--- 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/64/ 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/) [27 September 2011 — 1 min read ![Image 2: Why Our Partners Love the Cloud](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/18a373b02d45b7c3ed01a5efacfff718.png) Not Only Is Tape Dead, Backup Is Too I just finished reading a piece of marketing nonsense hoo-hah from Iron Mountain that argues that tape isn’t dead. Methinks Iron Mountain doth protest to much. Let’s see, what’s Iron Mountain’s digital business? Oh, that’s right – tape vaulting. The death of tape, and Iron Mountain’s sudden exit from cloud-based storage and backup, must be cause for alarm in Boston. Now, before I go any further, let me be clear that yes, I know that tape is being used today, and not technically dead… yet. When nScaled and others proclaim the death of tape, it’s a bit of hyperbole, and we expect people to understand that. But the sentiment, that using tapes for backup has been obsoleted by disk-to-disk technologies, is correct, and we can expect to see the use of tape decline steadily during the next 5-10 years. Where nScaled parts with many others is that we also think that backup is dead, further mooting the discussion of tape’s role in IT. What has happened in the last five years is that technologies, and costs, have aligned to make disaster recovery easier than backup while costing less. Storage, bandwidth and co-lo space keep getting cheaper. Virtualization – of servers, storage and networking – are mature and competitive technologies. Ditto continuous data protection (snapshotting) technologies. …disaster recovery easier than backup while costing less Put it all together, and you have real, off-site, disaster recovery for prices that match backup-only solutions. Backup becomes a by-product of DR, not a standalone solution. With real DR, you can recover not just data, but an entire server, running at a remote location, with end-users connected to it and being productive. Try that with a tape. Yes, tape is still in use today. But it’s a dead-end technology. If you were making buggy whips in 1910, you had a choice – ignore cars and pretend that your buggy whip business would prosper in the long term, or acknowledge that the world had changed, and change with it. And now it’s true of backup, another dead-end technology. This is the choice that corporate IT faces today.](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/not-only-tape-dead-backup-too/) [27 September 2011 — 1 min read ![Image 3: What’s Wrong with Backup?](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/f62a350b7e35dfe1e3dd057a635af90b.png) Paranoia Will Destroy Ya There’s an amusingly pugnacious post over at ZDNet by Ken Hess that asks why so many people seem to be paranoid about cloud computing.](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/paranoia-will-destroy-ya/) [15 September 2011 — 1 min read ![Image 4: Low Risk Adoption of the Cloud, part 4: Selecting an Enterprise Grade Cloud Provider](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/74dd033305077b8ad219667201379601.png) Tape? Really? I was just speaking with Brad Wenzel, nScaled’s VP of Channels, and he said something that really struck me. He asked, do I still listen to music on cassette tapes? Of course not, I answered. All my music is digital. Tapes are prone to failure – drop-outs, unspooling, melting in the sun – and they’re linear access, not random access. Everyone has dumped tapes for MP3 players like iPod. Going digital means easier management, backup and recovery of my tunes.](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/tape-really/) [14 September 2011 — 1 min read ![Image 5: nScaled keeps growing in the UK](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/701297a7531d17743bf6f7c5f50e97c8.png) Two Kinds of Cloud Infrastructure I’m just getting around to writing about a terrific post by Rodrigo Flores over at GigaOm about SLAs and cloud infrastructure. Flores neatly articulates something that we have based nScaled on – the importance of the enterprise service agreement and SLAs in cloud, and the factors that make a cloud “enterprise grade.”](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/two-kinds-cloud-infrastructure/) [10 September 2011 — 2 min read ![Image 6: Back To School – Disaster Recovery Lessons](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/8d171c9d5dce1ca04801e22dc732de75.png) Back To School – Disaster Recovery Lessons The past week and a half have brought us the trifecta of business continuity / disaster recovery (BC/DR) stories: Hurricane Irene, the San Diego blackout, and the 10th anniversary of 9/11. I’ll try not to belabor the point – stuff happens, and business need to be prepared – and instead highlight some of the more important lessons.](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/back-school-disaster-recovery-lessons/) [06 September 2011 — 1 min read ![Image 7: Backup is NOT Disaster Preparedness](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/bd62a55daae50fdec0d6a6b238034607.png) Backup is NOT Disaster Preparedness I just got done reading a survey report put out by Symantec on the topic of SMB disaster preparedness. It stated what I think most of already know, that something like 50% of small and midsize businesses (SMB) don’t have a disaster plan. This is a terrible state of affairs, and I applaud Symantec for highlighting the issue with the report.](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/backup-not-disaster-preparedness/) [10 August 2011 — 1 min read ![Image 8: It’s Not a DR Plan If You Don’t Test It](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/30ed349a67c19cf8c26685d868f90f47.png) It’s Not a DR Plan If You Don’t Test It There’s a fine story by Jacob Gsoedl over at SearchDisasterRecovery.com called, “Disaster recovery in the cloud explained” that makes for good reading.](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/its-not-dr-plan-if-you-dont-test-it/) [04 August 2011 — 1 min read ![Image 9: Real Cloud Disaster Recovery & Beyond](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/e44479aa9902652a121944102811a7bd.png) Real Cloud Disaster Recovery & Beyond There’s a good piece over at TechTarget today about disaster recovery in the cloud, a subject near and dear to our hearts at nScaled.](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/real-cloud-disaster-recovery-beyond/) [27 July 2011 — 1 min read ![Image 10: Why Our Partners Love the Cloud](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/18a373b02d45b7c3ed01a5efacfff718.png) Why Our Partners Love the Cloud We recently held our latest Partner Training Program event here at nScaled headquarters in San Francisco. We’ve been signing up new channel partners in the US and UK and it was time to get them together for a couple days of in-depth training – how to sell, implement and support nScaled cloud services.](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/why-our-partners-love-cloud/) [20 July 2011 — 2 min read ![Image 11: What’s Wrong with Backup?](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/f62a350b7e35dfe1e3dd057a635af90b.png) What’s Wrong with Backup? At nScaled, we talk to a lot of businesses about backup. Backup-as-a-service is one of the solutions we provide through our hybrid cloud infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS). Customers have a lot to say about their current backup solutions, and not much of it is positive. We’ve tried to provide a backup solution that solves the problems that they cite.](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/whats-wrong-backup/) [15 July 2011 — 3 min read ![Image 12: Low Risk Adoption of the Cloud, part 4: Selecting an Enterprise Grade Cloud Provider](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/74dd033305077b8ad219667201379601.png) Low Risk Adoption of the Cloud, part 4: Selecting an Enterprise Grade Cloud Provider Our fourth and final installment on the subject of Low Risk Adoption of Cloud Infrastructure for Enterprises](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/low-risk-adoption-cloud-part-4-selecting-enterprise-grade-cloud-provider/) [11 July 2011 — 1 min read ![Image 13: nScaled keeps growing in the UK](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/701297a7531d17743bf6f7c5f50e97c8.png) nScaled keeps growing in the UK We are pleased to announce the appointment of Duncan Appleby as our new Sales Engineer, EMEA. Duncan’s appointment is a response to the growing customer and partner driven momentum for nScaled in EMEA. Duncan was previously a Technical Architect with SJ Berwin, one of the twenty largest law firms in Europe, where he was responsible for their data centre infrastructure across their 9 offices. 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