A winter storm known as a bomb cyclone is predicted to hit the northeastern United States and southeastern Canada over the weekend. The storm is expected to bring high winds along with heavy rain and snow.
A bomb cyclone is essentially a winter hurricane. It often creates blizzard conditions and knocks out power, and can cause destruction through damage from ice, wind, and eventually flooding from melting snow. Another bomb cyclone hit the West Coast of the U.S. in October, knocking out power for more than 370,000 people and causing several hundred million dollars in damages from fallen trees, flooding, and even fires.
Being prepared for severe weather includes securing your data with a proper backup solution, one that prevents data loss from damage to your computer systems and those of your clients — a solution like Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud. In the event of power outages and similar threats to business continuity, the Acronis Advanced Disaster Recovery add-on pack enables you to spin up your backups as a virtual machine in the cloud, avoiding costly downtime while local systems are unavailable.
