Acronis Announces Availability of New Cloud Backup Solutions in Middle East Markets

Dubai – May 24, 2015 – Acronis®, the global leader in new generation data protection, today announced the availability of two new cloud backup solutions in Middle East markets. Acronis Backup Cloud enables service providers to sell, manage and deliver high value data protection and backup capabilities that create new revenue streams without a large upfront investment. Acronis Backup Service provides businesses with local and cloud backup services with bare metal recovery to any destination or system that can be purchased online directly from Acronis or from its resellers and partners with Acronis hosting and managing the services in an Acronis Data Center.

Acronis Backup Cloud: Safe, Secure, Scalable Offsite Backup and Disaster Recovery

Acronis Backup Cloud is a multi-tier / multi-tenant solution, providing local and hybrid storage of backed up data, local backup on customer premises, and local recovery plus recovery from the cloud.  The service provides advanced security, including SSL encryption of management channels and in-transit and at-rest AES256 data encryption.  Acronis has provided reliable cloud backup since 2010, and it recently opened data centres in Australia, Germany, Japan and the United Kingdom to complement those in place in the United States, France, Russia and Singapore.

Service providers across the globe have adopted Acronis Backup Cloud to expand their service portfolios to include backup and recovery. The new Acronis service is easy to adopt, provides a pay-for-use model and delivers complete protection that business customers require, including support for workstations, Windows, Linux, physical and virtual servers. Underscoring the growing trend of distributors building their businesses by provisioning cloud services, such market players are now delivering Acronis Backup Cloud through their Cloud Services Division.

“Opportunities currently abound for Service Providers providing cloud offers, including backup, secure file access, sync and sharing and disaster recovery solutions,” said John Zanni, Senior Vice President of Cloud Solutions at Acronis. “Acronis Backup Cloud gives them the ability to offer easy, complete and safe advanced data protection solution to their customers with a managed and monitored high-margin service that delivers security and scalability.”

Acronis Backup Service: Back Up Data from Any Source and Recover to Any Destination

Acronis Backup Service solves key data protection challenges with a complete and easy-to-manage service that provides data backup from any source, and data recovery to any destination and system. Acronis Backup Service enables organizations to capture, store, recover, control and access data in virtual, physical, cloud, and mobile environments - using one centralized web-based management console. The solution backs up physical and virtual servers and workstations to local storage or to Acronis’ secure data centers. Acronis Backup Service also recovers individual files and hard disks, as well as entire systems fast and easily. The easy-to-use web interface also reduces the IT team‘s workload so they can focus on the core business of the company.

“Acronis Backup Service is specifically designed to support end user cloud backup needs, as well as our partners without data centres that want to reinforce their backup portfolio,” added Zanni. “Acronis Backup Service is an ideal fit for Acronis distributors and resellers as it allows them to offer cloud backup and recovery services for all leading infrastructure platforms with no upfront costs and without changing the way they sell and do business.”