The rapid shift of data centres to cloud-enabled services, mobile computing and 24x7 operations  is leading to unprecedented ways to create information that helps companies grow their businesses, but the changes mean many companies are now struggling to deal with the side effects of massive data growth, more demanding service levels for recovery and collapsing backup windows.

Disaster recovery and data protection solutions company, Acronis, has appointed a channel business development manager for the Australia, New Zealand region.

Some things are meant to go together. Coffee and laptops isn’t one of them. Spilling a drink on a keyboard is just one of many ways people lose vital business data. Other hazards include hardware and software failure, viruses, accidentally deleting a file, fire and theft. Yet more than one in three Australian businesses (36%) do not have an offsite backup strategy to protect their data, according to a survey* by backup specialist Acronis.

More than half of SSD/flash users have experienced data loss, according to a survey.

SYDNEY, August 9. Three months after educating more than 1,000 people at technical training seminars nationwide, StorageCraft is running more training events with updated content during August.

This year’s unrelenting series of cyclones, floods, bushfires and earthquakes across Australia and New Zealand has proven the value of backing up critical business data. It is vitally important to be able to maintain continuity and customer service in the wake of a natural disaster.

Data recovery can be a pricey business. So one provider has hooked up with an insurance company to offer a three-year policy to pay for recovery following accidental damage or electronic breakdown.

Data recovery IT services company, Kroll Ontrack, is urging consumers and enterprises to do more planning for how they retire old computers and systems, cautioning that there is currently often insufficient attention given to ensuring the security of financial or confidential information when deploying next-generation IT infrastructure.

Acronis, a leading provider of easy-to-use disaster recovery and data protection solutions for physical, virtual and cloud environments, today announced the general availability of Acronis® Backup & Recovery™ 11. The new product, which allows organisations to simplify their disaster recovery and data protection needs, is now available to purchase from Acronis channel partners.

Data recovery specialist Kroll Ontrack has launched a partner program for resellers.