Acronis Labs to focus on driving innovations in cloud
technologies, storage, backup and access
Woburn, MA, December 3, 2013 - Acronis®, a global leader in backup
and disaster recovery as well as data protection solutions,
announced today that it will make a significant investment of $10
million into Acronis Labs, a new R&D initiative which will
address the growing challenges associated with cloud services, big
data, archiving and mobility tools.
Acronis Labs will focus a portion of investments in human
resources to hire the top computer scientists, developers and
programmers. The Labs will address the growing needs to store vast
amounts of data, drive down associated costs and utilize cloud
technologies. The teams based in Arlington, VA, USA, and Moscow,
Russia will build upon leading technologies found in Acronis True
Image™, Acronis
Backup & Recovery® and Acronis Storage,
while also focusing on:
- Creating next-generation storage management technologies
- Developing performance product evaluation to ensure that all products are top of the line and efficient, fast, secure and reliable
- Strengthening Acronis patent portfolio
- Perfecting complex technologies for use in broad market products
"The data protection and backup sectors are more important now
than ever before, since we're deluged with growing amounts of data
that's central to our personal lives and businesses. We are
launching Acronis Labs to accelerate the creation of new
technologies that solve this massive problem, which potentially
affects everyone who uses a computer, tablet or mobile phone," said
Serg
Bell, Acronis CEO. "Acronis Labs is the place to be if you want
to create new ways of dealing with data storage and see them
pushing the limits of what is possible for millions of users of
Acronis products."
The core of Acronis Labs is a dedicated full-time team of
computer scientists, developers and programmers with extensive
experience at the company, some working at Acronis since it was
founded. Acronis VP of Engineering, Max Lyadvinsky
will bring his 12 years of expertise in managing complex software
projects and interest in cloud and big data technologies to head
Acronis Labs. He holds 31 patents for backup and storage
technologies and was instrumental in creating Acronis Backup and
Recovery, which is made up of 4.7 million lines of code. One of
Acronis' most prominent engineers with over 15 years of expertise
in storage and the company's core technologies, Alexey Trunov, will
dedicate his time as the lab's Chief Architect.
Acronis Labs will consist of four organizational units,
closely collaborating with each other:
- Core Lab: This team will focus on creating strategic technologies that will become the foundation of Acronis' future products, building on success of existing Acronis technologies and addressing the challenges of big data, mobility and cloud.
- Performance Lab: This team will develop technologies and best practices for measuring and optimizing performance parameters of next generation storage components on a large scale. A significant portion of the initial investment will be dedicated to outfitting the lab with top-notch hardware.
- Intellectual Property (IP) Lab: IP Lab would not be limited to assigning patents to parental company, but also incentivize all of Acronis' employees to create and patent promising ideas with the help and support of IP Lab experts. The IP lab aims to build on existing 100+ Acronis patent portfolio to strengthen its position as one of the most innovative Russian high-tech companies.
- Product Lab: The team within Product Lab will focus on productizing of existing and newly developed narrowly focused technologies that will later become landmark features of Acronis products. Products Lab will perfect these technologies (including usability, performance and positioning) before adopting them into Acronis mainline products.
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About Acronis:
Acronis is a global cyber protection company that provides natively integrated cybersecurity, data protection, and endpoint management for managed service providers (MSPs), small and medium businesses (SMBs), and enterprise IT departments. Acronis solutions are highly efficient and designed to identify, prevent, detect, respond, remediate, and recover from modern cyberthreats with minimal downtime, ensuring data integrity and business continuity. Acronis offers the most comprehensive security solution on the market for MSPs with its unique ability to meet the needs of diverse and distributed IT environments.
A Swiss company founded in Singapore in 2003, Acronis has 45 locations across the globe. Acronis Cyber Protect is available in 26 languages in 150 countries and is used by over 20,000 service providers to protect over 750,000 businesses. Learn more at www.acronis.com.