Acronis：获融$147M 数据恢复

【190918 Pcnewsbuzz】Data restoration juggernaut Acronis right now introduced it’s nabbed $147 million in an funding spherical led by Goldman Sachs at a valuation of over $1 billion, following on the heels of angel, debt, and later-stage raises from March 2014 to May 2016. The capital infusion brings Singapore- and Switzerland-based Acronis’ whole raised to properly over $150 million, which founder and CEO Serguei Beloussov stated shall be used to develop its engineering staff, construct extra knowledge facilities, develop its North America enterprise, and pursue acquisitions.

It’s been a banner yr for Acronis, which reported 20% enterprise development in 2018 and which is on monitor to notch over 30% development (and over 100% on the Cyber Cloud aspect of the enterprise) by 2020. It just lately launched the Acronis Cyber Platform, a holistic cloud-hosted resolution that allows third-parties to customise, prolong, and combine its merchandise. And in April, Acronis introduced a partnership with Acronis SCS, an impartial U.S. sister firm devoted to offering safe backup, knowledge safety, and cyber safety providers to federal, state and native authorities, schooling, and nonprofit organizations.

“We are excited about Goldman Sachs‘ investment,” stated Beloussov. “The investment round led by Goldman Sachs will help us to fast-track the product development through acquisitions of companies and additional resources, and accelerate the growth.”

Acronis traces its origins to Parallels company dad or mum SWsoft, the place Beloussov, Ilya Zubarev, Stanislav Protassov, and Max Tsyplyaev based it as a separate division in 2001. Acronis spun out in 2003, after which it pivoted focus from disk partitioning and boot loader utilities to backup and catastrophe restoration software program primarily based on disk imaging know-how. Over the subsequent decade or so, it acquired three companies — BackupAgent (which specialised in cloud backup), nScaled (catastrophe restoration), and GroupLogic (enterprise knowledge transformation and storage) — and it launched a worldwide accomplice program, previous to which it based an R&D wing in Acronis Labs.

Acronis’ bread-and-butter segments are backup, catastrophe restoration, safe file entry, sync and share, and partitioning, with shoppers starting from single-license house customers to giant enterprises. True Image, the backup software program by which Acronis is maybe finest identified, makes use of virtualization and machine studying methods to reflect pictures, clone disks, present blockchain knowledge notarization, and scan for malware in copied information. Acronis claims that final yr, its AI-powered defenses defeated greater than 400,000 assaults together with cryptomining, through which a system’s sources are quietly diverted to generate cryptocurrency tokens.

As for the Acronis Cloud platform, it encompasses backups, catastrophe restoration, and file synchronization with a specific set of cloud apps curated by service suppliers. Plan subscribers can carry out native and offsite cloud backup of disks, servers, knowledge, or complete cell units to knowledge facilities compliant with certifications, audits, and requirements together with SOC-2, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA), and the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS).

Acronis Backup and Acronis Backup Advanced, two extra merchandise in Acronis’ disk-based backup and restoration suite, actively shield information from unauthorized modification and encryption whereas minimizing course of disruption to some seconds. Through a centralized administration dashboard, admins can again as much as nearly any type of storage (throughout over 20 platforms) and convert backups right into a set of digital machine information able to run on varied hypervisors.

Aside from backup software program, Acronis additionally offers Disk Director, a shareware app that partitions machines and permits them to run a number of working methods. It’s capable of format drives with system file in a spread of storage codecs, together with FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, Ext3, and SWAP, and it could actually create a single, logical quantity from the unallocated house throughout as much as 32 bodily disks.

Disk Director joins Acronis Snap Deploy, which creates a normal machine configuration that may be deployed throughout as much as tons of of stay Windows computer systems concurrently. Acronis Files Advanced secures entry to information which can be synced between units. And Acronis Access Connect permits Mac customers can hook up with and mount directories on a Windows file server simply as native Apple Filing Protocol volumes.

Acronis occupies an information backup and restoration market anticipated to be price $11.59 billion by 2022, according to Markets and Markets. It competes to a level with San Francisco-based Rubrik, which has raised $553 million in enterprise capital thus far for its stay knowledge entry and restoration choices; Clumio, which raked in $51 million for its cloud-hosted backup and restoration instruments; and Cohesity, which payments itself because the trade’s first hyperconverged secondary storage for backup, growth, file providers, and analytics. That’s to not point out knowledge restoration juggernaut Veeam, which now serves 80% of the Fortune 500 and 58% of the Global 5000.

But vp of Goldman Sachs Growth Holger Staude asserts that Acronis has rivals beat in terms of set up base and availability. The firm counts greater than 5 million shoppers and 500,000 companies amongst its consumer roster, together with 80% of the Fortune 1000 firms. Moreover, Acronis’ merchandise can be found by 50,000 companions and repair suppliers in over 150 nations in additional than 30 languages.

“We are excited to invest in Acronis at this stage of rapid growth,” stated Goldman Sachs Growth vp Holger Staude. “The traditional backup and data protection market is changing due to an innovative solution delivered efficiently by Acronis Cyber Protection through a vast channel of service providers.”

Acronis has greater than 1,300 workers in 18 nations, the majority of whom are primarily based in Singapore, Bulgaria, and Arizona. Acronis Labs is predicated within the U.S. and Singapore, and Acronis has knowledge facilities internationally together with in France, Singapore, Japan, and Germany.

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