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October 15, 2026 — 2 min read
Introducing New Acronis CEO: Prakash Panjwani
October 15, 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.
March 31, 2020 — 7 min read
How Cyber Protection Trends are Evolving in 2020
March 31, 2020 — 7 min read
How Cyber Protection Trends are Evolving in 2020
This year’s World Cyber Protection Week survey results offer a wealth of insight into how individuals and IT professionals are approaching the challenges of increasing complexity, cost, and vulnerability. And while there’s a great deal personal users, IT professionals, and service providers can learn from these survey findings, viewing them in a silo ignores some important, broader context. To offer a clearer picture of what this year’s survey means, we’ve compared our 2020 findings with responses from personal users and IT professionals in all of our previous survey iterations. This comparison presents a robust perspective of how data-defense priorities have evolved over time, and how cyber protection’s modern, comprehensive approach to safeguarding data, applications, and systems is poised to become even more necessary in the months and years ahead.
March 31, 2020 — 5 min read
Seventeen tips for Hyper-V disaster recovery that could save your bacon
March 31, 2020 — 5 min read
Seventeen tips for Hyper-V disaster recovery that could save your bacon
The cyber world can be a perilous one. Even though you may never know exactly when a disaster will occur, you should always be ready for any scenario that may unfold across your data center. We have compiled a list of 17 tips that you can use to help you keep your datacenter ready for any type of disaster that may occur.
March 31, 2020 — 3 min read
Agentless vs Agent-Based Antivirus Software: Making The Right Choice
March 31, 2020 — 3 min read
Agentless vs Agent-Based Antivirus Software: Making The Right Choice
An ever-present challenge in business virtualization is keeping setups secure from intrusion. In a conventional architecture, antivirus and anti-malware solutions are essential for safeguarding and hardening against malicious attacks. The problem is that antivirus programs can be quite resource-intensive, diverting substantial computing resources away to handle malware scans. On a physical machine, this may only use a modest percentage of total computing performance capacity. On agent-based virtual machine configurations, however, this computing resource drain is often multiplied.
March 31, 2020 — 4 min read
What is an SDN switch?
March 31, 2020 — 4 min read
What is an SDN switch?
In the traditional IT environment, a network switch (also called switching hub or bridging hub) is defined as a piece of hardware that utilizes packet switching to receive, process and forward data between devices within a computer network. Today, with the global rise of server virtualization, traditional network switches are being gradually replaced with software-defined network controllers (SDN switches) that rely on the code as opposed to network bridges and hardware.
March 31, 2020 — 16 min read
What is Hyper-V: The authoritative guide
March 31, 2020 — 16 min read
What is Hyper-V: The authoritative guide
Whether you’re just beginning to look into virtualization platform options for your company, or you’re a new Hyper-V user trying to get up to speed, it can be a challenge to find all the information you need in one place. That’s why we created this guide — to give you an all-in-one resource you can bookmark and refer back to as often as you need to, so you can get up and running on Hyper-V more smoothly.
March 31, 2020 — 3 min read
Hyper-V checkpoints: Why, when and how to use them
March 31, 2020 — 3 min read
Hyper-V checkpoints: Why, when and how to use them
Before making changes in Hyper-V, whether it involves software configuration changes or a new software update, it's a good idea to first create a Hyper-V checkpoint.
March 31, 2020 — 5 min read
Seven tips for Hyper-V monitoring that you'll wish you'd read sooner
March 31, 2020 — 5 min read
Seven tips for Hyper-V monitoring that you'll wish you'd read sooner
Learn how to better manage your Hyper-V environment and improve performance. In this article, we’ll walk through how to optimally configure your VMs and servers. Then, we’ll provide a number of tips for Hyper-V monitoring.
March 30, 2020 — 5 min read
The Results are In: Cyber Protection Week 2020 Survey
March 30, 2020 — 5 min read
The Results are In: Cyber Protection Week 2020 Survey
This World Cyber Protection Week, we expanded our annual data protection survey to cover more of the digital challenges and concerns that face modern IT users – whether they’re at home, at work, or relying on a service provider that protects a portfolio of clients. This year’s results paint a clear picture: People and organizations are acutely aware of the risks on the horizon but they are much less certain about how to easily, efficiently, and securely prepare for and overcome them. Let’s dive into the findings of our 2020 survey.
March 30, 2020 — 4 min read
Views from the Beta: Case Studies Reveal Real-User Opinions of Acronis Cyber Platform
March 30, 2020 — 4 min read
Views from the Beta: Case Studies Reveal Real-User Opinions of Acronis Cyber Platform
Acronis Cyber Platform recently moved out of private beta and into public beta, making it available to any service provider or cloud distributor who is interested. This is the final step before the general availability (GA) of the product, slated for next month.
March 30, 2020 — 3 min read
Celebrating the Final World Backup Day
March 30, 2020 — 3 min read
Celebrating the Final World Backup Day
For nearly 10 years, Acronis has been a proud evangelist of World Backup Day ... but today, backup is no longer enough. While backup remains a key component to complete data, application, and system protection, traditional backup solutions aren’t keeping pace with challenges that face the modern digital world. It’s time to evolve the way we protect the data and devices we rely on. That’s why we’re raising the bar this World Backup Day: welcome to the first-ever World Cyber Protection Week.
March 27, 2020 — 4 min read
Acronis Warns: Coronavirus Will Increase Cyberattacks Against Healthcare Targets
March 27, 2020 — 4 min read
Acronis Warns: Coronavirus Will Increase Cyberattacks Against Healthcare Targets
Criminal activity spikes during times of crises as cybercriminals try to take advantage of the situation. Unfortunately, today’s situation is no exception: most concerning is the vulnerability of healthcare facilities such as hospitals, where the systems that care for patients and lab work are often linked. Acronis believes we have a responsibility to the public, so we need to warn everyone: we foresee a further increase in ransomware attacks targeting private and government hospital systems in the coming weeks.
March 26, 2020 — 3 min read
COVID-19’s Impact on the Channel: A Chat with Larry Walsh
March 26, 2020 — 3 min read
COVID-19’s Impact on the Channel: A Chat with Larry Walsh
The global COVID-19 pandemic has changed us: shaking us to our core as a nation and as individuals as we experience something that’s never happened in modern history. People are scared, people are uncertain, and we don’t know what’s going to come next. That’s why, when speaking to Larry Walsh, CEO of 2112 Group today about the research they did regarding the pandemic’s impact on the channel, it was refreshing to hear a message of hope amid the constant stream of negativity coming at us – seemingly from every direction.