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November 08, 2026 — 3 min read
Acronis researchers uncover AI attack mesh targeting emergency services
November 08, 2026 — 3 min read
Acronis researchers uncover AI attack mesh targeting emergency services
A new Acronis TRU investigation exposes BOSSAI, an attack operation in which one person coordinated 12 AI agents against targets across 11 countries. Learn what the campaign reveals about AI-assisted intrusions, commercial model safeguards and the risks of trusting automated findings.
January 24, 2017 — 3 min read
5 Reasons to Back Up Your Employees’ PCs
January 24, 2017 — 3 min read
5 Reasons to Back Up Your Employees’ PCs
IT Infrastructure in your small business is becoming complex. Before you only had servers and generic desktops to deal with, but the world has changed. Now you have virtualization, cloud VMs in IaaS clouds, data in SaaS clouds, and even mobile devices to worry about.
January 23, 2017 — 5 min read
Weekly Tech Roundup: January 23
January 23, 2017 — 5 min read
Weekly Tech Roundup: January 23
With much of the news revolving around the inauguration of President Donald Trump, it might have been easy to miss the revelations in the world of cybersecurity. A number of new, and old, malware variants were exposed, and the tech world began doing more to protect themselves against attack. With these revelations came new products ready to fight against ransomware, putting data protection at the forefront of cybersecurity. The headlines were endless, but we made it our mission to gather the most relevant and most intriguing, topics of discussion. What did you miss?
January 17, 2017 — 3 min read
Leveraging Hyper-V 2016 Resilient Change Tracking for Backup
January 17, 2017 — 3 min read
Leveraging Hyper-V 2016 Resilient Change Tracking for Backup
Resilient Change Tracking (RCT) technology simplifies and speeds up the backup and recovery of Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V VMs. Best of all, it is transparent and does not require any additional configuration or management.
January 16, 2017 — 5 min read
Weekly Tech Roundup: January 16
January 16, 2017 — 5 min read
Weekly Tech Roundup: January 16
Security was a major theme throughout this week’s news cycle. Malicious ransomware attacks increased and their tactics continued to evolve; predictions cast a gloomy outlook on the state of cybersecurity, projecting that data will become increasingly vulnerable as the year continued; and new cybersecurity innovations were set in motion in the hopes of protecting data across many different sectors. The week was full of tech headlines, but we handpicked some stories we thought might be interesting to you. What did you miss?
January 11, 2017 — 3 min read
2017 – A Year of Protecting Your Small Business Data
January 11, 2017 — 3 min read
2017 – A Year of Protecting Your Small Business Data
Happy New Year! Your small business is entering the New Year with good growth plans. You plan to open a new shop, outlet, double production capacity and hire new help. You have customers lined up, partners ready to help, and suppliers ready to support you. Stay safe and protect all your data – servers, personal computers, tablets, smartphones, and cloud accounts. This may look like a daunting task, but it’s easy with a great solution like Acronis Backup 12.
December 30, 2016 — 3 min read
Key Trends in File Sync & Share Market for 2017
December 30, 2016 — 3 min read
Key Trends in File Sync & Share Market for 2017
2017 will bring many rapid innovations and changes to the Enterprise File Sync & Share (EFSS) market as companies begin large scale migrations to Microsoft Office 365 and EMS, demand a unified view of their hybrid cloud and on premise data infrastructures, and push to further enhance the security of their EFSS solutions to meet market regulations.
December 30, 2016 — 3 min read
Disaster Recovery as a Service — Trends 2017
December 30, 2016 — 3 min read
Disaster Recovery as a Service — Trends 2017
Next year’s developments in the cloud and data protection space will continue reshaping the DRaaS market. Just recovering data in a different location will no longer be enough. Customers will expect their data to be portable, verifiable, and protected against all types of cyber-attacks.
December 29, 2016 — 1 min read
Most Popular Articles in 2016
December 29, 2016 — 1 min read
Most Popular Articles in 2016
During this year we kept our readers informed about the latest products, innovation, and best practices in backup, data storage, cyber security, and data protection in general. We also talked a lot about our partnership with Scudeira Toro Rosso Formula 1 team. Here are some of our most read articles.
December 29, 2016 — 2 min read
The Blockchain Hype Is Over — but the Future Looks Bright for Early Adopters
December 29, 2016 — 2 min read
The Blockchain Hype Is Over — but the Future Looks Bright for Early Adopters
The hype around blockchain will continue to weaken in 2017, something we already started to notice in the second half of this year. There is a growing realization that blockchain applications are more complex than the oversimplified view presented to the masses over the last few years.
December 27, 2016 — 2 min read
Three Major Cloud Adoption Trends for 2017
December 27, 2016 — 2 min read
Three Major Cloud Adoption Trends for 2017
Next year’s developments in the cloud space will create unprecedented opportunities for service providers and SMB customers. Service providers will be able to grow their business by packaging and reselling ISV hosted services through existing channel ecosystems, without any capital investment. This will also open new opportunities for SMBs, who will continue replacing in-house IT infrastructure with cloud-based services, taking advantage of the Opex model of service consumption.
December 26, 2016 — 5 min read
Weekly Tech Roundup: December 26
December 26, 2016 — 5 min read
Weekly Tech Roundup: December 26
Holiday headlines have dominated the news cycle over the last few weeks, but that doesn’t mean the rest of the world stopped. Tech trends are constantly evolving, cybercriminals are finding new ways to wreak havoc, and innovations are paving the way to our technological future. We searched through this week’s biggest tech stories to bring you the ones we found most interesting. Did you catch them all?
December 22, 2016 — 3 min read
How to Restore a Server in Less Than 15 Seconds
December 22, 2016 — 3 min read
How to Restore a Server in Less Than 15 Seconds
Sounds unreal? Read on. I’ll demonstrate how I can reach a recovery time objective (RTO) of less than 15 seconds on my desktop. For you, it may be less, or may be more — for obvious reasons it depends on the size of the backup that you're restoring, network speed, and the power of your machines. Before we start, let me share a bit of history.