Acronis

Since 2003, Acronis has delivered data protection solutions to over 500,000 businesses.

Acronis believe that data, applications, systems and productivity should be protected from cyberattacks, hardware failure, natural disaster or human error, lowering risks against loss, theft and downtime. Protecting every workload, Acronis have created an all-in-one cyber protection solution for businesses regardless of size. Utilising a unique combination of automation and integration to gain all the prevention, detection, response, recovery and forensic capabilities to safeguard all of your workloads and streamlining your protection efforts.

Acronis provide Cybersecurity, data protection and endpoint management support for any environment; physical, virtual, cloud, application, mobile and endpoints. Ensuring protection, security and productivity for small businesses, medium-sized businesses and enterprise level organisations.

Small Business Solutions

• Easy Backup
• Disaster Recovery
• Disk Management
• System Monitoring
• System Deployment

Disk Imaging Backup protects your business with reliable backup images of your entire system, files, or data. Store your backups on local disks, network storage, and the cloud and easily recover a complete image or selected files, folders, items and applications.

Cloud Protection protects Microsoft 365 mailboxes, Microsoft Azure VM’s and Amazon EC2 cloud workloads. Migrate workloads easily between cloud, virtual and physical machines.

Virtual Server Protection mitigates risks with agentless and agent-based backups and recovery of your Virtual Machines and hosts on any six supported hypervisors.

Increase user satisfaction and reduce data loss with Microsoft Business Applications for O365, Exchange, SQL Server, Share Point and Active Directory with the ability to restore individual emails, folders, documents, databases or your entire system.

With Acronis Active Protection, you can proactively protect data, applications and systems from ransomware attacks. As well as improve the security of your data with at-source AES-256 encryption of your backups and metadata.

Mid-sized Business Solutions

• Complete Backup
• Mass System Deployment
• Faster Disaster Recovery
• Disk Management
• Secure File Sync & Share
• System Monitoring
• Mac Integration

Protect your business with easy to use backup. Get back to business quickly with reliable recovery using trusted technologies, prevent ransomware attacks with Acronis Active Protection, which detects and defends against unauthorised encryption of files and backups.

Data Protection for Enterprises

• Full Disk-Imaging Backup
• Mass System Deployment
• Faster Disaster Recovery
• Mac Integration
• Disk Management
• Secure File Sync & Share
• System Monitoring

Quickly restore operations with reliable recovery. Prevent ransomware attacks with Acronis Active Protection that detects and defends data from unauthorised encryption of files and backups. Improve resilience regardless of location with fast, disk-imaging backup and automated recovery.

Disaster Recovery

Acronis Cyber Backup allows you to recover individual files, application data, or the entire virtual platform, all from a centralised management console that is easy to use and administrate. It also offers the flexibility to restore to the original or new location, including recovery to a completely different hypervisor. With the implementation of Acronis, you are able to make geographic backups and adhere to the industry best practice of the 3-2-1 rule, that is, three copies of data on at least two different types of media and one copy physically outside the company.

Every company needs to define its acceptable costs and losses in the event of a disaster:

• Recovery Time Objective (RTO) — the time calculated from the moment of the disaster to the moment production operations are back online.
• Recovery Point Objective (RPO) — how much data the business can afford to lose, defined by the length of time before the DR event up to the moment the DR event occurs and specified in seconds, minutes, hours, or days. This provides you with the maximum tolerable time that data can be lost.

To determine the RTO, the maximum amount of time that your company can operate without critical systems, you need to analyse the business processes, operations, downtime costs, and available budget. For RPO, your organization may want to preserve 100% of your data — but it may not be economically feasible to do so in every case. Most companies identify RTOs and RPOs for different parts of the business. For example, the RTO for online customer systems will be much shorter than the RTO for the company’s email system. Likewise, the RPO for sales and customer data may be much shorter than the RPO for the email system.

Using the Acronis RPO/RTO combination will help you identify the type of DR solution you will need. For example:

• For an RTO of 24+ hours, a cold DR solution is sufficient. In a cold DR solution, you back up your data and keep backup copies off-site.
• RTO of one hour will require a warm DR solution. Warm DR means that hardware is ready at a DR facility; however, the operating systems and data are restored after the disaster strikes.
• RTO of 15 minutes will require hot DR with ready standby systems. Hardware, operating systems, and data are replicated periodically and are operationally ready on demand.
• RTO of seconds or zero RTO will require live, fault-tolerant, long-distance replication. In general, with shorter RTO, the total cost of ownership (TCO) of the DR solution grows exponentially. It is important to identify and quantify the losses associated with a disaster to estimate the break-even point of downtime versus the cost of the DR solution.

Digital Pathways can work with you to optimise your solution to meet the business requirements for RTO with the best ROI.

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