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October 13, 2026 — 4 min read
Acronis Cloud Storage adds a recovery warranty
October 13, 2026 — 4 min read
Acronis Cloud Storage adds a recovery warranty
Secure, scalable cloud storage with a recovery commitment backed by Acronis. The Anti-Ransomware Recovery Warranty that helps MSPs make recovery a visible part of the service they deliver.
March 08, 2021 — 5 min read
What is offsite disaster recovery?
March 08, 2021 — 5 min read
What is offsite disaster recovery?
Offsite disaster recovery (DR) is a business continuity strategy where an organization’s production systems and data are replicated and maintained in a location away from the office and production systems themselves.
March 08, 2021 — 3 min read
What types of businesses need a disaster recovery plan?
March 08, 2021 — 3 min read
What types of businesses need a disaster recovery plan?
There was a time when only large corporations worried about disasters and developed disaster recovery (DR) plans. But those days are long gone. Whether your business is a global organization or a five-person shop, developing a company disaster recovery plan is a must.  If you work for a small-to-medium-sized business (SMB), you are probably wondering how your organization can afford the talent, time, and budget to develop and execute a DR plan. Read on and discover how.
March 08, 2021 — 5 min read
How to offer DRaaS as a Managed Service Provider (MSP)?
March 08, 2021 — 5 min read
How to offer DRaaS as a Managed Service Provider (MSP)?
Many organizations, including some of your clients, do not believe they need a disaster recovery (DR) solution because they already have backups – but this is a dangerous assumption. While backing up their systems protects their data, backup alone will not help your clients recover their data in the event of a disaster.
March 08, 2021 — 3 min read
Why every MSP should invest in a disaster recovery solution?
March 08, 2021 — 3 min read
Why every MSP should invest in a disaster recovery solution?
As a managed service provider (MSP), you offer your clients a variety of IT resources to remotely manage part or all of their IT infrastructures, which can include managing their operating systems, applications, databases, networks, endpoints, as well as ensuring security, compliance, and backup. Many organizations will buy your services because it is a less expensive option or, more importantly, because you bring the right tools, expertise, and best practices to support more complex, mission-critical IT functions.
March 08, 2021 — 3 min read
Alternative to Azure Disaster Recovery
March 08, 2021 — 3 min read
Alternative to Azure Disaster Recovery
Site Recovery is an Azure disaster recovery (DR) solution that replicates workloads running on your Windows/Linux servers or VMware/Hyper-V virtual machines (VMs) into Azure and orchestrates failover and failback events when a disaster happens. Replicating to Azure eliminates the costs and complexity of maintaining a secondary data center and includes the ability to:
March 08, 2021 — 3 min read
Reflecting on women in tech for International Womens Day 2021
March 08, 2021 — 3 min read
Reflecting on women in tech for International Womens Day 2021
International Women's Day is the perfect time to think about the strides female IT professionals have made over the years. While women make up nearly half of the employed adults in the total workforce, recent findings by Catalyst reveal that women hold only a quarter of the jobs in the tech industry.
March 02, 2021 — 2 min read
Acronis Cyber Infrastructure 4.5: Introducing new updates
March 02, 2021 — 2 min read
Acronis Cyber Infrastructure 4.5: Introducing new updates
Data has become the world’s most valuable resource, and is at the core of everyday operations for nearly every business. Organizations and service providers are always looking for ways to improve the efficiency and reliability of their data centers — and to meet the shifting needs of their userbase with minimal expense. Today, we’re announcing a significant update to Acronis Cyber Infrastructure that will introduce new capabilities and performance enhancements, improving manageability while strengthening the security and availability of business-critical data.
February 12, 2021 — 3 min read
What is managed disaster recovery?
February 12, 2021 — 3 min read
What is managed disaster recovery?
Managed disaster recovery (DR) is a service offered by third-party cloud providers who manage a business’ disaster recovery by replicating their systems and data to a private or public cloud and orchestrating the failover and failback process. Managed DR is also called Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS). Companies of all sizes used managed DR and pay for the services via a contract or on a monthly or annual fee.
January 12, 2021 — 5 min read
What is cloud recovery? - Acronis Solution
January 12, 2021 — 5 min read
What is cloud recovery? - Acronis Solution
When disaster strikes, you will want to quickly restore your (or your clients’) most valuable data, systems, and applications. Backup will only get you so far; sometimes recovery from backup can take days or weeks to be fully operational. Cloud recovery goes beyond traditional backup or data center storage to reduce the time it takes to resume normal business operations.
January 12, 2021 — 6 min read
What is cloud-based security and how does it work?
January 12, 2021 — 6 min read
What is cloud-based security and how does it work?
Many organizations are moving their applications and data to the cloud rather than incurring the costs of purchasing hardware and running/maintaining on-premises applications. Likewise, other organizations manage their data in on-premises systems but store their backups in the cloud. Regardless of which approach your organization chooses, you may still have many questions about cloud-based security.
January 12, 2021 — 5 min read
Cyber protection threats during the coronavirus pandemic
January 12, 2021 — 5 min read
Cyber protection threats during the coronavirus pandemic
There’s no doubt that 2020 was the year for the record books! Yes, the world now knows what a viral pandemic can do but many of us have also learned what a cyber pandemic can do too. More than 80% of global companies admitted in a recent Acronis survey of 3,400 IT managers and remote workers that they were not prepared to switch to remote work to combat cyber protection threats. Furthermore, Acronis found that 92% of global companies needed to adopt new technologies to combat remote working threats.
January 08, 2021 — 3 min read
The Next In-Demand MSP Service: Managed Antivirus
January 08, 2021 — 3 min read
The Next In-Demand MSP Service: Managed Antivirus
Managed antivirus services are emerging as one of the new high-demand areas for managed service providers (MSPs). The managed services industry, already worth $207.4 billion and posed to grow to more than $300 billion in the next five years, is preparing for this influx of interest in managed antivirus solutions and vying to position themselves as the leader on the subject.