nScaled

On September 18, 2014 the Acronis company announced acquisition of nScaled company. The nScaled company which is in San Francisco is a supplier of the solution 'disaster recovery as service' (Disaster-Recovery-as-a-Service, DRaaS).

The Almaz Capital Partners fund became one of sellers of the company.

The clients using the solution Acronis Backup-as-a-Service will be able to recover in case of failures systems in a cloud now and quickly to resume work even if the spare equipment is unavailable. Thanks to a partner network of Acronis, the full-function solution including disaster recovery in a cloud will become available to clients worldwide, considerably having expanded geography of application of the solution nScaled.

Acronis proposes a number of the solutions for backup intended both for individual users and for the organizations of the different sizes. Besides, the company releases products for secure access to files and exchange them on mobile devices. Thanks to technologies of Acronis service providers can also offer the clients service in backup and data storage on the Internet using the solution Acronis Hosted Backup-as-a-Service. Purchase of nScaled allows Acronis company to create the complete range of services of cloud backup and recovery, having included in it the solution on disaster recovery in a cloud. The existing and potential clients, where they were, will receive a system, uniform, suitable for the most different environments, for data protection.

nScaled, the supplier of DRaaS, according to Forrester Research, proposes the full-function solution for virtualization and data protection as in local, and remote environments. It allows to switch to reserve capacities and to work in a cloud and also to recover operation of servers in only several minutes, providing business continuity. The product nScaled supports functions of the centralized monitoring and the analysis using which it is possible to check readiness of a system for disaster recovery.

The complete solution for cloud backup will be available to clients of any size from own cloud of Acronis, in service quality from service providers and in the form of local solution to own data processing centers of clients. Hundreds of thousands of clients of Acronis will be able to recover systems in a cloud and to avoid expensive idle times. Partners of Acronis will also be able to propose to clients single cloud solution for backup and disaster recovery of data in a cloud.