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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.
June 12, 2014 — 1 min read
How Smartphone Kill-Switch Laws Affect Data Security
June 12, 2014 — 1 min read
How Smartphone Kill-Switch Laws Affect Data Security
In an effort to curb rising mobile phone theft, lawmakers in several states have passed or proposed new rules that require devices to have remote disabling capabilities. These “kill switches” render a stolen or lost phone useless to anyone except its owner. That means protecting sensitive data from falling into the wrong hands.
June 11, 2014 — 2 min read
Disasters Are Inevitable; Data Loss Doesn’t Have To Be: 8 Noble Truths
June 11, 2014 — 2 min read
Disasters Are Inevitable; Data Loss Doesn’t Have To Be: 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 third post in an eight-part series to help you protect your data:
June 06, 2014 — 2 min read
What Apple's Deeper Mobile, Desktop Integration Means for IT: Weekly Roundup
June 06, 2014 — 2 min read
What Apple's Deeper Mobile, Desktop Integration Means for IT: Weekly Roundup
Apple took the consumer and business worlds by storm this week with updates to its mobile and desktop operating systems. For enterprise IT, the changes could mean new strategies are needed to protect company data from falling into the wrong hands. New features, such as Continuity, enable users to start tasks on one device (like their Mac laptop at the office) and pick it back up from another device (like their iPhone or iPad). For IT pros, change will require security and data protection strategies. Here's a look at the latest mobile and data protection news from around the Web this week:
June 04, 2014 — 2 min read
Disk Management for Users Who Need More Control: Q&A with Acronis' Vartan Minasyan
June 04, 2014 — 2 min read
Disk Management for Users Who Need More Control: Q&A with Acronis' Vartan Minasyan
Computer users today don't necessarily need to know the details that make their machine work. They can take it out of the box, plug it in and get to work. But those out-of-the-box settings aren't sufficient for some users. They need the ability to arrange file systems, restore boot records and split partitions. To tailor computers to their needs, these users need a disk management tool. Here, Vartan Minasyan, lead program manager for consumer products at Acronis, discusses how these technologies help prosumers and IT admins better protect and manage their data:
June 03, 2014 — 1 min read
How the Hospitality Industry Can Overcome 3 Big Data Challenges
June 03, 2014 — 1 min read
How the Hospitality Industry Can Overcome 3 Big Data Challenges
Hotels and other companies in the hospitality industry collect, store and manage loads of data that must be protected — for both the company's and the customer's sake. But many companies in the $593 billion hospitality industry emphasize customer service before considering IT's role in the business. The consequences from data loss, however, can be far more damaging than a bad review.
May 30, 2014 — 3 min read
Joyent's Data Center Mishap and Sony's 185 TB Cassette Tape: Weekly Roundup
May 30, 2014 — 3 min read
Joyent's Data Center Mishap and Sony's 185 TB Cassette Tape: Weekly Roundup
This week, cloud operator Joyent learned a humbling lesson in data center management when an admin's mistake caused the company a major data outage. But it wasn't all bad news this week. Sony took the storage industry by storm with its record-breaking cassette tape that holds nearly 200 TB of data. These stories and more in this week's roundup:
May 29, 2014 — 2 min read
Data Is Increasingly Difficult to Back Up: 8 Noble Truths
May 29, 2014 — 2 min read
Data Is Increasingly Difficult to Back Up: 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 second post in an eight-part series to help you protect your data:
May 27, 2014 — 2 min read
Introducing Acronis Disk Director 12: The Next Generation of Data Protection
May 27, 2014 — 2 min read
Introducing Acronis Disk Director 12: The Next Generation of Data Protection
The Acronis Disk Director suite of products quickly became one of our flagship solutions when it first launched 13 years ago. A significant amount of the deep technology that runs through all of our current data protection products originated from advances made to Disk Director.
May 23, 2014 — 2 min read
The NSA's Big Data Storage Challenges and BYOD Data Security: Weekly Roundup
May 23, 2014 — 2 min read
The NSA's Big Data Storage Challenges and BYOD Data Security: Weekly Roundup
As digital data production increases every year, so do the challenges associated with storing and securing that data. It's a lesson that the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) has learned the hard way. Amid the fallout from the Snowden leak, the agency has found how important it is to proactively instill sound data policies and processes. Here's a look at the top U.S. spy agency's revamped data protection policies, and other stories from around the Web this week:
May 22, 2014 — 1 min read
Theft Protection: One-Fifth of Stolen Devices Contain Important Data
May 22, 2014 — 1 min read
Theft Protection: One-Fifth of Stolen Devices Contain Important Data
Mobile devices are getting smarter, allowing people to work on-the-go and access information anytime, anywhere. But while technological advances provide unprecedented opportunities for mobile workers, they also present more data security challenges.
May 20, 2014 — 3 min read
What Major IT Shifts Mean for the Channel Partner-Vendor Relationship: Q&A With Acronis' David Junca
May 20, 2014 — 3 min read
What Major IT Shifts Mean for the Channel Partner-Vendor Relationship: Q&A With Acronis' David Junca
The relationship between technology vendors and their channel partners is changing as new tools and trends alter how customers buy, consume and use technology. Gone are the days of long-term licenses and a hands-off approach. Vendors and their partners must now work more closely than ever to deliver value and grow their businesses. David Junca, who leads Acronis’ channel program, discusses how changes in IT are affecting the vendor-partner relationship, the need to let customers in on the long-term vision, and channel partners’ most pressing vendor needs:
May 15, 2014 — 2 min read
The Wayback Machine Hits 5 Petabytes of Storage & Your Data Center's Hidden Musical Talent: Weekly Roundup
May 15, 2014 — 2 min read
The Wayback Machine Hits 5 Petabytes of Storage & Your Data Center's Hidden Musical Talent: Weekly Roundup
Can the entire Internet be archived? The founder of the Wayback Machine, Brewster Kahle, is willing to bet that it can — but first, they'll need to locate an enormous amount of storage space. How much the Wayback Machine has archived and more cloud computing news from around the web in this week's roundup: