The cyber protection company wants to give MSPs and cloud providers a way to run infrastructure on their own terms, without the vendor lock-in hangover.
Acronis on Wednesday unveiled Cyber Frame, a new hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) and infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) platform built specifically for service providers tired of being squeezed by legacy virtualization costs and hyperscaler pricing.
The platform, now generally available worldwide, targets managed service providers (MSPs), cloud service providers, hosting companies, and telcos, giving them a way to deliver, manage, and monetize infrastructure services without depending on traditional proprietary stacks.
Acronis targets MSP infrastructure cost pressures
The virtualization market has been in flux, with many service providers still feeling the aftershocks of Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware and the pricing overhaul that followed.
At the same time, hyperscaler costs continue to climb, and demand for regional and sovereign cloud options is growing, particularly in markets where data residency laws or regulatory requirements complicate the use of large public cloud platforms.
Acronis says Cyber Frame is a direct response to these pressures.
“Service providers are rethinking their infrastructure strategies in response to major market shifts and need infrastructure that fits their business,” said Gaidar Magdanurov, President at Acronis, in the company’s announcement.
“Acronis Cyber Frame brings infrastructure, protection, and management together in a single, natively integrated platform, helping partners simplify complexity and achieve stronger margins from their infrastructure services.”
Cyber Frame offers hosted and local deployment options
With rising demand for sovereign cloud solutions, where data must stay within specific geographic borders, Cyber Frame offers two ways to deploy:
- Acronis Cyber Frame Cloud: A fully hosted version for those who want to get started immediately without buying their own hardware.
- Acronis Cyber Frame Local: A version that partners host themselves, giving them total control over where the data lives and how much they charge their customers.
This flexibility is designed to help service providers improve their margins by providing more predictable pricing than the fluctuating costs often found with major public cloud providers.
Built-in protection aims to reduce tool sprawl
One of the bigger differentiators Acronis is pushing here is that Cyber Frame is “protected by default.” That means every workload running on the platform gets built-in backup and disaster recovery, threat protection, and remote monitoring and management (RMM), with no separate tools needed.
This is a meaningful pitch for service providers who often manage a sprawl of point solutions across security, backup, and monitoring.
Collapsing those into a single platform could meaningfully reduce operational overhead and streamline how they package services to customers.
OpenStack and KVM underpin the platform
Under the hood, Cyber Frame runs on OpenStack and KVM. Acronis developed the platform in collaboration with Virtuozzo, a company with deep roots in virtualization and containerization.
The platform also includes native multitenancy, tenant isolation, customer self-service capabilities, and white-label delivery options, features oriented at how service providers actually run their businesses.
It integrates with Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud, the company’s broader managed services platform.
Acronis, which says its platform is used by more than 21,000 service providers globally to protect over 750,000 businesses, is clearly betting that Cyber Frame can become a meaningful part of how partners build and sell infrastructure going forward.