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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.
December 30, 2016  — 3 min read
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December 30, 2016  — 3 min read
Disaster Recovery as a Service — Trends 2017
Next year’s developments in the cloud and data protection space will continue reshaping the DRaaS market. Just recovering data in a different location will no longer be enough. Customers will expect their data to be portable, verifiable, and protected against all types of cyber-attacks.
December 29, 2016  — 1 min read
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December 29, 2016  — 1 min read
Most Popular Articles in 2016
During this year we kept our readers informed about the latest products, innovation, and best practices in backup, data storage, cyber security, and data protection in general. We also talked a lot about our partnership with Scudeira Toro Rosso Formula 1 team. Here are some of our most read articles.
December 29, 2016  — 2 min read
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December 29, 2016  — 2 min read
The Blockchain Hype Is Over — but the Future Looks Bright for Early Adopters
The hype around blockchain will continue to weaken in 2017, something we already started to notice in the second half of this year. There is a growing realization that blockchain applications are more complex than the oversimplified view presented to the masses over the last few years.
December 28, 2016  — 3 min read
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December 28, 2016  — 3 min read
Predictions for the Year in Ransomware: 2017
2016 may have been an ugly year in many ways, but at least ransomware hadn’t yet become the scourge it will be in 2017. It will feature wildly successful, widely-reported ransomware attacks on famous celebrities, large government institutions, huge corporations, and millions of consumers.
December 27, 2016  — 2 min read
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December 27, 2016  — 2 min read
Three Major Cloud Adoption Trends for 2017
Next year’s developments in the cloud space will create unprecedented opportunities for service providers and SMB customers. Service providers will be able to grow their business by packaging and reselling ISV hosted services through existing channel ecosystems, without any capital investment. This will also open new opportunities for SMBs, who will continue replacing in-house IT infrastructure with cloud-based services, taking advantage of the Opex model of service consumption.
December 26, 2016  — 5 min read
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December 26, 2016  — 5 min read
Weekly Tech Roundup: December 26
Holiday headlines have dominated the news cycle over the last few weeks, but that doesn’t mean the rest of the world stopped. Tech trends are constantly evolving, cybercriminals are finding new ways to wreak havoc, and innovations are paving the way to our technological future. We searched through this week’s biggest tech stories to bring you the ones we found most interesting. Did you catch them all?
December 22, 2016  — 3 min read
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December 22, 2016  — 3 min read
How to Restore a Server in Less Than 15 Seconds
Sounds unreal? Read on. I’ll demonstrate how I can reach a recovery time objective (RTO) of less than 15 seconds on my desktop. For you, it may be less, or may be more — for obvious reasons it depends on the size of the backup that you're restoring, network speed, and the power of your machines. Before we start, let me share a bit of history.
December 20, 2016  — 9 min read
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December 20, 2016  — 9 min read
Interview with Toro Rosso's Head of IT
There aren’t many companies that are expected to push the limits of technological development and put their products on display in front of thousands of spectators and half a billion TV viewers multiple times every year. Scuderia Toro Rosso is one of them. It’s one of the eleven Formula 1 teams that wheel out their state of the art racing equipment from the factories to the global arena of Grand Prix competitions more than 20 times a year. Every racing weekend thousands of hours of research and development, engineering, and manufacturing are compressed into two hours of high-speed performance on the track. It’s a show of technological excellence, innovation and teamwork.
December 19, 2016  — 4 min read
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December 19, 2016  — 4 min read
Weekly Tech Roundup: December 19
This week’s biggest tech headlines touch on many different aspects of the industry—from trends in ransomware to data encryption regulations. It’s apparent that the evolving world of tech is getting bigger, and everyone is rushing to keep up with the next big thing — be it a cyber attack, a technological innovation or public outcry. Here are a handpicked few we found interesting. What did you miss?
December 15, 2016  — 4 min read
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December 15, 2016  — 4 min read
Monitoring of Azure VMs with Acronis Monitoring Service
Virtual machines are common components within modern IT infrastructures, serving as the go-to solution for, among other things, scaling infrastructure capacity cost effectively, serving as isolated back-up, disaster recovery, and deployment environments, and enabling the streamlined allocation of resources for tip-top efficiency.
December 13, 2016  — 2 min read
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December 13, 2016  — 2 min read
Protecting Corporate Mobile Devices with Acronis Backup 12
Recently I wrote few articles about different environments where corporate data is stored, and why it is important to back up everything — your physical servers, virtual systems, cloud accounts, Windows and Mac. There is another, often overlooked, area where a lot of important corporate data is stored – corporate mobile devices.
December 12, 2016  — 5 min read
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December 12, 2016  — 5 min read
Weekly Tech Roundup: December 12
Acquisitions, innovations, and cyber-attacks, it’s been a dynamic week in the world of tech. So what did you miss? An escalation in cyber-attacks, security issues with IoT hardware, new ideas tabled for the future of blockchain, and significant company acquisitions that may have an impact on our digital world for many years to come. So if you missed some of these stories, you’re in the right place.