Azure Backup Reviews & Product Details

Azure Backup is a centralized cloud-based service designed to protect your data across various environments, including on-premises and cloud-based infrastructures. It offers enterprise-grade data protection, ensuring business continuity during outages and cyberattacks. Key Features and Functionality: - At-Scale Management: Monitor, operate, govern, and plan backups at scale with resiliency capabilities in Azure. - Ransomware Protection: Safeguard your backups from ransomware attacks with air-gapped vaults and features like immutability, soft-delete, and multiuser authorization (MUA). - Diverse Workload Protection: Protect a wide range of workloads, including databases like SQL Server, SAP HANA, PostgreSQL, and MySQL; storage solutions like Azure blobs and file shares; and containerized applications running in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters. - Cost Optimization: Eliminate extra costs of additional backup infrastructure and overhead for scaling and managing storage. Primary Value and Solutions Provided: Azure Backup addresses the critical need for robust data protection by offering a scalable and secure solution that integrates seamlessly with Azure services. It simplifies backup management, enhances security against cyber threats, and supports a diverse range of workloads, thereby ensuring data integrity and availability for businesses of all sizes.

Seller

Microsoft

Discussions

Azure Backup Community

Solution Type

Best-of-Breed

Value at a Glance

Averages based on real user reviews.

Time to Implement

1 month

Return on Investment

12 months

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User Insights

Average based on 88 real user reviews.

Implementation Time

1 month

Perceived Cost

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Saswata P.

Assistant Manager

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

9/21/2023

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"It's an awesome and amazing data protection"

5/5

What do you like best about Azure Backup?

Trusted data security, Scalability to support growth, Fully managed disaster recovery Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Backup?

Nothing to be disliked. It's an amazing Centralized data protection. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Government Administration

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

5/29/2023

"Central backup service platform - protect against cyber sec incidents"

4/5

What do you like best about Azure Backup?

I like that it is very cost-effective yet doesn't reduce the product's overall effectiveness. Its central management pane-of-glass interface is user-friendly and makes it easy for service desk or infrastructure staff to use and define specific backup policies. It's also scalable and flexible, growing with your business. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Backup?

The initial setup and config requires some technical expertise and familiarity with Azure services; this isn't necessarily a downside, more something you need to know before you embark on the Azure Backup journey Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Azure Backup solving and how is that benefiting you?

Incremental Backups and Versioning: Azure Backup performs incremental backups, capturing only the changes made since the last backup. This approach reduces the time and resources required for each backup operation. Additionally, Azure Backup retains multiple versions of backed-up data, allowing organisations to recover to a specific point in time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sheikh Shoaib M.

Systems Engineer(Core Network)

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

5/22/2023

"Very reliable and cost-effective"

5/5

What do you like best about Azure Backup?

It's easy to set up and manage, and it provides flexible backup and restore options to meet my business needs. With Azure Backup, I can store your backups securely in the cloud & also use it to protect hybrid cloud workloads. Overall, it's a reliable and cost-effective backup solution that can help to keep my data safe and secure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Backup?

Sometimes impacted by network issues such as latency or bandwidth constraints. Except this, I got a fantastic experience Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Md S.

Test Secialist

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

5/11/2023

"Cloud backup to the best"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Azure Backup?

It is the best IAAS vm backup for Azure and help with recovery services too. There is unlimited data transfers. Our data is secure and consistent backup too. The store management is also under automation way Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Backup?

There are all way to best services which is provided by Axure backup. But it lacks on some level of scalability. Also it should gives open way to store on all level of devices. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kiran B.

Site Reliability Manager

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

Originally submitted 9/19/2023

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"SRM"

4/5

What do you like best about Azure Backup?

Azure backup is easy to use and very much user friendly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Backup?

I haven't scene any dislike about it yet Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Abhirami K.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

9/19/2023

Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores.

"Best Backup solution"

5/5

What do you like best about Azure Backup?

On prem back up and vm backup instantly without any downtime Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Backup?

UI interface, the visualization and view Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

suraj r.

DevOps Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

9/13/2023

"Backup and restore"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Azure Backup?

On Prem and On cloud backup of virtual machine, whithout any downtime . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Backup?

Costing and It should be user friendly, taking backup and then deleteing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Satish T.

Product Engineer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

9/21/2023

"Azure for every individual"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Azure Backup?

Easy and convenient to use while maintaining the security. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Backup?

Nothing so far, liked every aspect of using Asure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Oil & Energy

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

9/22/2023

"Azure backup"

5/5

What do you like best about Azure Backup?

Azure Backup helps protect critical data and it has on premises backup which also helps.

It is simple and cost effective.

It is used quite frequently and also 24:7 customer support Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Backup?

Nothing to dislike about Azure backup.

Everything that you need will be available here Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

4/25/2023

"Provides confidence in knowing our data is backed up!"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Azure Backup?

I like that Azure Backup provides a secure and reliable way to store and protect our data in the cloud. It's also very easy to set up and configure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Backup?

I find that there is a lack of flexibility when setting up and managing backups. Additionally, the pricing structure can be difficult to understand and can be quite expensive for larger organizations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.