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# Latest stories from Jon McCarrick

[28 February 2017 — 2 min read Acronis Blog ![Image 2: 4 Things to Consider When Developing a Business Continuity Plan](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/74dd033305077b8ad219667201379601.png) 4 Things to Consider When Developing a Business Continuity Plan Many businesses that lose access to their data never reopen their doors. Even when businesses lose some data but avoid a total outage, their employee productivity, customer satisfaction, and company reputation can plummet. This means that service providers have a moral obligation (in addition to their profit motive) to make sure that their customers have a well-structured business continuity plan. Business continuity is the process of making sure business information services are resilient enough to withstand accidental, intentional, or natural disruptions to their data. Sometimes, the business continuity issue is simply human error – someone deletes a key file from a system, causing it to break. Other times, device failures and even natural disasters will necessitate the launch of a business continuity plan.](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/4-things-consider-when-developing-business-continuity-plan/)

[14 February 2017 — 2 min read Acronis Blog ![Image 3: The robots are coming, the robots are coming!](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/e44479aa9902652a121944102811a7bd.png) The robots are coming, the robots are coming! Seriously, there has been an awful lot of discussion in the media about the role of service automation and computerization of business processes. The reality is that through APIs, machine learning, monitors, sensors and actuators, we are beginning a process by which many workloads formerly handled by people will be accomplished through computers. At Acronis we believe in trying to leverage our resellers’ existing billing, control panel and system automation software. We have integrated Acronis Backup Cloud into a number of popular industry service automation software solutions like Odin Automation, WHMCS, Hostbill, and ConnectWise, plus we have great APIs for tying into other systems.](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/robots-are-coming-robots-are-coming/)