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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.
November 09, 2016 — 2 min read
Our Digital Lives
November 09, 2016 — 2 min read
Our Digital Lives
Located in the bowels of town hall, a stack of administrative ledgers towered five feet tall, and ten yards wide. It documented the transactions of the local government, so town officials knew that they had to keep these files safe and protected—the problem is that they didn’t know how.   I watched this precariously balanced tower of old papers, and my first thought was that it looked like the mounded kindling for a bonfire.
November 08, 2016 — 3 min read
What Is Blockchain and What Does It Mean for Data Protection?
November 08, 2016 — 3 min read
What Is Blockchain and What Does It Mean for Data Protection?
Blockchain is a technology that underpins the success of Bitcoin and other digital currencies. Wall Street is particularly interested in blockchain: The elimination of manual processes around reconciliation with customers, trading partners, and securities exchanges using blockchain is projected to save banks nearly $20 billion annually by 2022. Blockchain has uses beyond financial transactions to improve the security and efficiencies of a range of business activities such as applications requiring transparency on data and documents with a permanent time and date stamp. In insurance, for example, blockchain technology can be used for customer onboarding, smart contracts, and fraud detection. In manufacturing, blockchain is being used in supply chain applications and 3D printing. To better understand blockchain, let’s first look at why blockchain is so important and how it ensures the integrity and efficiency of the Bitcoin network. Then, we will look at how Acronis provides a solution that uses blockchain to record and protect the authenticity of your business assets.
November 07, 2016 — 3 min read
Weekly Tech Roundup — November 7
November 07, 2016 — 3 min read
Weekly Tech Roundup — November 7
Full of cyberattacks, concerns surrounding mobile phones, and questions about data protection, this past week was rife with tech news. What did you miss? Ransomware attack affects another hospital Recent ransomware attacks have caused a string of hospitals to cancel daily operations in the UK. The attack hit the Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation trust, and spread along to all connected hospitals via a shared IT system.
November 04, 2016 — 4 min read
Why Formula 1 Is Important, Even if You Are Not into Motorsports
November 04, 2016 — 4 min read
Why Formula 1 Is Important, Even if You Are Not into Motorsports
For some, the beauty of Formula 1 is all about its sporting aspects. For others, it’s all about technology, the incredible innovation behind the world’s most technology-driven sport. But the reality is that you can’t separate the two. Formula 1 is at once about sport, technology and innovation. And what may seem like an expensive hobby for wealthy tinkerers and daring racers actually has a trickle-down effect on our everyday lives. Formula 1 is a massive research and development powerhouse. Technologies developed within the closed walls of F1 team factories find their way into other industries, making our lives simpler, safer and more efficient. Here are a few obvious (and some not-so-obvious) examples of Formula 1 technology that has made its way into our everyday lives: 1. Tyres. Pirelli, the sole tyre supplier for all Formula 1 teams, has conducted an enormous amount of R&D over the years. The tyre technology developed for Formula 1 — soft tyres with more grip or hard tyres that last longer — is also used for road cars. If you have a set of Pirellis on your car outside, the Formula 1 technology has followed you home.
November 03, 2016 — 13 min read
Transferring iPhone to iPhone without iCloud — the Easy Way!
November 03, 2016 — 13 min read
Transferring iPhone to iPhone without iCloud — the Easy Way!
Explore the easy way to transfer your iPhone data to the newest model – no iCloud required. A complete guide for transferring iPhone to iPhone without iCloud
November 02, 2016 — 2 min read
Not Just Family Stories
November 02, 2016 — 2 min read
Not Just Family Stories
I met a kind, elderly gentleman many years ago. He came to the library where I worked with a box of papers and explained that he was the last person in his family line.  His collection of family records had grown from generation to generation, handed down for almost one hundred and fifty years. He thought these materials might be of interest to others since they documented changes to his hometown over time. “I don’t know if you want these, but my family has deep roots in this area,” he said to me. His box included letters written home by a great uncle who served in the Civil War, and there was another great uncle writing home from the Gold Rush. He also had the papers of an aunt—a prominent educated business woman at the turn of the twentieth-century, when society discouraged women from being such things.  “It’s okay if you don’t want really want these—they’re just my family stories.” As an archivist, I hear these words often. “No one wants my stuff,” they say.  “My kids don’t want it and no one outside of my family has any interest in it.”
November 01, 2016 — 1 min read
How Do You Create the World’s Fastest Backup?
November 01, 2016 — 1 min read
How Do You Create the World’s Fastest Backup?
According to the latest findings by an independent testing lab, Acronis Backup 12 is up to two times faster than the leading competitor, as well as the other well-known vendor. So how does one vendor create a solution that is so much faster than others in creating backups and performing recoveries? It’s a simple three-ingredient recipe. Step 1: Technologies and Innovations First, you need to invent a good amount of high-quality technologies – like live disk imaging backup, recovery to dissimilar hardware, Acronis Instant Restore™, and so on. Don’t forget to apply for and get 100+ data protection technology patents. Remember the quality – innovative data protection know-how can be extremely complex, yet have to be delivered to customers via an easy-to-use interface.
October 31, 2016 — 4 min read
Web Application Monitoring – a Basic Framework
October 31, 2016 — 4 min read
Web Application Monitoring – a Basic Framework
When deploying a web application in production, setting up and configuring monitoring is a critical part of the process. As a DevOps, Web developer, or an IT administrator, you need to be alerted when performance issues or incidents occur, and be able to find the root cause of the problem to quickly get it fixed.
October 28, 2016 — 4 min read
Acronis Files Cloud — the File Sync & Share You've Been Waiting For
October 28, 2016 — 4 min read
Acronis Files Cloud — the File Sync & Share You've Been Waiting For
If you are a Service Provider and have customers who use public cloud file sync & share services for business purposes, you need to read this. Acronis Files Cloud provides you with an opportunity to meet your customers’ needs and help them protect important business data.
October 27, 2016 — 2 min read
Disaster at the Devil's Tower
October 27, 2016 — 2 min read
Disaster at the Devil's Tower
“Never update your system on Friday, 13th or on Halloween”. I knew the rule, I remembered it – but decided to ignore. I went ahead and began updating a few systems on October 31. I started the procedure late and with the last-minute requests and unruly users, my day has got away. I knew the update would go late into the night.
October 26, 2016 — 2 min read
The Stranger in the Photograph
October 26, 2016 — 2 min read
The Stranger in the Photograph
Many years ago, I purchased a black paper album at an estate sale. It contained images of a beautiful woman—her loose high school picture fell to the floor the first time I opened the album’s cover. Her smile grabbed me and her warm expression seemed to invite me into her life. I flipped past her wedding picture, a photo of a baby in her arms with a proud husband by her side, and a series of group photos.
October 25, 2016 — 4 min read
VIDEO: Toro Rosso Franz Tost and Daniil Kvyat: Our Goal for 2017 is Clear
October 25, 2016 — 4 min read
VIDEO: Toro Rosso Franz Tost and Daniil Kvyat: Our Goal for 2017 is Clear
Following the recent announcement that Daniil Kvyat will continue racing for Toro Rosso next year, we asked Daniil and Franz Tost, Toro Rosso Team Principal, about their plans for the next season.