Acronis Launches DR as a Service in US, UK and DACH

Acronis International GmbH announced the availability of its DR as a Service (DRaaS).

Acronis DRaaS is the next generation of nScaled, which was named DR leader in 2014 by Forrester, and is integrated with the AnyData Engine and provided as a hybrid-cloud hosted service.

Available to business customers in the US, UK, and DACH, DRaaS assures BC by protecting data, servers and entire data centers with a hybrid cloud solution providing:

A cost-effective way to further protect BC for existing Acronis Backup and Backup Advanced customers
AnyData platform benefits for existing nScaled customers, including bare metal restore and the flexibility to move across hypervisors
A new datacenter in Germany to offer data protection to customers in DACH countries

DRaaS is a complete IT continuity solution that protects and restores data, servers or entire data centers in the event of a natural or man-made disaster. For companies with a low tolerance for IT disruption, loss of data or applications unavailability, Acronis DRaaS provides an all-in-one solution with push-button restore of applications and data, automated testing and a proven track record of successfully protecting customers.

DRaaS key features include:

Guaranteed, flexible RTO – up to 15 minutes or less per server
Push-button recovery – entire data centers with automated runbooks designed in an intuitive, graphical recovery plans editor
Automated testing – allowing you to regularly test all of your protected serves in a virtual private ‘sandbox’ environment
Full visibility and control – with self-service Web-based recovery console allowing you to manage your entire DR environment
White glove support – team of experts is available 24/7 to assist you in failover and failback
Choice of platforms – physical or virtual, any hypervisor, any storage

John Zanni, SVP, cloud solutions, Acronis, said: “Now, Acronis Backup and Acronis Backup Advanced customers can easily add DRaaS to achieve full IT protection and nScaled customers can take full advantage of the Acronis AnyData Engine features in our global network of highly-secure and reliable cloud data centers. Along with these new capabilities, WHD.global 2015 gives us the opportunity to showcase new opportunities for Service Providers and Resellers to provide value adding services that are easy to sell, deliver and monetize.“

“DR as a Service (DRaaS) is one of the most exciting IT modernization options available to SMBs. Those folks have long known that they needed to protect their organizations, but thought BC/DR was not viable for them,” said Jason Buffington, senior analyst, data protection, Enterprise Strategy Group, Inc. “With the combination of the rich DRaaS features of nScaled with the Acronis AnyData Engine (and the trusted Acronis brand), midsized organizations have a compelling and cost-effective option that is certainly worth investigating.”