Acronis provides data protection, cybersecurity, and hybrid cloud storage solutions that are particularly valuable to life science companies, which deal with massive amounts of sensitive data, stringent regulatory requirements, and the need for secure, uninterrupted operations. Acronis combines backup, disaster recovery, cybersecurity, and storage capabilities in a unified platform, helping life science organizations safeguard their critical data and enhance operational efficiency.

Greenlight Computers and Acronis

Greenlight Computers has worked with Acronis for many years and use Acronis Cyber Protect backup services with many of our clients.

The Acronis software agent can backup any defined dataset on an incremental basis with flexible restore point regimes to match the client needs. The agent manages both the local backup routine to onsite storage e.g. NAS and to the Acronis cloud storage facility in a nominated geographical data centre.

The recovery process is well established and enables simple file/folder recovery through to a full disaster recovery.

Acronis is a great choice for life science companies

Some of the compelling features of their products are explained below (for full details visit their website):

• Comprehensive Backup Solutions: Acronis offers backup solutions that enable life science companies to protect their critical data, including research findings, clinical trial data, and patient health information. Acronis ensures that data is regularly backed up and can be easily restored in case of accidental deletion, hardware failure, or a cyberattack.
• Disaster Recovery (DR): Life science companies cannot afford to experience downtime or data loss, especially when dealing with time-sensitive clinical trials or healthcare services. Acronis provides disaster recovery solutions that allow companies to quickly recover their operations following a major incident, ensuring business continuity. Their disaster recovery services include failover capabilities, where operations can seamlessly switch to a secondary system in case of failure.
• Acronis Cyber Protect: Acronis combines traditional backup services with next-generation cybersecurity in a single platform called Acronis Cyber Protect. This solution offers antivirus, antimalware, and threat detection to protect life science companies from cyber threats such as ransomware, malware, and phishing. This integration reduces the complexity of managing multiple security tools and ensures that both data and systems are protected from attacks.
• AI-Powered Threat Detection: Acronis leverages AI-based threat detection to identify and stop cyberattacks in real-time.
• Active Protection Against Ransomware: Acronis offers Acronis Active Protection, a technology designed to protect against ransomware attacks. Ransomware poses a significant risk to life sciences companies by encrypting valuable research, clinical, or patient data and demanding payment for its release. Acronis Active Protection detects suspicious activity, automatically blocks ransomware, and instantly restores affected files from a backup.
• Automatic File Recovery: If a ransomware attack occurs, Acronis can automatically recover encrypted or compromised files from secure backups, minimizing downtime and preventing the loss of critical data.
• End-to-End Encryption: Acronis provides advanced encryption for data both in transit and at rest. For life science companies handling sensitive data such as patient health records, research data, and intellectual property, this encryption ensures that data remains confidential and protected from unauthorised access.

Greenlight Computers backup management

Through the automated Acronis tools, the Greenlight Computers technical team have live visibility of backup status and can rectify and run-time fails quickly. The escalation service to Acronis support is first class for any persistent backup fails and deeper investigation, no ticket is closed until Greenlight confirm a successful completion.

As client’s segregate data to avoid having “all their eggs in one basket” the Acronis tool enables us to store multiple backup sets in the cloud but under a single billing volume, thus avoiding multiple confusing invoices.

It is important to note that using Acronis Cyber Protect backup is seen as a significant positive when completing big pharma cyber security audits, Acronis is approved storage for many corporate organisations across the globe.

Contact us to dig deeper and check you have all your data well backed up and protected.