Acronis empowers partners with Acronis #CyberFit Academy

Source: Acronis. Key visual announcing the Acronis #CyberFit Academy.

Acronis, a global cyberprotection provider, has launched the Acronis #CyberFit Academy, a training and certification programme designed to help channel partners position, sell, and deploy cyberprotection solutions. The initiative was announced at the Acronis Global Cyber Summit 2020.

With plans to train one million people by 2022, the platform’s mission is to ensure partners become experts in cyberprotection and can connect clients with the solutions that best meet their needs.

Acronis partners and their clients can take an Acronis #CyberFit Academy course at their own convenience. The training is provided to partners completely online and in bite-sized portions, aligned with the idea of 24x7 learning.

“The success of Acronis is built on the success of our partners, which makes it critical for us to have an active and scalable education engine for the entire Acronis ecosystem,” said Serguei “SB” Beloussov, founder and CEO of Acronis.

“By delivering valuable content in a simplified way directly to service providers, their staff, and their clients, Acronis is empowering our partners with the tools they need to succeed.”

The platform will offer training and brand-new #CyberFit certification courses in more than 20 languages focused on three major areas – sales, technical, and developer training. Professional instructors will lead all courses, which are built using an engaging delivery format that features whiteboarding, video and animation, lab work, and live panel discussions. 

The progressive course structure features in-depth exercises, practical use cases, and exams designed to ensure participants take away practical, applicable knowledge from the training:

• Sales training

These courses are designed to advise sales and marketing professionals on how to best position Acronis products and to give them the background knowledge needed to engage potential customers and answer their questions.

• Technical training.

Designed to provide IT professionals with broad knowledge about the usage of both Acronis Cyber Cloud and Acronis Cyber Protect 15 software solutions, these hands-on sessions allow participants to learn and test product functionality for both products.

• Developer training.

This course is designed to provide application developers with knowledge on automation and integration to third-party applications in Acronis Cyber Cloud. This hands-on training allows participants to learn and test all product functionality in the cloud.

All Acronis solutions are designed to address the Five Vectors of Cyber Protection, ensuring the safety, accessibility, privacy, authenticity, and security (SAPAS) of an organization’s data, applications, and systems.

In addition to the training available for partners, the Acronis #CyberFit Academy will offer programmes for its own employees and end users. “We want the Acronis #CyberFit Academy to be an educational engine for all training and enablement for every member of the Acronis community: from employees to channel partners to end-users, and anyone that wants to be #CyberFit,” said Righter Kunkel, who is heading the Acronis #CyberFit Academy. “Our goal is to train over a million people by 2022.”

Acronis now has more than 1,500 employees in 33 locations in 18 countries. Its solutions are trusted by more than 5.5 million home users and 500,000 companies, including 100% of the Fortune 1000, and top-tier professional sports teams. Acronis products are available through 50,000 partners and service providers in over 150 countries in more than 40 languages.

Details:

The courses are available through the Acronis Partner Portal and will be made available via local training partners, as well as company’s own channels. Acronis can also customise courses for partners.

As a launch offer, all 2020 training sessions and certification courses will be offered to existing partners free of charge. A learning subscription can also be added to an account so that partners can add their clients to training sessions about specific products.