Acronis launches cloud data center in Israel, building 111 data centers globally

SCHAFFHAUSEN, Switzerland, 2 March 2021 - Acronis, a global leader in cyber protection, today announced the availability of a new Acronis Cloud Data Centre in Tel Aviv, Israel. One of the 111 new data centres being deployed by the company and the first step in building a larger company presence in Israel. It gives service provider partners access to Acronis' full range of cyber protection solutions upon which they can build new services while delivering faster access, constant data availability, and data sovereignty to their clients.

The global network of Acronis Cloud Data Centres already includes locations in the U.S., U.K., Switzerland, France, Germany, Japan, Australia, Canada, Singapore, New Zealand, Liechtenstein, and Spain. With the new data centre in Israel, local service providers have a location in their country where they can store business-critical data for their clients. Managed service providers (MSPs) also stand to benefit from the full range of managed cloud solutions and cyber protection solutions available via the Acronis Cyber Cloud platform.

"This expansion into Israel allows us to provide the local, cost-efficient, bandwidth efficient, and low latency cloud services our global partners demand", said Serg Bell, CEO and founder of Acronis. "It demonstrates our commitment to offering the cloud-based services and cyber protection that partners and users need in today's digital world."

Serg Bell added, "At the same time, opening a new development office with more than 100 new employees planned - as we further strengthen our position as the leading cyber protection provider in Israel - reinforces our continuous commitment to the Israeli market."

The Israeli expansion is part of Acronis' Global/Local Initiative, which includes global management for all data centres, geographic redundancy, control for local partners, and a local disaster recovery site - all with competitive pricing. As a result, service providers will have no trouble meeting the ever-changing compliance, data sovereignty, and performance requirements.

"With more and more of our customers moving their businesses to the cloud and the ever-growing need for Acronis Cyber Protection Solutions, a local data center enables us to serve our customers even better with improved backup/restore times and a better total user experience," says Yona Bakalchuk, Customer Strategy Director at Matrix Software Products.

Among the solutions now available through the new data centre is Acronis Cyber Protect, a unique integration of backup, disaster recovery, next-gen anti-malware, cybersecurity, and endpoint management tools - all managed via a single pane of glass. The solution is VB100 certified and its unique capabilities recently earned Acronis Cyber Protect the 2020 New Product Innovation Award for Data Protection from Frost & Sullivan.

All of Acronis solutions are designed to address the Five Vectors of Cyber Protection, ensuring the safety, accessibility, privacy, authenticity, and security (SAPAS) of an organisation's data, applications, and systems. In the same way, Acronis Cloud Data Centres are designed to deliver the highest levels of data availability, security, and safety - with each facility featuring state-of-the-art equipment as well as the industry-leading operational and security controls.

Service providers interested in learning more about data management services that are available through this new data centre should contact Acronis Sales at [email protected] or visit https://www.acronis.com/cloud/data-centers.

Service providers interested in learning more about the advantages and opportunities of cyber protection solutions available through the Acronis Cyber Cloud platform are encouraged to visit https://www.acronis.com/en-us/cloud/service-provider/platform/.

Acronis unifies data protection and cybersecurity to deliver integrated, automated cyber protection that solves the safety, accessibility, privacy, authenticity, and security (SAPAS) challenges of the modern digital world. With flexible deployment models that fit the demands of service providers and IT professionals, Acronis provides superior cyber protection for data, applications, and systems with innovative next-generation antivirus, backup, disaster recovery, and endpoint protection management solutions. With award-winning AI-based antimalware and blockchain-based data authentication technologies, Acronis protects any environment - from cloud to hybrid to on-premises - at a low and predictable cost.

Founded in Singapore in 2003 and incorporated in Switzerland in 2008, Acronis now has more than 1,500 employees in 33 locations in 18 countries. Its solutions are trusted by more than 5.5 million home users and 500,000 companies, including 100% of the Fortune 1000, and top-tier professional sports teams. Acronis products are available through 50,000 partners and service providers in over 150 countries in more than 40 languages.

Matrix is the leading technology services company in Israel, with 10,337 employees worldwide. Since its foundation in 2001, Matrix has made more than 80 mergers and acquisitions and has executed some of the largest IT projects in Israel. The company specializes in the implementation and development of leading technologies , software solutions and products, providing its customers with infrastructure and consulting services, IT outsourcing, offshore, training and assimilation and serves as representatives for the world's leading software vendors. With vast experience in both the private and public sectors, ranging from Finance, Telecom, Health, Hi-Tech, Education, Defense and Security, Matrix customer-base include the largest organizations in Israel and a steadily growing client base worldwide.

The company stock is traded on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) and its share is included in the TA-35 index in addition to Tel-Div 20, the prestigious index of the highest dividend yield companies. Rated by the top research and ranking companies for over 11 consecutive years as an industrial leader, Matrix remains true to its reputation.