Have you ever wondered what the benefits of adding Acronis to your dedicated server are? Such a small add-on may not seem like it would make much of a difference or benefit you. However, in the blog below, we will discuss the advantages of integrating Acronis with your Dedicated Servers. From data protection to flexible storage, Acronis can provide many benefits to your server, helping your business to run smoothly.
Data Protection
Data is an essential part of business operations. It is therefore crucial to protect data from unauthorized access, deletion, or modification, whether intentional or accidental, through safeguards that limit accessibility to the data. Besides data loss and interrupted business operations, data breaches can also damage a company’s reputation with customers if the customer’s data is lost. Acronis backup therefore ensures the safeguard of current operations, but also future business opportunities and customer loyalty and trust.
Acronis backup is used to create recoverable copies of data, in case the original data is lost or compromised. It lets you recover your systems if any malware manages to get past your security defenses. Therefore, by using Acronis you’ll have peace of mind knowing that your data is safe and secure and that you have a way to prevent permanent data loss.
Efficient Backup Solutions
Efficient backup equips you to quickly restore your system so that you can keep running operations with less downtime. At Leaseweb, we are connected to Acronis datacenters across the world, providing our customers with options to choose the datacenter that will provide them with the lowest latency between their data and the backup locations. This is for latency of the backups itself and for the data recovery.
Aspects that make Acronis a reliable solution:
- Off-site cloud backup in various locations that isolates your data from local device failure.
- Incremental and differential backups, deduplication and compression to help save you resources.
- Easy to manage backup deployments through a single intuitive web-based console.
- Customizable backup and retention policies to suit your business and IT needs.
- Backup of Windows® servers and Linux® servers.
- AES-256 data encryption in transit and at rest.
- File and disk-image backup – i.e. back up individual files or back up the entire system as a single file, to facilitate recovery of your dedicated server.
Disaster Recovery
In case of data loss, it is important to have a way of recovering the lost data quickly so that business operations are not interrupted, or interruptions can be limited. Acronis helps you restore data faster with best-in-industry RTOs by immediately starting your backup as a Windows or Linux virtual machine directly from storage. You can therefore have your VM up and running in mere seconds, while Acronis Instant Restore technology moves your data to the host in the background.
This allows Acronis to effectively address:
- Day-to-day backup of critical data to ensure less downtime and risk to business operations.
- Backup strategies for data migrations and full server recovery.
- Scalable backup solution for planned and unplanned high-risk operations.
Secure Cloud Migration
Businesses migrate their websites, servers or cloud for various reasons, such as reduced costs, improved performance, advanced security, convenience etc. During the migration process, data is moved from one location to another, which creates risk for possible data loss due to human error or cyber-attacks. Having a secure data migration strategy is critical to ensure a seamless cloud migration process, while giving you the peace of mind that you have implemented a safeguard against permanent data loss.
Acronis backup gives you the opportunity to back up your full server prior to migration so that you can easily and quickly restore the data in the new location in case of data loss during the migration process. This therefore minimizes disruptions to business operations and ensures that you can take advantage of the benefits of cloud migration, without having to worry about being at risk for permanent data loss.
Flexible Storage
The advantage of having flexible storage options is that you can access your data from anywhere at any time. Flexible and scalable storage options can also meet the needs of organizations of any size. You can scale up or down as your backup needs change, saving you resources.
How Acronis Adapts to Various Storage Needs
A customer can customize their backup configuration and choose to backup single files, folders, applications or even an entire server.
At Leaseweb, we offer different storage package sizes, so a customer simply selects the amount of cloud storage they need from our pre-defined packages, and then starts backing up their data to the secure Acronis data centers. If they need more storage, they can easily upgrade to packages with more storage.
Types of Storage That Can Be Integrated with Acronis
We offer off-site cloud backup through Acronis. That means that a customer can back up their data to the Acronis cloud from any server, anywhere with an Internet connection. Since data is stored in the Acronis data centers, it won’t be affected by a disaster at your local data center where the server/data is hosted.
The 3-2-1 backup rule
There’s a well-known rule in the backup industry to ensure efficient data protection: Keep three copies of your data (one as production data, and two as backups), stored on two types of storage media (e.g. local drive, network, tape drive etc.), with one copy off-site (e.g. in cloud storage) for disaster recovery. Our Acronis backup offering allows you to complete the 3-2-1 backup as setup by providing you with secure and reliable off-site cloud backup.
Comprehensive Cybersecurity
A major cybersecurity risk is the probability of loss or harm resulting from cyberattacks or data breaches. Any organization that uses modern technology is exposed to some level of cyber risk, and taking steps to address this risk is crucial to business health and security.
Cyber threats are constantly evolving and sometimes unpredictable. Sometimes, even the most comprehensive data protection strategy can be breached. It is therefore critical that your business has a backup and recovery solution in place to restore critical data and resume business operations as quickly as possible.
How Acronis Enhances Security for Dedicated Servers
Acronis backup ensures that you can always recover your data malware-free. It scans your backups for malware, removes any detected malware and applies the latest anti-malware definitions during the recovery.
Acronis Backup data is protected by AES-256 encryption in transit and at rest, securely housed in SSAE-18-certified and Tier-IV designed global data centers.
Advantages of Acronis: Conclusion
Overall, we see that Acronis plays a major role in protecting the data of organizations, since it is an efficient backup and disaster recovery solution and offers a safeguard in the event of a cybersecurity attack. Acronis also allows you to migrate with ease and peace of mind, knowing your data will be protected during the transition. Its flexible nature means Acronis can meet several storage needs.
If you’re interested in learning more about our Acronis offerings, visit our Acronis webpage.