Acronis Backup Delivers Performance and Reliability With Path to Hybrid Cloud Solutions

Acronis International GmbH announced its Backup and Backup Advanced software solutions, and its Backup Cloud solution.

For SMBs, Backup solutions combine higher performance, quality and reliability with new features that make the buying and upgrade process seamless and easy, including a simple step up to the future Backup 12 solution.

According to Enterprise Strategy Group, backup and recovery consistently rank among the top IT priorities for organizations of all sizes, but especially for mid-sized organizations. At the same time, today’s businesses face new challenges when it comes to data protection, including huge increases in data volume, man-made and natural disasters, and cyber-threats.

“As workloads continue to grow and diversify, businesses need to be looking for ways to simplify their data protection while reducing costs and increasing their agility,” said Jason Buffington, principal analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group. “Companies should be preparing for the future by taking a wider view of data protection right now, by implementing solutions that deliver broader support across a constantly growing mix of platforms to be protected, each with their own data and business criticality.“

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Backup and Backup Advanced, version 11.7 – What’s new
Firm’s Backup solutions provide fast, one-click recovery of individual files, application data, or a complete system – all from a single backup. Backup and Backup Advanced 11.7 are the best-performing releases to date and prepare both existing and new customers for a move to version 12. Backup supports five to 50 employees and 1 to 5 servers. Backup Advanced supports 50 to 1,000 employees and 5 to 100 servers.

Versions 11.7 provide following benefits:

New subscription licensing: Simple and flexible options protect an SMB’s entire data center without upfront capital expenses.
Improved performance and reduced storage costs: Variable block deduplication adds the ability to store 24 times more data with the same amount of RAM, reducing overall storage costs. Customers will also achieve quicker RTOs and lower downtime costs with up to 40% faster recovery from deduplicated storage.
Faster backup with expanded storage support: Enables backup of network file system (NFS) shared folders and delivers improved backup to NFS-based NAS, SMB/CIFS, FTP and SFTP.
Extended OS support: Complete support for Exchange 2016, Windows 10, Windows Server 2016 Tech Preview 4, vSphere 6, Linux kernel up to 4.4, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.x.

Backup Cloud, version 5 – What’s New
Get a preview of the firm’s Backup 12 experience with the Backup Cloud version 5. It is an affordable, secure, and scalable hybrid cloud backup service for SMBs to manage protecting devices no matter where they are located or where the business wants the backup stored – either locally, in the cloud or both. Backup Cloud 5 is based upon a cloud architecture and designed to fit any service provider technology environment and business model.

Company’s Backup Cloud provides following benefits:

Automated service management tools: Enables service providers to better manage consumption, quotas and backup alerts, resulting in time-savings and increased revenues.
Self-service backup monitoring: Provides greater control of the backup process for end users, including viewing of backup progress and the ability to protect machines with a single click after the agent installation.
Centralized dashboard: allows end users to view alerts and conduct audits from a single location and management console.

“Our latest Acronis Backup solutions have been pushed to the limit when it comes to testing, performance, and reliability – it’s our most solid backup release ever,” said John Zanni, chief marketing office, Acronis. “We’ve also responded to customer feedback by making everything easier, including a simplified buying process with subscription pricing and seamless upgrades to new solutions that will keep our partners and end users prepared for whatever future challenges lie ahead.“

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Powered by the AnyData Engine, a set of reliable and powerful data protection technologies that capture, store, recover, and manage data in physical, virtual, hybrid, and cloud environments, all company’s backup solutions provide a centralized management console across any environment and location. These solutions are a part of the company’s set of hybrid cloud data protection solutions, which include cloud storage, DR and file sync and share.

Acronis delivers solutions to the SMB market through a global partner ecosystem of service providers, including hosters and telcos, as well as distributors and cloud resellers. End users can choose their deployment model, including service provider-hosted, Acronis-hosted, or hybrid deployments that can include on-premises solutions.

Versions 11.7 of Backup and Backup Advanced are available. Version 5.0 of Backup Cloud will be available in March.