Acronis is ready for the Cloud, the Blockchain and the AI

Acronis has a clear strategy for 2019: the Cloud will be fundamental and will be even more important in cyber-security, cyber-protection services but also for automation. Mauro Papini, south Europe MED & Me country director of Acronis, talks openly about the new strategies of his leading company in the world of computer protection.

The will for 2019 is to grow in a year in which there will be not only consolidation but also an important transition to the ” cloud ” with new services capable of projecting companies to security through new technologies.

Acronis between technology and solutions

Acronis is known worldwide as a global leader in computer security. Over 25 locations in 18 countries, customers in over 150 countries and above all over 1000 employees, 50,000 partners and over 5,000 petabytes of protected data. Staggering numbers that make it clear what the value of Acronis that over the years has managed to achieve the title of the brand among the 100 of the greatest value.

The future speaks in the cloud and Acronis is well aware of this as it has decided to completely ” rewrite ” the codes of its most famous services from scratch, moving them completely to the cloud and decreeing more than 30% of turnover through this new solution.

” If the company has grown as a whole by 18% year on year, ” says Papini, ” the share of turnover of cloud services has grown, in Italy, by 156%, revealing a trend that has brought this line of offer to weigh. for 30% of the turnover of the region for which I am responsible. Acronis has approached the cloud from scratch with a correct strategy by completely rewriting each line of code of its applications instead of adapting the on-premise ones to the new paradigm, which still remain an important point in our offer. ”

The products for 2019 of Acronis are those seen for the companies but configured also on the so-called ” service providers “. A rich offer that of the company with the classic backup solutions for physical, virtual environments to which are also added those in the cloud, mobile and for applications.

A reference also to innovative services based on blockchain technologies, such as data authentication and digital signature (Acronis Notary), and artificial intelligence, such as new-generation anti-ramsonware solutions.

Here are the services for companies :

• Acronis (Backup) : Integrated backup on cloud / on-premise for 21 types of physical, virtual, cloud, user and mobile systems.
• Acronis Disaster (Recovery Service) : A complete disaster-recovery service for the IT infrastructure, including failover of servers and cloud data centers.
• Acronis Files Advanced : Business solution for accessing, synchronizing and sharing files for complete protection and compliance.
• Acronis Files Connect : File sharing and printing solution for the integration of macs in the company.
• Acronis Snap Deploy : IT systems provisioning solution for workstations and servers.
• Acronis Monitoring Service : Unified monitoring in SaaS mode for cloud, on-premise and hybrid infrastructures.

And those for service providers :

• Acronis Backup Cloud : Hybrid cloud backup solution to protect all customer systems and devices.
• Acronis DR Cloud : Integrated backup and disaster-recovery solution designed for service providers.
• Acronis Files Cloud : Cloud access, synchronization and file sharing solution for customers who are service providers.
• Acronis Software-Defines Infrastructure : Scalable and convenient software-defined infrastructure for modern data centers.
• Acronis Notary Cloud : Authentication solution for blockchain-based service providers.

Finally for individuals :

• Acronis True Image : Backup solution with complete image of the original disk for private users.
• Acronis Ransomware Protection : Free and field-tested ransomware protection.
• Acronis Revive : Rapid recovery of accidentally or prematurely deleted files.

Five major Acronis innovations for 2019. On the one hand, AnyData Technology is a reliable protection of any workload in any environment, with tens of millions of workloads in over 15 years. Even the software-defined infrastructure is a scalable, economical, high-performance, multi-function infrastructure for processing, storage and networking.

Hybrid cloud architecture for total control and flexibility for data management, data confidentiality and partner activity control. The Blockchain is important with digital authentication, electronic signatures, verification of authenticity and correspondence of data and much more. Last but not least, artificial intelligence with behavioral security, automatic configuration, management of data classification precisely assisted by artificial intelligence.

Finally, the new features for Acronis Data Cloud include :

• Complete protection for Microsoft Office 365 with online backup, OneDrive for Business and Sharepoint Online.
• Protection against improved ransomware (including protection of network folders and monitoring of removable devices. I work at the file level to check for cases of abnormal actions on them with recursive encryption. In this case the system ” stops ” and restores the file cache correctly and in the correct position).
• New service: ACRONIS NOTARY CLOUD (certification solution and digital signature of data based on blockchain for Service Providers).

Acronis is also ” Sponsor and Foundation “

Partnerships are another fundamental commitment for the company that already allows many sports companies to have the guarantee on computer protection. Acronis works closely with motorsport and football companies among the such as: Arsenal, Manchester City, Williams, SportPesa Racing and many others, Acronis’ goal is to find other partnerships by becoming a recognized provider of software technologies, not least the blocking of a dangerous ramsonware that has appeared in Williams and blocked with the Acronis service.

The company then decided to create the Acronis Foundation, a foundation dedicated to the construction of some schools around the world in countries or small villages where economic but also social difficulties would not allow children to study. The company has already built and opened 3 schools and between 2019 and within the next two years, it will be able to open 12 more.