April 17, 2009
Press release

One in Four Businesses Fail After a Disaster

Free Acronis Webinar Features Experts, Tips on Disaster Recovery

For business owners, being prepared can mean staying in business following a disaster. An estimated 25 percent of businesses do not reopen following a major disaster, according to the Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS). Acronis, a global provider of affordable, scalable storage management and disaster recovery software, will host a free webinar on the steps required to improve a business' disaster recovery ability on Thursday, April 23 at 2 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time. To view the on-demand version of this webinar, please click here.

The webinar will feature Kelly Urbizu, Institute of Business & Home Safety, who will present actionable insight to empower overall business resilience. IBHS is an independent, nonprofit, scientific and educational organization that works to reduce the business, social and economic effects of natural disasters and other risks to residential and commercial property.

Joining Urbizu will be Ryan Kidney, Acronis Principal Solutions Architect, who will demonstrate the award-winning Acronis True Image Echo backup and disaster recovery solution.




About Acronis:

Acronis is a global cyber protection company that provides natively integrated cybersecurity, data protection, and endpoint management for managed service providers (MSPs), small and medium businesses (SMBs), and enterprise IT departments. Acronis solutions are highly efficient and designed to identify, prevent, detect, respond, remediate, and recover from modern cyberthreats with minimal downtime, ensuring data integrity and business continuity. Acronis offers the most comprehensive security solution on the market for MSPs with its unique ability to meet the needs of diverse and distributed IT environments.

A Swiss company founded in Singapore in 2003, Acronis has 45 locations across the globe. Acronis Cyber Protect is available in 26 languages in 150 countries and is used by over 20,000 service providers to protect over 750,000 businesses. Learn more at www.acronis.com.
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