We recommend all customers should have a cloud-to-cloud backup in place.
Why?... for many reasons explained in this article, but primarily because for less than the cost of a coffee your businesses cloud data is protected should the worst happen.
Cloud platforms are being adopted on a huge scale worldwide.
Providing communication, collaboration, and productivity applications to businesses in a flexible and scalable way and bringing new innovations to the workplace.
Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace are two of biggest cloud platforms with approximately 3.3 Billion users worldwide, their office productivity software has a combined market share of 96%. It's highly likely that your part of that large majority!
Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive are their hugely popular cloud-based file sync and sharing platforms, which have opened up new possibilities in a remote working revolution.
However, a common misconception is that cloud file sync is a replacement for a backup.
A dangerous belief, given that by default most file sync applications operate a files-on-demand approach, listing your files but not keeping all your data on the local device and thereby not keeping full copies of your data locally and in the cloud. For this reason, and more, backup of cloud applications is just as important as data hosted on-premises.
Cloud infrastructure stores your data in distributed data centres that are designed with resiliency and redundancy, eliminating any single point of failure. But neither provider can guarantee your data will be accessible in the event of an outage, and neither take responsibility for restoring data if you lose it or it becomes encrypted. Microsoft's Shared Responsibility Model places the onus on businesses for the preservation and security of their own data on the cloud platform, recommending that they have a third-party backup solution.
Cloud apps are highly reliable, but both Google and Microsoft have suffered recent global outages affecting access for upwards of 1 billion users. More worryingly, neither platform can fully protect you if your mailbox or your data is affected by ransomware, user error, deliberate or accidental deletion.
Our cloud protection solution addresses all these issues, and most importantly provides peace of mind that your mailboxes and data are replicated independently of the cloud provider, accessible and recoverable whenever you need them.
We are recommending that all businesses operating on these platforms should have it.
Cloud Protect is a comprehensive cloud-to-cloud solution, offering, unlimited backup storage, 1 year backup retention, search, restore and export for:
Microsoft 365:
Exchange (Email, Calendars, Contacts)
OneDrive
SharePoint
Teams
Tasks
Google Workspace:
Gmail
Google Drive
Shared Drives
Calendar
Contacts
Cloud Protect is inexpensive and can be setup easily and quickly.
So speak to us today and get your cloud data protected.