Acronis, the hybrid cloud data protection provider, has announced its new Acronis Backup Cloud Extension for Microsoft Azure and Azure Stack. The new offerings enable Microsoft cloud services providers (CSPs) to easily provision and manage a range of backup services across physical and virtual environments, while supporting the broad range of devices in use by businesses today.
By plugging Acronis Backup Cloud into Azure or Azure Stack environments, Microsoft CSPs can offer more complete backup and data protection services to customers. Today's small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are in particular need of data protection, Acronis has pointed out, facing increases in data volume, complex computing environments, more digital business processes and mobile workers, as well as manmade and natural disasters and cyber threats. Nearly half (48%) of all SMBs run both virtual and physical systems, and almost 60% of SMBs use mobile devices for work-related activities.
With the new Acronis Backup Cloud Extension for Azure, Microsoft CSPs can sell a unique hybrid cloud backup service from Acronis that provides broad protection in Microsoft environments, including across cloud and on-premises data centres, physical and virtual machines, and mobile devices, all while utilising their investments in Azure. Acronis protects data across a wide section of the Microsoft ecosystem, including Microsoft Exchange, Office365, SQL Server, SharePoint, Active Directory, as well as workstations, servers, Hyper-V hosts, and mobile computing platforms.
Acronis also enables Microsoft CSPs to work with Azure virtual machines (Linux or Windows). Acronis services can protect new Azure virtual machines in addition to backing up physical or virtual machines on premises, and migrating to an Azure virtual machine.
Migration capabilities include moving on-premises workloads from servers running on Windows or Linux to Azure, and moving workloads from other public clouds, such as AWS to Azure.
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