Acronis Adds Microsoft Office 365 Backup to Acronis Backup 12, World’s Easiest and Fastest Data Protection for Small Businesses

Acronis Adds Microsoft Office 365 Backup to Acronis
Backup 12, World’s Easiest and Fastest Data Protection for Small Businesses

The new
technology extends the number of supported platforms to 16, making Acronis
Backup 12 the most complete data protection solution available to small
businesses today.

February
7, 2017 –
Acronis, a global leader in hybrid-cloud data protection and storage, today
announced the addition of Microsoft Office 365 backup functionality to the
world’s fastest and most complete small business backup solution, Acronis
Backup 12, enabling businesses to protect all data, local and in the cloud,
with a single solution, single configuration, and a single interface.

Acronis Backup 12 has been well-accepted,
delivering over 40% growth in adoption in 2016. In keeping with Acronis’
Cloud-First strategy, Acronis Backup 12 adds new Microsoft Office 365 backup
features that have been available in Acronis Backup Cloud solution since July. Acronis
has seen significant adoption of the features that enabled Cloud Service
Providers to protect their customers’ Microsoft Office 365 environments.

Microsoft
Office 365 services deliver unprecedented flexibility and scalability, changing
the way small businesses manage their email infrastructure. Acronis provides
additional backup by enabling protection of cloud workloads with Acronis Backup
12, giving businesses full control over the protected data, and allowing them
to keep it locally or in the cloud for long-term access or archiving purposes.

“Small and midsize businesses worry about control, worry about security,
and worry about cost. Tying things together in a comprehensive way gets harder
as firms grow and data protection becomes an ever bigger chore. Acronis has
data control as a key product capability and SMBs will appreciate the ability
to coordinate and manage diverse data,” said Ray Boggs, Vice President, Small
and Medium Business Research at IDC.

According to the latest Data Protection
Cloud Strategies report produced by Enterprise Strategy Group, nearly
three-quarters of the surveyed businesses intended to protect their public
cloud data in a location other than their production environment’s cloud,
realizing that an interruption or problem in the cloud can potentially take
away not only the production data, but also the backups. 44 percent of the
respondents said they move data to a different cloud for speed and convenience,
and 29 percent said they prefer keeping a copy of their cloud data in-house.

Microsoft Office 365 backup

Acronis Backup 12 provides easy protection for
Microsoft Office 365 with:

•         
Automatic backup of Microsoft Office 365 emails, including contacts, calendars, tasks, and attachments;

•         
Ability to store backup data locally or in the
cloud, for long-term access or archiving purposes;

•         
Preview, browsing and searching capabilities of the
backup content;

•         
Ability
to recover individual and shared mailboxes to the original or an alternative
location;

•         
Ability
to recover and deliver individual items by email without restoring the entire
backup;

•         
Acronis
Active Protection™ against ransomware: protecting user devices and data by blocking the attacks
and instantly restoring affected data (will be available in the next update).

Support for VMware vSphere 6.5 and
other improvements

This update also introduces support
for VMware vSphere 6.5 — agentless and agent-based VM and ESXi host backup, support of VMware CBT, Acronis Instant Recovery™,
Acronis vmFlashback™, Replication with WAN optimization, and other technical and performance
improvements.

Complete
protection of all data

Acronis
Backup 12 offers protection for more than just Microsoft Office 365 or VMware
vSphere 6.5 workloads. In fact, Acronis Backup 12 is the single solution that
protects all data, in all locations and in any environment. It is designed to
enable businesses to remain in control of their data even when transitioning to
the cloud or managing their hybrid cloud infrastructure. (Full feature set is
available at http://www.acronis.com/en-us/business/backup/ ).

 “Today small businesses depend more on Microsoft
cloud-based services to run their businesses. But cloud data also needs to be
protected and available to ensure business continuity. Microsoft Office 365
email backup extends the functionality of Acronis Backup 12, offering complete
protection of the entire digital image of a small business,” said Serguei
Beloussov, founder and CEO of Acronis.

“We’re
pleased to see Acronis’ commitment to Microsoft,” said Rob Howard, director,
Microsoft Office 365 Ecosystem. “By extending the benefits of Acronis Backup to
Microsoft Office 365, Acronis is helping provide our mutual
customers with a robust and easy-to-use experience.”

Pricing
and Availability

Acronis Backup Office 365 Subscription
Licenses are available online and from local distributors. The monthly price
per mailbox ranges between $1.67 and $3.33 depending on geography, volume and
the subscription term. For more details, please visit http://www.acronis.com/en-us/business/backup/