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Microsoft Azure Backup

Composite Score

8.8 /10

CX Score

9.0 /10

177 Reviews Write a Review

What is Microsoft Azure Backup?

Protect your data with a cloud-based backup as a service Keep your data in Azure and on-premises safe. Backup supports VMware and Hyper-V virtual machines running on Linux and Windows, as well as physical Windows Servers.

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Awards & Recognition

Microsoft Azure Backup won the following awards in the Backup and Availability category

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Strategy and Innovation
Product Impact

2022

2021 Emotional Footprint Champion

2021

2020 Emotional Footprint Champion

2020

Microsoft Azure Backup Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
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Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

87 Likeliness to Recommend

96 Plan to Renew

83 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+90 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love Microsoft Azure Backup?

5% Negative

6% Neutral

89% Positive

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Enables Productivity
Trustworthy

Feature Ratings

Average 83

Analytics

Virtual Machine Backup

Backup Automation

Backup of Cloud Based Data

Integration With Storage Arrays

Automated Backup Testing and Verification

Backup Monitoring and Reporting

Application Awareness

Replication for High Availability

Deduplication Implementation

Replication for Long Term Storage and Disaster Recovery

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 82

Ease of Implementation

Vendor Support

Business Value Created

Ease of Data Integration

Breadth of Features

Availability and Quality of Training

Ease of IT Administration

Quality of Features

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Ease of Customization

Usability and Intuitiveness

Microsoft Azure Backup Reviews

Yasir L.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Manufacturing
Involvement: IT Leader or Manager

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Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jul 2022

usable product

Likeliness to Recommend

7 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Azure Backup from other similar products?

Azure offers boot disk only and full machine VM where the cloud is boot disk only.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Azure has more data centers and delivery points than most other cloud services.

What do you dislike most about this product?

The cost of the Azure cloud platform is very high, especially the cost of pay as you go services is very high.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Mostly, because of the pricing, I would rate Microsoft Azure DevOps a seven out of ten.

Pros

Reliable
Performance Enhancing
Effective Service
Acts with Integrity

Cons

Less Caring
Less Generous

Nicki U.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Manufacturing
Involvement: Business Leader or Manager

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jul 2022

Disappoints. We are moving to Veeam 365

Likeliness to Recommend

6 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Azure Backup from other similar products?

The MS Azure back works but misses features that we can control using Veeam 365 instead and lacks support for many features that Veeam offers.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Its native to 365 so it works out of the box.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Lacks feature sets that Veeam offers.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

If you need basic backups then use this product. But I would recommend Rubrik or Veeam over this one.

Pros

Caring
Acts with Integrity
Helps Innovate
Trustworthy

Cons

Commodity Features
Less Reliable
Less Performance Enhancing

Lonnie R.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Technology
Involvement: IT Leader or Manager

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jun 2022

Modern backup strategy 2022

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Azure Backup from other similar products?

Reliable and trustworthy backup solution that is independent of the neighborhood data center Since we began moving virtual machine workloads to Azure about 1 years ago, we have been making use of Azure Backups throughout this time. Because it is very simple to implement and manage, it is an excellent option for virtual machine backups that are considered to be "simple." This is an obvious choice. Its integration to Microsoft products, such as Windows Virtual Machines and Azure SQL Instances, is very good and reliable thanks to Azure's native feature, which makes this possible.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

One of the most secure and easiest to maintain solutions out there. Your backups are safe and secure, and you don't have to worry about losing them due to a storage device failure. Cost-effectiveness a user-friendly interface that's in keeping with the visual style of Azure Interoperability between Microsoft products (in particular Azure) As a result, Azure Site Recovery is a single service that provides disaster recovery for important systems and backups for systems where significant downtime is acceptable.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Because Azure charges for outgoing traffic, you may not really need to restore any servers from backup, but it's possible that if you do, it will take up significant bandwidth.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

For simple VM backups, Azure Backup is an excellent choice. Azure Backup will operate with your server or application if a snapshot works well for you. It's a full backup of the entire virtual machine. It's up to you whether or not you need granularity in your backups. Increase self-hosting support and minimize upfront costs.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Performance Enhancing
Enables Productivity
Efficient Service

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Awards & Recognition

2024 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2024 Emotional Footprint Champion

2023 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2022 Emotional Footprint Champion

2021 Emotional Footprint Champion

2020 Emotional Footprint Champion

Microsoft Azure Backup Ratings

87 Likeliness to Recommend

96 Plan to Renew

83 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

1 Since last award

Emotional Footprint Overview

+90 Net Emotional Footprint

How much do users love Microsoft Azure Backup?

Pros

Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

Analytics Built-in real-time and historical reporting and analytics on SLAs, performance, and resource consumption, as well as predictive capabilities to plan & optimize.

Virtual Machine Backup Automatically discovers and protects VMs as they come online, move, and change. Production VMs are replicated to a secondary data store.

Backup Automation Solution automates backup, recovery and remediation tasks using RestAPI and CLI to integrate with 3rd party solutions, reduce cost and enforce standards.

Backup of Cloud Based Data In addition to targeting backups to the cloud, the solution also has the capability to back up primary data and services already in the cloud.

Integration With Storage Arrays Integrates with APIs from major storage vendors (NetApp, HP, Dell EMC) to leverage capabilities in these arrays such as data snapshots and replication.

Automated Backup Testing and Verification Goes beyond monitoring whether backup jobs completed by verifying the integrity of data restoration.

Backup Monitoring and Reporting Backup and replication are continually monitored for status and effectiveness. Detailed reporting is available on successful and unsuccessful operations.

Application Awareness Application consistent backup and granular restore for application data from core applications such as MS SQL, Oracle, MS Exchange, MS SharePoint.

Replication for High Availability Beyond secondary copy backup, the solution also manages replication of primary data host-to-host and site-to-site for live failover and high availability.

Deduplication Implementation Deduplication of redundant data blocks is implemented by the solution. Deduplication can be at source, target, or globally (source and target).

Replication for Long Term Storage and Disaster Recovery Onsite backup data is replicated and stored to a public cloud (AWS, Azure). Can also include restore-to-cloud capabilities for Disaster Recovery as a Service.

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Ease of Implementation Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

Ease of Customization Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Microsoft Azure Backup Reviews

Yasir L.

usable product

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Cons

Nicki U.

Disappoints. We are moving to Veeam 365

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Cons

Lonnie R.

Modern backup strategy 2022

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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Feature Ratings

Analytics

Virtual Machine Backup

Backup Automation

Backup of Cloud Based Data

Integration With Storage Arrays

Automated Backup Testing and Verification

Backup Monitoring and Reporting

Application Awareness

Replication for High Availability

Deduplication Implementation

Replication for Long Term Storage and Disaster Recovery

Vendor Capability Ratings

Ease of Implementation

Vendor Support

Business Value Created

Ease of Data Integration

Breadth of Features

Availability and Quality of Training

Ease of IT Administration

Quality of Features

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Ease of Customization

Usability and Intuitiveness