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Azure Backup is a cloud-based backup solution, which helps businesses create policies and secure a variety of enterprise workloads such as Azure Virtual Machines, SQL and SAP databases and Azure file shares. Other features...

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Felipe
Felipe
  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
  • Review Source
Value for Money
3
Functionality
5
Ease of Use
3
Customer Support
3

4
Reviewed on 18/10/2019

Is nice but

So far so good, we manage to solve the issues we faced some days

Pros

I love that the backup goes directly to the cloud, and even that slows down the Servers and the network is not that bad and you can schedule the replications time.

Cons

You get fail notifications, but if you want success notifications there is no way to do it.
In case of support need it you need to pay more even when you are already paying a lot for the service

Mark
Mark
  • Industry: Marketing & Advertising
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
  • Review Source
Value for Money
3
Functionality
5
Ease of Use
4
Customer Support
5

5
Reviewed on 09/07/2020

Cost effective solution

A reliable and trustworthy backup source

Pros

Azure works so well within the Microsoft world, it seamlessly integrates with most Microsoft applications. The security of having cloud integration gives you peace of mind that your files are secure in the cloud. You can also set Azure to backup automatically at pre-configured times.

Cons

Access to training was a bit hard to find, and if you want any support, thats gonna cost you over and above what your paying for the service.

Verified Reviewer
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
  • Review Source
Value for Money
1
Functionality
2
Ease of Use
2
Customer Support
2

3
Reviewed on 01/04/2018

One of Microsofts more expensive products, with average delivery.

Pros

Great integration with other Microsoft tools, and even other operating systems. User-friendly for storing data (Very secure,) great for beginners to set up.

Cons

Pricing is affordable but can get very expensive right away. The pay-as-you-go option is deceptive. Tech support is at an additional cost.

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Michael
Michael
  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
  • Review Source
Value for Money
4
Functionality
4
Ease of Use
4
Customer Support
5

4
Reviewed on 27/12/2018

Great software - local US based servers a plus

We use their cloud servers and cloud storage to manage and maintain client based servers that our running our software in the cloud. this is typically the case when they dont want to have to manage an onsite server, OS updates, anti-virus, etc.

Pros

Easy to use and with what we do, we require US based servers - something the AWS does not guarantee since they use servers in China as well.

Cons

Price can be a little high, but with their recent adjustments it brought it more in line with Google and Amazon.

Rochak
Rochak
  • Industry: Financial Services
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
  • Review Source
Value for Money
5
Functionality
5
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
5

5
Reviewed on 01/05/2021

Excellent Software - reliable and must have solution for any Cloud environment

Pros

Azure backup is necessary for any company going cloud these dates. It helps schedule automated backups for virtual machines

Highly flexible - you can schedule days and frequency
Reliable - with good logging and notification functionality
Compliance friendly - reports can be used to satisfy internal and external compliance

Cons

None really

Continous new features added to AZURE Backup to include more locations for backup would be great

Dana
Dana
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
  • Review Source
Value for Money
4
Functionality
5
Ease of Use
4
Customer Support
4

5
Reviewed on 20/07/2018

Easy to use backup system

Good solution for websites backup/clone

Pros

Easy to integrate with WordPress, via a simple plugin I got a daily backup of my websites direct to Azure, no need to worries about website lost or hack

Cons

Price system it's too confusing, It is very difficult to figure out how much will cost you as you are not sure at beginning how much storage you need

Katherine
Katherine
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
  • Review Source
Value for Money
5
Functionality
5
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
5

5
Reviewed on 25/04/2018

Excellent tool for information backup

Pros

I declare myself a fan of Microsoft, they are very attached to all the tools they take out and this is not off the list. It is very easy to use and allows you to save the information in another site for better backup, it is what I like the most because if there is a failure the information is completely supported. Really very good experience

Cons

Until now as I said, I love the applications of Microsoft and I do not find error to this, it works perfect, I am very happy with your work

Pankaj
Pankaj
  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
  • Review Source
Value for Money
4
Functionality
5
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
4

5
Reviewed on 15/06/2018

Simple and reliable cloud backup so far

best backup and hosting solution .

Pros

Reliable, secure ,easy to setup and supports multiple platforms hosting.
You can access your files from any device update them and update will be reflected on the cloud almost instantly also User interface looks fresh.
Performance and reliability will be always good as Microsoft keeps upgrading the servers.

Cons

As it is online backup , full recovery might take too much time as compared to offline recovery.
For full features you need to pay heavy bucks.

Charles
Charles
  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
  • Review Source
Value for Money
5
Functionality
4
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
4

4
Reviewed on 21/04/2019

Simple and affordable backup solution

Pros

Azure backup is very easy to configure and use.
It has a simple, clean and intuitive UI.
It's very affordable.
There's virtual no downtime.
I also like that Azure offers virtual machine backup.

Cons

Azure charges for outbound traffic. so while it's very cheap, it can get expensive quickly if restoring lots of data from backup.

Andrigo
Andrigo
  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1+ year
  • Review Source
Value for Money
5
Functionality
5
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
5

5
Reviewed on 19/06/2019

An excellent cloud backup solution

My experience is very good with it. Backups work everyday, i don't see errors for about an year and it worked everytime i needed.

Pros

Azure Backup is one of the most reliable cloud backup solutions available in the market. It's fast, packed with features and relatively simple to use. You can do full backups, incremental backups, create a lot of restore points and recover then in the same machine locally. The only thing you need is access to the console and then you can recoer your files just mounting the backup on the machine, like it was a local removable drive. It's amazing and i don't know other solution that do such thing like it.

Cons

I think that they could optimize a little the management console, because it's demand a lot of system resources. But overall, i don't have anything to complain about it.

Ben
  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
  • Review Source
Value for Money
4
Functionality
5
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
1

5
Reviewed on 07/01/2022

Azure backup is a must

My overall experience is a very pleasant one. Highly recommend it to anyone.

Pros

it's easy to setup. It's easy to maintain. and it's easier to recover data. Best of all, it's reliable

Cons

There is no downside to using Azure backup. it would highly encourage everyone to migrate their network to the cloud and utilize Azure backup

Verified Reviewer
  • Industry: Oil & Energy
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
  • Review Source
Value for Money
4
Functionality
3
Ease of Use
4
Customer Support
4

4
Reviewed on 17/04/2019

A seamless backup solution for Windows environments

Highly recommend for SMBs looking for a simple and cost-efficient backup solution for the Windows Servers.

Pros

Azure backup offers a very simple and well integrated solution for backing up Windows OS - especially Windows Server. It allows for easy backup creation, backup retrievals with a number of useful features - such as retention policy, flexible schedules, backup source and destination flexible options.

Cons

Azure Backup has come a long way. The early versions were very glitchy - they would freeze or crash constantly. Rarely, some symptoms of this can be noticed even with the latest version. But MS seems to be improving Azure backup everyday.

SHIVRAJ SINGH
  • Industry: Financial Services
  • Company size: 201–500 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
  • Review Source
Value for Money
4
Functionality
5
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
5

5
Reviewed on 08/07/2021

Best service for On-prem backup

Azure backup is helping us in taking backup of all critical servers/databases and OS bare metal backup.
There instant recovery snapshot which we can use to restore anytime during crash or missing of some files in servers.

Pros

This supports most of the platform OS and very ease in deployment. Backup is also happened on compression mode for space and cost savings.

Cons

Sometimes backup could take more than 12 hours which affects the resource performance. Also there should be some mechanism to backup the free version of VMware ESXI. It supports only commercial version.

Michael
Michael
  • Industry: Transportation/Trucking/Railroad
  • Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
  • Review Source
Value for Money
4
Functionality
4
Ease of Use
4
Customer Support
5

4
Reviewed on 27/03/2018

Wait... Back It Up!

Pros

I work for a company that supports thousands of users across the US, Mexico and Canada. Having a good backup solution isn't just needed - it's a necessity. Microsoft has shown that they can create a competent product - although it can have a bit of a learning curve. Luckily, the product is backed by Microsoft's excellent support staff!

Cons

Azure suffers mainly from it's complexity - which is actually a double edge sword. In the world of backups you need a complex program, but sometimes if it goes too far it can actually be too much for the user. With a little more polish, I believe this could easily be 5/5.

Vishal
Vishal
  • Industry: Information Services
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
  • Review Source
Value for Money
5
Functionality
5
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
5

5
Reviewed on 10/05/2020

One Click Cloud Backup ...

Very good and cost-effective solutions We used Azure backup for the backing up on-premise data in cloud. Which very secure

Pros

First of all Azure Backup is very cheap in cost and super good in speed. I have used Azure Backup for backup my software coding data store in Azure Backup cloud which is most secure also i care share the backup with office colleagues which is secure of data loss .

Cons

Nop !!! There is not cons with Azure Backup which is provide perfect backup solution with less pricing and one-click backup support for SQL database .

Verified Reviewer
  • Industry: Higher Education
  • Company size: 201–500 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
  • Review Source
Value for Money
3
Functionality
4
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
4

4
Reviewed on 15/05/2018

The Cloud based program we used in our company.

It helps a lot for every projects we have.

Pros

We used this software to back up our data and files because this software offers security and a lot of file storage. It may cost a little expensive but it helps a lot in our company.

Cons

Other than being a little expensive, we didn't experience any difficulties on using this software until now.

Verified Reviewer
  • Industry: Hospital & Health Care
  • Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
  • Review Source
Value for Money
5
Functionality
5
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
5

5
Reviewed on 27/09/2019

Enterprise cloud backup done easy.

Pros

This application is easy to setup and easy to administer. A help desk person can get this product going in a few minutes. It's very straightforward and runs on whatever schedule you set it up for.

Cons

No cons I can think of. It works very well and haven't had to troubleshoot any issues.

Ashish
Ashish
  • Industry: Legal Services
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used for 2+ years
  • Review Source
Value for Money
5
Functionality
5
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
5

5
Reviewed on 13/04/2021

Amazing! Just one word to describe Azure Backup.

It's awesome. Offering a business-critical platform to our clients creates a big worry for their data. With Azure Backup we don't have to worry about losing the client data.

Pros

Extremely easy to configure Azure Backup and Cost-Effective.
Features like Point in Time backup make life so easy make us disaster-proof.

Cons

Nothing as such. Microsoft has been extremely innovative in terms of features, usability and support.

Verified Reviewer
  • Industry: Environmental Services
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
  • Review Source
Value for Money
4
Functionality
4
Ease of Use
4
Customer Support
0

4
Reviewed on 25/09/2018

Azure is perfect for storing your data

Pros

It is very easy to back up you data on Azure. and the Microsoft team is very personable if you have any problems.

Cons

I personally did not have any problems with this software and works great with the company I work for.

Bijith
Bijith
  • Industry: Management Consulting
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
  • Review Source
Value for Money
0
Functionality
5
Ease of Use
4
Customer Support
0

4
Reviewed on 03/12/2019

Backup your data on Azure cloud

Overall i like the product, This feature gives us a dashboard to manage all our snaps easily

Pros

Best way to backup your data on cloud using Azure snapshot technology, It also has deduplication feature which will help you to avoid data from being getting duplicated

Cons

There are many instances when i try to trigger the backups and got API errors which is strange when product is in production

Verified Reviewer
  • Industry: Food & Beverages
  • Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
  • Used Monthly for 2+ years
  • Review Source
Value for Money
5
Functionality
4
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
2

5
Reviewed on 20/10/2020

A low-cost solution for Remote backups.

I use Azure Backup weekly to manage backups for branches abroad.

Pros

We use this solution to make backups of branches abroad. The main advantage is to use only one client on the remote computer to capture the necessary files and send them to Azure Backup. It is very efficient and of low cost when compared to the acquisition of traditional backup infrastructure in each branch.

Cons

The product delivers what it promises, reducing negative aspects. But what I can highlight is the lack of integration and enterprise tools like SAP. It would be an opportunity to allow integration for system backup directly to Azure. Today he just captures the finished file.

Dharmendra
  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 201–500 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
  • Review Source
Value for Money
3
Functionality
4
Ease of Use
4
Customer Support
4

5
Reviewed on 09/05/2019

Stable and Reliable

it's very effective and fast
good customer support easy to use and nice interface

Pros

As it's a product of Microsoft you can expect everything you want from it.

it's good and fast works better

Cons

cost as compared to other backup tools like druva and Shadow protect

i don't think anything else apart from cost

Brenda
Brenda
  • Industry: Food & Beverages
  • Used Weekly for 1+ year
  • Review Source
Value for Money
4
Functionality
4
Ease of Use
4
Customer Support
4

4
Reviewed on 01/04/2018

Very good service

Pros

Very good service. The way in which it helps the client and lends itself to what it needs at all times is really incredible, I am satisfied.

Cons

I really do not have a single complaint about Azure Backup. The services it provides are of very good quality and also has a wide variety of these, I would give it 10/10 and I will definitely work with them again.

Nathan
Nathan
  • Industry: Chemicals
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
  • Review Source
Value for Money
5
Functionality
5
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
5

5
Reviewed on 09/11/2019

Want an easy to use backup with a ton of features, the Azure backup should be your choice.

Pros

How easy it was to install and setup. We had machines backing up in no time flat.

Cons

It pulls some heavy load across the network. Get your bandwidth coin purse ready.

Verified Reviewer
  • Industry: Events Services
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1+ year
  • Review Source
Value for Money
4
Functionality
4
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
5

5
Reviewed on 24/07/2018

Used regularly in our rental business across several offices for backups of business PCs

Pros

Web portal is convenient and relatively quick to navigate and process. Automatic backups over the network prove to be quite convenient as well.

Cons

Not super intuitive right off the bat (unless you are already familiar with Azure or similar backup service).

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