Successful Acronis Roadshow in Prague

57% of Czech businesses prefer backup to local storage, but interest in hybrid solutions is growing

Acronis Roadshow attracted Czech companies primarily with backup solutions

Prague, October 24, 2016 – Acronis, a global leader in hybrid cloud data protection solutions, attracted attendees at the Acronis Roadshow user conference, held at the Clarion Congress Hotel Prague, primarily with its backup solutions. In the area of business data protection, the largest share of participants (45%) are considering deploying data backup solutions within the next 12 months.

Users and providers of Acronis solutions had the opportunity to learn about the latest versions of Acronis solutions, including the recently announced breakthrough products Acronis Backup 12 and Acronis Backup Cloud, built on a new hybrid cloud infrastructure and supporting data protection and recovery in virtually every IT environment. They also received information about other solutions, including Acronis Access for secure data sharing and synchronization, and the Monitoring, Notary, and Deployment solutions.

A survey conducted by Acronis at the conference shows that:

• Within the next 12 months, 45% of Czech businesses are considering deploying data backup solutions, followed by 18% considering disaster recovery solutions and 17% considering data sharing and synchronization solutions;
• 57% of companies prefer backing up business data to local storage, 8% to the cloud, and the remaining 35% use a hybrid approach;
• Over the next 5 years, participants believe the greatest IT threats will come from ransomware (57%), social networks (42%), and the Internet of Things trend (29%).

All Acronis solutions are built on the Acronis AnyData Engine, a suite of unique, detailed, and powerful data protection technologies that prepare, store, recover, and provide access to any data from any location. Acronis technologies protect more than 5,000 petabytes of data for over 500,000 business customers who need to protect their critical data for their work. Since July 2016, the newest customers have also included the Formula 1 team Scuderia Toro Rosso, which generates approximately 700 GB of data during each race weekend and with which Acronis has also entered into a sponsorship partnership.

A video from the Acronis Roadshow event in Prague can be viewed here.