Acronis SDI Appliance Pre-Configured Software-Defined Infrastructure Software for Cyber Data Protection

Acronis International GmbH announced the availability of its SDI appliance, an infrastructure solution based on a updated, pre-configured Acronis Software-Defined Infrastructure software.

The company’s software (formerly Acronis Storage, a SDS solution) transforms standard customers’ hardware into a protected enterprise-grade hyper-converged system, and designed specifically for cyber protection for all data, applications and systems.

The appliance simplifies the complex tasks of cyber protection, giving partners and customers a way to store and manage the data protected by the company’s Backup and Backup Cloud. The firm’s SDI appliance reinforces its ability to deliver complete cyber protection to customers and partners, addressing all five vectors of cyber protection – safety, accessibility, privacy, authenticity, and security. The result is an approach that ensures easy, efficient, and secure protection for all data, applications, and systems.

“We help our customers and partners integrate the best cyber protection approach into their infrastructures. Our software-defined infrastructure – which is integrated, preinstalled and extensively tested on reliable hardware – is the solid foundation for Acronis’ data protection services. It is fundamental to our vision of delivering complete end-to-end cyber protection. The new solution brings the ultimate level of reliability, cost-efficiency and universality, simplifying the data protection processes of customers so they can focus on their core business,” said Serguei Beloussov, CEO, Acronis.

“The new Acronis SDI appliance is a pretty robust in terms of storage and data management“, said Phil Goodwin, research director, IDC. “The plug-in-play hardware has virtualization and software-defined storage for cyber protection in private or public clouds. We believe it’s the optimal backup destination for Acronis Backup and Acronis Backup Cloud users. Acronis is leveraging its partners’ ecosystem, having served the market for over 15 years and is taking a natural next step by introducing a purpose-built backup appliance,” said Phil Goodwin, research director, cloud data management and protection, IDC.

Working with manufacturing and logistics partner, the German-based RNT Rausch GmbH, the company designed and developed a hardware solution that complements its software solutions to ensure SDI appliance meets the data center needs of customers looking to optimise their use of Acronis software.

In addition to manufacturing the hardware for the firm’s SDI appliance, RNT will be accepting orders and shipping the appliance to the countries of availability. Among its customers is Racing Point Formula 1, a motorsport team that uses RNT Rausch hardware and Acronis software to securely store multiple terabytes of engineering data.

The company’s software-defined infrastructure, which powers SDI appliance, offers reliable, cost-efficient, scalable, and universal solutions that combine compute, networking, block, file, and object storage workloads using industry-standard hardware. It delivers cyber protection by incorporating CloudRAID and Notary with blockchain, ensuring data immutability and preserving the authenticity of essential data and sensitive documents.

Other features include virtualization for performance and HA hyper-converged computing, AWS S3 compatibility, software-defined networking, and monitoring.

The SDI Appliance will be shipped in 3U rack mount form-factor, carrying five nodes, each equipped with an Intel Corp.‘ 16 cores processor, 32GB RAM (up to 256GB) and 3x Seagate 4/8/10/12TB enterprise SATA HDD. TIt is capable of storing up to 180TB of raw data.

It is available in the U.S., Canada, U.K., Germany, Switzerland, Austria, and North European countries.

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