Acronis Puts Businesses Back in Control of Data With Hybrid Cloud Protection Solutions

Acronis International GmbH announced solutions that give businesses and IT managers more control over company data and workloads – including where they can be backed up, stored, monitored, and recovered.

Data must be protected. The company is helping businesses and IT managers meet this modern day need with an expanded set of solutions – Backup 12, Backup Cloud, Monitor, Acronis Storage, Notary – that are based on the company’s new hybrid cloud architecture to support data protection and recovery in virtually any IT environment.

“Today, Acronis is launching a new era of data protection by moving from full image device protection to full image digital business protection,” said Serguei Beloussov, co-founder and CEO, Acronis. “We’re combining the world’s fastest backup solution with the industry’s most flexible storage options and non-stop monitoring to provide complete data protection for today’s ‘always-on’ digital business.“

According to IDC, data continues to grow at a 40-50% CAGR. At the same time, IDC notes that a company’s data may migrate from system to system, across storage platforms, and across on-premises and off-premises repositories all within the course of a normal business day. Traditional data protection methods are not well equipped to protect and recover this transient data, and IT consumers are looking for products that can more adequately do so. ⁽¹⁾

“Ensuring that the right type and quality of data is preserved and available when necessary has become even more challenging in today’s digital world,” said Phil Goodwin, research director, IDC. “Today’s hybrid cloud IT environments and massive increase in cloud workloads are forcing IT Managers to rethink older methodologies to maintain greater control over their critical business data, while replacing current business processes with newer ones to ensure that crucial data assets are in fact preserved and available.“

Hybrid cloud architecture fuels new generation of protection solutions
The firm provides businesses with the ability to take back control of their data destiny by extending beyond backup solutions to provide complete data protection across hybrid cloud IT environments. The company enables businesses and IT managers to store their data anywhere and monitor activity at all times to quickly identify and resolve performance issues.

Firm’s solutions feature a unified web management console that makes it easier for IT managers to converge cloud and on-premises data protection with the ability to monitor and manage all data and workloads.

Company’s solutions can be deployed in the cloud, on-premises and in hybrid configurations, protecting company data across the entire business – whether it resides in the cloud or with cloud applications, on-premises, across virtual and physical systems, in remote systems, and on mobile devices.

Solutions and technologies include:

• Backup 12 -Backup protects the entire business, backing up data on-premises, in remote systems, in private and public clouds, and on mobile devices – available.

• Backup Cloud – Built to easily fit within service provider environments with a comprehensive, yet simple, complete, and cost-effective hybrid backup and recovery solution that solves their customers’ data protection problems – available.

• Monitoring Service – Enables IT managers to monitor servers, networks, applications, and websites to identify performance problems, and make smarter IT decisions – available.

• Acronis Storage – Provides software-defined storage that supports any type and volume of data with reliable, resilient, self-healing features, enabling service providers to use cost-efficient, commodity hardware –  available in September.

• Notary – Delivers ‘tamper-proof’ storage that leverages Blockchain to ensure data authenticity, privacy and control. The company will apply Blockchain technology to its solutions, which provides a record of digital events distributed across different participants or entities, and opens up a range of new data protection use cases for businesses worldwide. With Blockchain, data and transactions can only be updated by rules of consensus between participants in the system, and when new data is entered, it can never be erased. Acronis solutions leveraging Blockchain technolog y-  available in October. (online demo).

Firm’s customers can select subscription-based pricing or perpetual licenses to protect any infrastructure, including physical, virtual and cloud.

For service providers and cloud resellers, the company delivers a set of multi-tenant, multi-tiered solutions that 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.

All firm’s solutions, including Backup, DR, File Sync and Share, Storage and Monitoring, are powered by the AnyData Engine – a set of deep and powerful data protection technologies that capture, store, recover, control, and access any data from any location.

The company has over 5,000TB of data under protection from over 500,000 business customers relying on Acronis.

⁽¹⁾  IDC Worldwide Data Protection and Recovery Software Forecast, 2015-2019, September 2015, IDC #258493