Tuesday, September 23rd 2025
Seagate Forges Strategic Alliance with Acronis
Seagate Technology Holdings plc (NASDAQ: STX), a global leader in mass-capacity data storage, today announced a strategic alliance with Acronis, a global leader in cybersecurity and data protection. This collaboration aims to equip managed service providers (MSPs) and global enterprises with secure, scalable archival storage solutions to meet the demands of AI-accelerated, rapid data growth.
Through this alliance, Seagate and Acronis will deliver Acronis Archival Storage, a long-term, secure, compliant, and cost-efficient S3-compatible storage solution for infrequently accessed data, integrated with the Acronis platform. Unlike other storage vendors charging for API and traffic, Acronis provides a controlled, predictable cost model.
Under the collaboration, Acronis will incorporate Seagate's Lyve Cloud Object Storage—an S3-compatible platform—into its archival storage offerings to help enable MSPs to deliver seamless, cost-effective, and compliant storage. Seagate Lyve Cloud offers enterprise-grade security features such as encryption of data in-transit and at-rest, as well as role-based access control, identity and access management, immutability options, and it supports ISO 27001 and SOC 2 standards.
This solution is tailored for MSPs and IT leaders in regulated sectors like healthcare, finance, legal, utilities, public administration, and more. It addresses the needs of organizations that must retain large volumes of infrequently accessed data for years while controlling storage costs and meeting audit and compliance requirements.
"Acronis has been at the forefront of delivering innovative cybersecurity and backup solutions, including secure data management capabilities for hybrid cloud environments," said Melyssa Banda, SVP of Edge Storage and Services at Seagate. "By joining forces, Seagate and Acronis can leverage our combined global reach to deliver the highly secure storage solutions that the new frontier of AI requires—empowering enterprises to better protect their data from cloud to edge to endpoint."
This alliance will further strengthen Acronis' ability to deliver mass-capacity storage solutions and will also unlock the opportunity to assist customers storing rapidly growing data both economically and compliantly.
"Seagate's global leadership in mass-capacity storage perfectly aligns with Acronis' goal to offer MSPs the integrated archival storage that prioritizes security, compliance, and cost efficiency," said Gaidar Magdanurov, President at Acronis. "With over 60% of organizations managing over 1 PB of data, archival storage is a necessary solution to keep storage costs manageable. Our partners will be able to address the rapidly growing demand for long-term storage of data, and address compliance, legal, and security requirements of their customers."
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Through this alliance, Seagate and Acronis will deliver Acronis Archival Storage, a long-term, secure, compliant, and cost-efficient S3-compatible storage solution for infrequently accessed data, integrated with the Acronis platform. Unlike other storage vendors charging for API and traffic, Acronis provides a controlled, predictable cost model.
This solution is tailored for MSPs and IT leaders in regulated sectors like healthcare, finance, legal, utilities, public administration, and more. It addresses the needs of organizations that must retain large volumes of infrequently accessed data for years while controlling storage costs and meeting audit and compliance requirements.
"Acronis has been at the forefront of delivering innovative cybersecurity and backup solutions, including secure data management capabilities for hybrid cloud environments," said Melyssa Banda, SVP of Edge Storage and Services at Seagate. "By joining forces, Seagate and Acronis can leverage our combined global reach to deliver the highly secure storage solutions that the new frontier of AI requires—empowering enterprises to better protect their data from cloud to edge to endpoint."
This alliance will further strengthen Acronis' ability to deliver mass-capacity storage solutions and will also unlock the opportunity to assist customers storing rapidly growing data both economically and compliantly.
"Seagate's global leadership in mass-capacity storage perfectly aligns with Acronis' goal to offer MSPs the integrated archival storage that prioritizes security, compliance, and cost efficiency," said Gaidar Magdanurov, President at Acronis. "With over 60% of organizations managing over 1 PB of data, archival storage is a necessary solution to keep storage costs manageable. Our partners will be able to address the rapidly growing demand for long-term storage of data, and address compliance, legal, and security requirements of their customers."
8 Comments on Seagate Forges Strategic Alliance with Acronis
Other S3 provides usually have other items on the bills, like traffic used in GB, Tier1 API call made, Tier2 API calls made during the billing month, etc
This does make the bills more predictable as traffic, API calls are harder to predict how much your need will be month by month.
(financial sanity is an implicit assumption here, of course)
It's not data that's intended to be accessed frequently. In most cases it won't be accessed at all, only as a last resort.
Often this tier of storage isn't immediately accessible, there's a bring up time to access your data. In turn, it isn't feasible to use as you would most other cloud storage options. I'd imagine given the low fee structure, they'd also limit your number of accesses as well.
For example I am using idrive's S3 compatible service for many years now and it is "quasi" egress and traffic free.
(at least with my average usage I have never had anything on my bills beside the fee of the storage)
Usually it means 'free up to 3x your storage per month' and not 'free and unlimited' however for a consumer that should be fine.
And would explain the muddy language from this press release being " Acronis provides a controlled, predictable cost model." which probably will have a small asterisk to it and in the footnote says something about "within fair usage" or similar. Then in the ToS they will detail what they define "fair usage" for this specific service.
Of course in pro space there so such thing as 'no egress and traffic fees' (e.g. Cloudflare R2, AWS, etc).
But I think Seagate is not targeting Pros with this Acronis sw suite.
My point is that probably Acronis will have a nice GUI drag-n-drop frontend while on the backend will have S3 APIs used, all aimed for Average Joe who would never touch anything object based for cloud backup.
I would be highly surprised if this would aim for pro (corporate) users. Might be just my imagination but I would wonder if anyone there would touch Acronis software even with a 6ft pole...:fear:
We agree on the poor language used there :toast: