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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.
October 04, 2016 — 2 min read
Hidden Costs Of Backup: Front-End Capacity
October 04, 2016 — 2 min read
Hidden Costs Of Backup: Front-End Capacity
We are all too familiar with the concept of hidden costs. You work with suppliers and/or vendors, and it looks like their published pricing matches your expectations. That is until you get their quote (or worse, the invoice), and you see a very different figure. What happened? There were fees, charges or the licensing models that you have not taken into account. It could happen in every aspect of your life and work, and backup solutions are no different. Let’s talk about potential hidden costs you need to be aware of.
October 03, 2016 — 6 min read
Protecting Your Customers' Systems and Data with Acronis Backup Cloud and LabTech RMM​
October 03, 2016 — 6 min read
Protecting Your Customers' Systems and Data with Acronis Backup Cloud and LabTech RMM​
LabTech administrators can now deploy, manage, and monitor Acronis data protection on remote devices without leaving the comfort of their management console. Here on the Acronis Backup Cloud team we pride ourselves in building tools and integrations that make it easy for any IT service provider to protect all of their customers’ data using the programs and processes that they already have in place.
October 02, 2016 — 10 min read
Datacenter in a Suitcase: A Day in the Life of a Racetrack IT Engineer
October 02, 2016 — 10 min read
Datacenter in a Suitcase: A Day in the Life of a Racetrack IT Engineer
Imagine having to take your datacenter with you everywhere you go. Daniel Martland does: it’s his job. Being a Trackside IT Engineer for Formula One racing team Scuderia Toro Rosso takes him to over 20 different countries every year. It’s a challenging job, he says, but at the end of each race, there is a great sense of fulfillment, another weekend well done.
September 29, 2016 — 3 min read
Ransomware by Itself Is Scary. Ransomware-As-A-Service Is Much Worse
September 29, 2016 — 3 min read
Ransomware by Itself Is Scary. Ransomware-As-A-Service Is Much Worse
Ransomware gangsters steal a page from the legit software industry’s distribution playbook Ransomware has emerged as the most prolific new malware threat of the 21st century, with online criminals expecting to reap a billion dollars from victims from it in 2016. We have talked here about how ransomware works (it infects your PC, server or phone, encrypts your files, and demands an online payment in return for the decryption key) and why so many criminals are getting into the ransomware business (it’s an extremely profitable racket). We expect the ransomware epidemic to continue to mushroom in size, becoming a multi-billion dollar business in 2017, making it inevitable that you or someone you know has to pay a hefty ransom or lose their files forever. How is this crooked business growing so quickly, despite the efforts of law enforcement and the IT security industry to thwart it?
September 28, 2016 — 3 min read
Acronis Backup 12 Closer Look – Amazon EC2 Backup
September 28, 2016 — 3 min read
Acronis Backup 12 Closer Look – Amazon EC2 Backup
There is no surprise that overwhelming majority of companies are choosing cloud solutions, and when it comes to infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), most go for the market leader – Amazon EC2.  Yet, not many cloud users realize that the cloud data also needs protection. According to various reports, a whopping 80 percent of organizations using cloud services have lost business data.
September 26, 2016 — 4 min read
Ransomware Is the Bootleg Liquor of the 21st Century
September 26, 2016 — 4 min read
Ransomware Is the Bootleg Liquor of the 21st Century
Criminals are swarming to the ransomware business — and targeting you — because it’s highly profitable. Last week, we offered a high-level overview of the malware menace known as ransomware: what it’s like to be victimized by a ransomware attack (it’s no fun to discover that your hard drive has been encrypted by a malicious program), how the criminals extort money from businesses and consumers (if you don’t pay an online ransom, you never get your files back), and how big this illegal business has become (ransomware criminals will extort $1B from victims in 2016, says the FBI).
September 23, 2016 — 4 min read
What Does Data Protection Have to Do with Motorsport?
September 23, 2016 — 4 min read
What Does Data Protection Have to Do with Motorsport?
Carlos Sainz of Scuderia Toro Rosso looks on as the race engineers prepare his STR11 for a practice session at the Singapore Grand Prix on September 16, 2016. (Getty Images / Red Bull Content Pool) I’ve been following F1 for more than 20 years. It started when I was in college back in the Nineties. Watching all-time great racers like Ayrton Senna and Michael Schumacher reach the stars of the F1 firmament made me admire their dedication and skill as well as the technology behind their cars. Being a geek myself, I began to dig deeper into the sport, trying to uncover what makes one team better than another on the track.
September 22, 2016 — 2 min read
Hidden Costs of Backup Solutions: Sockets and Cores
September 22, 2016 — 2 min read
Hidden Costs of Backup Solutions: Sockets and Cores
We are all too familiar with the concept of hidden costs. You work with your supplier or vendor, and you like their published pricing because it matches your budget. Everything goes well… Until you get the quote (or worse, the invoice) with a much higher figure. What happened? You probably misunderstood the licensing model or there were fees and charges that you were not aware of.
September 16, 2016 — 5 min read
Faster Data Protection Gives Businesses a Competitive Advantage
September 16, 2016 — 5 min read
Faster Data Protection Gives Businesses a Competitive Advantage
As the F1 cars assume their grid positions at the Singapore Grand Prix this weekend, millions of fans around the world will be glued to their TVs, anticipating the start. And behind the roar of the Marina Bay Street Circuit, a group of race engineers will also be glued to their screens. But all they’ll see is crucial information conveyed via graphs, charts and numbers, generated by massive amounts of data transmitted from their teams’ racing cars.
September 08, 2016 — 3 min read
Acronis Backup 12 Closer Look - Microsoft Azure VM Backup
September 08, 2016 — 3 min read
Acronis Backup 12 Closer Look - Microsoft Azure VM Backup
An overwhelming majority of companies are implementing cloud solutions such as Microsoft Azure®.  But, a whopping 80 percent of these organizations have lost data in the cloud. In fact, Salesforce customers using the NA14 instance experienced a database failure last May, which introduced a file integrity issue.
September 01, 2016 — 2 min read
68 million reasons to keep consumer-grade apps like Dropbox out of your business
September 01, 2016 — 2 min read
68 million reasons to keep consumer-grade apps like Dropbox out of your business
August 26, 2016 — 2 min read
On-Premises Backup Software or Cloud Backup as a Service? (Part 2)
August 26, 2016 — 2 min read
On-Premises Backup Software or Cloud Backup as a Service? (Part 2)
Recently, we wrote about how data protection vendors force you to choose between an on-premises solution and a software-as-a-service solution. In one of our recent blog posts, we compared how choosing a backup solution should be just like choosing a car. If you want a vehicle that is good for commuting but can also accommodate off-road activities, you should buy a vehicle that does both. Fortunately, the automobile industry offers many types and models of cars to accommodate every consumer’s need. The car industry is flexible. Unfortunately, the majority of vendors in the data protection industry are not.