Never have I looked forward to the end of a travel season as I have this one. Madrid, Bremen, Vegas, San Francisco, San Jose, Oakland, Stuttgart, Schaffhausen, Munich, Hanover, Cologne; truly a case of wherever I lay my hat. Although, this time, it wasn’t jetlag or weird diseases that had me eyeing the last trip with keen anticipation. It was the prospect of a sitdown and chat with Serguei Beloussov.
Serguei is CEO of Acronis. We met at the firm’s new HQ in Schaffhausen, at the northern tip of Switzerland. This isn’t our first encounter, because the Russian group that includes Acronis also includes Parallels – fine suppliers of web control panels and virtualisation software.
Serguei used to run Parallels back in the initial days of cloud computing, so we’ve…