Updated Acronis Backup Enterprise Backup Solution

Acronis International GmbH updated its enterprise backup solution Acronis Backup, introducing physical data shipping, cross-platform VM conversion, protection from cryptomining malware, and localization to seven additional languages.

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This update, which is free for existing Acronis Backup users with an active maintenance contract or subscription, also increases the number of devices that can be managed from a single management server to 8,000, allowing users to protect all data, applications, and systems from an easy-to-use web interface.

“This is by far the largest Acronis Backup update to date. We listened to our users and brought the features that they requested. Acronis Backup is the most secure backup in the market, which is why it is trusted by more than 500,000 businesses worldwide,” said Patrick Hurley, VP and GM Americas, Acronis.

Extended functionality
This update adds several features, including:

• Physical data shipping: Ability to protect large amounts of data by sending encrypted versions of full backups to a company’s data center on a HDD.

• Extended scalability: Opportunity to save infrastructure resources by managing up to 8,000 devices from a single management server.

• Enhanced user experience: Ability to organize, group and filter devices via a new comment feature, and efficiently schedule backups through a new performance and backup window.

• Localization to 7 additional languages: Bulgarian, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, Serbian, Malay, Indonesian.

• Improved active protection: Detection of cryptomining malware, protection of network folders mapped as local drives.

• Cross-platform conversion: Ability to convert backup files into VM files (VHDX, VMDK formats ready) capable of running on VMware Workstation and Hyper-V hypervisors.

• Support for additional OSs and hypervisors:

• • • Exchange Server 2019

    • Windows Server 2019 with Hyper-V

    • Hyper-V Server 2019

    • vSphere 6.7 update 1

    • Xenserver 7.6

    • RHEL 7.6

    • Ubuntu 18.10

    • Fedora 25, 26, 27, 28, 29

    • Debian 9.5, 9.6

    • Windows XP SP1 (x64), SP2 (x64), (x86)

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Approach to cyber protection
The company is enhancing its technology to ensure all of its solutions address the Five Vectors of Cyber Protection – safety, accessibility, privacy, authenticity, and security of data (SAPAS). That approach ensures that a company’s data is protected from modern cyber threats, while it remains easily accessible and verifiable.

As a result of this approach, the firm is recognized as a Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for Data Center Backup and Recovery Solutions, and is selected by an increasing number of brands, manufacturers, and sports teams to protect their critical data. Acronis was also awarded the highest possible score in two recent reports from tech industry research firm G2 Crowd: the Grid Report for Server Backup, Winter 2019, and the Enterprise Grid Report for Server Backup, Winter 2019.

“We partnered with Acronis as part of our digital transformation strategy. Acronis’ technology helped us to optimize cyber protection and reduce our backup window from days to hours, making our operations in the factory and at the track more efficient and secure,” said Graeme Hackland, CIO, ROKiT Williams Racing Formula One team.

Bradley Silverman, technical operations,Ventra IP, Australia’s largest privately-owned web host and domain name registrar  echoed the sentiment: “We used Acronis technology in a recent mass server migration project. Previously a similar job took more than 82 hours to complete. With Acronis, it only took seven hours. It helped us to reduce the maintenance window, which made our system administrators and customers very happy.“

Growth and outlook
This update comes on the back of the company strong performance, achieving 20% Y/Y net billing growth in 2018, 160% cloud business growth, and 400 additional employees, Including more than 100 in R&D offices in Tempe, AZ and Sofia, Bulgaria. That growth is set to accelerate throughout 2019.

New users can download a free, fully functional 30-day trial of Acronis Backup to try the solution for themselves. The trial download is available.