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Leading data backup tools for biopharma
Keep your operations running smoothly, protect critical data and instantly restore computers used to manage and monitor your operational technology (OT) to minimize downtime.
Acronis protects biopharma research and production environments, even air-gapped ones
Acronis has decades of experience in building backup and recovery plans for biopharma, including laboratories and factories with air-gapped environments. In fact, Acronis is frequently used by leading automation vendors like ABB and Rockwell Automation as their backup solution. Acronis addresses the challenges of these unique environments, minimizing expensive downtime with the following capabilities:
Protection for IT systems used to monitor, configure and control OT
Image-based backup and bare-metal restoral technology protects a broad range of Windows, Linux and virtual OSes used in OT environments, including many ancient versions of these OSes that have long been unsupported by their vendors, and thus are no longer supported by other backup vendors.
Fast, reliable and simple-to-operate recovery of computers used with OT
One-Click Recovery enables non-IT professionals (such as OT engineers) to initiate the restoral of a failed computer in a matter of minutes, while Instant Recovery minimizes the time it takes to get critical IT systems running again after a failure.
Zero-impact testing and rollback of patches and upgrades to laboratory and production IT systems
“Digital twin” technology enables you to test the functionality and performance of software patches and other updates before applying them to production machines. This same VM capability can be used to quickly roll back any updated IT systems to their previous version in the event of any unforeseen problems with the patch or new software version.
Air-gapped reporting and enterprise SIEM integration
Acronis safely relays protection status reports for laboratory and production facility computers via outbound-only file transfers. For incident investigation, audit readiness and compliance, its on-premises SIEM integration forwards alerts covering backup, security and RMM to third-party SIEMs via syslog or file export.
A unified solution for cyber protection of biopharma IT and OT environments
Acronis Cyber Protect enables secure backup and recovery of operating systems, applications and data. It ensures data availability and resilience during data loss, hardware failure or disasters. Integration of anti-malware, AI-based threat detection and patch management enhances data security and protects against ransomware and other malware attacks.
- Protection of computers used to manage OTCentrally manage computers used to manage and monitor OT. Backup and assess vulnerabilities in physical and virtual machines using a single protection plan.
- System availabilityEnsure high system availability and reduce downtime with recovery options, including instant restore features for systems and applications.
- Fail-safe patchingPrevent system damage from malware that exploits unpatched vulnerabilities. Automatic image backup before patch implementation allows restoration and rollback if issues arise.
- Continuous data protectionSecurely backup and protect computers used to manage OT in real-time. Acronis agents monitor application changes, ensuring recent data is preserved during machine re-imaging.
Estimate the cost of unplanned OT downtime
How much can production outages cost your biopharma operation? Use the ICS / OT downtime calculator to estimate potential losses from unplanned downtime and see how backup and faster recovery can help reduce those costs.
Reliable biopharma data backup is key
The biopharma industry faces significant challenges to its profitability, including the high cost of laboratory and factory downtime, the difficulties in protecting both new and legacy IT systems, and a shortage of skilled IT operations staff, especially in research and production locations.
Production outages
Biopharma disruptions halt production schedules. Cyberattacks exploit this, with 30% of ransomware attacks targeting the industry's low tolerance for downtime.
Regulatory compliance
Biopharma companies must meet compliance requirements as specified in standards like Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), Good Pharmacovigilance Practices (GPP), and Good Laboratory Practices (GLP.)
Lack of skilled IT staff in OT and ICS environments
37% of engineers in biopharma companies have limited IT skills and often only have written procedures when it comes to restoring data from backup.
Acronis excels in OT computer restoral for biopharma
- Reduces downtime of laboratory and production facility operationsAdvanced monitoring systems and real-time diagnostics ensures minimal downtime and enables quick restoral of computers used to manage and monitor OT in the research lab and on the factory floor.
- Protects the front and back officeAcronis protects every PC, server, virtual machine and cloud workload used in the research lab, on the factory floor and in the back and front offices — from the latest operating systems and applications to the older computers used to manage and monitor OT.
- Enables computer restoral without local IT supportOne-Click Recovery empowers local workers — even those without deep IT skills, to restore any system to operation with push-button simplicity, ensuring that the failure of computers used to manage and monitor OT do not disrupt research lab and factory-floor operations.
Biopharma companies can easily add disaster recovery to backup, cybersecurity and remote management from Acronis
A growing array of threats from natural disasters to cyberattacks has elevated the importance of disaster preparedness for biopharma data. Acronis supports biopharma business continuity planning by integrating disaster recovery, data protection, cybersecurity and remote management in a single platform. This cost-effective approach makes it possible for biopharma companies to maintain standby copies of their critical systems and applications in the cloud, so they can failover rapidly to them in the event of a disaster that takes their primary environment offline and fail back to their primary systems when the outage has been resolved.
Overcome downtime challenges in biopharma
Maximize the uptime of every area of your biopharma business with Acronis Cyber Protect, including:
- Production Environments: Backup for research laboratories, manufacturing systems, and Operational Technology (OT) and ICS (Industrial Control Systems) computers that manage critical production processes and automated scientific and manufacturing equipment
- Enterprise Applications: Protection for back-office systems such as ERP, Supply Chain Management, Procurement, Production Planning, Quality Control, Maintenance, Finance, Accounting, HR and IT
- Regulatory and Compliance Systems: Safeguarding of front-office applications like Sales, Marketing, Customer Service, and PR, ensuring compliance with industry standards
- Hybrid Environments: Comprehensive backup for both on-premises physical and virtual systems, including networked and air-gapped environments, as well as cloud-based applications such as Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace
Customer success story
BDR Pharmaceuticals reduces costs and improves security and performance with Acronis
- DescriptionBDR Pharmaceuticals reduces CapEx by 30% and OpEx by 12% with Acronis Cyber Protect.
- Key challengesComplex backup and restore processes, poor visibility into infrastructure and RPO metrics achieved only 50% of the time.
- RisksFailure to protect systems and meet RPO and RTO risked data integrity and noncompliance with federal regulations.
- Our solutionAcronis Cyber Protect helped BDR reduce CapEX / OpEx and achieve near-perfect RPO while improving RTO by nearly 30%.
Explore recovery features
Watch a step-by-step demo of recovery features for computers used to manage OT. Learn how non-IT workers in the lab or production facilities can get a failed PC back online in minutes with push-button simplicity, minimizing research and production downtime.
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Quick, reliable backup and restoral
Customize your recovery point objective (RPO) for each critical application and data set to ensure recovery of the most up-to-date data possible.
Integrated disaster recovery
Get complete data and infrastructure protection with one integrated solution for any environment — on-premises, in remote systems or the cloud.
Fast, flexible data protection
Ensure quick failover of your critical workloads to the cloud. Gain instant data availability of all critical workloads no matter what kind of disaster strikes.
Robust cybersecurity
Protect your physical servers, VMs, workstations and laptops against a broad range of cybersecurity threats, including ransomware attacks.
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