Acronis all set to open International headquarters in Singapore

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE

Acronis has announced the official opening of its international headquarters in Singapore. For Acronis, launching the international headquarters in Singapore is also returning to its roots, as the company was founded in Singapore in 2002, started sales operations in Asia. Singapore is a strategic choice for the international headquarters to focus on rapidly-growing Asian market, and continue successful international operations from this neutral technology and business hub. “Singapore is a convenient location for international technology business. The country is well connected to the rest of the world; more than 50% of the world’s population and economy is in the distance of 8-hour flight from here. Singapore serves as a business and technology hub in Asia, and this is important for us, as we believe that in 5 years more than 50% of Acronis revenue will come from Asia. Also, it is important that Singapore is a neutral country, and it is a good place for a truly global company,” said Serguei Beloussov, CEO & Founder, Acronis. Acronis considers boosting its R&D activities in Singapore as part of the company’s global strategy aimed at becoming the advanced technology leader in its market segment worldwide. Recently appointed Global Chief Strategy and Operations Officer Mark Shmulevich will lead establishing tight collaboration between Acronis and universities and technology centres in Singapore. Acronis also recently launched a data center in Singapore, extending the network of data centers providing cloud data protection beyond the locations in the US, France, Germany, Japan and Russia. The new data center provides customers in Asia with a multi-fold increase in data transfer speed due to the geographical proximity of storage location, and ability to store backup data locally.