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May 23, 2025  — 3 min read
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May 23, 2025  — 3 min read
Acronis champions ENISA’s EU Vulnerability Database for enhanced cybersecurity in Europe
Acronis is integrating EUVD into our operations to support the EU’s cybersecurity priorities and enhance digital resilience for businesses and organizations.
March 30, 2021  — 3 min read
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March 30, 2021  — 3 min read
What is endpoint protection?
As a managed service provider (MSP), your clients may ask you what type of software they need to ensure their employees’ devices and other network endpoints are protected. This article discusses what endpoint protection or endpoint security is and what you need to do to ensure the safety and security of your clients’ network endpoints and the data they contain.
March 25, 2021  — 6 min read
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March 25, 2021  — 6 min read
Product 101: Why add anti-malware protection to a backup solution?
Everything you need to know about Acronis True Image 2021’s anti-malware technology, including how to turn it off – and why you shouldn’t Recent releases of Acronis True Image have included an integrated defense against ransomware, the fastest-growing cyberthreat. With the launch of Acronis True Image 2021, we expanded those capabilities to include a full range of advanced anti-malware capabilities, including real-time protection, antivirus scans, vulnerability assessment, web filtering, and videoconference app protection. In the wake of this release, a lot of you were perplexed by those additional cybersecurity features and asked what was happening with your beloved backup solution. In this article, we’ll explain why Acronis True Image evolved from a mere backup solution into the world’s first personal cyber protection solution.
March 11, 2021  — 2 min read
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March 11, 2021  — 2 min read
SaaS backup: Lessons from OVHcloud’s data center fire
In the wee hours of Wednesday, March 10, 2021, a fire destroyed or damaged four major data centers operated by OVHcloud, the French company that is Europe’s largest operator of cloud infrastructure.
March 08, 2021  — 5 min read
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March 08, 2021  — 5 min read
What is offsite disaster recovery?
Offsite disaster recovery (DR) is a business continuity strategy where an organization’s production systems and data are replicated and maintained in a location away from the office and production systems themselves.
March 08, 2021  — 3 min read
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March 08, 2021  — 3 min read
What types of businesses need a disaster recovery plan?
There was a time when only large corporations worried about disasters and developed disaster recovery (DR) plans. But those days are long gone. Whether your business is a global organization or a five-person shop, developing a company disaster recovery plan is a must.  If you work for a small-to-medium-sized business (SMB), you are probably wondering how your organization can afford the talent, time, and budget to develop and execute a DR plan. Read on and discover how.
March 08, 2021  — 6 min read
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March 08, 2021  — 6 min read
How to offer DRaaS as a Managed Service Provider (MSP)?
Many organizations, including some of your clients, do not believe they need a disaster recovery (DR) solution because they already have backups – but this is a dangerous assumption. While backing up their systems protects their data, backup alone will not help your clients recover their data in the event of a disaster.
March 08, 2021  — 3 min read
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March 08, 2021  — 3 min read
Why every MSP should invest in a disaster recovery solution?
As a managed service provider (MSP), you offer your clients a variety of IT resources to remotely manage part or all of their IT infrastructures, which can include managing their operating systems, applications, databases, networks, endpoints, as well as ensuring security, compliance, and backup. Many organizations will buy your services because it is a less expensive option or, more importantly, because you bring the right tools, expertise, and best practices to support more complex, mission-critical IT functions.
March 08, 2021  — 3 min read
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March 08, 2021  — 3 min read
Alternative to Azure Disaster Recovery
Site Recovery is an Azure disaster recovery (DR) solution that replicates workloads running on your Windows/Linux servers or VMware/Hyper-V virtual machines (VMs) into Azure and orchestrates failover and failback events when a disaster happens. Replicating to Azure eliminates the costs and complexity of maintaining a secondary data center and includes the ability to:
March 08, 2021  — 3 min read
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March 08, 2021  — 3 min read
Reflecting on women in tech for International Womens Day 2021
International Women's Day is the perfect time to think about the strides female IT professionals have made over the years. While women make up nearly half of the employed adults in the total workforce, recent findings by Catalyst reveal that women hold only a quarter of the jobs in the tech industry.
March 02, 2021  — 2 min read
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March 02, 2021  — 2 min read
Acronis Cyber Infrastructure 4.5: Introducing new updates
Data has become the world’s most valuable resource, and is at the core of everyday operations for nearly every business. Organizations and service providers are always looking for ways to improve the efficiency and reliability of their data centers — and to meet the shifting needs of their userbase with minimal expense. Today, we’re announcing a significant update to Acronis Cyber Infrastructure that will introduce new capabilities and performance enhancements, improving manageability while strengthening the security and availability of business-critical data.
February 12, 2021  — 3 min read
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February 12, 2021  — 3 min read
What is managed disaster recovery?
Managed disaster recovery (DR) is a service offered by third-party cloud providers who manage a business’ disaster recovery by replicating their systems and data to a private or public cloud and orchestrating the failover and failback process. Managed DR is also called Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS). Companies of all sizes used managed DR and pay for the services via a contract or on a monthly or annual fee.
January 12, 2021  — 5 min read
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January 12, 2021  — 5 min read
What is cloud recovery? - Acronis Solution
When disaster strikes, you will want to quickly restore your (or your clients’) most valuable data, systems, and applications. Backup will only get you so far; sometimes recovery from backup can take days or weeks to be fully operational. Cloud recovery goes beyond traditional backup or data center storage to reduce the time it takes to resume normal business operations.