Avant Communications Distributor of Acronis Backup Cloud

Acronis International GmbH and AVANT Communications, LLC partner to distribute Acronis Backup Cloud to protect Office 365 data through the AVANT channel ecosystem of VARs, MSPs and Telecom Agents.

Acronis Backup Cloud is a solution to protect Office 365 data for email, calendar, contacts, and attachments. AVANT is already a provider of Acronis DR Service, and the addition of Acronis Backup Cloud data protection fills a market need for channel partners that have become the advisors for mid-sized to enterprise customers. AVANT enables channel partners to address and guide customers to ensure they are protected as customers embrace public cloud.

“AVANT focuses on supporting and enabling channel partners to become the trusted advisor in delivering the best next generation IT solutions“, said Drew Lydecker, president and founder, AVANT. “You don’t want to be caught unprotected with today’s Public Cloud offerings.With the new Acronis Backup Cloud solution, our channel partners can provide more value to their end user customers and cover the data protection gaps that exist in today’s public cloud solutions.“

Acronis Backup Cloud backups data locally or to the cloud, enabling IT managers to search backups and provide fast recovery of email, attachments, or other mailbox objects, delivering complete control and protection for Microsoft Office 365 email users. It Cloud can also be extended to protect servers and workstations both locally and in the cloud, with ability to easily recover or restore data, including dissimilar hardware.

Acronis Backup Cloud provides users with a web-based console from which they can manage backup locations and activities. Users can search and preview mail by subject, to/from, and sent/received date ranges, and download attachments without needing to recover the data. Customers can also granularly restore individual emails, attachments, contacts, calendars, and tasks, or even restore entire messages by sending them as an email directly from the recovery console.

With Acronis Backup Cloud, service providers can offer customers a backup service to protect their email data. Using the brand-able, self-service Acronis Backup Cloud console, customers can control their backups, centrally view all activities, and receive problem alerts for all their protected data – including Office 365 email. The flexible storage options inherent to Acronis Backup Cloud allow customers to backup their mailbox data to a local folder, network folder, the Acronis Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Amazon S3, SoftLayer, or any private cloud storage. It satisfies regulatory compliance requirements and gives control and ownership of data back to businesses and IT managers.

Creating new cross-sell opportunities for its channels partners, AVANT selected Acronis Backup Cloud due to its easy user interface and dependable backup capabilities, as well as its ability to provide secure archiving and retention that safely stores backups for any length of time to satisfy customer regulatory requirements.

“Together with AVANT, we’re delivering an easy add-on solution for service providers to deliver their end customers complete protection of Office 365 emails against user errors, corrupt files and malicious attacks,” said John Zanni, CMO, Acronis. “The solution also provides greater control over backup and recovery plans with support for both local and cloud backups, and a modern web console that makes it extremely easy to recover individual messages and attachments, contacts, and even entire mailboxes and systems – with no limits on the retention period.“

In addition to Acronis Backup Cloud, AVANT is enabling the distribution of Acronis DR Service. Acronis Backup Cloud equips service providers with a an hybrid backup and recovery solution, which allows them to expand their customer base, reduce churn, realize incremental revenues, and grow a Backup as a Service (BaaS) business. Acronis DR Service is an IT BC solution that protects, and restores data, servers, or entire data centers suffering from a natural or man-made disaster.