GEC NEWS WIREAccording to Acronis, the most critical parts of disaster recovery planning are the disaster recovery strategy and the detailed recovery plan. It is here that you will codify the necessary steps to take to get up and running again following an unplanned outage. Guurprit Ahuja, Director – Middle East & Africa, Acronis talks about how the newly added enhancements to the Backup cloud will support granular recovery and bring added advantage to the customers.
1. Enterprise backup volumes increase as greater number of devices and data types are incorporated into backup sets. How prepared is the regional organizations for the M2M world?
In the M2M market development that is moving towards an Internet of Things (IoT) future, security will require a holistic approach and must become a core component of an enterprise’s consideration when using M2M to achieve business objectives. Organizations are very keen about the security and privacy of their data and their environment.
2. Organizations are adding DR to their overall IT strategy as compliance requirements are escalating. What would be your advice to the organizations?
Arguably the most critical parts of disaster recovery planning are the disaster recovery strategy and the detailed recovery plan. It is here that you will codify the necessary steps to take to get up and running again following an unplanned outage. The disaster recovery strategy and detailed recovery plan are based on a risk assessment and business impact analysis of any organization and the understanding of the systems most critical to the business and what you need to do to get them working again in an acceptable time frame.
3. 2016 has been the year for the virtual data center. What are the key parameters to be kept in mind while deploying data centric solutions?
The key parameters to keep in mind while deploying data centric solutions are as follows:
- is your data classified? Is it tagged? Is there metadata associated with it that will identify it when it’s crawled by a DLP solution or when somebody else opens up that data?
- How do you need to use your business-critical data (e.g. to process transactions, deliver customer service, perform market and customer analytics, etc.)?
- Where is all of your data being stored and used?
- Do you have clearly defined policies and rules in place to govern the handling, processing and storage of data?
- Do you have a comprehensive knowledge of everyone who has access to your sensitive data?
- is your critical and sensitive data being backed up , how often do you back it up and how quickly can you recover it?
4. How has BaaS adoption and reception been in the region? Tell us about the newly added enhancements to the Acronis Backup Cloud?
As the Cloud market is increasing, Acronis has been innovating in its Acronis Backup Cloud solution to meet customer demand. Currently, Acronis has more than 3000 Petabytes of customer data on its cloud with over 500.000+ of consumers. Acronis Backup Cloud v6.0 supports backing up a wider range of platforms and applications with granular recovery of the items including Office 365, Microsoft Azure and Amazon VMs and mobile devices backup.
5. What are your latest offerings in the software defined storage space?
With Acronis Software defined storage, a Managed Service Provider can backup his customers’ data to Acronis Cloud, Microsoft Azure Cloud, Amazon S3 storage or to his own Storage array in his datacenter. Acronis Storage defined storage makes it easier on the Service Provider to manage multiple customer levels from SMBs up to mid and enterprise, complying with the service provider’s country rules and regulations once it comes to data sovereignty.
6. How would Ingram Micro training platform add value to Acronis channel? What would be the key add ons?
Ingram Micro, our Distributor for both On premise and cloud solutions offers trainings to all Acronis Partners to educate them about Acronis products, and to give them background knowledge to engage potential customers and answer their questions. The training Ingram offers covers Acronis’ patented data protection technologies, value propositions and positioning of the backup, cloud and access product lines, as well as details about licensing models and main benefits of partnership with Acronis.
