Complete Cloud Backup Offering Diminishes Barriers to Entry
for Service Providers, Expands Their Portfolio and Ability to
Localise
Woburn, MA - February 25, 2014 - TodayAcronis®, a global data protection
company, announced Acronis Backup as a Service, a comprehensive
cloud backup and recovery solution designed to help service
providers and Value-Added Resellers compete with global cloud
companies. The offering enables service providers to expand their
data protection offerings, localise an automated backup service,
grow recurring revenue, and kill churn.
"Local service providers need a differentiator to effectively
compete with global cloud companies," said Robert Amatruda,
research director data protection and recovery at IDC. "Acronis Backup as a Service allows
service providers to deliver a simple, complete and cost-effective
backup service that can be customised to meet their local customer
requirements".
In a
recent survey, TechTarget found that 55 percent of companies
expect to increase cloud spending in 2014. Acronis Backup as a
Service empowers service providers to reach that market by
requiring no upfront commitments and operating on a pay-as-you-go
business model. The service can also be white-labeled or
co-branded into their existing SaaS offerings for easy
localisation. The flexible service makes it easy for end-customer
by permitting them to designate various departments and/or roles
involved with installing, activating, monitoring and backing up of
data to the cloud and local storage destinations. Service providers
also have the option to leverage Acronis Cloud Storage or their own
local storage.
"Many customers are seeking a way to simplify their backup
processes and backup as a service is ideal for diminishing costs
and outsourcing the technical expertise," said Lance Crosby, CEO &
President at SoftLayer®.
"But many customers are concerned about the reliability,
sustainability and accessibility provided by many of the solutions
on the market. Acronis Backup as a Service leverages Acronis'
proven technology to give customers the assurance they need."
Acronis Backup as a Service is powered by Acronis AnyData
Technology and is efficiently managed by a central Web-enabled
control panel, allowing service providers to easily fulfill their
customers' backup needs. The service includes Acronis Backup
Advanced technologies for workstations, physical and virtual
servers and applications. This image technology enables service
providers with IaaS offerings to also build a Disaster Recovery as
a Service (DRaaS) offering.
"With Acronis Backup as a Service, we're chopping down the risks
and traditional limitations of cloud backup by delivering a turnkey
SaaS business model powered by Acronis' mature and proven backup
and recovery technology," said Rene Oldenbeuving, general manager,
cloud business at Acronis. "Our usage-based service eliminates
upfront investments, so costs only increase when revenue increases,
giving service providers a competitive solution that puts them on
equal footing with the biggest cloud businesses. Add in our proven
image technology and you have one of the only file-based recovery
and bare metal recovery offerings in single cloud solution," said
Oldenbeuving.
Additional key features of Acronis Backup as a Service
include:
● Re-brandable, localised cloud service hosted by Acronis
from tier-3 data centres in Europe and the U.S.
● Support for Windows, Linux, workstations, physical and
virtual servers, VMware, Hyper-V and other hypervisors and
applications
● Usage reporting easily integratable into billing
systems
● 24/7 dedicated technical support
● Service provider training, marketing and go-to-market
support
● Service Provider License Agreement requires no minimum
revenue commitments or minimum term
Acerca de Acronis:
Acronis es una empresa global de ciberprotección que ofrece la única plataforma de gestión de infraestructura, protección de datos y ciberseguridad integrada de forma nativa para proveedores de servicios gestionados y departamentos de TI. Las soluciones de Acronis están diseñadas para identificar, proteger, detectar, responder, recuperar y gobernar los despliegues de TI, asegurando la integridad de los datos y la continuidad de la actividad empresarial.
Una empresa suiza fundada en Singapur en 2003, Acronis tiene 15 oficinas en todo el mundo y empleados en más de 60 países. La solución Acronis Cyber Platform está disponible en 26 idiomas en 150 países y la utilizan más de 21,000 proveedores de servicios para proteger a más de 750,000 empresas. Obtenga más información en www.acronis.com.