--- title: Acronis Blog description: Stay up to date with the latest cybersecurity and cyber protection news, research, vulnerabilities, threats and computer attacks. canonical_url: https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/categories/executive-vision/page/37/ locale: en last_updated: 2026-10-27 --- # Acronis Blog [Acronis Blog](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/) Executive vision # Most recent on Executive vision [![Image 1: Introducing New Acronis CEO: Prakash Panjwani](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/30cb571f6f1aaa131733e5727a4a250c.png) 15 October 2026 — 2 min read Introducing New Acronis CEO: Prakash Panjwani We are pleased to announce the appointment of our new Chief Executive Officer, Prakash Panjwani. A veteran cybersecurity CEO, Panjwani previously served as CEO of WatchGuard Technologies and SafeNet.](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/introducing-new-acronis-ceo-prakash-panjwani/) [31 October 2016 — 4 min read ![Image 2: Service Providers: Fight Ransomware, Become a Superhero to Your Customers](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/74dd033305077b8ad219667201379601.png) Web Application Monitoring – a Basic Framework When deploying a web application in production, setting up and configuring monitoring is a critical part of the process. As a DevOps, Web developer, or an IT administrator, you need to be alerted when performance issues or incidents occur, and be able to find the root cause of the problem to quickly get it fixed.](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/web-application-monitoring-basic-framework/) [28 October 2016 — 4 min read ![Image 3: It’s Get To Know Your Customers Day — Let’s Get Connected!](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/f62a350b7e35dfe1e3dd057a635af90b.png) Acronis Files Cloud — the File Sync & Share You've Been Waiting For If you are a Service Provider and have customers who use public cloud file sync & share services for business purposes, you need to read this. Acronis Files Cloud provides you with an opportunity to meet your customers’ needs and help them protect important business data.](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/acronis-files-cloud-file-sync-share-youve-been-waiting/) [27 October 2016 — 2 min read ![Image 4: Disaster at the Devil's Tower](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/18a373b02d45b7c3ed01a5efacfff718.png) Disaster at the Devil's Tower “Never update your system on Friday, 13th or on Halloween”. I knew the rule, I remembered it – but decided to ignore. I went ahead and began updating a few systems on October 31. I started the procedure late and with the last-minute requests and unruly users, my day has got away. I knew the update would go late into the night.](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/disaster-devils-tower/) [25 October 2016 — 4 min read ![Image 5: Top 10 Server & Application Monitoring Tools](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/bd62a55daae50fdec0d6a6b238034607.png) VIDEO: Toro Rosso Franz Tost and Daniil Kvyat: Our Goal for 2017 is Clear Following the recent announcement that Daniil Kvyat will continue racing for Toro Rosso next year, we asked Daniil and Franz Tost, Toro Rosso Team Principal, about their plans for the next season.](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/video-toro-rosso-franz-tost-and-daniil-kvyat-our-goal-2017-clear/) [24 October 2016 — 3 min read ![Image 6: Hyper-V Story of Bill, Ted, and Matthew](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/8d171c9d5dce1ca04801e22dc732de75.png) Lessons in Beating Ransomware From a Jedi Master Luke Skywalker: I'm not afraid! Yoda: Ehh. You will be. You will be. (The Empire Strikes Back) If you’re not yet worried about ransomware, wait a little while. Given the meteoric rise of this new malware threat, it is inevitable that you or someone you know will suffer from an attack that can disrupt your business for days and costs thousands of dollars to mitigate. If you don’t know anything about the subject, you’re in decent company: a recent study showed that 60% of US office workers have no idea what ransomware is or how much of a threat it poses to businesses.](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/lessons-beating-ransomware-jedi-master/) [21 October 2016 — 7 min read ![Image 7: It’s Get To Know Your Customers Day — Let’s Get Connected!](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/f62a350b7e35dfe1e3dd057a635af90b.png) Toro Rosso’s New STR12: Bigger, Faster, and Louder Aggressive looks, fat tyres and more speed — the new season is going to be amazing! The revolutionary changes in the 2017 Formula One Technical Regulations are about to unleash the bull under the bonnet of the new STR12 and Toro Rosso fans can’t wait to see it on the track.](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/toro-rossos-new-str12-bigger-faster-and-louder/) [20 October 2016 — 3 min read ![Image 8: Building a Private Cloud for Backup Storage](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/e44479aa9902652a121944102811a7bd.png) Universal Software-Defined Storage (SDS) – A Better Way to Manage Your Storage Infrastructure What is SDS? So, just what we need, another acronym. Right? But what we do need is a way to manage storage software separately from the underlying hardware. That’s SDS — Software Defined Storage.](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/universal-software-defined-storage-sds-better-way-manage-your-storage-infrastructure/) [18 October 2016 — 4 min read ![Image 9: Service Providers: Fight Ransomware, Become a Superhero to Your Customers](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/74dd033305077b8ad219667201379601.png) Service Providers: Fight Ransomware, Become a Superhero to Your Customers We’ve spend the last few weeks examining various aspects of ransomware, a type of malware that encrypts computer hard drives and demands an online ransom of hundreds or thousands of dollars for the decryption key, without which users can never access their files again. In both its effectiveness and its astonishingly rapid proliferation, it represents a unique new threat both to consumers and businesses](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/service-providers-fight-ransomware-become-superhero-your-customers/) [17 October 2016 — 5 min read ![Image 10: It’s Get To Know Your Customers Day — Let’s Get Connected!](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/f62a350b7e35dfe1e3dd057a635af90b.png) It’s Get To Know Your Customers Day — Let’s Get Connected! At Acronis, our Customers are our biggest priority — why else would we put our time and energy into innovation that protects your digital life to the highest degree? We care, and we want to prove it through actions, not words.](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/its-get-know-your-customers-day-lets-get-connected/) [14 October 2016 — 3 min read ![Image 11: Building a Private Cloud for Backup Storage](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/e44479aa9902652a121944102811a7bd.png) Building a Private Cloud for Backup Storage Managed backup and data storage is a hot business in today’s highly-connected data-heavy environment. According to the Spiceworks State of IT 2016 spending report, managed backup and storage services is one of the top business investments, brandishing up to 13% of total budget allocation. Acronis Backup Cloud is designed for resellers and service providers to address this opportunity directly, with a hybrid cloud backup service that protects your customers’ data wherever it may reside.](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/building-private-cloud-backup-storage/) [12 October 2016 — 12 min read ![Image 12: Top 10 Server & Application Monitoring Tools](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/bd62a55daae50fdec0d6a6b238034607.png) Top 10 Server & Application Monitoring Tools Today’s businesses and organizations are increasingly relying on web applications and corresponding IT infrastructures to streamline their operations, and engage their customers. However, the complex digital environment, comprising of a diversity of networks, devices and technologies may prevent delivery of a meaningful user experience.](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/top-10-server-application-monitoring-tools/) [11 October 2016 — 3 min read ![Image 13: Hyper-V Story of Bill, Ted, and Matthew](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/8d171c9d5dce1ca04801e22dc732de75.png) Hyper-V Story of Bill, Ted, and Matthew Our story began many months ago, in a small, but very techy town on the eastern coast of Florida. The small office building couple of blocks from the beach was home to two young, small, but promising companies – let’s call them Bee Business Solutions and Tee Technologies. Both companies had an IT team of one – Bill handled Bee’s systems, and Ted worked in Tee. Needless to say, they were best buddies. Almost at the same time, they realized that their companies have run out of server capacity, as they needed to run more data workloads. But they didn’t have the budget to buy more servers. So, they decided to use Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization technology on old servers instead.](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/hyper-v-story-bill-ted-and-matthew/) [1](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/categories/executive-vision/page/1/)...[35](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/categories/executive-vision/page/35/) [36](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/categories/executive-vision/page/36/) [37](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/categories/executive-vision/page/37/) [38](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/categories/executive-vision/page/38/) [39](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/categories/executive-vision/page/39/)...[67](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/categories/executive-vision/page/67/)