This research report discusses the significant reduction in cost and the added data protection that Microsoft 365 backup solutions can bring to an organization through their automation. According to recent case studies, vendor reports, and analyst evaluations from 2023-2025, automated backup technologies provide a 30% savings as the result of better efficiency, faster restores, and more optimal resource utilization across the board. Continue reading
Understanding Microsoft 365 Shared Responsibility Model
Businesses frequently turn to SaaS platforms like Microsoft 365 because they are convenient. They eliminate the need to deploy and manage software on your own servers. That doesn’t mean that SaaS solutions free you from having to manage security. Although SaaS providers manage some facets of security, they delegate many security-related matters -- especially related to data protection and security -- to their customers through a shared responsibility model. Continue reading
Multi-Cloud Backup: Avoiding a Single Point of Failure
If a customer's backup fails, your customer can lose everything (personnel data, customer information, etc.), unless, of course, you’re avoiding a single point of failure with a multi-cloud backup solution. And if that’s the case, you’re in good hands. Continue reading
Backup Policy Best Practices
If you’re responsible for managing backups in an organization, then you might have been asked to author a backup policy (but been unsure about what exactly it entails). A backup policy is a formal document setting out the high-level governance of backups within an organization. Continue reading
How to Migrate to a New Managed Backup Solution
If you’re a managed service provider (MSP) offering backup as a service (BaaS) for clients, then architecting your technology stack in the most efficient way is an important part of delivering value to your customers. Continue reading
Disaster Recovery FAQ: Essential Definitions for IT Pros and MSPs
Some IT professionals believe that having automated data backups enables them to perform disaster recovery. As many of you know, this is far from the case.
To create a robust disaster recovery plan, you must understand the concepts, terms, and definitions that underlie it. In this FAQ section, we'll go over the main approaches and topics for disaster recovery and give you links to other guides that go into more detail on most of these topics. Continue reading
Difference Between Backup and Replication Explained
When it comes to the world of backup, all that glitters isn’t… truly backup.
To best protect your data, it’s essential to distinguish between approaches that could truly be considered backup and those which are better amalgamated under a heading which could be termed “backup-like”. Continue reading
Cloud Disaster Recovery: Planning and Approaches
For many businesses today, the cloud is an essential component of disaster recovery planning. But integrating cloud-based resources into your disaster recovery strategy can be challenging, because there are so many approaches you can take.
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6 Benefits of Backup as a Service
Backup as a service, or BaaS for short, is an alternative to an on-premises, build-your-own backup solution. BaaS implies offsite backup of your data by a service provider. Typically, it's a centralized tool that allows backup and recovery management and monitoring from a single pane of glass.
In this article, we will define the six core benefits of cloud backup as a service for businesses. Continue reading
What Is Amazon S3 Glacier and How to Use It
Amazon S3 is one of the core services offered by AWS that has a wide variety of use cases, from serving static websites to hosting images, managing data, and much more. In this post, we will review the ins and outs of Amazon S3 Glacier, a special storage class of Amazon S3 that serves as a cost-effective tool for low-access, long-term storage such as archives required for compliance. Continue reading
Amazon S3, MS Azure and Google Cloud Storage Pricing Comparison
When it comes to choosing professional cloud storage, pricing may become the deciding point. To help you better navigate the ever-changing cloud storage market, we prepared a short article comparing prices for three of the most popular solutions: Microsoft Azure, Google Storage, and Amazon S3 cloud storage services.
How to Back Up Amazon EC2 Instances
Amazon EC2 is one of the world’s most popular cloud virtual machine environments. Naturally, there are several ways to perform the backup of your instances running on this server. The ways depend on the way you want to perform a backup, on the flexibility of the recovery operations available for you, and on the number and type of data you will transfer. This article overviews the different methods for backing up EC2 instances and discusses the pros and cons of each Amazon cloud backup approach.