Acronis Backup and Recovery® Provides
Central Management of Backup & Recovery Process across 17 Offices
and 7000 Employees
Woburn, July 10, 2012 - Acronis, a
leading provider of disaster recovery and data protection solutions
for physical, virtual and cloud environments, today announced the
successful deployment of Acronis Backup & Recovery®
Advanced Server at the Moscow Integrated Power Company (MIPC).
The solution has been deployed on a massive distributed network
of 17 branches across the territory of Moscow and is protecting
user data for 7,000 employees of MIPC. Business continuity and the
ability to restore network services with near zero downtime is of
critical importance to MIPC, and the local community. MIPC serves
more than 6 million citizens within the Moscow area with their
heating and hot water supply service.
Senior engineer at MIPC's technical support Kirill Martynov
names centralization and cost-saving in employees' time as the
major benefits for his company. "Before Acronis each server farm
had one or two engineers attached to it for support backups only,"
says Kirill. "Now thanks to the Acronis Unified Platform we have
single point for control and monitoring of data backup and recovery
process across 17 offices. It's very handy: only one employee and
couple of minutes per day to check the success of backup jobs".
Centralized management and monitoring reduces the margin for
error and can help to standardize an increased level of protection
for critical network services in all locations.
Kirill agrees with the results of 2012 Acronis Disaster Recovery
Index, conducted by the Ponemon Institute, stating human error is
the main reason for data loss. The study revealed that human
actions are responsible for 60% of cases when corporate information
was lost or deleted. "As with many other enterprises with many
employees, it is the human factor that usually causes data loss and
the need for recovery," says Kirill. "That's why investments in
Acronis paid off right from the start. I had just installed the
trial version and completed a test backup of the branches file
server, when all the data there was completely lost due to a
storage upgrade that was improperly performed by one of our
engineers. Literally, six years worth of data would have been lost
if it hadn't been for the speed and reliability of the test backup
image I made with Acronis Backup & Recovery, and we recovered
everything from it!"
"The advanced functionality and ease of use approach we take in
the development of Acronis Backup & Recovery products lends itself
to highly distributed networks such as this," said Kirill Buzukov,
Country Manager of Acronis in Russia and CIS. "This successful
deployment and use of our product across the distributed network of
17 branches of the leading energy enterprise is definite proof of
our ability to serve enterprises of all sizes and needs."
About MIPC
OJSC "MIPC" is a leader of thermal power industry in Russia. The
main objective of the company is high-quality and reliable supply
heating and hot water for Moscow citizens. The scope of the company
includes the production, distribution and sale of thermal energy.
MIPC daily services are used by more than 70% of the population
Moscow, as well as hundreds of companies and organizations. Company
serves more than 45,000 buildings totally. Company employs more
than 19,500 employees who serve 9446 central and individual heating
stations, 70 regional and district heating stations and 10,766
kilometers of heating systems.
About Acronis:
Acronis is a leader in AI-native cyber protection, unifying data protection, cybersecurity, IT operations and hybrid infrastructure to deliver business continuity, security and compliance with less cost and complexity. More than 21,000 service providers trust Acronis to protect over 750,000 businesses in 150 countries. Acronis is headquartered in Schaffhausen, Switzerland. For more information, visit www.acronis.com.