The recent Wannacry ransomware attacks have helped bring such cyberattacks to the forefront of enterprise security concerns.
With estimates from security vendors expecting them to grow at an exponential rate, mitigating and protecting against such attacks is now essential.
Acronis Backup 12.5 ensures the authenticity and integrity of data backups by storing backup file checksum certificates in the Ethereum blockchain database, but it also features automatic ransomware protection.
Acronis Backup 12.5 comes in comes in two editions: Standard and Advanced. With Acronis Backup 12.5 Standard, businesses can start small and have the ability to upgrade to the Advanced edition when their infrastructure grows large enough by simply switching out license keys.
Building upon the existing ease of use, reliability, and new hybrid cloud architecture of Acronis Backup 12, the new advanced functionality creates a powerful, feature-rich solution that supports more than 20 platforms. These include Windows, Office 365, Azure, Linux, Mac OS X, Oracle, VMWare, Hyper-V, Red Hat Virtualization, Linux KVM, Citrix XenServer, iOS, and Android:
Other key features include:
Admin roles and delegations
If your company operates from multiple locations, you can delegate data protection duties to IT staff in remote offices. You will still see, control, monitor, and report on the entire organization, but remote admins will take care of their own infrastructure. Best of all, remote admins will not be able to see each other office’s machines, reports, or dashboards.
Support for six hypervisors
Acronis Backup 12.5 has the capacity to protect your entire multi-hypervisor environment from a single console. You can protect VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix XenServer, Red Hat Virtualization, Linux KVM, and Oracle VM Server. You will see all your VMs and hosts in the same interface, schedule your backups, test them, and recover when needed – even to a different hypervisor, physical system, or the cloud.
Remote and automated bare-metal recovery
Now you can boot a bare-metal system from Acronis Bootable Media, and connect to it remotely from the web console! If you need to recover a server in the data center, you can simply ask your remote hands to insert the bootable media, press the power button, get the IP address, and connect to it remotely — that’s it! No need to waste time travelling to the data center — less hassle, and quicker recovery time objective (RTO).
Oracle Database backup and granular recovery
With Acronis Backup 12.5 Advanced Edition, you can back up the entire Oracle Database server, including the operating system, applications, configurations, and databases, and then restore select databases, tablespaces, or logs.
Moreover, this works on physical and virtualized Oracle Database servers, including the ones hosted in Microsoft Azure and Amazon EC2 clouds.
Improved tape support
The proven tape support that comes from the previous version is now available in the amazing web console. Now, you can:
- monitor the capacity and free space of pools and individual tapes,
- use new tape sets and improve rotation policies,
- manage tapes not just inside a library, but also at remote locations,
- store full backups and incremental backups on different tape sets.
- In addition, Acronis Backup 12.5 automatically detects new tape drives, autoloaders, and libraries. It also reads barcodes, simplifies and speeds up tape erasing and performs many other functions.
Advanced reporting
Acronis Backup 12.5 includes a large number of pre-defined reports based on the extensive feedback we gathered from our customers. In addition, amazing dashboard widgets can also be included in reports — you can add a diagram to your report with just a few clicks! Reports are customizable with filters, sorting, and field selection — you can easily satisfy your corporate reporting requirements. Moreover, you can get scheduled reports sent to you as a PDF (and other file formats) by email, or saved to a specific folder.
Acronis Active Protection
Acronis Backup 12.5 changes the world of data protection by introducing an industry-first active protection from ransomware. In addition to the reliable and proven backups, Acronis Backup 12.5 includes the Acronis Active Protection™ technology that proactively detects and stops unauthorized data encryption and reverts the effects, blocking ransomware at its root. With this technology and regular off-site backups, you will never pay a dime in ransom, and in many cases will not even need to recover! In short, with Acronis Backup 12.5, you get zero-RTO from ransomware attacks. Moreover, your backup files and backup agents will also be protected from unauthorized deletion or modification.