Acronis Backup as a Service Enhances Cloud Service Portfolio
and Solves Customer Data Protection Challenges
Boston, Mass - December 10, 2014 - Acronis®, the global leader in new
generation data protection, today announced the availability of
Acronis Backup as a Service version 3. Acronis Backup as a Service
delivers high value data protection capabilities that create new
revenue streams for partners without a large upfront
investment.
Powered by the Acronis AnyData Engine, Acronis Backup as a
Service provides unparalleled deployment flexibility, including a
turnkey solution for service providers hosted in Acronis data
centers, a hybrid offer with Acronis hosted management console
leveraging service provider's local storage, and a complete service
provider hosted and managed deployment.
Service providers like US Signal as well as key distributors
have adopted Acronis Backup as a Service to expand their service
portfolio to include backup and recovery in order to create new
revenue streams without large upfront investments. The service is
easy to adopt, provides a pay-for-use model and provides complete
protection that customers require, including support for
workstations, Windows, Linux, physical and virtual servers.
Underscoring the growing trend of distributors building their
businesses by provisioning cloud services, such market players are
now delivering Acronis Backup as a Service through their Cloud
Services Division.
"Acronis Backup as a Service enables us to effectively protect
customer data with a tailored, comprehensive, reliable, and
cost-effective service. The Acronis solution's key feature
allowing US Signal Partners the ability to white label the backup
as a service offering, was a determining factor in our software
choice", said Trevor Bidle, US Signal VP of Technical Strategy.
"And, support for Openstack enables us to natively use open source
CEPH storage technology to significantly reduce our storage costs,
while also giving us unprecedented performance, flexibility, and
scalability."
Acronis Backup as a Service is a multi-tier / multi-tenant
solution, providing local and hybrid storage of backed up data,
local backup on customer premise, and local recovery plus recovery
from cloud. The service provides advanced security, including SSL
encryption of management channels and in-transit and at-rest AES256
data encryption. Acronis has provided reliable cloud backup since
2010, and recently opened data centers in Germany and Japan to
complement those in place in United States, France, Russia and
Singapore in order to support international cloud business
growth.
"Opportunities abound for service providers, including backup,
secure file access and sharing and disaster-recovery solutions,"
said Serg Bell, CEO and co-founder of Acronis. "Acronis Backup as a
Service gives them the ability to offer advanced data protection to
their customers with an easily managed and monitored high-margin
service that delivers security and scalability."
Learn more about Acronis Backup as a Service by visiting
https://www.acronis.com/en-us/provider/backup-as-a-service/
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.