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WerX Technologies
Acronis Backup-as-a-Service Enhances Cloud Service Portfolio, Solves Customer Data Protection Challenges
Kuala Lumpur, February 11, 2015 – Acronis®, the global leader in new generation data protection, today announced the availability of Acronis Backup as a Service version 3. Acronis Backup-as-a-Service (BaaS) delivers high value data protection capabilities that create new revenue streams for partners without a large upfront investment.
Powered by the Acronis AnyData Engine, Acronis Backup-as-a-Service provides unparalleled deployment flexibility, including a turnkey solution for service providers hosted in Acronis data centers, a hybrid offer with Acronis hosted management console leveraging service provider’s local storage, and a complete service provider hosted and managed deployment.
Service providers like WerX® Technologies SB as well as key distributor have adopted Acronis Backup-as-a-Service technology to offer backup and recovery service in order to provide a new revenue streams without large upfront investments to the Malaysian market. The service is easy to adopt, provides a pay-for-use model and provides complete protection that customers require, including support for workstations, Windows, Linux, physical and virtual servers. Underscoring the growing trend of distributors building their businesses by provisioning cloud services, such market players are now delivering Acronis Backup as a Service through their Cloud Services Division.
“Acronis Backup-as-a-Service enables us to effectively protect customer data with a tailored, comprehensive, reliable, and cost-effective service. The Acronis solution’s key feature allows Partners like WerX® Technologies SB the ability to white label the backup as a service offering, was a determining factor in our software choice”, said Mr Serguei Beloussov, Founder & CEO, Acronis. “And, support for Openstack enables us to natively use open source CEPH storage technology to significantly reduce our storage costs, while also giving us unprecedented performance, flexibility, and scalability.”
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. Acronis has provided reliable cloud backup since 2010, and recently opened data centers in Germany and Japan to complement those in place in United States, France, Russia and Singapore in order to support international cloud business growth.
“Acronis Backup-as-a-Service provide us the capability to offer advanced data protection to end-users with an easy managed and monitored high-quality service that delivers security and scalability with it’s one of a kind multi-tier/multi-tenant BaaS platform. With this capability it allows the channel partners to provide seamless capability to control and manage their end customers with confidence thus providing a new method for off-site backup to Cloud Storage located locally in Malaysia.” said William Wong, VP, Business Development at Werx® Technologies SB & ServerWare® SB. “Acronis BaaS not only enhances opportunities for service providers & resellers but via our channel partner program, it also brings a new stream of revenue without any entry cost to the channel partners.”
Learn more about Acronis Backup-as-a-Service by visiting http://www.acronis.com/en-us/provider/backup-as-a-service/
About WerX® Technologies Sdn Bhd
WerX® Technologies SB (www.serverware.com.my/werxbaas/) is a full subsidiary of ServerWare SB (www.serverware.com.my). The core business of WerX® Technologies is to focus Cloud Backup and Restoration services for businesses and enterprises via partner channel program with local service provider, VARs and System Integrators.
About ServerWare® Sdn Bhd
ServerWare® SB is a Total Solution Server Provider in Malaysia and ranked #1 Malaysian local brand servers by IDC. ServerWare® is a Malaysian distributor for Supermicro® & Quanta® range of servers, and Tyrone® range of SAN storage products to Malaysian market. Besides distributing the above mentioned products, ServerWare® specializing in into building blocks solutions on servers for a broad base in the market requirement. Major market involvement is provisioning and providing server building block to the local DC and hosting space.
About Acronis
Acronis sets the standard for New Generation Data Protection through its backup, disaster recovery, and secure access solutions. Powered by the AnyData Engine and set apart by its image technology, Acronis delivers easy, complete and safe file access and sharing as well as backups of all files, applications and OS across any environment—virtual, physical, cloud and mobile.
Founded in 2002, Acronis protects the data of over 5 million consumers and 300,000 businesses in over 130 countries. With its more than 100 patents, Acronis’ products have been named best product of the year by Network Computing, TechTarget and IT Professional and cover a range of features, including migration, cloning and replication.
For additional information, please visit www.acronis.com.
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Media Contacts:
Katya Turtseva, Acronis
ET@acronis.com Tel: +65 9672 9306
Vishwesh Iyer, THINK Public Relations
Vishwesh@THINKPRapac.com Tel: +65 9101 8487
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