Four new data centres meet customers' data privacy and
security concerns
SCHAFFHAUSEN, Switzerland, August 28, 2014 - Today Acronis®, the global leader in new
generation data protection, announced it has opened four new data
centres in Asia and Europe in addition to already working
datacentres in the US and France. The new data centres, located in
Germany; Japan; Russia and Singapore, bring secure, localised data
protection to Asian and European businesses that are concerned
about the privacy and security of their data.
"Today, businesses feel apprehensive about storing their data in
regions far from their own," said the Acronis
co-founder and senior VP of engineering and R&D. "Following the
recent NSA scandal, the concerns associated with storing data have
become more pronounced, as businesses and consumers alike look for
more local and secure data protection services. Due to these
demands, we have made the logical step to open an entire network of
data centres in Asia and Europe, giving businesses in those areas
exactly what they want-the ability to store their data in their own
region."
In May 2014, Acronis and research firm IDC conducted a
worldwide, cross-industry survey of
small and medium-sized businesses (<1,000 employees)
concerning their data protection and disaster recovery needs. The
survey revealed that the majority (76 percent) of businesses prefer
their data to be stored no more than 150 miles from their location.
This finding, coupled with concerns resulting from recent data
security breaches, highlights the need for data protection
solutions offering cloud storage close to home.
Additional Acronis/IDC research findings include:
- Asian businesses prefer data in-country, while the US and Europe want it within 150 miles: 50% of SMBs in Singapore and 46% in Japan prefer to have their data stored in-country, while 26% of German SMBs and 25% in the US prefer to have their data stored in a cloud within country. Meanwhile, 48% of German SMBs and 64% of US SMBs prefer to have their data stored in a cloud within 150 miles, while 34% of SMBs in Singapore and 24% of Japanese SMBs have the same preference.
- Storing data offsite has become ubiquitous: 94% of respondents say they back up a portion of their data to a remote datacentres.
- Cloud is becoming more prevalent: 42% of respondents have at least some of their data in cloud.
Acronis' new data centres are held to the same high level of
security requirements that Acronis demands of its entire global
network of data centres, including in its established centres in
the US and France. All Acronis data centres feature a Tier 3 rating
by the Uptime Institute, redundant network connections and are
powered by multiple sources of electricity. Furthermore, they have
been built with hardware from the leading hardware vendors to
ensure the highest level of reliability.
The new centres allow Asian and European channel partners and
customers deploying any of Acronis' cloud services to fully or
partially back up their data to the Acronis cloud without
compromising security or risking downtime. By storing data close to
home, customers attain the geographic security of a localised
storage service, latency reduction and the ability to meet the
latest regional compliance regulations.
Acronis channel partners and customers in the Asian and European
regions now have the ability to store locally data from all of the
company's cloud solutions:
- Acronis True Image offers consumers reliable image backup and recovery of their entire system - email, music, photos, videos, documents, personal settings, bookmarks, and all applications.
- Acronis Backup, the company's a disk-based backup and disaster recovery solution for business desktops and laptops, takes a 'snapshot' of the disk using Acronis' patented disk imaging technologies, minimising impact on end users and eliminating the need to take servers, workstations or laptops offline for a backup.
- With Acronis Backup as a Service, channel partners can compete with global cloud companies by delivering to their customers a comprehensive cloud backup and recovery solution.
- Acronis Backup Advanced for vCloudis the most comprehensive and powerful multi-tier, multi-tenant backup and DR solution for VMware vCloud Director. It enables cloud owners to easily deploy and configure a self-service Backup as a Service (Baas) for their cloud tenants. Using an intuitive web-based interface, cloud tenants can perform backup, file recovery, disaster recovery, and migration without any assistance.
- Acronis Backup to Cloud provides safe, secure and scalable disaster recovery, data protection, and off-site backup of any data, anywhere, anytime. It is a complete, user-friendly all-in-one backup solution - customers simply buy a subscription and select the storage size they need to easily back up disks, partitions, and files to Acronis' secure Software-Defined Storage at a remote datacentre. They can also quickly recover entire files, folders, applications, or an entire system.
To download the IDC white paper, sponsored by Acronis, titled
"Strong Cloud Growth Driving Businesses to Change Their Thinking on
Data Protection Solutions," please visit please
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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.