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# Acronis Blog

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# Most recent on Backup and recovery

[![Image 1: Acronis Cloud Storage adds a recovery warranty](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/6a693ef2012c6324f65b0b452c11b3d6.png) 12 October 2026 — 4 min read Acronis Cloud Storage adds a recovery warranty Secure, scalable cloud storage with a recovery commitment backed by Acronis. The Anti-Ransomware Recovery Warranty that helps MSPs make recovery a visible part of the service they deliver.](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/acronis-cloud-storage-adds-a-recovery-warranty/)

[24 September 2013 — 4 min read ![Image 2: Simple Steps to Network Security: Device Passwords and Key Locks](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/701297a7531d17743bf6f7c5f50e97c8.png) Infographic: Disaster Recovery by the Numbers Disaster recovery, or IT Business Continuity as we like to think of it, is a space that’s riddled with traps. Or at best, it suffers from a number of myths and tendencies toward “fingers crossed.” It’s not just about a fundamental difference between backup and disaster recovery; the idea that it’s one thing to have your data duplicated into a repository somewhere but quite another to be able to actually restore it — also downed applications and network configurations — rapidly… Example 1: If You Can’t Test it, You Don’t Know it Works One can’t get serious about DR unless one acknowledges not just the criticality of testing, but also how it applies to a couple very distinct requirement areas: Firstly, automation. At nScaled for security reasons our internal team doesn’t have log-in rights to client domains and servers. Our platform, however, automates IP address reservation and assignment for remote recovery servers on multiple VLANs. Once servers have been assigned to VLANs in the cloud, our platform offers full test spin-up automation. Users can activate systems in a parallel fashion to perform performance and functional DR tests. After tests are over, the nScaled DR platform will deactivate all systems running in a test mode at user’s request or automatically and all accrued data will be discarded. Our customers are not only testing their DR readiness, but also using our platform to test upcoming updates and patches. Additionally our platform is used as a part of internal development cycle to test apps on a full copy of production data. Secondly, isolation: A DR system needs to support testing without bringing interruption to primary production environment. We’ve designed our platform to achieve just that. Users can define levels of isolations and apply them immediately. Now, without impacting your business continuity, applications like Exchange, DMS, database servers and others can be activated without worries that those apps will conflict with their production counterparts. Example 2: Disasters Actually Happen Every Day Consider something more organic: When most of us think of disasters, we think immediately of big, often natural events. Hurricanes, earthquakes. Big explosions and what not. The reality however, is less dramatic on the surface but actually scarier: In the IT world, disasters technically happen much more often than most people know. They’re also not necessarily singular events as much as they’re domino effects. It might start with a malfunction in a given system, which after an hour or two of investigation turns out to be a failing board which happens to be a model that’s been discontinued by the original manufacturer. Add another hour or two to find a supplier who actually has a replacement unit or three in stock. Add 24 hours for it to be rushed overnight to the problem site. And meanwhile, service after service starts to fail. The Helpdesk starts clogging with tickets even after IT’s sent out an All-Hands Advisory. They know what problems people are having already without even having to read them, but they open up and respond to them anyway out of courtesy, while they wait for the package to arrive ASAP. And maybe it’s a welcome distraction from considering about how much of the company’s cash and productivity might be getting lost while it’s in transit. This kind of thing happens all the time. Many of us have become conditioned to accept sudden, frustrating hits of downtime, as an unfortunate but normal cost of doing business. At the time, maybe only a few people treat them as disasters, but then maybe weeks or months later their full impact becomes painfully clear. It doesn’t have to be that way anymore. With a platform like ours, in scenarios like the once I just described the client could choose freely: Either fail over into the cloud and then back again upon getting the replacement hardware, or simply ditch the hardware and take the opportunity to virtualize into the cloud. With the latter, we’ve even heard from some clients that when moved into our cloud, their systems start to run even faster… Digesting a Few Key Trends and Findings Partnered with NetApp (whose customers are leveraging our platform for enhanced recoverability while still keeping all their familiar tools; SnapMirror™, SnapCreator™ etc.), we’re happy to present “Disaster Recovery by the Numbers,” a simple infographic that condenses a few key facts about Disaster Recovery for quick, easy review. A few of its metrics, particularly once visualized in juxtaposition, frankly took even some of us aback. For the full version, just click the thumbnail to the left. We look forward to your thoughts. Want to get in on our other, ongoing research efforts? Be sure to also check out our IT Business Continuity Survey for 2013.](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/infographic-disaster-recovery-numbers/)

[23 September 2013 — 1 min read ![Image 3: The BYOD Balancing Act](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/18a373b02d45b7c3ed01a5efacfff718.png) Don’t Miss Our Live Webinar Featuring the New Acronis mobilEcho 4.5 with Embedded Office Document Editing Acronis mobilEcho is a true business platform for the enterprise. mobilEcho enables employees to access, edit and create documents, presentations, spreadsheets, pdfs and other files that reside on enterprise file servers, NAS and SharePoint files. And mobilEcho provides the enterprise with all the security and management capabilities to securely and seamlessly integrate it into your current environment.](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/dont-miss-our-live-webinar-featuring-new-acronis-mobilecho-45-embedded-office-document-editing/)

[17 September 2013 — 2 min read ![Image 4: REAL Self-Service Backup for vCloud](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/e44479aa9902652a121944102811a7bd.png) Making the Mobile Device a True Business Platform: Introducing the new mobilEcho Three and a half years ago, Apple introduced the iPad and enterprise mobility took a giant leap forward. Up until that time mobile devices (mostly smartphones) were primarily for phone calls and emails, as far as the enterprise was concerned. But with a larger screen size, the iPad (and now other emerging tablets) expanded the idea of the mobile device as a content consumption tool. And enterprises started to take notice in other ways as well.](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/making-mobile-device-true-business-platform-introducing-new-mobilecho/)

[12 September 2013 — 2 min read ![Image 5: When Managing BYOD, Companies Shouldn’t Forget About BYOC](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/8d171c9d5dce1ca04801e22dc732de75.png) nScaled Provides Fuller Disaster Recovery for Linux Linux has come a long way in the past 10 years. Where once the corporate operating system world was ruled by Microsft servers – which many of our customers do still rely on heavily – Linux is increasingly becoming a great way for businesses to get high performance with the cost savings benefits of open source. Were this not true, developers today wouldn’t have so many great distributions to choose from including SUSE, CentOS, Red Hat and more.](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/nscaled-provides-fuller-disaster-recovery-linux/)

[10 September 2013 — 2 min read ![Image 6: Beyond MDM and MFM: What’s Next for BYOD?](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/30ed349a67c19cf8c26685d868f90f47.png) Difficult Made Simple: BYOD In this modern computing world with multitudes of various trends and innovations, we sometimes find ourselves lost in between new technologies, terminologies and words.Why do we tend to make things more difficult than they have to be? That was my thought when I started a set of blog posts describing the new computing trends in a simple way. Here is another trend that I would like to simplify – Bring Your Own Device (BYOD).](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/difficult-made-simple-byod/)

[27 August 2013 — 1 min read ![Image 7: REAL Self-Service Backup for vCloud](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/e44479aa9902652a121944102811a7bd.png) REAL Self-Service Backup for vCloud Our good friend, Massimo, recently blogged about challenges backing up vCloud. The fact is that until Acronis Backup & Recovery for vCloud came along, no solutions existed that would allow tenants to backup and recover their virtual machines on their own, with self-service, without manual operations from vCloud administrators.](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/real-self-service-backup-vcloud/)

[22 August 2013 — 2 min read ![Image 8: Beyond MDM and MFM: What’s Next for BYOD?](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/30ed349a67c19cf8c26685d868f90f47.png) Beyond MDM and MFM: What’s Next for BYOD? In the not-so-distant past, company information, files and data were confined to the four walls of the organization. After 5 p.m., and on weekends and holidays, this information was largely inaccessible to the average employee. Now, the availability of company data is seen in an entirely different light, with employees accessing files from three or four different devices any day of the week.](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/beyond-mdm-and-mfm-whats-next-byod/)

[20 August 2013 — 1 min read ![Image 9: Is BYOD the Best or Worst Thing That’s Happened to the Channel Market](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/bd62a55daae50fdec0d6a6b238034607.png) Is BYOD the Best or Worst Thing That’s Happened to the Channel Market “Turning a blind eye” is an age old idiom that describes the act of ignoring undesirable information. And, according to our 2013 Data Protection Trends Research, it seems to be the attitude many IT professionals have taken towards the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) movement.](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/byod-best-or-worst-thing-thats-happened-channel-market/)

[01 August 2013 — 1 min read ![Image 10: When Managing BYOD, Companies Shouldn’t Forget About BYOC](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/8d171c9d5dce1ca04801e22dc732de75.png) When Managing BYOD, Companies Shouldn’t Forget About BYOC It’s basically a given that, today, employees are going to bring their own mobile devices to the office and use them for work. But, right now, a lot of companies are struggling with these bring-your-own-device (BYOD) habits. Our 2013 Data Protection Trends Research, which surveyed more than 4,300 IT professionals around the world, found that nearly 60 percent of companies don’t have BYOD policies in place. This can certainly present security issues and risks for data leakage, but BYOD trends also encourage something else: bring-your-own-cloud (BYOC).](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/when-managing-byod-companies-shouldnt-forget-about-byoc/)

[25 July 2013 — 1 min read ![Image 11: Simple Steps to Network Security: Device Passwords and Key Locks](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/701297a7531d17743bf6f7c5f50e97c8.png) Simple Steps to Network Security: Device Passwords and Key Locks Allowing employees to use their personal mobile devices for work can provide a multitude of advantages: productivity, simpler connectivity, access to the resources they need from virtually anywhere. But along with the benefits, bring your own device (BYOD) opens the door to risks, including security vulnerabilities, data leakage, compliance and potential liability issues.The magnitude of the problem is big, considering millions of these devices are lost, stolen or misplaced every year (120 thousand phones were lost in Chicago taxi cabs alone last year…).](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/simple-steps-network-security-device-passwords-and-key-locks/)

[17 July 2013 — 2 min read ![Image 12: Acronis Launches 2013 Data Protection Trends Research](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/f62a350b7e35dfe1e3dd057a635af90b.png) Acronis Launches 2013 Data Protection Trends Research “Bring your own device” (BYOD) started out as just a buzzword, but it has now become a full blown phenomenon that businesses, both large and small, are challenged with every day. As employees increasingly use personal devices like smartphones, tablets and Mac® computers in the workplace, they may unknowingly be putting company data at risk without the proper BYOD policies and training. And, while these data protection issues and concerns aren’t new, companies are surprisingly still in the very early stages of protecting mobile data.](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/acronis-launches-2013-data-protection-trends-research/)

[11 July 2013 — 1 min read ![Image 13: The BYOD Balancing Act](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/18a373b02d45b7c3ed01a5efacfff718.png) The BYOD Balancing Act With Gartner expecting the mobile device management (MDM) market to be worth $1.6 billion by 2014, it’s obvious that the industry has become very prominent. But, the MDM market is still evolving at a feverish pace. Just take a look at the average employee’s bring-your-own-device (BYOD) habits. Smartphones, tablets and laptops are all part of one big mix during the work day. Thanks to the growth and of mobile devices and the emergence of more mobility apps the needs of the mobile enterprise and their users is quickly evolving from being device-centric to being data-centric.](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/byod-balancing-act/)

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