Acronis has released its Acronis Backup and Acronis Backup Advanced solutions, and its Acronis Backup Cloud solution. Ideal for small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs), the new Acronis Backup solutions come with new features that simplify the upgrade to Acronis Backup 12 solution.
According to Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), data backup and recovery consistently rank among the top IT priorities for organizations of all sizes, but especially for midsized organizations. At the same time, today’s businesses face new challenges when it comes to data protection, including huge increases in data volume, man-made and natural disasters, and cyber-threats.
“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.”
Acronis says the products provide one-click recovery of individual files, application data, or a complete system—all from a single backup.
The company says the Acronis Backup and Acronis Backup Advanced 11.7 are the best-performing releases to date and prepare both existing and new customers for a seamless move to version 12.
Acronis Backup supports five to 50 employees and one to five servers. Acronis Backup Advanced supports 50 to 1,000 employees and five to 100 servers.
The new 11.7 versions offers new subscription licensing options that protect an SMB’s entire datacenter without upfront capital expenses.
Variable block deduplication adds the ability to store 24 times more data with the same amount of RAM, reducing overall storage costs. Customers will also achieve quicker recovery time objectives (RTOs) and lower downtime costs with up to 40% faster recovery from deduplicated storage.
The new versions also enables backup of network file system (NFS) shared folders and delivers improved backup to NFS-based Network Attached Storage (NAS), SMB/CIFS, FTP and SFTP.
Operating systems it supports include Microsoft Exchange 2016, Microsoft Windows 10, Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Tech Preview 4, VMware vSphere 6, Linux kernel up to 4.4, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.x.
Acronis Backup Cloud, version 5
The new Acronis Backup Cloud version 5 offers a preview of the Acronis Backup 12 experience.
Acronis Backup Cloud is a hybrid cloud backup service that makes it easy for SMBs to manage protecting devices no matter where they are located or where the business wants the backup stored – either locally, in the cloud or both.
The new version of Acronis Backup Cloud features automated service management tools that enables service providers to better manage consumption, quotas and backup alerts, resulting in time-savings and increased revenues.
Self-service backup monitoring provides greater control of the backup process for end users, including viewing of backup progress and the ability to protect machines with a single click after the agent installation.
Meanwhile, a centralized dashboard allows end users to view alerts and conduct audits from a single location and management console.