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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/)

[10 June 2011 — 2 min read ![Image 2: Preventing Disasters](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/18a373b02d45b7c3ed01a5efacfff718.png) Everyday Disasters When hearing the words “Disaster Recovery” it is really easy to conjure images in our minds of utter catastrophes. Natural disasters come to mind – tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, floods. When it comes to protecting data and maintaining operations, it is easy to see how things like natural disasters could impact a company’s ability to protect data and maintain operations.](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/everyday-disasters/)

[08 June 2011 — 2 min read ![Image 3: Time for Change – From Backup to Availability](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/f62a350b7e35dfe1e3dd057a635af90b.png) Backup strategies are a component of a larger disaster recovery strategy It used to be the case that disaster recovery was an implied part of the backup process. I say it was implied because the devil really is in the details. Most people would say they had a plan and could recover from an outage but few ever actually tested for the sake of proving the model. The presumption back in the early days was that you could always recover from tape and that if your data was backed up then the ability to recover from a disaster was implied. Given the technologies at the time along with slow WAN connections it was always understood that the concept of disaster recovery using tape was at best going to be a “best effort” kind of recovery.](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/backup-strategies-are-component-larger-disaster-recovery-strategy/)

[07 June 2011 — 1 min read ![Image 4: nScaled predictions for 2011](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/74dd033305077b8ad219667201379601.png) Can Hardware and OpEx Work Together? As you know, one of the things that nScaled does a bit differently from other cloud infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) providers is we implement a Hybrid architecture, with an nScaled Local Cloud Appliance installed on the customer’s LAN providing business continuity and local backup, plus the nScaled Remote Cloud Data Centers providing the scale-up / scale-out elastic capacity for backup, failover and test/dev.](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/can-hardware-and-opex-work-together/)

[27 May 2011 — 1 min read ![Image 5: Video Short – Local File Recovery from Snapshot](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/701297a7531d17743bf6f7c5f50e97c8.png) “Infrastructure does not differentiate us in any way” You’d think a cloud IaaS provider like nScaled would hate to see a sentiment like, “Infrastructure does not differentiate us in any way,” coming from the lips of a CIO. But quite the opposite – it’s why we’re here. When a business is ready to admit this to itself, they’re ready for our services.](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/infrastructure-does-not-differentiate-us-any-way/)

[26 May 2011 — 1 min read ![Image 6: Enterprises Need Clouds, Not Droplets](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/8d171c9d5dce1ca04801e22dc732de75.png) Enterprises Need Clouds, Not Droplets I just read an interesting story about the Apache LibCloud project. It’s an interesting development in cloud computing for certain groups. But I don’t think mainstream enterprises aren’t one of those groups. Here’s why. LibCloud, and a lot of other cloud technology providers, are all about providing a la carte menus of commodity-priced, on-demand computing and storage that the customer can assemble into the solution they want. In other words, these providers aren’t actually supplying clouds. They’re supplying droplets of water vapor, requiring the customer to assemble them and turn them into clouds. That’s nuts if you’re the CIO of a business running a dozen critical business applications. If you’re that CIO, migrating to the cloud requires a complete, dependable stack, ready and waiting for your business applications. It requires the same enterprise tested technologies and brands for hardware, VM, networking, etc. that you already use. It requires a bullet-proof enterprise services agreement that actually protects you in case the vendor has a problem, not the “tough luck” click-wrap agreement that some commodity cloud providers force on you. More power to the developers out there who dig LibCloud. But woe betide the CIO who gets caught up in that stuff.](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/enterprises-need-clouds-not-droplets/)

[27 April 2011 — 1 min read ![Image 7: How To Not Lose Your Data](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/bd62a55daae50fdec0d6a6b238034607.png) How To Not Lose Your Data Once again I’ll start by citing a very nice story that came out today. This time, it’s David Gewirtz at ZDNet writing about the data that was lost in the Amazon outage last week.](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/how-not-lose-your-data/)

[25 April 2011 — 1 min read ![Image 8: Why the Amazon Outage is Not the End of the Cloud](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/30ed349a67c19cf8c26685d868f90f47.png) Why the Amazon Outage is Not the End of the Cloud Businesses are rightly concerned about what Amazon’s outage last week means to them, in terms of their plans to move some or all of their IT operations to cloud data centers. We hope that they keep cool heads and not panic. Too many of the stories being written about Amazon imply that all cloud data centers are alike, and thus prone to the same problems. Of course this is not true.](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/why-amazon-outage-not-end-cloud/)

[02 March 2011 — 1 min read ![Image 9: Starting our operations in the Europe – tough decisions on infrastructure](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/e44479aa9902652a121944102811a7bd.png) Starting our operations in the Europe – tough decisions on infrastructure On the back of our success in the US market, nScaled formally launched its European operations earlier this year.](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/starting-our-operations-europe-tough-decisions-infrastructure/)

[28 February 2011 — 2 min read ![Image 10: Preventing Disasters](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/18a373b02d45b7c3ed01a5efacfff718.png) Preventing Disasters I talk with a lot of CIO’s and IT Directors around the US about how they go about protecting their firms from the risks of downtime . We usually cover topics such as:](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/preventing-disasters/)

[10 February 2011 — 3 min read ![Image 11: Time for Change – From Backup to Availability](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/f62a350b7e35dfe1e3dd057a635af90b.png) Time for Change – From Backup to Availability It’s all about application and site availability Backup is no substitute for site and application availability Henry David Thoreau clarifies our present situation when he said “Men have become the tools of their tools” CIOs, Storage Administrators and IT professionals are constantly challenged by limited time, talent, and budget to adequately deal with their real work issues of data growth, data protection, remote offices, compliance, migrations, disaster recovery, and server failure. Little time is afforded to ensure their IT applications and data are constantly available. As a result, organizations end up with several disparate point solutions which make data and application availability during a disaster very challenging and in most cases impossible to achieve. Over the past twenty years I have been involved with hundreds of storage related projects which include a long list of complex architectures, point solutions, technologies and more acronyms probably second only to the field of medicine. A short list would include something like this: LAN, WAN,SAN, SWAN, NAS, DAS, SCIS, iSCSI, FC, Infiniband, LTO, Replication, WAN Optimization, Data De-duplication, Backup, Archive, HSM, ILM, Content Management, Server Clustering, Mirroring, Search, Bare Metal Recovery, High Availability, Co-Stand Servers, Clustered File Systems, HyperVisor, Virtualization, RAID, Continuous Data Protection, and the list goes on. These words show up in glossaries of IT related books and probably the perfect architecture is imbedded in a Leonardo da Vinci painting. Like most everything, there is more than one way to approach and solve a particular problem. The proper way to approach and solve a company’s particular problem is to first define what the overall business requirement is. What is the organization’s tolerance for downtime (Recovery Time Objective)? How much data can they afford to lose (Recovery Point Objective) should a failure occur? The overall business requirement for virtually all businesses should be to ensure that its applications and data are available and if a failure of any kind occurs it can get its applications and data back online within its RTO. Budget constraints often dictate and more often than not create a gap between what the business’ service level agreement (SLA) needs to be versus what IT can actually implement. Ask yourself this simple question: If my site was completely destroyed how this would impact the business? How long would my critical applicationa be unavailable? To put it into real $$… International Data Corp. estimates that companies lose an average of $84,000 for every hour of downtime. According to Strategic Research, the cost of downtime is estimated at close to $90,000 per hour. The true cost of a data protection solution needs to include the costs of downtime. It does not take a rocket scientist to figure out that if you are an average company and if it took you 3-5 days to get your IT applications and data accessible, the resulting cost to your company would be in millions, not thousands of dollars. This doesn’t factor in the loss of customers and reputation. Let’s face it….. A business that cannot access its applications and or data cannot service its customers. The longer their critical applications and or data are not available, the higher the costs incurred and higher their risk of going out of business. Unfortunately very few companies can afford to take application and site availability into consideration due to the high cost of traditional redundant site architectures. Traditionally for every dollar spent for production another dollar is spent for a recovery site. Given the cost and labor to manage such redundant architectures, small to medium enterprises cannot afford to implement traditional solutions, leaving them unprepared to survive even a small disaster. nScaled is here to solve this problem for companies of all sizes. The nScaled Platform is designed to eliminate costly data centers and antiquated backup/recovery technologies by replacing it all with a powerful SAAS platform that speeds data , server and site recovery, automates and streamlines processes while reducing cost and complexity. No more spending money on things like redundant data centers and production environments unless you actually need to use them. It is like having car insurance for your applications and data…you only pay for a claim when you need to. But you have peace of mind knowing your business is insured in the event of an accident. BCDR on Demand! Brad Wenzel – VP of Channels nScaled, Inc.](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/time-change-backup-availability/)

[14 December 2010 — 2 min read ![Image 12: nScaled predictions for 2011](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/74dd033305077b8ad219667201379601.png) nScaled predictions for 2011 1. Organizations will stop throwing big money at big storage The cost per GB of cloud storage will fuel the growing realization that the days of making million $ investments into privately managed, top tier SAN storage are coming to an end.](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/nscaled-predictions-2011/)

[20 August 2010 — 1 min read ![Image 13: Video Short – Local File Recovery from Snapshot](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/701297a7531d17743bf6f7c5f50e97c8.png) Video Short – Local File Recovery from Snapshot The following short video short shows the quick and simple process of recovering a file locally if you have protected it using some of the on-premise integrated tools that are part of nScaled’s Total Data Protection Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity solution.](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/video-short-local-file-recovery-snapshot/)

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