Acronis Partner Program for Cloud

Acronis International GmbH, in hybrid cloud data protection, announced its Acronis Partner Program for Cloud.

An extension of the Acronis Global Partner Program, the Acronis Partner Program for Cloud is designed to accelerate cloud data protection services revenue with a subscription model for service providers, distributors and cloud resellers. The program provides solutions, resources, programs and incentives to help Acronis partners profit from the market growth predicted for cloud data protection services, which include backup, DR and file sync and share. According to IDC, the data protection and DR software market will grow to $8.1 billion by 2019.*

The Acronis Partner Program for Cloud supports any deployment model, including service provider-hosted, Acronis-hosted and hybrid, and any business model with licensing flexibility. This includes turnkey cloud data protection services with minimal integration that are quick to deploy and easy to use, as well as offerings that are more deeply integrated into partner technology and services portfolios.

The program uses multiple tiers to distinguish and reward a partner’s sales performance, certification commitment and marketing collaboration. Incentives include stackable profit margins, incremental margins for deal registration, rebates and incremental accelerators. It also features simplified partner on-boarding, free web-based sales tools and enablement programs, technical training, marketing programs and demand generation support, as well as co-op and market development fund programs.

“The end users that we service need an easy and reliable backup and recovery solution combined with the knowledge and support we can deliver as a service provider,” said Charles Grau, VP, IT and operations, United Data Technologies (UDT). “The new Acronis Partner Program for Cloud allows us to build on our growing Acronis cloud business by rapidly bringing proven data protection services to market in a way they easily plus into our technology environment and existing business model.“

Enabling Service Providers to Deliver Complete Data Protection Solutions
Acronis is driving the transformation of data protection with easy, complete and affordable solutions for small businesses and mid-sized companies. The company provides complete data protection through an integrated set of solutions, including backup, DR, and file sync and share. It protects businesses from all types of data loss related to natural and man-made disasters, including files, systems and applications.

For service providers and cloud resellers, Acronis delivers a complete multi-tenant, multi-tiered cloud architecture across infrastructure and data centers, operations and storage. Cloud solutions provide automation of services and complete control of provisioning, billing, monitoring and management, enabling partners with scalable solutions that can support millions of end users.

Acronis cloud solutions support a range of storage options, including multiple destinations, seeding, migration, and any mix of single customer sources, including on-premises, and a range of workloads and data sources, including XEN, KVM, Linux, Virtuozzo, Docker, Open-Xchange, and MySQL, as well as Windows, Mac, Hyper-V, VMware, RHEV, Oracle VM, Exchange and SQL.

All solutions are powered by the Acronis AnyData Engine – a set of data protection technologies that capture, store, recover, control, and access any data from any location.

“We’ve taken our vast expertise in managed services and built a best-in-class partner program for service providers that extends our global partner program and makes it easier than ever for partners to move to the cloud,” said John Zanni, CMO, Acronis. “We are 100% focused on the cloud partner model. Our goal is to bring thousands of new service provider partners and cloud resellers onboard worldwide in 2016.“

* IDC, Worldwide Data Protection and Recovery Software Forecast, 2015-2019, Doc #258493, Sept 2015