Acronis, a global leader in hybrid cloud data protection and storage and Egenera, a leading provider of wholesale cloud services to the channel, today announced a new technology partnership that will enable Egenera to deliver Acronis Backup Cloud as part of Xterity, its wholesale managed cloud service. The partnership will leverage Acronis' technological advances in data protection, giving Egenera's partners the convenience to protect all types of customer data with a single solution.

Adding Acronis Backup Cloud technology into Egenera's Backup as a Service (BaaS) further simplifies backup deployment, performance and flexibility for partners. Egenera provides the training, management tools and marketing collateral to help its service provider partners meet customer data protection needs, increase customer retention and generate new income.

"We're excited to deliver Acronis Backup Cloud to our network of over 200 partners worldwide," said Pete Manca, president and CEO of Egenera. "It's a trusted, robust solution and our partners are looking forward to offering it to their end user customers."

Acronis Backup Cloud is the world's only data protection solution specifically developed for service providers, web hosting companies and cloud resellers. It comes with multi-tenant and multi-tier management capabilities and offers full protection of all data, including servers, computers, Microsoft Office 365 accounts, websites, and applications in physical, virtual and cloud environments.

According to the Hosting and Cloud Study 2017 conducted by 451 Research and released by Microsoft last month, backup and recovery services hold the top position among the managed services used by organizations last year. Egenera's partners and service providers are in a prime position to protect their customers' data and build their business with Egenera's support and Acronis' innovative technology.

"Built on the award-winning Acronis hybrid cloud architecture, Acronis Backup Cloud is the only solution that was purpose built for service providers from the ground up," said John Zanni, Chief Marketing Officer, Acronis. "Egenera's partners now have a leading-edge platform to capture new business by providing the much-needed data protection services to their customers."

Xterity Cloud Services combine the security and reliability of Tier 3 and Tier 3+ datacenters worldwide with enterprise-class hardware and software to deliver wholesale managed private and public cloud IaaS including bare metal, disaster recovery, backup and migration, along with 24x7x365 partner support and assigned account management.