AvePoint Microsoft Azure Backup to Enhance Data Protection Capabilities

AvePoint, Inc. added data recovery capabilities for Microsoft Azure.

The company’s Cloud Backup solution extends protection to Microsoft Azure workloads to help businesses collaborate with confidence across their Microsoft deployments.

As more companies rely on Azure, which currently captures over 20% of all public cloud spend, it is imperative they properly protect all stored data. The firm’s Cloud Backup complements native Microsoft backup, ensuring companies can satisfy their compliance, productivity and BC requirements.

Addition of Azure Backup as part of Cloud Backup includes:

Periodic full and incremental backup: To incur minimal data-loss risk, business critical applications and data are backed up every 6 hours or up to 4x per day.
Cloud to cloud backup: Accommodating multi-cloud needs and preferences, customers have the option to securely store their data in the firm’s Azure Storage or a private cloud.
Point in time and granular level restore:Providing an experience for customers, the company provides time or object-based restores, which can be adjusted based on the scope of the backup, within minutes as opposed to days.
Ffidelity recovery: To simplify the restore process and maintain business continuity, specific users, groups, group memberships and applications remain intact.

“The need for a disaster recovery plan covering multiple clouds and workloads has unfortunately become abundantly clear with surging data breaches and ransomware attacks in the past few years,” said John Peluso, CPO. “With the addition of Azure backup, we now ensure that wherever business critical data lives, it is frequently backed up, and can be quickly accessed and restored, that way, organizations reduce their overall risk and boost productivity.”

The firm’s SaaS solution for multi-cloud backup offers capabilities for Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Salesforce, Dynamics 365, and now Azure, which includes VMs, Active Directory, and storage. To bolster its robust capabilities, The firm recently introduced Ransomware Detection, which proactively detects suspicious behavior within Microsoft OneDrive, and, if necessary, restores all or specific data for Cloud Backup customers.

“Even though most data deletion in the cloud is accidental, these emergencies can have a serious impact on our customers and their businesses,” Thomas Turner, director, Microsoft security and compliance, RSM. “Now, with AvePoint’s backup and governance functionality for Microsoft 365 workloads, RSM can quickly restore data and help align our customers’ internal policies and regulatory requirements.”

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