Acronis Delivering Data Protection for Apps and Data in Microsoft Environments

Acronis International GmbH announced its Backup Cloud Extension for Microsoft Azure and Azure Stack at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference in Toronto, ONT, Canada.

These offerings enable Microsoft Cloud Services Providers (CSPs) to provision and manage a flexible range of backup services across physical and virtual environments, while supporting the broad range of devices in use by businesses today. By plugging company’s Backup Cloud into Azure or Azure Stack environments, Microsoft CSPs have a new and simple option to add increased value to their offerings by selling more complete backup and data protection services to customers.

Today’s SMBs face new challenges when it comes to data protection, including massive increases in data volume, complex computing environments, more digital business processes and mobile workers, as well as man-made and natural disasters and cyber-threats. In addition, They struggle to protect data in virtual, physical, and mobile IT environments, with 48% of SMBs running both virtual and physical systems, and almost 60% of SMBs using mobile devices for work-related activities.

Protects cloud and on-premises apps and data for Microsoft environments
With the Backup Extension for Azure, Microsoft CSPs can sell a hybrid cloud backup service that provides broad protection in Microsoft environments, including across cloud and on-premises data centres, physical and VMs, and mobile devices, all while utilising their investments in Azure. The solution protects data across a section of the Microsoft ecosystem, including Exchange, Office365, SQL Server, SharePoint, Active Directory, as well as workstations, servers, Hyper-V hosts, and mobile computing platforms.

The company also enables Microsoft CSPs to backup Azure VMs (Linux or Windows), and protect new Azure VMs, in addition to backing up physical or VMs on premises, and migrating to an Azure VM.

Benefits of Backup Cloud Extension for Azure include:

Unified data protection management – Provides simplified ability for Microsoft CSPs to scale business with the company’s multi-tenant, multi-tier service provider solution.
Flexible storage options – Leverages simple storage subscriptions to protect any server or mobile device using Azure as the backup target.
Migration capabilities – Delivers a deep set of migration functions for recovering and restoring data in complex environments.

“Our partners and their customers demand aggressive RTOs and RPOs, and need a complete data protection solution, especially as we migrate more workloads to the cloud,” said Craig Joseph, COO, intY Ltd., a Microsoft multi-channel CSP. “Having an easy and complete hybrid data protection service that backups data from any system and device, and recovers to any system and device, provides a unique and differentiated offering for our Microsoft Azure end users.“

“Our customers value flexibility and control when it comes to using cloud services, especially for data protection,” said Carolina Losada, CEO, Licencias OnLine, Microsoft CSP and Acronis partner. “With the Acronis Backup Cloud Extension for Microsoft Azure, we can now offer our customers a wide range of options for backup, storage and recovery of servers running in Microsoft Azure environments.“

Microsoft CSPs can quickly sell and provision new data protection services
Azure is a growing collection of integrated cloud services, including analytics, computing, database, mobile, networking, storage, and web, for moving faster, achieving more, and saving money. Acronis provides complete hybrid cloud data protection solutions, including backup, cloud storage, DR, and file sync and share to small businesses and mid-sized companies, which are delivered by service providers and cloud resellers worldwide.

As a result of the integration, Acronis and Microsoft offer CSPs fast, easy access to incremental revenues for backup and data protection with the speed and simplicity of Azure.

“Nobody is better positioned than Microsoft when it comes to helping companies modernise their business with cloud solutions,” said John Zanni, CMO and SVP, channel and cloud strategy, Acronis. “Our new integration with Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Azure Stack make it extremely fast – a matter of minutes – for Microsoft CSPs to sell and provision Acronis backup to Microsoft end users with more flexible storage options than any other vendor.“

“With Microsoft Azure, we are working to bring customers the most agile cloud platform available,” said Venkat Gattamneni, director, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Corp. “We’re excited about the capabilities that Acronis is bringing to Azure to offer additional options for data migration and protection for our mutual customers using the hybrid cloud.“

Backup Cloud is an affordable, secure, and scalable hybrid cloud backup service that makes it easy for SMBs to manage device protection no matter where they are located or where the business wants the backup stored – either locally, in the cloud, or both. The latest version of Backup Cloud is based upon a cloud architecture and designed to fit any service provider technology environment and business model.

Backup Cloud is part of the company’s set of hybrid cloud data protection solutions, which also include DR and file sync and share solutions. 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, The company protects all customer data in all locations on all devices with the ability recover anywhere.

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The Backup Cloud Extension for Azure is available.

The Backup Cloud Extension for Microsoft Azure Stack will be available when Azure Stack is released by Microsoft.