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July 30, 2020 — 4 min read
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#SysAdminDay 2020: Celebrating the Unsung Heroes of the Great WFH Migration
July 30, 2020 — 4 min read
#SysAdminDay 2020: Celebrating the Unsung Heroes of the Great WFH Migration
This SysAdmin Day, Acronis is celebrating sysadmins around the world who saw the systems they administrate shift dramatically in 2020 and kept their teams running through it all. With this year’s massive migration to remote work – and all the security, connectivity, privacy, and accessibility challenges that came with it – sysadmins faced enormous obstacles and overcame them all. Today, we’re sharing some of their stories to highlight just how much they do to keep businesses in business and offering free Zoom virtual backgrounds and digital stickers to help make sure they get the credit they’re due.
April 16, 2020 — 3 min read
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Energy Sector Giant Struck by $11M Ransomware Demand
April 16, 2020 — 3 min read
Energy Sector Giant Struck by $11M Ransomware Demand
In a move that’s becoming all too familiar, cybercriminals have encrypted the systems of Energias de Portugal (EDP), one of the largest energy sector operators. The organization faces an $11 million ransom to have these systems unlocked so that they can hope to return to normal operations. Like all of the ransomware that have filled headlines in recent years, the Ragnar Locker ransomware strain used in this attack would have been detected and eliminated if EDP had Acronis Cyber Protection solutions deployed. Learn how our innovative AI-based cybersecurity technology can help prevent ransomware fallout like this from striking your organization.
April 06, 2020 — 1 min read
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[Infographic] A Look Back at the Evolution of Cyber Protection
April 06, 2020 — 1 min read
[Infographic] A Look Back at the Evolution of Cyber Protection
Last week was the inaugural World Cyber Protection Week, a new annual event created to raise awareness of the increasingly complex protection challenges that face today’s home users, IT professionals, and service providers. Throughout it, we shared resources meant to help you prepare for the digital world of tomorrow – today, we’re shifting focus. Join us for a fun look back at how backup and storage have evolved through the ages – and how it will continue to evolve in the years to come.
April 02, 2020 — 3 min read
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Cyberthreat Concerns Reach New Heights for Personal Users
April 02, 2020 — 3 min read
Cyberthreat Concerns Reach New Heights for Personal Users
As the inaugural World Cyber Protection Week starts to wind down, we’re taking a deeper look at our survey results to explore what they really have to say about personal, home users and how you can use these insights to keep yourself safer in the year ahead. Learn how people around the world are protecting their increasingly digital lives and confronting the modern cyberthreats attacking their data, applications, and systems.
April 02, 2020 — 3 min read
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Top Cyber Protection Week Survey Takeaways for IT Pros
April 02, 2020 — 3 min read
Top Cyber Protection Week Survey Takeaways for IT Pros
As the first-ever World Cyber Protection Week begins to wind down, we’re taking an in-depth look at what the results of this year’s survey mean for IT professionals around the world. With this IT pro-focused review, you’ll learn where your peers are excelling, where they aren’t, and how you both stack up to – and can get ahead of – the pack.
April 01, 2020 — 3 min read
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Nine Stories of IT Support Perfect for April Fools’ Day
April 01, 2020 — 3 min read
Nine Stories of IT Support Perfect for April Fools’ Day
In honor of World Cyber Protection Week and April Fools’ Day, we’re celebrating the essential – and often frustrating – work of IT support staff by taking a look back at horror stories of dealing with users at their most foolish. We scoured some of our favorite sources for terrible tales of tech support to find nine excerpts that might make your average day seem a little bit better, by comparison.
March 31, 2020 — 7 min read
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How Cyber Protection Trends are Evolving in 2020
March 31, 2020 — 7 min read
How Cyber Protection Trends are Evolving in 2020
This year’s World Cyber Protection Week survey results offer a wealth of insight into how individuals and IT professionals are approaching the challenges of increasing complexity, cost, and vulnerability. And while there’s a great deal personal users, IT professionals, and service providers can learn from these survey findings, viewing them in a silo ignores some important, broader context. To offer a clearer picture of what this year’s survey means, we’ve compared our 2020 findings with responses from personal users and IT professionals in all of our previous survey iterations. This comparison presents a robust perspective of how data-defense priorities have evolved over time, and how cyber protection’s modern, comprehensive approach to safeguarding data, applications, and systems is poised to become even more necessary in the months and years ahead.
March 30, 2020 — 5 min read
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The Results are In: Cyber Protection Week 2020 Survey
March 30, 2020 — 5 min read
The Results are In: Cyber Protection Week 2020 Survey
This World Cyber Protection Week, we expanded our annual data protection survey to cover more of the digital challenges and concerns that face modern IT users – whether they’re at home, at work, or relying on a service provider that protects a portfolio of clients. This year’s results paint a clear picture: People and organizations are acutely aware of the risks on the horizon but they are much less certain about how to easily, efficiently, and securely prepare for and overcome them. Let’s dive into the findings of our 2020 survey.
March 30, 2020 — 3 min read
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Celebrating the Final World Backup Day
March 30, 2020 — 3 min read
Celebrating the Final World Backup Day
For nearly 10 years, Acronis has been a proud evangelist of World Backup Day ... but today, backup is no longer enough. While backup remains a key component to complete data, application, and system protection, traditional backup solutions aren’t keeping pace with challenges that face the modern digital world. It’s time to evolve the way we protect the data and devices we rely on. That’s why we’re raising the bar this World Backup Day: welcome to the first-ever World Cyber Protection Week.
January 29, 2020 — 4 min read
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How to Overcome Seven Healthcare IT Challenges with Cyber Protection
January 29, 2020 — 4 min read
How to Overcome Seven Healthcare IT Challenges with Cyber Protection
The healthcare industry is in the middle of a digital transformation: a necessary pivot from the antiquated methods of creating, storing, and sharing information to new data-intensive diagnostic and treatment applications. For healthcare IT professionals, the pressure to accelerate this transition is coming from all sides. To respond to these challenges, protect patients, and stay at the forefront of the industry, healthcare IT professionals need cyber protection to ensure their organization is #CyberFit. Here is a quick overview of how cyber protection can solve seven of the most prevalent IT challenges your healthcare organization may face.
January 16, 2020 — 5 min read
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Cyber Chat: Cybersecurity, Partnerships, and the Future of IT
January 16, 2020 — 5 min read
Cyber Chat: Cybersecurity, Partnerships, and the Future of IT
Leaders from Acronis and Eze Castle took to theCUBE stage to discuss the cyber protection revolution, the outcome of the 2019 Acronis Global Cyber Summit, and the future of the IT industry. Hear their thoughts and join in the conversation, yourself, with this video and highlights from the conversation.
December 16, 2019 — 11 min read
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The 29 Must-Attend ITOps Conferences of 2020
December 16, 2019 — 11 min read
The 29 Must-Attend ITOps Conferences of 2020
The digital world never stops moving. One of the best ways to make sure your organization is #CyberFit, and ahead of the curve is by pulling insights from the expertise of the global ITOps community. To do that, you’ve got to know where the most influential conversations, networking opportunities, and technology showcases will occur: that way you can get your name on the guest list. To make that easy for you, we’ve sifted through all the IT conferences in 2020 to offer up the ones that we’d recommend for your priority list. Don’t miss out on the knowledge-sharing opportunities the year ahead has in store. Mark your calendar with some of these 29 top ITOps conferences in 2020 to make sure you’re up-to-date with the most exciting insights from the industry.