Acronis and LEADER join BJR at the Australian Grand Prix
SYDNEY – March 20, 2024 – Brad Jones Racing (BJR) proudly welcomes LEADER, in partnership with the Acronis #TeamUp program, to the #14 Camaro ahead of the Australian Grand Prix (March 21-24, 2024).
BJR is expanding its partnership by bringing Australian-owned IT distributor LEADER into the Supercars team. Building on the success of last year, LEADER is growing its involvement in sports through the Acronis #TeamUp program and has found a fit with one of the most technically positioned teams, BJR.
“We are pleased to welcome the global cyber protection leader, Acronis, with support from LEADER, back to our partner network and through the excellent #TeamUp program,” said BJR Team Owner, Brad Jones. “It is always a proud moment to be able to work closely with other Australian businesses. Through a close partnership with Acronis and LEADER, we can develop as a business and enjoy a world-class standard of cyber protection.”
Welcoming Acronis and LEADER to one of the biggest events on the Supercars calendar is crucially beneficial for all involved. BJR can offer exclusive insights into the running of a high-performance racing team to see how these types of systems work in real-time in race conditions.
“Over a race weekend we produce an incredible amount of sensitive data and keeping that stored safely is of the utmost importance to our team. We wouldn’t trust anyone but Acronis with keeping our data safe and secure,” added Jones.
The Supercars team has long leveraged the cyber protection that Acronis offers and can vouch significantly for the effectiveness and reliability of Acronis solutions. Acronis’ technology is employed worldwide by major sports teams and BJR is proud to be a part of that group.
"At LEADER, our mission is to deliver top-class service and support to our resellers and channel partners,” said Theo Kristoris, Managing Director of LEADER. “Acronis equips our partners with natively integrated cybersecurity and data protection technology, which is trusted by global sports teams. Acronis provides the fastest and most efficient means for Australian businesses to elevate their security posture."
Acronis provides reliable and efficient integrated cybersecurity for managed service providers (MSPs) that reduces the time and cost of preventing and remediating security incidents. Australian businesses choose Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud because of its native integration of cybersecurity, data protection, and endpoint management services, which helps to reduce downtime and reach the required essential eight maturity levels.
"We are proud to support our partners here in Australia," said Kelly Johnson, General Manager of Acronis ANZ. "Acronis offers integrated cybersecurity and data protection for Australian businesses, alleviating the burden and removing complexity associated with protecting digital environments."
Don’t miss the partnership in action across four days at the Australian Grand Prix, Supercars will be racing from Thursday, March 21 to Sunday, March 24.
About Brad Jones Racing:
Established by brothers, Kim and Brad Jones in the early 1980’s Brad Jones Racing has been a powerhouse of motorsport success over many decades. Winning in every category they entered from Production Cars to AUSCAR and Touring Cars, the brothers’ filled the trophy cabinets.
Entering the Supercars Championship in the year 2000 with just a single car, they quickly came up to speed and Brad appeared on the podium at the 2001 edition of the Bathurst 1000 - just narrowly missing out on the victory. From there the team have achieved over 80 podiums and dozens of wins. In recent history, Kim has stepped back from the business with Brad continuing on the legacy solo.
About LEADER:
LEADER focuses on authentic, mutually beneficial, profitable relationships with both resellers and vendors. Our desire and drive is to help build a robust, more sustainable IT industry, through support, shared knowledge, and solution selling. Our strength comes from our ability to provide the IT Channel with complete solutions, from Servers, PC's, Gaming, Accessories, Networking, Storage, Software to Cloud Services, VoIP Solutions, SIP Trunking & other Telco services, LEADER 's account managers are dedicated to working with our resellers and helping them grow. www.Leadersystems.com.au
About Acronis:
Acronis is a global cyber protection company that provides natively integrated cybersecurity, data protection, and endpoint management for managed service providers (MSPs), small and medium businesses (SMBs), and enterprise IT departments. Acronis solutions are highly efficient and designed to identify, prevent, detect, respond, remediate, and recover from modern cyberthreats with minimal downtime, ensuring data integrity and business continuity. Acronis offers the most comprehensive security solution on the market for MSPs with its unique ability to meet the needs of diverse and distributed IT environments.
A Swiss company founded in Singapore in 2003, Acronis has 45 locations across the globe. Acronis Cyber Protect is available in 26 languages in 150 countries and is used by over 20,000 service providers to protect over 750,000 businesses. Learn more at www.acronis.com.