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# Acronis Blog

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Innovations and technologies

# Most recent on Innovations and technologies

[![Image 1: Best email security solutions for MSPs in 2026: a buyer's guide](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/5262967fc72f1117717b1d5409cb1093.png) 18 August 2026 — 14 min read Best email security solutions for MSPs in 2026: a buyer's guide Compare the best email security solutions for MSPs in 2026. Honest evaluation of six platforms across multitenant management, AI detection, and pricing fit.](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/best-email-security-solutions-for-msps-2026/)

[25 July 2019 — 2 min read ![Image 2: #SysAdminDay 2019: What Kind of Sysadmin Are You?](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/bd62a55daae50fdec0d6a6b238034607.png) #SysAdminDay 2019: What Kind of Sysadmin Are You? It’s time to appreciate the unsung heroes of the IT team – the sysadmins that keep business moving day-in/day-out thanks to a strict regimen of caffeine and nerdy references! Show off your skills and celebrate SysAdmin Appreciation Day with our exclusive quiz and giveaway contest! Five questions will reveal if you’re CyberFit or still need a lesson or two about what a keyboard does. However you score, you can share your results for a chance to win lunch and software from your friends at Acronis!](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/sysadminday-2019-what-kind-sysadmin-are-you/)

[25 July 2019 — 3 min read ![Image 3: British Airways Hit with GDPR Fine, Shows the Cost of Not Protecting Customer Data](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/701297a7531d17743bf6f7c5f50e97c8.png) When Tech Conferences Are Worth The Time and Expense: How To Build The Case To Go If you work in an IT operations, cybersecurity or tech leadership role, you probably receive several tempting invitations to industry events and conferences every month. They are usually held in comfortable venues with balmy weather and lots of nearby attractions to entertain family members you might bring along. Your hosts will probably serve up some good food, drink, and entertainment ... but in a working world where there already aren’t enough hours in a week, how can you justify time away at an event in Vegas or Orlando or some other sunny clime? Before you ask your boss to pony up precious T&E budget to fund your trip, you should build a business case to justify your attendance – one that lays out the company’s return on the investment of your time.](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/when-tech-conferences-are-worth-time-and-expense-how-build-case-go/)

[22 July 2019 — 2 min read ![Image 4: Enterprises Gain Enhanced Cyber Protection with Acronis Backup Support for SAP HANA](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/18a373b02d45b7c3ed01a5efacfff718.png) GUEST BLOG: For An Effective Data Defense, Security, IT Operations and Data Owners Must Work Together IDC's Rob Westervelt, Research Director, Security Products, explores how the need to protect corporate data and IT infrastructure requires security teams to partner more closely with data owners and operations staff – and uses recent examples of ransomware attacks to show why each group must independently enforce the policies that govern corporate data. "Building a cohesive security program requires integrated technologies,” he writes, “but organizations can't ignore the fact that people are an essential ingredient for an effective program."](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/guest-blog-effective-data-defense-security-it-operations-and-data-owners-must-work-together/)

[19 July 2019 — 3 min read ![Image 5: 3 Steps to Restore Your Server in Mere Minutes](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/f62a350b7e35dfe1e3dd057a635af90b.png) Acronis Announces Official Cyber Protection Partnership with FC Internazionale Milano FC Internazionale Milano today announced that it has teamed up with Acronis, a global leader in cyber protection, in a multi-year partnership. Several members of Inter attended the formal partnership announcement at Acronis headquarters in Singapore on July 19, including team Captain Samir Handanovic, Tommaso Berni and Corporate Chief Executive Officer Alessandro Antonello.](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/acronis-announces-official-cyber-protection-partnership-fc-internazionale-milano/)

[18 July 2019 — 2 min read ![Image 6: GUEST BLOG: Data’s Value to Businesses Demands the New Approach of Cyber Protection](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/30ed349a67c19cf8c26685d868f90f47.png) GUEST BLOG: Data’s Value to Businesses Demands the New Approach of Cyber Protection IDC's Andrew Smith, Research Manager, Enterprise Infrastructure, offers his thoughts on how enterprises are collecting more data than ever before and learning how to use that data to digitally transform their business...and how its increased value has implications for storage, usage, and security. A new data strategy should be considered. "Solving this problem requires the right data strategy," he says, "something inclusive which spans organizational disciplines and ensures the flood of data being welcomed with open arms doesn't end up washing us away."](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/guest-blog-datas-value-businesses-demands-new-approach-cyber-protection/)

[16 July 2019 — 2 min read ![Image 7: Enterprises Gain Enhanced Cyber Protection with Acronis Backup Support for SAP HANA](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/18a373b02d45b7c3ed01a5efacfff718.png) Enterprises Gain Enhanced Cyber Protection with Acronis Backup Support for SAP HANA Acronis Backup now offers backup and recovery support for SAP HANA through easy, efficient, and secure protection for the entire database. Through this new support for the widely utilized data management and analytics system, enterprise users can now back up all their SAP HANA data and recover business-critical data in mere minutes, streamlining a complex process into a task any IT professional can manage with ease. Read this article to learn how this support can protect your most important data and benefit your organization.](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/enterprises-gain-enhanced-cyber-protection-acronis-backup-support-sap-hana/)

[12 July 2019 — 3 min read ![Image 8: Ransomware Attack Costs $1.5 Million in Riviera Beach, FL](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/e44479aa9902652a121944102811a7bd.png) Top Business and Data Protection Strategies for Gulf Coast Flooding and More For businesses, preparing for a flood (or any natural disaster) is not something that should be left to the last minute. Fortunately, there are a few established business and data protection strategies that companies should take to protect their businesses and their businesses precious data from this flood and those that will follow:](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/top-business-and-data-protection-strategies-gulf-coast-flooding-and-more/)

[11 July 2019 — 5 min read ![Image 9: Modular Cryptojackers Now Deliver Illicit Cryptomining to Cover Multiple Platforms at Once](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/8d171c9d5dce1ca04801e22dc732de75.png) Modular Cryptojackers Now Deliver Illicit Cryptomining to Cover Multiple Platforms at Once Cryptojacking attacks are not going away any time soon. Instead, they’re becoming more sophisticated – and more dangerous – by using advanced modular malware with worm capabilities as a delivery mechanism. A complex backdoor, called Plurox, was recently discovered by MalwareHunterTeam. It has a pluggable architecture and is able to spread itself over a local network, with the help of the EternalBlue exploit, and start cryptominers downloaded from the command and control (C&C) server.](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/modular-cryptojackers-now-deliver-illicit-cryptomining-cover-multiple-platforms-once/)

[10 July 2019 — 3 min read ![Image 10: British Airways Hit with GDPR Fine, Shows the Cost of Not Protecting Customer Data](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/701297a7531d17743bf6f7c5f50e97c8.png) British Airways Hit with GDPR Fine, Shows the Cost of Not Protecting Customer Data The kaboom you heard earlier this week was the United Kingdom’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) laying the hammer on British Airways in the form of a ₤183.39 M ($230M) fine for its failure to prevent a 2018 data breach that disclosed sensitive data on over half a million BA customers. It’s exactly the kind of disaster that BA could have avoided had it heeded our advice early last year: “Get moving fast to improve cyber protection and privacy for your customers’ sensitive data. It won’t be long before national regulatory agencies start levying massive fines on well-known companies that fail to do so.](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/british-airways-hit-gdpr-fine-shows-cost-not-protecting-customer-data/)

[08 July 2019 — 3 min read ![Image 11: How the NIO Formula E Team Employs AI for Slicker Pit Work](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/74dd033305077b8ad219667201379601.png) How the NIO Formula E Team Employs AI for Slicker Pit Work The NIO Formula E team employs artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) developed by Acronis to recognize the signs of failing sensors and notifies their engineers before they can cause performance degradation on the track. This keeps the team at the front of the pack in motorsports fastest, and fastest-growing, competition.](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/how-nio-formula-e-team-employs-ai-slicker-pit-work/)

[27 June 2019 — 3 min read ![Image 12: 3 Steps to Restore Your Server in Mere Minutes](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/f62a350b7e35dfe1e3dd057a635af90b.png) 3 Steps to Restore Your Server in Mere Minutes Disk-imaging technology, faster storage, and new protocols have changed the average recovery time objectives (RTOs) from hours to minutes. But in the modern world, data is so critical that many businesses are working to reduce RTOs even further, and with good reason. Today a business that doesn’t have access to its data can lose $100,000 every hour, in addition to the potentially huge costs of recovering that data.](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/3-steps-restore-your-server-mere-minutes/)

[24 June 2019 — 3 min read ![Image 13: Ransomware Attack Costs $1.5 Million in Riviera Beach, FL](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/e44479aa9902652a121944102811a7bd.png) Ransomware Attack Costs $1.5 Million in Riviera Beach, FL The city of Riviera Beach, Florida made news recently when it announced it was paying approximately $600,000 in ransom to undo a ransomware attack it suffered in late May. In addition to the ransom paid, officials also invested more than $900,000 into new hardware in the hopes that they do not have the same vulnerabilities as the old ones. That’s $1.5 million in damages from one attack.](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/ransomware-attack-costs-15-million-riviera-beach-fl/)

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