Acronis Cyber Frame

What is Acronis Cyber Frame?

Acronis Cyber Frame is a hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) platform designed for service providers to deliver secure cloud environments. Built on an open architecture utilizing OpenStack and KVM, the platform integrates compute, storage, and networking with native cyber protection, including automated backup and disaster recovery for all provisioned virtual machines.

Key Capabilities

Native Cyber Protection Integration: Every virtual machine provisioned within the infrastructure is protected by default with integrated anti-malware, behavioral protection, and disaster recovery services managed through a unified console.
Hybrid Deployment Models: Supports Cyber Frame Cloud for fully hosted services across global data centers and Cyber Frame Local for partner-hosted on-premises or colocation deployments to address specific data sovereignty and latency requirements.
AI-Driven Operations: Includes an integrated AI assistant to automate initial cluster deployment, assist in complex network configurations, and provide predictive troubleshooting for hardware and software issues.
Multi-Tenant Architecture: Features native tenant isolation and white-labeling capabilities, allowing service providers to offer customer self-service portals for resource provisioning and management.
Automated Workload Migration: Includes a dedicated migration wizard for automated bulk transfer of existing workloads from VMware and other proprietary hypervisors into the Cyber Frame environment.

Audience & Use Cases

Audience: Managed Service Providers (MSPs), Cloud Service Providers (CSPs), and large enterprise IT departments seeking to build private or public cloud infrastructures.
Use Case: Launching secure IaaS offerings with predictable monthly costs or consolidating legacy server hardware into a modern, protected HCI environment with minimal hypervisor licensing overhead.

Technical Specifications

Cluster Scale: Optimized for 5-node production clusters; supports a 3-node minimum configuration for staging or development environments.
Storage Modalities: Provides unified support for Block, S3 Object, and File storage within a single software-defined storage layer.
Network Architecture: Supports 25G/RDMA networking with LACP and MTU 9000 (Jumbo frames) for high-throughput, low-latency inter-node communication.
Hardware Requirements: Compatible with standard x86-64 server hardware; requires 24-core CPUs and redundant, hot-plug power supplies per node for high availability.

Launched in May 2026, Acronis Cyber Frame is the evolved successor to Acronis Cyber Infrastructure (ACI). While retaining ACI's foundational software-defined storage and virtualization engine, Cyber Frame shifts the platform's focus from a specialized storage backend to a full-scale IaaS solution. It introduces native, hypervisor-level integration of Acronis's security suite (making workloads "protected by default"), adds AI-driven deployment and management assistance, and offers new, flexible cloud-hosted deployment models designed to help service providers compete directly with traditional hyperscalers and legacy virtualization vendors.