Acronis Backup as a Service version 3 available for inclusion in service provider portfolios

Acronis, the new-generation data protection provider, has announced the availability of Acronis Backup as a Service version 3 to address the growing trend of distributors building their businesses by provisioning cloud services. 

Powered by the Acronis AnyData Engine, Acronis Backup as a Service includes a turnkey solution for service providers hosted in Acronis data centres, a hybrid offer with Acronis hosted management console leveraging service provider’s local storage, and a complete service provider hosted and managed deployment.

Acronis Backup as a Service is a multi-tier / multi-tenant solution, providing local and hybrid storage of backed up data, local backup on customer premise, and local recovery plus recovery from cloud. The service provides advanced security, including SSL encryption of management channels and in-transit and at-rest AES256 data encryption. 

Source: Acronis. Beloussov.

Acronis has provided reliable cloud backup since 2010, and recently opened data centres in Germany and Japan to complement those in place in the US, France, Russia and Singapore in order to support international cloud business growth.

“Opportunities abound for service providers, including backup, secure file access and sharing and disaster-recovery solutions,” said Serguei Beloussov, CEO and Co-founder of Acronis. “Acronis Backup as a Service gives them the ability to offer advanced data protection to their customers with an easily managed and monitored high-margin service that delivers security and scalability.”