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Paul Maritz: Partner Cloud in the AI era | Acronis Accelerate Event

How is the AI era creating new opportunities for service providers through partner cloud? In this keynote from Acronis Accelerate, technology investor, former Acronis Chairman, and former VMware CEO Paul Maritz explores how service providers can turn local infrastructure into a cost advantage and competitive edge as customers increasingly require partner infrastructure for compliance and data sovereignty. Learn how Acronis Cyber Frame, built specifically for service providers, is a natively integrated solution that enables SPs to deliver infrastructure services (VMs, storage, networking) with integrated backup, DR, security and RMM.

The AI-Native Platform for the Autonomous MSP | JJ Jager and Yury Averkiev | Acronis Accelerate

What does it take to run an AI-native MSP? In this keynote from “Acronis Accelerate: The Journey to Autonomous IT,” Acronis CEO JJ Jager and Chief Product Officer Yury Averkiev showcase how the Acronis platform turns the foundation of the AI era into a daily reality for MSPs. See how Acronis simplifies the complexity of managing multiple tools with a flexible, unified platform that supports both Acronis and third-party services, while enabling no-code and low-code automation built for modern service providers with AI built in from the start, not bolted on.

The AI Opportunity with Acronis: Building Autonomous IT | Rob Rae, Pax8 | Acronis Accelerate

The industry is shifting and Rob Rae, Corporate VP of Community and Partner Experience at Pax, addresses the $700 billion opportunity MSPs have in front of them at “Acronis Accelerate: The Journey to Autonomous IT.” Discover how Pax8 and Acronis are building the future of AI together, giving small and mid-sized businesses the tools, technology, expertise and AI agents they need to offer enterprise-level services.

Your AI deployment might be out of policy

Most AI deployment policies stop at approved chat interfaces. Meanwhile, employees install browser copilots, AI extensions, and third-party plugins that never touch Microsoft's management stack. IT can't configure what it can't see, and Group Policy and Intune only govern Microsoft's world. This post covers what actually happens once AI tools show up outside policy, five things most teams miss, and how PolicyPak enforces controls directly on the apps and browser extensions themselves.

AI Is Changing Cyberattacks on Hotels: Here's How to Stay Protected

Peak season brings challenges to the hospitality industry every year. Thousands of guests, temporary staff, vendors, and business partners interact daily with reservation systems, management platforms, mobile apps, and loyalty programs. That operational complexity makes hotels a particularly attractive target for cybercriminals. Artificial intelligence hasn't created a new problem for hotels, it is simply accelerating an existing one: identity-based attacks.

How AI Is Accelerating Adversary Activity | Adam Meyers on Yahoo Finance

AI is changing the threat landscape and the pace defenders have to keep up with. Adam Meyers, Head of Counter Adversary Operations at CrowdStrike, joined Yahoo Finance to unpack key findings from the latest CrowdStrike Threat Hunting Report, including: Watch the full interview for Adam’s take on how AI is reshaping adversary activity and what defenders need to know.

Is an AI SOC Better Than MDR? What Security Teams Should Weigh

Security teams are expected to investigate more alerts than they have people to handle. IBM's 2025 Cost of a Data Breach Report puts a number on what that gap costs: organizations take an average of 158 days to identify a breach, and a further 83 days to contain it. That is 241 days of exposure, the fastest pace in nine years, and still measured in months. For most SOC teams, the bottleneck was never finding threats. It was having enough people to do anything about them.