder APT campaign targeting high-level government institutions in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Pakistan.
February 26, 2013  — 2 min read
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February 26, 2013  — 2 min read
What Backup Vendors Don’t Tell You: Virtual Machine Backup is Not Complete
Solutions are developed to address problems. The bigger people think something is a problem, the more demand there is for a solution. That is why the majority of marketing materials out there are built around educating their target audience about a pain point, and offering a solution. This is how we learned that we need to freshen our mouths with chewing gums, protect computers from malware with antiviruses or backup data to ensure recovery after a server crash. However, no company will talk about problems they don’t have solutions for, and, in the backup world, it means that there may be risks you’re not aware of, and consequently, not protected from.
February 22, 2013  — 2 min read
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February 22, 2013  — 2 min read
Five Predictions for Enterprise Mobility this Year
The enterprise mobility space is a fast-moving market. Probably faster than any other we have seen before in the technology industry. Over the last two to three years it has really heated up: As the Apple iPad was introduced, we’ve had a strong battle between Apple and Android versions, and more recently the introduction of the Microsoft mobility products. The year 2013 will certainly bring even more exciting developments.
February 19, 2013  — 2 min read
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February 19, 2013  — 2 min read
The Year of Software-Defined Storage
2013 is, according to many, the year of software-defined storage.  Let’s discuss what is new and different about it this year.
February 08, 2013  — 2 min read
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February 08, 2013  — 2 min read
Is There Ever a “Right” Time for an Outage?
Like many of you, I regularly read the tech press. And one thing that always interests me is outages. Being a Fellow here at Acronis, I am especially interested in outages that could have either easily been avoided or remediated rapidly. Most people in the tech industry were aware of the recent Amazon outage. But I was much more interested in the 18-minute Google Mail outage that happened two weeks before Christmas. To make a long story short, Google rolled out a routine load balancer update. There are fail safes and monitors, but stuff happens and the sequence was: 0845PT apply the patch, 0906 see the problem, 0913 revert the update, 0916 all back to normal.
February 05, 2013  — 1 min read
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February 05, 2013  — 1 min read
Hybrid Backup Strategy Versus Cloud-Only: Why Dual Destination is Better for Your Business
When I think about backing up data, I don’t think about the features of a particular product. Instead, I think about the problem I am trying to solve and the right solution to do the job. When thinking about backups and eliminating a single point of failure, or creating a ‘Plan B’ disaster recovery location, the cloud comes to mind as the solution.
January 31, 2013  — 3 min read
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January 31, 2013  — 3 min read
Five Changes in Backup and Recovery You'll See Happen this Year
Thanks to all the beautiful minds, a revolution in IT happens about once in every decade, leading to a major shift in nearly every area, including backup and recovery. Old and once mighty kings go away and dinosaurs die as they can no longer adapt to new conditions. We’re lucky to live in a time when so many breakthrough changes are happening at once: from explosive growth of Internet bandwidth and storage capacities, to global adoption of mobile devices, virtualization and cloud. In 2013 we will finally start to see huge effects of this mix.
January 31, 2013  — 2 min read
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January 31, 2013  — 2 min read
Storage Challenges: Why Prices Have to Drop this Year
Storage has been one of the major IT topics for some time, and this is not likely to change in 2013. Why? Because storage demand keeps rapidly expanding and requirements are growing along multiple dimensions.
January 22, 2013  — 1 min read
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January 22, 2013  — 1 min read
Acronis and Redmond Magazine Survey: Tape Unreliable, Cloud Backup on the Rise
Gone are the days when tape backups kept IT sleeping soundly. In a new survey from Acronis, conducted by Redmond Magazine, 75 percent of organizations experienced tape failure in the last year – an unacceptable rate, calling out the dangers of a single point of failure. One form of backup, whether physical or virtual, isn’t enough to guarantee uptime and business continuity. That explains why 59 percent of survey respondents are looking for ways to eliminate this single point of failure, with many looking to off-site cloud solutions for more secure data protection.
January 04, 2013  — 1 min read
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January 04, 2013  — 1 min read
Learn the State of the Channel for 2013 in Next Week’s Live Webinar
Kick-start the New Year with Acronis! Join our team of thought leaders and executives for the State of the Channel webinar to gain exclusive, first-hand insight into our vision and strategy – and new opportunities – for the coming year.
December 28, 2012  — 2 min read
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December 28, 2012  — 2 min read
2013: The Year IT Becomes as Invisible as the Internet
How often do you hear someone say, “I’m on the Internet”? Probably not as often in recent years, as the Internet has evolved to become such an essential part of our daily lives that we take it for granted.  In other words, the Internet has become invisible (or unnoticeable)… and before long, IT services will become just as invisible.  Our SVP of Strategy and CMO Scott Crenshaw recently discussed the future of ‘invisible’ IT in both Data Center Knowledge and VMblog, noting that the exciting reality and full business value of trends like the cloud, big data and BYOD will finally emerge in 2013. In the New Year, invisible IT will offer users unprecedented data access through more scalable, reliable and cost-efficient IT services.
December 21, 2012  — 1 min read
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December 21, 2012  — 1 min read
The Post-Holiday BYOD Party Could Cause an IT Cliff – So be Ready!
Next week, as the record numbers of iPads purchased this holiday season are finally unwrapped, millions will be pondering the countless ways to use their shiny new devices. They may pause to think about the iPad’s workplace advantages, but IT managers have already been thinking about (and fretting over) the huge flood of personal devices logging onto corporate networks and accessing sensitive company data on January 2nd. The prospect of a “BYOD IT Cliff” has never been greater.
December 14, 2012  — 1 min read
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December 14, 2012  — 1 min read
2012 – Another Great Year for Acronis’ Channel
This past year has been one of the most successful in Acronis’ history – and much of that success would not have been possible without our strong channel partner program. In 2012, our partner community grew significantly – from January to October alone, we added 735 new partners, and, from the first half to the second half of the year, we saw a 40 percent increase in partner deal registrations!