Cyber protection company Acronis and Williams Racing have renewed their technology partnership, extending the adoption of the technology across the entire Williams Racing IT infrastructure.
As part of the partnership, Williams Racing will continue with Acronis Cyber Protect across their IT infrastructure. The solution, now being used by diverse sports teams around the world to integrate fast and reliable backup, as well as AI-powered anti-malware and antivirus, and comprehensive endpoint management, managed from a single interface.
The unique cyber protection approach, Acronis said, eliminates complexity and makes it simple for teams to manage and monitor workloads, data, applications, and systems across an entire network.
Graeme Hackland, CIO for Williams Racing, explains: “Acronis Cyber Protection encompasses all areas of workload protection, simplifies data management and prevents cyberattacks. It’s a constantly changing environment. To have a technology partner whose technology meets the modern day needs and leads the market is critical for our team to regain competitive advantage.”
Acronis Cyber Backup, which protects Williams data, is installed on roughly 300 servers and 1,500 endpoints, protecting nearly half a petabyte of data.
Acronis says Williams has also been an early adopter of Acronis Cyber Protect, a new AI-enhanced solution that integrates data protection with cybersecurity. Enriched with next-generation, full-stack antimalware protection and comprehensive but simple endpoint management tools, Acronis Cyber Protect simplifies daily operations and reporting, all while combating advanced cyberattacks with new use cases enabled by integration.
“Since all these capabilities are delivered and managed through a single solution, it eliminates the increased complexity and cost caused by relying on multiple vendor solutions, saving on licensing, deployments, testing and training,” Acronis states.
During the last year, more than 15 new sports teams partnered with Acronis, pushing the total number to over 50. San Diego Padres, Washington Football Team, Atlético de Madrid, Toyota Gazoo Racing, Roborace, Airspeeder, and many other teams have chosen Acronis for cyber protection.
“Acronis technology is designed to address the safety, accessibility, privacy, authenticity, and security (SAPAS) challenges of modern organisations – at the highest levels of business and competitive sport. This design methodology ensures the highest calibre of cyber protection for all workloads, data, applications, and systems, keeping data tamper-free and easily accessible for smooth day-to-day operations. Data is critical in Formula One and we are proud of being part of Williams Racing’ journey,” says Jan-Jaap Jager, chief operating officer of Acronis.
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