Acronis Cyber Infrastructure V.4.0 Enhancing Cyber Protection and Performance for Workloads at Edge by “up to 50%”

Acronis International GmbH released its Cyber Infrastructure 4.0, an update to the company’s software-defined infrastructure solution.

Featuring more than 350 capabilities and enhancements, the update helps the company’s partners and end users improve the performance and manageability of their infrastructure while strengthening the security and availability of their data.

With 31% of companies reporting daily cyber-attacks and 50% being targeted at least once a week, organizations can face costly downtime and direct financial losses. Yet too many IT teams and MSPs still rely on a patchwork of legacy solutions, which is expensive, time-consuming, and complicated to maintain – and the lack of solution integration still leaves gaps in the defenses.

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As a scale-out, cost-efficient, multi-purpose storage solution for cyber protection, Cyber Infrastructure is a fast and universal building-block for any software-defined data center or edge workload. It uses standard hardware and combines block, file, and object storage workloads with compute and software-defined network capabilities.

“Given the speed of business today, organizations require security, availability, and reliable performance from their infrastructure,” said Serguei ‘SB’ Beloussov, founder and executive officer. “In delivering on our vision of comprehensive cyber protection, integrating Acronis Cyber Infrastructure is a critical component for many of our customers and partners, which is why the enhancements we’ve made as part of this update are so vital.“

Among the performance-enhancing changes, erasure coding improves writing performance and latency for hybrid and all flash tiers up to 50%. Similarly, enhancements to storage networking have increased the performance of multi-thread workloads – with random reads improving up to 40%.

This update also ensures the safety, accessibility, privacy, authenticity, and security (SAPAS) of an organization’s data, applications, and systems.

What’s new in Cyber Infrastructure 4.0
Among the notable features included in the update are:

• Improved manageability

  • • Flexible reconfiguration of cluster networking is available with an automated procedure that allows changes to the configuration of network roles or IP addresses in the cluster.

    • Customize S3 geo-replication on the user/bucket level.

    • Improved monitoring for S3 and NFS services.

    • Set storage limits for IO/s and bandwidth for protected workloads and secure stable storage performance.

• Heightened availability

  • • Increase data availability by spreading storage data among new failure domains: room, row, and rack. A failure domain defines a scope within which services might go down together.

• Enhanced security

  • • Management of access to S3 geo-replication is available for buckets with access control lists.

    • Users can enable the access log via Amazon S3 API and get detailed information about the objects in their buckets.

Cyber Infrastructure is used in Acronis data centers around the world, which support millions of workloads and more than 5,000PB from 500,000 businesses. It is technology that enables them to build their cyber protection strategy with confidence.

For the full changelog, including all enhancements in Cyber Infrastructure 4.0, refer to the release notes available.

Acronis Cyber appliance

In addition to running on istandard hardware, it also comes pre-installed on Acronis Cyber Appliance. The integration of hardware and software delivers a plug-and-play compatibility that ensures fast, hassle-free deployments in any location, and provides seamless support for other cyber protection solutions like Acronis Cyber Protect and Cyber Cloud.

In addition to the version 4.0 enhancement, Acronis Cyber Appliance also delivers new capabilities, including the ability to be added to an existing cluster that’s deployed on another appliance or other hardware. Users can also view any available network interface and connectivity options during the installation, making it a better fit for the physical network infrastructure of an existing data center.

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