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October 01, 2026 — 4 min read
What are the lessons of Cybersecurity Awareness Month?
October 01, 2026 — 4 min read
What are the lessons of Cybersecurity Awareness Month?
This year's Cybersecurity Awareness Month theme, “Don’t make it easy for them,” asks us to look beyond today’s cyber risks by building good habits into our everyday routines. Practicing those habits consistently can make life harder for cybercriminals.
March 09, 2015 — 3 min read
WORLD BACKUP DAY - 7 Ways to Lose Your Data!
March 09, 2015 — 3 min read
WORLD BACKUP DAY - 7 Ways to Lose Your Data!
Every PC and Mac user should install anti-virus (AV) software. It is an important security measure that protects your data and system from viruses and hacker attacks. However, it will not protect your computer from the other SEVEN ways you can lose your data: 1.    Hardware failure 2.    User errors 3.    Loss or theft of a device 4.    Natural disaster 5.    Accidents 6.    Software errors 7.    Problems you may encounter when upgrading or updating your software
February 27, 2015 — 3 min read
WORLD BACKUP DAY - Personal Data has Grown One Million Times in 25 Years!
February 27, 2015 — 3 min read
WORLD BACKUP DAY - Personal Data has Grown One Million Times in 25 Years!
Make Sure you Backup Your Data video
February 26, 2015 — 3 min read
Protecting Data in Hybrid Virtual and Physical Environments
February 26, 2015 — 3 min read
Protecting Data in Hybrid Virtual and Physical Environments
Virtualization is rapidly becoming the norm in small to medium-size IT environments, with solutions like VMware vSphere®, Microsoft® Hyper-V®, Citrix® XenServer®, Red Hat® Enterprise Virtualization, Linux KVM, and Oracle® VM Server. According to the Acronis / IDC Disaster Recovery Survey released in May of 2014, 61 percent of SMBs use virtual technologies, 79 percent use physical servers and 48 percent of the respondents have a new generation environment consisting of both virtual and physical servers. We call this a hybrid environment.
February 24, 2015 — 2 min read
Acronis Access – Scalability, a scary thing…
February 24, 2015 — 2 min read
Acronis Access – Scalability, a scary thing…
Over the years, working with and listening to thousands of customers of all sizes,  we’ve learned a lot about what they need, their challenges, and the effect of what we do in what they do. We’ve also noticed that some concepts, or the words that simply represent them, are just scary to our IT friends. Scalability is one of them.
February 18, 2015 — 3 min read
Being Recognized as Excellent by our Customers is nothing more Satisfying for Acronis. See the letter our Support team received
February 18, 2015 — 3 min read
Being Recognized as Excellent by our Customers is nothing more Satisfying for Acronis. See the letter our Support team received
At Acronis, we always work to provide the best service and while we strive for perfection it is a hard goal to achieve. Along the way however, its always nice to hear that we provided our best and we would like to thank Mrs R. from Dalla for her email. See by yourself:
February 18, 2015 — 2 min read
Acronis Backup Cloud Now Available on Ingram Micro Cloud Marketplace
February 18, 2015 — 2 min read
Acronis Backup Cloud Now Available on Ingram Micro Cloud Marketplace
Acronis is pleased to announce that Ingram Micro has added the Acronis Backup Cloud solution to its Cloud Marketplace. As more and more companies deploy turnkey cloud services to simplify their data protection, resellers struggle to maintain these new revenue streams due to the resource intensive nature of provisioning, billing and managing their cloud services. Now, Acronis and Ingram partners have access to the ideal solution for maintaining their Cloud services business.
February 13, 2015 — 1 min read
INFOGRAPHIC: The Hosting Provider Opportunity Selling Backup as a Service
February 13, 2015 — 1 min read
INFOGRAPHIC: The Hosting Provider Opportunity Selling Backup as a Service
Businesses are desperate to have hosting providers offer a local and cloud backup and recovery solution they can trust. The market is set to explode in the next few years, so now is the perfect time to jump in.
February 12, 2015 — 3 min read
Healing Data Centers with Bare-Metal Recovery
February 12, 2015 — 3 min read
Healing Data Centers with Bare-Metal Recovery
Phew. The worst is over. You have identified, caught and dealt with the virus that threw you and your bosses out of the comfort zone for days. You have shut down all the affected servers – the data center is safe.
February 10, 2015 — 2 min read
Staff mobile data risks highlighted
February 10, 2015 — 2 min read
Staff mobile data risks highlighted
According to InfoWatch’s Global Data Leakage Report the first half of 2014 saw 32% more leaks than in the same period in 2013. An estimated 450 million records were compromised, including financial and personal data across multiple sectors, with approximately 89% of information leaks involving personal data. With the number of smartphones and tablets on the rise, and a decrease in traditional PC sales, attacks on mobile devices are maturing. By 2017, Gartner predicts that the focus of endpoint breaches will shift to tablets and smartphones from traditional PCs.
January 29, 2015 — 1 min read
Backup to Cloud: Opportunity for Managed Service Providers
January 29, 2015 — 1 min read
Backup to Cloud: Opportunity for Managed Service Providers
Faster, better, cheaper are the driving pillars that have enabled smartphones to control our lives, make drones a commodity, and bring self-driving cars to the horizon.  However, almost all of these great breakthroughs have downsides.
January 27, 2015 — 2 min read
Three Reasons Why Mobility Overwhelms SMBs
January 27, 2015 — 2 min read
Three Reasons Why Mobility Overwhelms SMBs
Companies of all sizes are facing the demand of two popular employee trends – the want to use personal devices at work and the desire to work remotely. These trends are prompting many employers to implement mobility features that will embrace data across any and every device within their organizations.  While mobility is a game changer regarding real-time collaboration and productivity for companies of all sizes, SMBs are at a disadvantage with budget limitations and often limited to no on-site IT departments.
January 14, 2015 — 3 min read
Safely Migrating Server Workloads
January 14, 2015 — 3 min read
Safely Migrating Server Workloads
Most businesses have physical servers, virtual machines, or a combination of both supporting production operations.  These organizations also have a variety of production workloads such as Microsoft® Exchange for email, SharePoint® for collaboration and content management, and various vendor-supplied or internally-developed applications running SQL database servers.