Acronis has launched a range of new solutions that allow businesses and IT managers to gain greater control of their company data.

The new solutions are based on the company’s new hybrid cloud architecture and supports data protection and recovery across most IT environments, including Microsoft Azure and Office 365.

“Today, Acronis is launching a new era of data protection by moving from full image device protection to full image digital business protection,” said Serguei Beloussov, co-founder and CEO at Acronis. “We’re combining the world’s fastest backup solution with the industry’s most flexible storage options and non-stop monitoring to provide complete data protection for today’s ‘always-on’ digital business.”

The new releases include Acronis Backup 12, Acronis Backup Cloud, Acronis Monitor, Acronis Storage and Acronis Notary.

Acronis Backup 12 backs up data on-premise, in remote systems, in private and public clouds and on mobile devices.

Acronis Backup Cloud has been built to fit within service provider environments, while the Acronis Monitoring Service allows IT managers to monitor services, networks, applications and websites more easily.

Acronis Storage provides software-defined storage that support any type and volume of data with reliable, resilient, self-healing features.

Acronis Notary meanwhile delivers ‘tamper-proof’ data storage leveraging blockchain technology. This helps ensure data authenticity, privacy and control.

“Ensuring that the right type and quality of data is preserved and available when necessary has become even more challenging in today’s digital world,” said Phil Goodwin, research director, IDC. “Today’s hybrid cloud IT environments and massive increase in cloud workloads are forcing IT Managers to rethink older methodologies to maintain greater control over their critical business data, while replacing current business processes with newer ones to ensure that crucial data assets are in fact preserved and available.”

Originally posted The Record 22 July 2016