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With the new Acronis Backup Cloud Extension for Azure, Microsoft CSPs can sell a unique hybrid cloud backup service from Acronis that provides broad protection in Microsoft environments, including across cloud and on-premises datacenters, physical and virtual machines, and mobile devices, all while utilizing their investments in Azure. Acronis protects data across a wide section of the Microsoft ecosystem, including Microsoft Exchange, Office365, SQL Server, SharePoint, Active Directory, as well as workstations, servers, Hyper-V hosts, and mobile computing platforms.

”AVANT focuses on supporting and enabling channel partners to become the trusted advisor in delivering the best next generation IT solutions”, said Drew Lydecker, President and Founder of AVANT communications.“You don’t want to be caught unprotected with today’s Public Cloud offerings.With the new Acronis Backup Cloud solution, our channel partners can provide more value to their end user customers and cover the data protection gaps that exist in today’s public cloud solutions.”

Acronis will demo this solution at ConnectWise’s Automation Nation event, June 20-22 in Orlando, Florida.

Blockchain Promises Huge Potential for Data Protection

The traditional fears of hardware failure and accidental deletion are no longer the sole reasons people fear data loss. Cyber-threats like ransomware, a type of malicious software designed to block access to a computer system and its data until a sum of money is paid, is a growing threat to individuals and businesses. According to Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), a partnership between the FBI and the nonprofit National White Collar Crime Center, between April 2014 and June 2015, the IC3 received 992 CryptoWall-related (ransomware) complaints, with victims reporting losses totaling over $18 million. Backup is one effective recovery option for CryptoWall-related attacks.

Acronis has made aggressive investments in cloud data protection and focuses its research and development efforts on developing cloud services solutions for service providers first, and then making them available as on-premises products. Acronis differs from other data protection vendors in that it delivers a complete cloud architecture and its solutions easily plug into existing service provider environments, while seamlessly supporting their management and business support systems. Acronis solutions feature automation of services that significantly reduces the total cost of ownership for data protection, and a scale-out architecture that can support millions of end users.

“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.”

The Acronis Partner Program for Cloud uses multiple tiers to distinguish and reward a partner’s sales performance, certification commitment and marketing collaboration. Incentives include stackable profit margins, incremental margins for deal registration, rebates and incremental accelerators. The program also features simplified partner on-boarding, free web-based sales tools and enablement programs, technical training, marketing programs and demand generation support, as well as co-op and market development fund programs.

Acronis Disaster Recovery Service is a complete IT business continuity solution that protects and restores data and fails over servers or entire data centers suffering from an outage. Acronis Disaster Recovery Service is a hybrid cloud service that replicates and backs up customer's data and systems to an on-site appliance and an Acronis cloud data center. For companies with a low tolerance for IT disruption, loss of data or applications unavailability, Acronis Disaster Recovery Service provides an all-in-one backup and DRaaS solution with push-button restore of applications and data.

Microsoft Intune provides cloud-based mobile device management, mobile application management, and PC management capabilities. Using Intune, organizations can provide their employees with access to corporate applications, data, and resources from virtually anywhere, while helping to keep company information secure. In addition to supporting Microsoft apps, some of the world's leading companies are now delivering applications with support for mobile application management via Microsoft Intune, including Acronis for protecting data on mobile devices.