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March 03, 2025  — 3 min read
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March 03, 2025  — 3 min read
Acronis Academy: What's new in 2025?
Acronis Academy is evolving to provide even more streamlined, impactful and advanced learning opportunities for our partners. Whether you're looking to get recertified, explore new technical capabilities or enhance your sales expertise, our expanded course offerings will help you stay ahead in the rapidly changing cybersecurity and data protection landscape.
March 28, 2018  — 2 min read
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March 28, 2018  — 2 min read
World Backup Day: 2018 Survey Results
As the end of March approaches, it means World Backup Day is near – the annual reminder that if we don’t want to look the fool after data loss, we need to create secure backups. Acronis conducts a global consumer survey each year leading up to the World Backup Day celebration, to gauge the attitudes, habits and knowledge of the general public. The findings were both eye-opening and contradictory.
March 23, 2018  — 3 min read
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March 23, 2018  — 3 min read
Atlanta’s Ransomware Woes: How to Defend Your Organization
Late Thursday, Atlanta, Georgia was hit by a ransomware attack that ended up infecting multiple applications and devices, crippling the city’s municipal computer system. As city employees arrived at work on Friday, they were each handed a flyer telling them not to turn on their computer until the IT department had cleared their systems. In the meantime, cybercriminals were demanding $51,000 in bitcoin to return access to the ATL. The Atlanta attack is just the latest high-profile ransomware attack that should prompt everyone to review their data protection strategy – because given how fast the threat from ransomware is evolving, old defenses are proving less effective against the new threats.
March 22, 2018  — 4 min read
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March 22, 2018  — 4 min read
Acronis Backup’s Self-Defense Delivers Unmatched Protection of Corporate Data
For companies of all sizes, business backup software is an essential part of their security strategy. Financial, technical, and legal documents, as well as other working materials, form the basis of every business operation and must be protected. If these documents disappeared for any reason, a company would have to deal with big financial losses, if it survived at all.
March 12, 2018  — 3 min read
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March 12, 2018  — 3 min read
Ready to Go! Survey Shows Businesses Paying Attention to Data Protection
As a global leader in hybrid cloud data protection and storage, Acronis is always developing or enhancing solutions designed to solve the challenges that businesses face, both today and in the future. So we asked IT Central Station to conduct a survey of North American businesses as a pulse-check on the attitudes and practices of IT professionals, system engineers, project managers and business owners regarding the backup services they require.
March 08, 2018  — 3 min read
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March 08, 2018  — 3 min read
Are SSDs in the Same League with HDDs When it Comes to Data Recovery?
Solid-state drives (SSDs) have solved many of the problems that have historically plagued hard-disk drives (HDDs), particularly when it comes to sudden mechanical failures and longevity. In fact according to tests of a Samsung 850 Evo, the official estimates show that if you write 20GB on it every day, this SSD will last for up to 187 years. Can SSDs really replace HDDs? Let’s not forget, HDDs are first introduced in 1956 by IBM, more than 60 years ago. So let’s look and see if SSDs are as reliable as they are advertised.
March 07, 2018  — 3 min read
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March 07, 2018  — 3 min read
The Beauty of Choice: Building a Hybrid Cloud World
Have you ever sat in a restaurant trying to decide between two desserts and said to yourself “I wish I could get both”? It’s not that you’re greedy or gluttonous: you just want the best finish for your meal. For businesses exploring where they should store their digital assets, choosing the right cloud solution is a bigger decision than what to eat. It’s important to have a choice in how you store and access data, in order that you meet the unique needs of your business and how that data is used. With its new partnership with Google Cloud, Acronis is ensuring companies of all sizes not only get the choice they want, but they can decide what flavor it is.
March 06, 2018  — 8 min read
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March 06, 2018  — 8 min read
The industry standard partition manager: Acronis Disk Director 12
Acronis Disk Director 12 is a partition management software package that can easily alter, add and merge partitions, and manage partitions located on internally and externally connected drives.
February 28, 2018  — 10 min read
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February 28, 2018  — 10 min read
Black Ruby: Combining Ransomware and Coin Miner Malware
In the midst of all the news and hype surrounding cryptocurrency, we’ve seen several coin miner malware programs popping into the wild, infecting a number of computers on the internet. There’s been an upsurge in coin miner malware that victimizes individual PCs and businesses using the same techniques and exploits that were previously attributed to distributed ransomware. With all this happening, the cybersecurity industry started speculating that there is a shift from ransomware to coin miners as the preferred choice of payload for cybercriminals. Interestingly, we found a new ransomware called Black Ruby that adds coin mining as a module on top of its ransomware capabilities.
February 23, 2018  — 2 min read
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February 23, 2018  — 2 min read
Acronis Named a 2018 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for Data Center Backup and Recovery Software
While we are always happy to see industry analysts and media praise our solutions, the real measure of success is earning the respect of IT pros who need to find the best data protection for their organizations. That’s why Acronis is honored to be named one of The Best Enterprise Data Server Recovery and Backup Software of 2018 in the 2018 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for Data Center Backup and Recovery Software.
February 22, 2018  — 4 min read
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February 22, 2018  — 4 min read
Backups and the GDPR “right to be forgotten”: Recommendations
(Part 2 of 2)   With the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) officially taking effect on 25 May 2018, there are several questions regarding how the right to be forgotten affects personal data stored in backup archives. We explored these questions in part one of this series. Now we’ll look at how to address them.
February 22, 2018  — 4 min read
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February 22, 2018  — 4 min read
Backups and the GDPR “right to be forgotten”: What to expect
(Part 1 of 2)   The arrival of the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is imminent: the official cutover date is 25 May 2018. In previous blog posts, we’ve explained the majority of its new obligations and roles, but one question requires special attention: the so-called “right to be forgotten”. We'll take a look at what that means for your backup files.
February 20, 2018  — 4 min read
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February 20, 2018  — 4 min read
Subscription Business Model: Logics and Behind-the-scenes Reasoning
For a long time, managed service providers (MSPs) who provided traditional business backup with on-premise servers and virtual machines were quite profitable. The vast majority of organizations embraced the need and invested willingly. But as the song goes, “the times they are a’changin’.” Traditional opportunities are declining as businesses look for data protection that includes reduced storage costs and increased convenience. Today’s business opportunities lie in hybrid cloud services, and as a result the best revenue sources for MSPs are evolving into the pay-as-you-go Subscription Business Model.