Azure Backup Primary Use Case

Terry Tull - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Architecht at Capgemini

I use Azure Backup primarily for backing up virtual machines, storage accounts, and SQL databases.

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Carlos Alberto Mourelo Romero - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Manager at Techedge

The principal use cases of the solution are attached to SQL databases and virtual machines.

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RohitKumar13 - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Consultant at ITC Infotech

My company uses Azure Backup for its multiple customers. My company uses the solution for both SAP and non-SAP workloads. The solution works fantastic since we have not faced any issues. My company uses the solution as a backup tool for files and folders. We also used the solution in our company as a VM-level backup and backup storage device.

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EmadAttia - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at Oberoi

We use Azure Backup to have a backup on the cloud and save our backup.

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GauravMukerjee - PeerSpot reviewer
Global Presales Leader at Kyndryl

Azure Backup is best suited for people who have their workloads on Azure. 80% of the use case is for people using compute instances or compute capacity on Azure.

There is a smaller use case for people who want scalable storage, which some can scale up and down, even though their workloads may not be in Azure and maybe a data center workload instead. Azure backup is a good solution if one needs scalable workloads on a cost-effective platform. Those are two primary use cases.

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Mohamed Iqbal - PeerSpot reviewer
Presales Information Technology Consultant at JBA

Our company was facing a lot of difficulties maintaining the servers, and we did not have a solid backup solution. So, we moved to Azure.

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Johny Segura - PeerSpot reviewer
Regional Head of Digital Transformation at CUMBRA

We use Azure Backup to back up Azure servers and databases. It isn't used for active data storage. 

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MOHAMEDTRABELSI - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior infrastructure engineer at Cubic Information Systems

The product is used for disaster recovery. We worked for a bank that needed disaster recovery. The bank was using a VMware solution. They also had some critical virtual machines. So, we deployed the solution for them.

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SatyaprakashSingh - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior System Administrator at skp group

I utilized Azure Backup for the purpose of backing up and restoring data. Specifically, I performed a recovery operation by transferring data from a single location to one of several designated locations. Our objective is to replicate the data from the original location to a secondary location, ensuring that we can restore it from the alternate site in the event of any unforeseen disruptions.

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SA
Critical Incident & Problem Management Lead at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

The product is a part of our cloud infrastructure strategy.

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AnuragGupta - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

We primarily use the solution as a backup.

With on-premises servers, you can have a long-term archival sitting on public clouds, like Azure. That is also one of the very good use cases where you're avoiding all the tape requirements for your long-term archival. 

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AR
Senior Project Manager at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

We generally use the solution for VM backups. 

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Sameer_Shah - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Solution Specialist at a construction company with 10,001+ employees

We use Commvault for on premises clients and the Azure Backup for cloud-based clients.

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SM
Enterprise architect at Kapsch

We use this solution for across-the-board data protection. That includes VMs, and storage pools for basically any level of recoverability whether for files, storage pools or transactional data. I'm an enterprise architect. 

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Rahul Sarangdhar - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Specialist at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

We're using it as a native tool for VM-level backup.

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MS
Owner at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

The main use case is to back up my on-premises machines, essentially resembling the traditional backup software that has been included with Windows operating systems for the past three decades. In this specific case, it's a cloud-based solution. This cloud-based backup service also offers regional redundancy. For instance, if you're using the South UK region as your primary location for backups, you have the option to mirror your backups to another designated region. In the past, this secondary region used to be highly customizable, but now specific regions are designated as partners. For instance, Western North Europe may be a partner region. This means you are constrained to using specific partner regions for redundancy. If the primary region encounters issues, the secondary region will seamlessly take over the backup load.

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MG
Backup Engineer at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

Customers nowadays are planning to migrate their workloads from on-premises to the cloud, like Azure. Microsoft offers Azure Backup as a service, which allows backup for virtual machines, SQL databases, HANA databases, and even file shares. 

If the customer's workloads are supported by Azure, we recommend Azure Backup as a service. However, for workloads not supported by Azure Backup, we look for third-party investment solutions.

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VV
Cloud solution architect at Ernst & Young

We use the solution for VMs and SQL servers. 

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EmilPenkov - PeerSpot reviewer
Azure Architect at KPMG ITC

We use Azure Backup to backup and restore virtual machines as well as SQL Databases.

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ML
Owner at VM7 TECHFABER

We have implemented a secondary contingency plan for most clients, where the primary infrastructure is on-premise, and the containers are hosted in the cloud. Some clients are currently migrating their primary solutions to the cloud. In these cases, the servers run on Azure, and Azure Backup provides backup server services. Additionally, we have implemented Azure SQL and Azure Intune for these clients.

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SA
Managing Director/CIO at Shield Technology Programs

Currently, I have Many Azure VMs for clients, and We are  doing the backup, disaster recovery, and tactical replication for all of them.

We install the backup stack for our clients. We explain the situation and have our technical team complete the installation for the clients.

With set up managed retention using the backup policy. We do retention, and we do security. 

The level of security is high on it.

Most of our clients used to have Mac storage in all of their offices, such as NAS (network-attached storage) by 20, or 30 terabytes. We have informed our clients, rather than keep their storage on-premises and risking it getting damaged with no disaster recovery, it would be better to synchronize it and move it to the cloud. Some of the clients will keep it on the cloud while some others have to keep it on-premises and on the cloud at the same time for direct synchronization.

The backup is configured as replication or synchronized between both of them.

When we install for the client, they have a full solution. All of their computers are connected to a single sign-on with Office 365. They all have a domain on the Microsoft cloud. Included with this we add Azure, all of their HR software, ERP, and accounting on the cloud. The add-on backup to the environment will be with Microsoft.

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SyedAbid Hussain - PeerSpot reviewer
Snr. Cloud Infrastructure Architect at LogicEra

Azure Backup is a mandatory service. We have recommended every client to use Azure Backup. Many resources and databases are being backed up on Azure in different zones and regions.

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MM
Sr. IT Operations Engineer at AlGosaibi Group

We use Azure Backup as part of our disaster recovery solution. If there is a problem in the entire building then we can restore our data from over the cloud.

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TC
Technical Manager at Synnex

We use Azure Backup to backup VMs.

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GK
Head of IT-Infrastructure at a construction company with 11-50 employees

The main use case is to back up the virtual machines.

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MB
Systems Operation Manager at Compupaul

Our primary use case is for backups.

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SA
Managing Director/CIO at Shield Technology Programs

Our primary use case of Azure Backup is for data on our application servers. We host our ERP systems with SQL for backend software. 

We've been in partnership with Microsoft for more than 15 years. I'm the CEO and the CIO. 

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AE
IT Manager at NOMAC

We use it to backup on-premise data to Azure. We can backup the whole virtual machine to Azure if we need offsite backup. If you don't have any backup solution on-premise data center, you can rely on Azure Backup to do a backup to Azure, to the cloud. That means from on-premise to cloud backup, for data and virtual machines. 

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RM
Chief Executive at a non-profit with 51-200 employees

I use Azure Backup VM backups.

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Yew Jin Kang - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Technology Officer at Plus Expressways Bhd

We used it for the backup of virtual machines.

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NV
Team lead/ Cloud Specialist at a tech company with 11-50 employees

We are a Microsoft reseller for everything that has to do with the cloud and migrating from on-premises infrastructure. Azure Backup is one of the solutions that we implement for our clients.

Our primary use case is to assist schools with moving their on-premises workloads to the cloud. We use the backup facility as it's provided by the platform to help them move everything they run on VMware, Hyper-V, or physical servers.

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MohamedShedeed - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud specialist at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

We are a Microsoft partner and we implement solutions for our customers. We also provide managed services. We work with most of the services on Azure, and this is one of the solutions that we have provided.

Azure Backup is a public cloud service, and you can use it to backup on-premises or cloud services. The primary use case is backing up cloud services. However, if you are using it on-premises then the cloud part is much more convenient.

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RM
IT Support at NCPB

We use Azure Backup to back up our data from our application server to the disaster recovery site. 

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KA
Technical architect at a manufacturing company with 1-10 employees

I use Azure Backup to backup Microsoft Domain Controller for my client. The need was to protect the domain controllers as they were critical controls for Watson Web. So, even if a hacker attacked the firm with a ransom through Watson Web, it would be possible to recover the data from Azure because the data would have been protected.

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MP
Director of Technology at a energy/utilities company with 51-200 employees

We use Azure databases and we run a backup script for it.

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DA
Cloud Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

I have created a virtual machine that I use as a testbed to validate the Azure backup and restore functionality.

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RM
IT Support at NCPB

We primarily use the solution for its backup functionality. It's the number one reason we utilize the product.

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AF
Senior System Specialist at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

Our customers have VMs on their test environment that are backed up with Azure Backup for short retention, around one month. They need a machine that does not need integration with backup over BPE.

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MB
IT, DevOPS and Cloud Advisor at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

Currently, I'm working on a project in a desktop environment where this is one of the solutions that is being used. It is a public-cloud deployment model.

We are using this solution to back up VMs and data from our customers.

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Himanshu  Rana - PeerSpot reviewer
Delivery Service Engineer at Hanu Software

The primary use case is for restoration purposes, disaster recovery, and to back up our normal processes for example restoration.

If any virtual machines go down then we can just recover from the previous restore point.

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NK
IT Manager at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees

I use Azure Backup in my client's company.

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MN
Asst. Manager, Cloud Solutions at Corporate Projukti Limited

We are a solution provider and this is one of the products that we implement for our clients.

Our customers use this solution for backing up their data to the cloud.

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it_user1226136 - PeerSpot reviewer
Microsoft Solutions Architect and Unified Communications Engineer at Nashua Comunications

We primarily use the solution for disaster recovery.

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SN
Sr. Cloud Operations Engineer at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

We have been this as our default backup solution since we migrated to Azure. We have both Windows and Linux systems in our environment.

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CB
Solution architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We provide solutions with Microsoft. The principal use is as a backup solution for the the Azure environment because we use 365 solutions.

This solution is deployed on cloud.

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MB
Azure Architect at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We use this solution to back up our private environment and virtual machines.

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it_user1311462 - PeerSpot reviewer
Domain Solution Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

The primary use case is to have in Azure or backup with a machine on-prem.

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Buyer's Guide
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March 2024
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