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Best of Breed and Best of Suite – Can You Have Your Cake and Eat it Too?

Submitted by Kristin Webb on Fri, 05/24/2013 - 08:44

For a long time, IT had to make the choice: either implement a best-of-breed application that performs one function exceptionally well or a best-of-suite platform that offers multiple solutions that are often sub-par as vendors try to be too much to too many. The problem was only exacerbated as businesses looked to implement applications that provided a multitude of functions, such as data protection, backup, file syncing and sharing, as well as disaster recovery. Businesses found themselves constantly having to make a critical decision: should I look to more than one vendor and implement multiple best-of-breed solutions, or accept a lack of performance and functionality with a best-of-suite solution?

Acronis mobilEcho and Citrix Partnership Helps IT Manage Mobile Apps and On-Demand Data Access

Submitted by Anders Lofgren on Thu, 05/23/2013 - 09:42

Today we announce d a new relationship with Citrix! We are now a Citrix Ready Worx Verified partner with the integration of our secure mobile file management software, mobilEcho, into the Citrix Ready Worx Verified program.

What RPO Really Means

Submitted by Sergey Kandaurov on Tue, 05/21/2013 - 10:54

In a backup world, Recovery Point Objective (RPO) defines points you can recover to. For example, doing hourly backups will ensure that you can always recover to a state that is no later than an hour before a disaster. This is usually referred to as “one hour RPO.” But this is not enough. What if you need a file that was deleted a month ago? One-hour-old backup will not help: You need at least a month-old backup, or a year-old backup.

Rule #1: RPO should not only define the latest point you can recover to, but also a set of older points to which recovery is possible.

At the same time, keeping all backups forever is usually not a feasible option. With hourly backups, you would end up having about 8,760 recovery points every year, which becomes unmanageable very soon. It is not possible to keep all the recovery points and some will need to be deleted. However, simply deleting the oldest recovery points, when you reach a manageable limit (usually

Cloud-Enabled, Dual-Destination Backup

Submitted by Alex Sukennik on Wed, 05/15/2013 - 09:06

Data is the lifeblood of any business, and it’s growing at lightning speed year-over-year. In fact, it’s estimated that five exabytes of data are created every two days! But, as important as all this data is, could the majority of organizations honestly answer that they feel confident in the protection and constant availability of their mission-critical data? What about the company data employees store on personal devices like smartphones and tablets? Is it safe from security breaches, malware and malicious hacker attacks?

Without a comprehensive data protection strategy in place, the answer is most likely “no,” and it’s time for these organizations to start worrying.

Difficult Made Simple: Cloud Storage

Submitted by Andrey Zevakhin on Wed, 05/08/2013 - 10:31

In this modern computing world with a multitude of various trends and innovations, we sometimes find ourselves lost in between new technologies, terminologies and words. Why do we tend to make things more difficult than they have to be? That was my thought when I started planning a set of blog posts describing new computing trends in a simple way.

Even though it is popular today, cloud computing is still a mystery for a lot of computer users. We hear about it here and there, but what is it? Why is it good for me personally or for my business?

Here is a quick analogy to simplify the concept of cloud:

Are IT and Business Consumers Ready to Play Nice Together?

Submitted by Kristin Webb on Mon, 05/06/2013 - 09:49

As is the case at many conferences, a new industry term was born at Gartner’s recent Portals, Content and Collaboration Summit. In Ron Miller’s CITEworld write-up of the event, The Business Consumer: Don't call them "users", he explains why Gartner’s managing vice president and chief of research, and the event’s keynote speaker, Daryl Plummer, is tired of using the term “users” to describe employees who use IT services, offering the term “business consumers” as an alternative. Daryl isn’t the only one that’s contested the term “users” over the years, and, considering employees are also consumers

No Rest for the Wicked! Mobility Goes Global, MobileIron and Other Good Stuff!

Submitted by Anders Lofgren on Wed, 05/01/2013 - 09:52

We’ve had a couple of busy weeks in mobility. We had two regional launches of mobilEcho and activEcho – one in Munich, Germany and the other one in Tokyo, Japan. Both of these speak to the global nature of the customer problems we are trying to solve with our mobilEcho and activEcho solutions – how do mobile workers safely access corporate content on their mobile devices, how do employees securely share and collaborate and files, and how do they get access to all their files across all their devices? This is what we do! Said more simply, we provide every time, everywhere access, sharing and syncing of the critical data that drives your enterprise. And, like I said, these are universal problems that cut across almost all vertical markets and job roles.

We Need Your Help! Vote for Acronis to Speak on Data Protection for vCloud at VMworld

Submitted by Kristin Webb on Mon, 04/29/2013 - 10:23

For the past decade, VMWorld has been the conference where IT professionals come together to hear the latest and greatest in virtualization and cloud computing. And, this year’s San Francisco conference will be no different with attendees gathering to gain the knowledge and resources needed to innovate and improve their organization’s data center and virtual workspace environments.

Acronis will, once again, be in attendance, but, this year, we need your help! Our proposed speaking session alongside VMware, vCloud Backup and Recovery as a Service with Tenant Control – Deep Dive, is up for public voting in order to be selected among the presentations this August.

VOTE HERE: http://bit.ly/XWpfTG.

Acronis Eliminates BYOD Collaboration and File Sync Troubles

Submitted by Kristin Webb on Fri, 04/26/2013 - 09:49

As bring-your-own-device (BYOD) continues to take the enterprise by storm, with no signs of relenting, the market has had no choice but to adapt. For enterprises, this means adjusting IT practices in a way that enables employees to safely access company data and collaborate on personal devices. But, in a recent report, MarketScope for Enterprise File Synchronization and Sharing, Gartner explains why BYOD might not be quite as productive and collaborative as once thought. Thanks, in part, to devices’ fragmented support for file system access, synchronization and sharing, not only are productivity and collaboration sometimes stunted, but company data is still at risk.

With any challenge comes opportunity, and, with this in mind, some of the industry’s more innovative vendors have stepped up to the plate to address data alignment

Register for Next Thursday's Virtualization Webinar with Acronis and Scale Computing

Submitted by Kristin Webb on Wed, 04/24/2013 - 09:18

Join Acronis and Scale Computing for a live webinar to learn how you can save up to 60 percent of the costs associated with traditional, non-converged architectures while getting direct-attached performance between virtual server and virtual storage.

You will also learn how to:

Create a virtual machine in 60 seconds, and migrate in fewer than 10 seconds
Pair Acronis with Scale Computing's HC3 to create a highly available, completely protected platform for your applications and services
Get 20% off your total purchase of Acronis Backup and Recovery 11.5 licenses with the purchase of HC3

What: Highly Available and Completely Protected Virtual Infrastructure without IT Complexity

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