A recent press release states, “Acronis, a global leader in hybrid cloud data protection and storage currently celebrating its 15-year anniversary, today announced a new strategic partnership with Microsoft for deeper integration of Acronis’ data protection products with Microsoft’s Azure cloud services. Acronis provides complete data protection for all Microsoft workloads (including workstations, servers, applications and mobile devices), helping customers, resellers and service providers leverage the full power of Microsoft’s technology stack. Acronis also can backup Microsoft Azure workloads, with Acronis Backup and Acronis Backup Cloud. The new partnership will allow customers and service providers to even more easily store their data or clients’ data in the Azure cloud. Azure will be available as a storage destination option alongside Acronis Cloudand other public cloud vendors in future versions of Acronis products.”
The release goess on, “Today, Acronis partners and customers use Azure’s capacity for storing data, but it requires manual installation and configuration of the Acronis Backup Gateway. Acting on customer and partner requests, Acronis and Microsoft are working together on providing native integration of Acronis solutions with Azure services. Service providers can choose to buy their Azure storage directly from Microsoft, or Acronis can include the Azure storage costs as part of a single invoice. Native integration of Acronis’ data protection solutions with Azure will make Azure-based service more attractive and will help Microsoft partners drive more revenue. Service providers will be able to complement their Azure-based product offerings with Acronis’ easy, fast, and reliable data protection solutions augmented by Acronis Active Protection, an artificial intelligence-based defense against ransomware attacks. Together with Acronis, they will be able to drive more Azure usage and generate additional revenue by upselling data protection services to existing clients and using Acronis’ complete data protection as a differentiator in the crowded market space.”
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