ENTERPRISE TECHNOLOGY
Systems in cloud
A smart set of tools from Acronis allows end-users to copy systems and
data into the cloud to be replicated at another location. By Arun Shankar
JOHN ZANNI,
CMO ACRONIS
M
ost enterprise organisations in
the region have a mixed portfolio
of physical servers and virtual
machines as well as multiple versions of
operating systems, system configurations,
applications and databases. The diversity of
system configurations, operating systems,
applications is likely to be even more in small
and medium enterprises. However, all types
of organisations face the same challenges
of executing backups of their data and
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SERGUEI BELOUSSOV,
CEO ACRONIS
increasingly being able to restore that data
in a prompt and effective fashion.
This requirement is often not as
straightforward as it appears. While a
host of on-premises and cloud solutions
exist to take backups of data, it is when an
organisation is under pressure to restore
the data within a time bound window,
that shortcomings become visible and
limitations dramatically appear. Market
movement towards an always-on business is
putting pressure on all types of organisation
to be able to operate without interruption
and recover their operations also without
interruption. As a consequence, the concept
of recovering IT assets, remotely and
without pre-conditions to the location and
configuration of the original system has also
become very fundamental.
While backup and restore of data has been
available for some time, solutions to backup
systems from end to end, and remotely
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