What Is Acronis Cyber Frame?
Acronis Cyber Frame is a secure, AI-powered hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) and infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) platform — virtual machines, storage, and networking with backup, disaster recovery, security, and monitoring natively built in. It's built on optimized OpenStack and the KVM hypervisor (no proprietary hypervisor lock-in) and delivered through the same Acronis console palmiq already uses to protect your business.
In plain terms: it's the infrastructure layer — the thing VMware used to be in your stack — except protection isn't an add-on you buy and integrate separately. Every VM is born backed up, secured, and monitored.
Why It Matters Right Now
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A Real VMware Alternative
Broadcom-era VMware renewals have organizations pricing exits. Cyber Frame includes VMware migration tools for bulk moves and controlled cutovers — and Acronis publishes the economics: $92K savings vs. VMware over three years for virtualization and protection across 134 VMs.
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A Private Home for AI Workloads
Want AI without sending sensitive data to public models? Cyber Frame provisions the VMs, storage, and private networking to host local model runtimes, RAG systems, and vector databases — in a controlled environment palmiq manages.
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Repatriation Without Regression
Coming back from hyperscaler bill shock shouldn't mean losing cloud convenience. Cyber Frame delivers self-service provisioning and API automation (OpenStack-compatible — Terraform works) on infrastructure you control.
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Protected by Default
Built-in backup and DR with failover/failback, anti-malware, anti-ransomware, behavioral detection and EDR/XDR, plus remote monitoring — on every VM, from day one.
Two Ways palmiq Delivers It
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Cloud (Hosted)
- VMs, networks, and storage provisioned from Acronis regional data centers — no hardware to buy.
- Consumption billing, hourly or monthly, with no hidden API or ingress/egress transfer fees.
- The fast path: infrastructure this week, not this quarter.
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Local (Your Data Center)
- Runs on commodity x86 hardware — 3 nodes minimum, 5+ recommended for production.
- KVM hypervisor, software-defined storage and networking, optional external storage (FC, iSCSI, NFS).
- Full control and data sovereignty; palmiq designs, deploys, and operates the cluster.
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Migration Path
- VMware and Azure migration workflows for bulk moves and controlled cutover.
- Backup-based restore and Convert-to-VM for staged migrations with rollback.
- palmiq runs the migration alongside your existing environment — coexistence, not a cliff.
How Cyber Frame Compares
| Against | The short version (per Acronis) |
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| VMware vSphere | Lower total cost; backup, DR, security, RMM built in; no proprietary lock-in |
| Hyperscalers | Predictable pricing, no hidden API/ingress fees; local and sovereign deployment options |
| Nutanix / GreenLake | Integrated cyber protection included by default |
| DIY OpenStack / Proxmox | Turnkey multitenant design with commercial support — no custom architecture project |