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September 23, 2026 — 4 min read
From AI vision to MSP action: The journey continues this October
September 23, 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.
July 21, 2014 — 2 min read
3 Tips for Banks to Mitigate BYOD Risks
July 21, 2014 — 2 min read
3 Tips for Banks to Mitigate BYOD Risks
Banks collect and store mountains of data about transactions, customer accounts and trades, and the majority of that data is highly sensitive. Last December when Barclays failed to properly back up electronic records, emails and instant messages, it faced a $3.75M fine. A failure to back up financial data violates U.S. regulations and has a severe impact on a company’s reputation and database.
July 18, 2014 — 2 min read
Behind the Design: How One Art Director Protects Her Work
July 18, 2014 — 2 min read
Behind the Design: How One Art Director Protects Her Work
New research backs what IBM founder Thomas J. Watson said more than 50 years ago: “Good design is good business.” Design-driven companies have outperformed the Standard & Poor’s 500 stock market index by 228 percent in the past 10 years, according to an analysis from the Design Management Institute and consulting firm Motiv Strategies.
July 18, 2014 — 2 min read
Report: Data Breach Cases Rise, Companies Must Rebuild Trust
July 18, 2014 — 2 min read
Report: Data Breach Cases Rise, Companies Must Rebuild Trust
It's safe to say you've entered your personal information at some point online. Whether it's a new doctor form, a purchase form, or a crowdfunding campaign, most people in today's world have given some pretty intimate details away on the Web. Before the advent of the Internet, this information was usually stored in a file folder behind a desk. Today, though, if not protected properly, it can show up in a myriad of unwanted, sometimes very public places.
July 16, 2014 — 1 min read
3-2-1: A Simple Rule for Complex Data Protection
July 16, 2014 — 1 min read
3-2-1: A Simple Rule for Complex Data Protection
When companies lose data, the ripple effect reaches all the way to the bottom line. For a gargantuan company like Amazon, data loss and its associated downtime could cost more than $65 million per minute. For small and medium businesses, downtime can be equally painful. In a joint study, Acronis and IDC found that 80 percent of SMBs estimate that data recovery costs $20,000 per hour. The remaining 20 percent put that figure at more than $100,000 per hour.  Beyond these initial data recovery costs, companies incur additional costs from lost goodwill and legal fines even after their data is restored. In fact, according to a recent study from IBM into the “hidden costs” of data breaches, having one million compromised records costs an average of nearly $40 million. Additionally, these large-scale breaches take 100 days longer than smaller breaches to detect and contain.
July 14, 2014 — 3 min read
Behind the Scenes in Space: Protecting Extraordinary Amounts of Data
July 14, 2014 — 3 min read
Behind the Scenes in Space: Protecting Extraordinary Amounts of Data
The scale of data backup for corporations and even wedding photographers and music producers can be impressive, but when it comes to sheer amount of data, space programs are in an entirely different galaxy. The Australian Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder Telescope streams 2.8 GB of data every second — which would take nearly two million years to play back on a music player — and the Hubble Space Telescope transmits 120 GB of science data every week — comparable to 3,600 feet of books on a shelf.
July 11, 2014 — 2 min read
Shadow IT: Healthcare Industry Scourge or Opportunity for Growth?
July 11, 2014 — 2 min read
Shadow IT: Healthcare Industry Scourge or Opportunity for Growth?
In May this year, two New York City hospitals — New York-Presbyterian Hospital and Columbia University Medical Center — were slammed with a whopping $4.8 million fine from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the biggest HIPAA fine in U.S. history. The hospitals were fined for failing to protect patient information under HIPAA privacy laws due to an incident in 2010 when the electronic health data of 6,800 patients were made public on the Internet. According to the HHS investigation, the incident unfolded because a Columbia faculty member attempted to deactivate a personally owned service that was connected to the hospital's network where the patient data resided.
July 10, 2014 — 2 min read
Data Protection Is Truly About Fast, Reliable Recovery: 8 Noble Truths
July 10, 2014 — 2 min read
Data Protection Is Truly About Fast, Reliable Recovery: 8 Noble Truths
To help organizations better understand the challenges of backup, disaster recovery and secure access, Acronis has created the "8 Noble Truths" of data protection. To view all 8 Noble Truths, please download the whitepaper. This is the sixth post in an eight-part series to help you protect your data:
July 08, 2014 — 2 min read
IDC: Data Growth and Complexity Are Key Challenges Facing SMB IT Departments
July 08, 2014 — 2 min read
IDC: Data Growth and Complexity Are Key Challenges Facing SMB IT Departments
The twin pressures of increasing data volume and complexity are the primary data protection challenges for small- and medium-sized IT departments today, according to new research from IDC and Acronis. With more and more data to protect, on more devices and in physical, cloud, virtual and mobile environments, data protection is more challenging than ever.
July 08, 2014 — 1 min read
10 Simple Steps to Data Storage Backup
July 08, 2014 — 1 min read
10 Simple Steps to Data Storage Backup
Backing up data may seem like a hassle, but it's important — especially when it comes to recovering data that could otherwise be lost. Thinking about linking a device to a computer or waiting while it syncs with the cloud seems like a productivity killer but, in fact, it could be a productivity saver.
July 07, 2014 — 2 min read
Increased Mac Adoption in the Workplace Forces IT to Support Multiple Platforms
July 07, 2014 — 2 min read
Increased Mac Adoption in the Workplace Forces IT to Support Multiple Platforms
Windows is known as the workplace platform, but Macs are gaining more traction in the enterprise because of widespread BYOD acceptance and other factors. Many companies are addressing this shift by allowing employees to choose between a Mac or PC and offering IT support for both platforms.
July 03, 2014 — 2 min read
Data Governance 'On the Edge' Requires Automatic Solutions
July 03, 2014 — 2 min read
Data Governance 'On the Edge' Requires Automatic Solutions
Businesses know that they must protect and back up corporate data, but when that information lives everywhere from company-issued laptops to employee smartphones, the task is easier said than done. As workers increasingly do their jobs from various devices on the go, data backup becomes even more complicated. Today only about one-fifth of corporate data is managed in traditional databases, according to a recent eWeek report. The remaining 80 percent lives in mobile devices.
June 27, 2014 — 3 min read
What the Supreme Court's Aereo Decision Could Mean for the Cloud: Weekly Roundup
June 27, 2014 — 3 min read
What the Supreme Court's Aereo Decision Could Mean for the Cloud: Weekly Roundup
With the ongoing IRS data loss scandal and the Supreme Court's ruling against cloud technology startup Aereo, it's been an eventful week for IT pros. The stories highlight the clash between disruptive technologies and the prevalence of legacy systems still common in the largest government agencies. Read on for more on these stories, and other data protection news from the Web this week: