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SMBs that do not implement effective backup and disaster recovery plans are putting at risk, on average, 100GB of new business data every day1 – despite the availability of new-generation solutions that allow them to create a simple and affordable offsite backup plan between the office and home, according to leading backup specialist Acronis.

Today, Mr Alex Pinchev, former President, Global Sales, Services and Field Marketing at Red Hat, begins his tenure as President and Chief Executive Officer at Acronis Inc., a leading provider of disaster recovery and data protection solutions for physical, virtual and cloud environments.

Veeam is offering free Backup & Replication licences to qualified professionals for use in their home labs and for demonstration purposes.

Jasco Consulting has established two new companies - OneNimbus and OneNimbus Research - to take care of its cloud activities.

The Adelaide-based developer of a distributed backup service has its first US customer: shipping company Craters & Freighters.

The latest version of Kroll Ontrack PowerControls allows the recovery of individual items from Outlook snapshots.

Adelaide-based Incriptus is taking its distributed backup service that can take advantage of unused disk space in a customer's own network to an international market.

A recent survey to highlight the strangest things left behind in taxis around the world reminds us that it is the more mundane things that will cause us the greatest grief.

Acronis, a leading provider of easy-to-use disaster recovery and data protection solutions for physical, virtual and cloud environments, today announced the availability of Acronis Snap Deploy® 4, the latest version of Acronis’ automated solution for deployment of data and systems to multiple PCs, virtual machines and servers.