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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 11, 2015  — 2 min read
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December 11, 2015  — 2 min read
3 Must Have Apps to Keep Your Mobile Salesforce Productive and Secure
In today's world, sales people are naturally mobile. Although non-sales people tend to view successful sales people as “demigods,” there is no doubt they are often dynamic, have “nerves of steel,” make things happen, and are always available. For all of these reasons, your salespeople must have access to resources 24x7.
December 09, 2015  — 4 min read
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December 09, 2015  — 4 min read
10 Questions to Ask Before Selecting a Backup Software Provider
Businesses are relying more and more on data that resides on their smartphones, computers, NAS, and servers. This is because we are moving towards a 100% digital world, with business processes and customer engagement becoming increasingly digital every day.
November 30, 2015  — 2 min read
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November 30, 2015  — 2 min read
Don’t Let Legacy Data Protection Technologies Leave You Vulnerable!
Your company’s data center has all the latest technologies in place – shiny new servers, a cutting-edge network and the latest software. You regularly and faithfully update and upgrade your operating systems and applications – and this makes your business more efficient and your users more productive.
November 20, 2015  — 2 min read
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November 20, 2015  — 2 min read
The Best Advice to Protect Your Digital Memories This Holiday Season
The holiday season is my favorite time of year, and like most of you, I take pictures of everything, everywhere— the Thanksgiving Turkey, all the holiday decorations, the family sitting around the dinner table, and more recently my daughter, who is celebrating her first holidays.  Each year is special to me and so are the memories.
November 18, 2015  — 3 min read
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November 18, 2015  — 3 min read
How Do Mergers & Acquisitions of Backup Vendors Affect Your Company's Data Protection?
Your company has a data protection solution and strategy in place. The product does its job and adequately protects your data and your systems. You sleep well at night.
November 11, 2015  — 1 min read
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November 11, 2015  — 1 min read
Acronis and Ingram Micro Together Make Complete Data Protection Easy
At the beginning of the year, Acronis put forward an aggressive plan to bring the most complete and easy-to-use data protection solutions to more businesses across the globe. We have made great progress, and this week announced a new and expanded strategic partnership with Ingram Micro as another step. This partnership greatly accelerates the momentum we have achieved to date. With Ingram Micro, we now have the backing and trust of a global powerhouse in IT services to aid our efforts.
November 10, 2015  — 2 min read
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November 10, 2015  — 2 min read
4 Easy Steps to Keep Your Mac Users Productive
For many marketing and creative professionals, preferred design tools are available exclusively on Macs. As a result, for these team members to deliver your web pages, online publications, print assets, and social media campaigns, they require Macs – no matter how Windows-based the rest of your IT environment is.
November 06, 2015  — 3 min read
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November 06, 2015  — 3 min read
Are Your Employees Using Blacklisted Apps?
You only have to read recent news on cyber-threats and information falling into the hands of hackers or competitors to understand that it’s not a question of IF my company will get attacked, but when?  Adding to these data protection and privacy dilemmas, in Europe this past month there has been a lot of buzz about the dissolution of the Safe Harbor act by the European Court of Justice (ECJ), which impacts companies who relied on the act to conduct business safely and protect their data overseas.
November 04, 2015  — 4 min read
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November 04, 2015  — 4 min read
It’s Time to Have That Talk – How to Explain Data Protection to Your Family!
It’s interesting to realize how much money and time we spend to protect our physical assets — our homes, furniture, cars and personal belongings. But many of us don’t invest in protection for our digital assets — photos, videos, important documents, contacts, and more.
October 29, 2015  — 3 min read
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October 29, 2015  — 3 min read
Tales from the Cryptolocker – An Almost Scary IT Story
It was a dark and stormy afternoon. IT administrator John was shaking, nervously traversing the dark corridors of his normally familiar office. He’s trembling in the sight of moving shadows, squeaking office doors and abnormally pale, almost ghoulish faces inside dark rooms of various company departments and offices.
October 28, 2015  — 1 min read
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October 28, 2015  — 1 min read
Why Backing Up Half of Your Hybrid Physical and Virtual Environment is Not Enough!
According to a recent Enterprise Strategy Group study, only 8% of organizations have virtualized the majority of servers that could be. Another study from Techaisle shows that only 60% of servers were virtualized in 2014, and while the figure is expected to rise, total virtualization is nowhere in sight. The same study also noted some of the major challenges of virtualization, including costs and management complexity.
October 23, 2015  — 2 min read
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October 23, 2015  — 2 min read
Consumer vs. Enterprise File Sync & Share – Know the Difference!
Consumer public cloud file sync and share solutions are common today in corporate environments because they are easy for employees to get, easy to use, and enable access to content from any device and share it with colleagues and partners from any location. Sounds pretty good, right? Increase  productivity, ensure smoother employee collaboration,  and make a positive impact on the bottom line.