Data is the digital essence of modern organizations and to ensure the survival of your business you need to protect this vital resource.

Backing up your data is the first line of defense in data protection. It forms the foundation to build other data protection solutions like disaster recovery, business continuity, and high-availability. Backing up your data is not a new concept or practice. When punch cards were the data storage system of the day, operators had a second copy. However, the technologies we use to backup data have changed radically over the years, and the Internet has created the next step in this evolution—cloud-based backup solutions.

Backing up your data to a cloud service like Azure Cloud Backup has a few advantages over traditional on-premise backup solutions. These include capacity, cost, simplicity, freedom, and management.

Data Protection with Microsoft Azure

Microsoft Azure has a few enterprise-grade services which can help you protect your data and keep your business online. These include standard cloud backup, a full disaster recovery service, and a hybrid cloud backup solution.

1. Azure Backup Reduced Cost

Azure backup contains all the benefits of a true cloud backup solution. With no upfront capital investment and minimal operational expense, Azure backup gives you the enterprise features you need to ensure your data is backed up, secure and most importantly, offsite on Azure Dedicated Host.
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Security and Availability

To make sure your data is secure and always available, Azure backup stores three copies of your data in three different locations in the primary Azure data center, and another three copies in an alternative remote Azure data center. In addition, your data is encrypted before it leaves the source, in transit, and at rest in the Azure backup vault.
Efficient Network Bandwidth Utilization

Azure backup creates an initial full backup when the service is first utilized which improves efficiency and results in faster backup times. Following this initial backup, only incremental changes send on a schedule defined by you. In addition, built-in compression ensures network utilization and bandwidth consumption are at a minimum.
Seamlessly integrates with DPM

If you already have Microsoft Data Protection Manager (DPM) deployed in your on-premise environment, you can seamlessly integrate this with Azure backup to create a hybrid backup service. This lets you store data on-premise for faster recovery times and then seeds this data to Azure for offsite protection.

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