followIWC International Watch Co. AG , doing business as IWC Schaffhausen , is a luxury Swiss
watch manufacturer located in Schaffhausen , Switzerland
Schaffhausen hosts some well-known industrial companies like Georg Fischer (piping systems,
machine tools and automotives), an internationally reputed manufacturer of watches ( IWC ),
pharmaceutical industry ( Cilag , founded by Bernhard Joos ) and BB Biotech (biotechnologies). Tyco
International , Garmin , and cyber protection company Acronis are also incorporated in Schaffhausen
History
Acronis was founded by Serguei Beloussov , Ilya Zubarev, Stanislav Protassov and Max Tsyplyaev in
2001 as a separate business unit within SWsoft . [6] In 2003, Acronis was spun off as a separate
company. [7] The company moved from a focus on disk partitioning and boot loader software to a
focus on backup and disaster recovery software based on disk imaging technology.
In 2006, SWsoft partnered with Acronis to resell Acronis True Image Server for SWsoft Plesk 8.1
control panel software. The software is standalone and works with other control panels, which
enables service providers to offer backup and recovery capabilities with dedicated hosting packages.
[8]
In September 2012, Acronis acquired GroupLogic , Inc., which allowed Acronis to integrate mobile
devices, including Apple, into enterprise environments through acquisition of software that formed
Acronis Access Advanced. The acquisition expanded Acronisโ data protection on mobile devices.
GroupLogic gained access to Acronisโ customer base. [9]
In May 2013, co-founder and Board Director, Serguei Beloussov, returned as CEO after working on
other ventures. [10] In December that same year, Acronis announced the launch of an official research
and development wing, Acronis Labs. [3]
Acronis won the Mobility Product of the Year award at the Network Computing Awards in 2014. [11] In
2014, Acronis acquired BackupAgent, a cloud backup company, and nScaled, a disaster recovery
software company. [6]
The Global Partner Program through Acronis was launched in March 2015. The program gives
partner companies access to the Acronis AnyData Engine. [12] Also in 2015, Acronis won the
ChannelPro Readersโ Choice Award for Best Backup and Disaster Recovery Vendor. [13] In July 2015,
Acronis announced a partnership with ProfitBrick to make Acronis Backup Cloud available for
ProfitBrickโs cloud computing platform. [14]
Software
Acronis develops backup, disaster recovery, secure file access, sync and share, and partitioning
software for the home, and small to medium-sized enterprises. Its backup software includes Acronis
True Image which uses full-system image backup technology. [15] The Acronis Cloud platform includes
backups, disaster recovery, and file sync and share for a set of cloud applications which are
delivered by service providers. [16] [17]
Acronis Backup and Acronis Backup Advanced are a disk-based backup and recovery programs.
[18] Aside from backup software, Acronis also created Acronis Disk Director which is a shareware
application that partitions a machine and allows it to run multiple operating systems, [19] Acronis Snap
Deploy which creates a standard configuration to easily organize new machines, [20] Acronis Access
Advanced which secures access to files that are synced between devices, [21] and Acronis Access
Connect, [22] which is designed for Mac clients and runs on Windows servers. [23] Acronis Data
Protection Platform includes backup, disaster recover, and secure file sync and share.โ
SB (Serguei Beloussov) Ph.D. (Born on August 2, 1971) is a
Singaporean businessman , entrepreneur , investor and speaker . Beloussov is the co-
founder, CEO and chairman of the board of Acronis , a global data protection company, and is the
senior founding partner of Runa Capital , a technology investment firm . [1] He is also executive
chairman of the board and chief architect of Parallels, Inc. , a virtualization technology company, [2]
[3] co-founder and chairman of the board of Acumatica , an enterprise resource planning
software ( ERP ) company, [4] [5] and co-founder of QWave Capital. [6]
Beloussov has filed more than 200 U.S. Patents and has an h-index of 27
Beloussov was born in 1971 in St. Petersburg . Beloussov later attended the Moscow Institute of
Physics and Technology , graduating in 1992 with a bachelor's degree in physics . He received his
master's degree in physics and electrical engineering in 1995, and a Ph.D. in computer science in
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[8] Beloussov came to Singapore in 1994 and became a Singaporean citizen in 2001.