Partnership Brings Service Providers and End Users Unmatched
Flexibility and Ease-of-Use to Accelerate the Transition of Data
Protection Solutions to the Cloud
SCHAFFHAUSEN, Switzerland, JULY 31, 2015 - Acronis®, a global leader in cloud
data protection, today announced a partnership with ProfitBricks,
the provider of painless cloud infrastructure, to deliver Acronis
Backup Cloud as its backup solution option for the ProfitBrick's
cloud computing platform. ProfitBricks is revolutionising cloud
computing for Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and selected
Acronis data protection for its ability to support any data source,
destination and delivery model and its unmatched support for
service provider workloads. With Acronis Backup Cloud,
ProfitBrick's managed service provider (MSP) partners and end user
customers now have access to 'best-in-class' backup - all delivered
with the ease of use, flexibility and price/performance guarantees
of the ProfitBricks cloud computing platform.
Digital Business and the Cloud Fueling Increased Adoption of
Data Protection Solutions
As businesses worldwide increasingly go digital, the need to
back up and recover data, applications and entire IT system data
centres is more critical than ever. At the same time, the Cloud is
driving increased adoption of data protection solutions by
businesses with easier-to-use, more affordable solutions. In fact,
a recent Spiceworks
survey reported that cloud backup and recovery is the top cloud
service that IT Pros plan to start using in the next 6 months.
ProfitBricks Drives the Future of Cloud Computing with
Painless Cloud Infrastructure Solutions
Started by the founders of 1&1 Internet web hosting business
who built it into a $3 billion public company with 10 million
customers and 70,000 servers, ProfitBricks is revolutionising the
delivery of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) solutions with its
highly flexible, easy-to-use cloud computing platform for managed
service providers (MSPs) and end user customers. With a focus on
helping companies easily migrate on-premises IT infrastructure to
the cloud, ProfitBricks has developed a unique cloud computing
model that lets MSPs and end users select the desired amount of
processing power and storage needed with the freedom to design and
configure any virtual data centre based on their unique
requirements - at a lower cost with higher performance.
Acronis Backup Cloud Designed for Service Providers
Acronis Backup Cloud is a proven hybrid cloud backup and
recovery solution that enables service providers to rapidly bring
new revenue-generating services to market for their end user
customers. The Acronis cloud solution enables protection of any
data from any location and provides MSPs and end users with
complete control of where data is stored, including multiple
staging locations for backup, seeding of cloud storage, and
migration of systems using strong data encryption to maintain data
privacy.
Acronis Backup Cloud is designed to meet the broad range of
workloads and data sources that MSPs and end users manage today,
including Windows®, Mac®, Linux, Hyper-V, VMware®, RHEV, XEN, KVM,
Oracle® VM, Microsoft Exchange® and SQL, as well as XEN®, KVM,
Linux®, Virtuozzo, Docker®, Open-Xchange, and MySQL®
With the addition of Acronis Backup Cloud, ProfitBricks
customers will soon be easily able to provision Acronis backup
services by self-serving directly through the innovative,
easy-to-use ProfitBricks user interface and control panel. When
provisioning a server, MSPs and end customers will simply need to
select a configuration with the backup option they want enabled,
reducing the need for on-site IT backup infrastructure, systems
integrators and consultants, and internal IT staff needed to
support the solution.
"Backup is the number one request we get for add-on services
from our cloud computing partners and end user customers," said
Achim Weiss, Co-founder and CEO at ProfitBricks. "We chose Acronis
as our backup solution partner due to its leading and proven
technology combined with their unmatched support for the most
common workloads hosted by IaaS providers and their MSP and
end-user customers today."
"ProfitBricks is defining the future of IaaS and is one of the
most promising challengers of Azure, AWS and Google's clouds with
its advanced architecture and high performance," said Serg Bell,
Co-Founder and CEO at Acronis. "We are excited to work with a true
cloud innovator like ProfitBricks as we believe backup and data
protection present the next huge opportunity for cloud
services."
Acronis Backup Cloud will be available to all ProfitBricks
service provider partners and end users in Q4, 2015.
About ProfitBricks
ProfitBricks is the IaaS provider that offers a painless cloud
experience for all IT users and managed service provider partners,
with no learning curve. ProfitBricks boasts flexible cloud servers
and networking, an integrated Data Center Designer tool for visual
control over the cloud and a price/performance guarantee.
ProfitBricks was awarded a spot on CRNs 2015 Emerging Vendors List,
won the Best Cloud Award for 2015 by ASCII and was also the
recipient of the Frost & Sullivan Cloud innovation award for 2014.
With offices in Berlin, Germany, San Antonio, Texas and Boston,
Massachusetts, ProfitBricks can be found online at: http://www.profitbricks.com/
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.