CLOUD BACKUP
Protect Microsoft 365, Entra ID, Google Workspace, Salesforce and Dynamics 365 with a recovery strategy built around your real risks. We compare native and third-party options, deploy the right solution and verify it through regular restore testing.
The problem
Your cloud provider protects the availability and resilience of its platform and may provide native retention, versioning or backup capabilities. But coverage, recovery granularity, retention, portability and recovery speed vary significantly by workload and licence. We assess whether the native tools meet your recovery objectives-and where independent backup adds value.
Runs the platform. Replicates the infrastructure. Restores the service after an outage. Holds deleted items in short, built-in retention windows, then clears them for good.
Roll back ransomware that encrypted your files. Recover a Teams channel or a Google shared drive deleted months ago. Restore a deprovisioned user’s mailbox after the retention window. Bring back Salesforce records a bad integration overwrote. Give you an immutable, air-gapped copy to fail over to. Test your recovery so you have a real RTO.
What we cover
Recovery requirements differ enough across these that no single product wins on all four. We'll tell you which fits your environment and why.
Exchange, SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, Groups
The most common ask. The trick is matching recovery granularity to your actual disaster scenarios. We weight ransomware recovery, point-in-time restore, and recovery testing.
Gmail, Drive, Shared Drives, Calendar, Contacts
Workspace has stronger native retention than M365 in some areas, weaker in others. Different product set; same recovery questions. We'll walk through what changes.
Sandbox refresh, metadata, attachments, custom objects
Salesforce's native backup is a starting point, not an answer. The real question is restore granularity at the object and field level, and how you handle metadata and code together.
Customer Engagement, F&O, Business Central, Dataverse
Microsoft’s native backup is point-in-time only and admin-mediated. For organizations that depend on Dynamics for billing or operations, that’s rarely enough.
Our marketplace
We've reviewed all of them, deploy the ones we sell, and recommend the right fit for your environment. Click any vendor for the deep-dive.
All-in-one cyber protection combining backup, disaster recovery, and security in a single platform. Strong for hybrid environments.
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Microsoft-focused governance and backup specialist with deep M365 ecosystem coverage and migration tooling.
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Protect Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace with secure, automated cloud-to-cloud backup. Recover Exchange, Gmail, Teams, Google Drive, OneDrive, SharePoint, calendars, contacts and more following accidental deletion, ransomware or user error.
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Cloud-native data protection with strong air-gapped storage and ransomware recovery posture.
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M365 backup with built-in cyber protection, including ransomware detection on the backup side.
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Unified backup as part of a broader endpoint and IT management platform. Good for MSP-style operations.
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Enterprise data security platform with strong immutability and a zero-trust security posture.
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SaaS data protection with AI-driven ransomware detection across M365, Google Workspace, and Salesforce.
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The category reference. Broadest workload coverage and strongest restore performance at scale.
Learn more →Our approach
"We have backups" and "we have tested recoveries" are not the same statement. The second one is what we build toward.
A 30-minute call. We work backwards from what you'd actually need to recover: ransomware, departed-employee mailbox, M&A integration, retention obligation. The product follows from that.
We don't sign off until a real restore has run. Sample mailbox, sample SharePoint site, sample Salesforce object. If the restore doesn't work, the backup doesn't count.
Quarterly recovery exercises. Annual full DR test. Same engineer on the support line. Renewal pricing negotiated. Vendor changes if the product stops being the right fit.
How we pick
Different recovery profiles need different products. Here's the rough decision tree we walk through on the first call.
Speed of restore at scale varies massively between products. Some are fast for single items and slow for full-tenant. Some are the opposite. We benchmark against the recovery shape you actually care about.
Immutability, data residency, and audit-evidence reporting matter. Several otherwise-strong products are weak on the audit side. We’ll tell you which ones survive a regulator’s questions.
Some products require an FTE to operate properly. Others run themselves. If you have a small IT team, that distinction matters more than feature count.
Air-gapped, immutable storage is non-negotiable. Soft delete and recycle bins don’t count. We’ll show you what an air-gapped restore actually looks like end-to-end.
Cloud-only products may not be the right fit during transition. Hybrid coverage matters more than people realise. We can design for the consolidation as well as the steady state.
We’ll tell you. Sometimes the right move is to tune the deployment you have, not buy a new one. We’d rather help you get more from what’s in place than sell you something redundant.