--- 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/it-channel-insights/page/50/ locale: en last_updated: 2026-10-27 --- # Acronis Blog [Acronis Blog](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/) IT channel insights # Most recent on IT channel insights [![Image 1: From AI vision to MSP action: The journey continues this October](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/65821c3bd72f935cd680e584fe43de66.png) 23 September 2026 — 4 min read From AI vision to MSP action: The journey continues this October The first event answered why AI matters and the second event demonstrated what's possible. Acronis Accelerate: Time to Act brings those ideas to life through a practical, workflow-driven experience that follows a future day in the life of an MSP.](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/from-ai-vision-to-msp-action-the-journey-continues-this-october/) [05 May 2017 — 1 min read ![Image 2: Comprehensive Reporting in Acronis Backup 12.5](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/bd62a55daae50fdec0d6a6b238034607.png) Comprehensive Reporting in Acronis Backup 12.5 Acronis Backup 12.5 Advanced allows users to automate detailed and visual reporting in order to comply with corporate regulations.](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/comprehensive-reporting-acronis-backup-125/) [03 May 2017 — 2 min read ![Image 3: Who has the Best Backup? Independent IT Security Research Company MRG Effitas Analysed Eight Popular Backup Solutions](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/8d171c9d5dce1ca04801e22dc732de75.png) Acronis Active Protection: A Leg up on the Backup Competition You can’t predict ransomware attacks, and your attempts to avoid them may fail. You can follow computer backup best practices, but even then there is no guarantee that devious cyber criminals won’t uncover your weaknesses. That’s why Acronis True Image 2017 New Generation integrates ransomware protection technology in the form of Acronis Active Protection. Independent IT security research company MRG Effitas tested eight consumer backup products against ten ransomware families with some surprising results!](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/acronis-active-protection-leg-backup-competition/) [01 May 2017 — 6 min read ![Image 4: Weekly Tech Roundup — May 1](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/701297a7531d17743bf6f7c5f50e97c8.png) Weekly Tech Roundup — May 1 Have you ever seen a Word document embedded inside a PDF? There may be one already sitting in your inbox. Ransomware criminals keep coming up with new ways to bypass malware detection, for example, by embedding multiple files inside each other, and it’s proving to be very effective. Find out how this works, plus other news, in this edition of our Weekly Tech Roundup.](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/weekly-tech-roundup-may-1/) [26 April 2017 — 1 min read ![Image 5: PARTNER PROFILE: OzHosting.com — Pioneer of Australia’s Cloud Hosting Market](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/30ed349a67c19cf8c26685d868f90f47.png) Quick Insights With Acronis Backup 12.5 Dashboards Acronis Backup 12.5 Advanced dashboard provides a number of customizable, dynamic widgets that give an overview of your backup infrastructure and backed-up devices.](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/quick-insights-acronis-backup-125-dashboards/) [24 April 2017 — 2 min read ![Image 6: Who has the Best Backup? Independent IT Security Research Company MRG Effitas Analysed Eight Popular Backup Solutions](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/8d171c9d5dce1ca04801e22dc732de75.png) Who has the Best Backup? Independent IT Security Research Company MRG Effitas Analysed Eight Popular Backup Solutions MRG Effitas tested eight popular backup solutions for ransomware protection capabilities, performance, usability, and user experience. Who has the best technology?](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/who-has-best-backup-independent-it-security-research-company-mrg-effitas-analysed-eight/) [20 April 2017 — 5 min read ![Image 7: Ben Waterhouse: Data is the Currency of Competitive Advantage](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/74dd033305077b8ad219667201379601.png) How Creative Professionals Struggle with Mac/SMB File Sharing​ Anyone who has worked in a mixed Mac/Windows shop knows that the two environments have significant compatibility issues. With Acronis Files Connect, organizations can quickly install a simple solution that eliminates these stubborn incompatibility problems, enabling Mac users to exist harmoniously and work productively in a Windows-based environment. Apple Spotlight search works properly. Problems with file naming, file access permissions, network printing, unreliable file transfers, and slow server performance disappear.](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/how-creative-professionals-struggle-macsmb-file-sharing/) [18 April 2017 — 1 min read ![Image 8: PARTNER PROFILE: OzHosting.com — Pioneer of Australia’s Cloud Hosting Market](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/30ed349a67c19cf8c26685d868f90f47.png) Protecting Large Hybrid IT Environments With Acronis Backup 12.5 The IT environments grow at a faster pace than the companies they serve. A decade ago, a company with 30 employees would have had half a dozen servers, a couple of dozens of PCs, and that’s it. Nowadays, there may be: Few old physical servers still housing important data and applications Virtual hosts, holding couple dozen virtual machines (VMs), with different applications, and even different hypervisors 35+ PCs and laptops — including some Macs 20-30 VMs in the cloud – in Microsoft Azure, Amazon EC2, Google, or other IaaS cloud Applications and data in the cloud – most probably Microsoft Office 365 Few dozen corporate mobile devices – tablets, phones All of these devices contain important company data, and need to be backed up – and your existing backup solution may not be able to support all of these, or easily scale along with your hybrid IT evolution. What should you do?](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/protecting-large-hybrid-it-environments-acronis-backup-125/) [12 April 2017 — 3 min read ![Image 9: Incremental Recovery of Backups From the Cloud. Why Is It Essential?](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/e44479aa9902652a121944102811a7bd.png) Incremental Recovery of Backups From the Cloud. Why Is It Essential? If three library books on one shelf were misplaced or destroyed, should you have to replace the entire shelf of books? If you picked up your dry cleaning and dropped one shirt on the ground, should you have to re-launder all of the clothes? Of course not. Complete replacement would not make sense because it would be more expensive, more time consuming, and take more resources to complete. And so it is with recovering cloud backups.](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/incremental-recovery-backups-cloud-why-it-essential/) [11 April 2017 — 4 min read ![Image 10: PARTNER PROFILE: OzHosting.com — Pioneer of Australia’s Cloud Hosting Market](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/30ed349a67c19cf8c26685d868f90f47.png) PARTNER PROFILE: OzHosting.com — Pioneer of Australia’s Cloud Hosting Market This year OzHosting.com is celebrating its 20th anniversary of providing cloud hosting solutions on the Australian market. Established in 1997, it’s one of the original web hosting companies in Australia that made web hosting services easy and affordable for Australian businesses and organizations. Doug Endersbee, OzHosting.com CEO, told Acronis that understanding the market and responding to customers’ changing needs have been critical to the company’s success over the last two decades. Mr. Endersbee also explained why OzHosting.com selected Acronis Backup Cloud as their new Backup-as-a-Service platform and what has been achieved in the first four months since the system was deployed.](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/partner-profile-ozhostingcom-pioneer-australias-cloud-hosting-market/) [06 April 2017 — 1 min read ![Image 11: Guest Blog: Creating VM Backups on a Regular Basis Keeps Your Data Safe](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/f62a350b7e35dfe1e3dd057a635af90b.png) Protect Your Business From Ransomware With Acronis Backup 12.5 Acronis Active Protection™ is coming soon to Acronis Backup 12.5, the world’s fastest and easiest backup! Acronis Active Protection is an advanced ransomware protection technology. It actively protects all of the data – documents, data of all types, your system, backups and even your backup application.](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/protect-your-business-ransomware-acronis-backup-125/) [02 April 2017 — 6 min read ![Image 12: Ben Waterhouse: Data is the Currency of Competitive Advantage](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/74dd033305077b8ad219667201379601.png) Ben Waterhouse: Data is the Currency of Competitive Advantage Enjoying the warm sunshine of an Australian Saturday afternoon, the smell of burnt rubber, the electric atmosphere of anticipation preceding the first Grand Prix of the year, Ben Waterhouse of Scuderia Toro Rosso spoke to Acronis about the value of data in designing the new STR12 car.](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/ben-waterhouse-data-currency-competitive-advantage/) [31 March 2017 — 2 min read ![Image 13: Guest Blog: Creating VM Backups on a Regular Basis Keeps Your Data Safe](https://staticfiles.acronis.com/images/blog-cover/f62a350b7e35dfe1e3dd057a635af90b.png) Guest Blog: Creating VM Backups on a Regular Basis Keeps Your Data Safe Virtual machines keep you on the safe side and protect your Mac. Nevertheless, VMs are very similar to real computers in that they are vulnerable to the same risks: data loss, hard disk corruption, malware, and power outage. Creating VM backups on a regular basis keeps your work and data safe.](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/posts/guest-blog-creating-vm-backups-regular-basis-keeps-your-data-safe/) [1](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/categories/it-channel-insights/page/1/)...[48](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/categories/it-channel-insights/page/48/) [49](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/categories/it-channel-insights/page/49/) [50](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/categories/it-channel-insights/page/50/) [51](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/categories/it-channel-insights/page/51/) [52](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/categories/it-channel-insights/page/52/)...[85](https://www.acronis.com/en/blog/categories/it-channel-insights/page/85/)