Backup and continuity

Backs up a whole server as an image so it can be restored complete rather than rebuilt, and can hold the cloud copy in storage that cannot be altered or deleted — including by someone holding administrator credentials. Combines backup with anti-malware and patch reporting in one console. Aimed at businesses with a server they genuinely cannot operate without.

A long-established server backup platform, strongest where virtual machines are involved, and able to replicate a server somewhere else so it can be started if the original is gone. Widely deployed and widely understood, which matters when the person restoring is not the person who set it up. Aimed at servers rather than at laptops or cloud services.

Backs up Microsoft 365 — mail, files, and sites — and keeps an archive of email independent of the mailbox. Exists because Microsoft protects its own infrastructure but does not undertake to recover your data from your own mistakes indefinitely. The gap between what people assume is covered and what actually is remains the most common misunderstanding in small business IT.

Backup for cloud applications, holding the data on its own infrastructure rather than inside the vendor being backed up. Covers Microsoft 365 alongside other SaaS platforms, so several services are protected consistently. The independence is the point: a backup living inside the thing it protects is not really a backup.

Backup built around getting a business running again quickly, including standing up a failed server elsewhere while the original is repaired. Aimed at operations where downtime is measured in lost revenue rather than inconvenience. The relevant question it answers is not "is it backed up" but "how long until people can work".

Protects mixed estates — physical servers, virtual machines, and cloud workloads — from one platform. Suits businesses that have accumulated several generations of infrastructure and would rather not run a different backup product for each. Breadth is the argument rather than depth in any single area.

A comprehensive enterprise data protection platform, capable of handling complex estates with detailed policy and reporting. That capability comes with corresponding administrative weight. Genuinely more platform than most small businesses need, and listed because occasionally the requirement is real.

Backs up laptops, desktops, and servers to the cloud, with a long history in straightforward endpoint protection. Suits businesses whose exposure is staff machines holding work that exists nowhere else. Less relevant where everything already lives in SharePoint or a file server that is itself backed up.

Backup delivered as a managed service with retention measured in years rather than weeks. Fits obligations to keep records for a defined period — a regulator, an insurer, or a contract. The retention requirement is usually the reason it comes up at all.

Lets people reach a backed-up file immediately rather than waiting for a full restore to complete first. In practice most recovery requests are one folder somebody deleted, not a building fire, and that shapes the design. Aimed at reducing how disruptive an ordinary recovery is.

Manages, patches, and backs up endpoints from a single console. The consolidation is the selling point — patching and backup are the two jobs most likely to quietly stop working, and having them report to one place makes that visible. Built for whoever supports the machines rather than for the business itself.

Cloud object storage priced simply, with no separate charge for retrieving what you stored — which is where storage bills usually surprise people. Rarely bought on its own; it is normally the destination another backup product writes to. Worth understanding as a component rather than a product in itself.

Backup for Microsoft 365 combined with tooling for the governance problem underneath it — who can see what, and how permissions have drifted since anyone last looked. SharePoint permissions decay quietly in almost every tenant, and this is aimed at the businesses for whom that decay has consequences.