Backup even the biggest Microsoft environments with AvePoint

Helping your customers back up their Microsoft 365 data? AvePoint provides all the functionality they need, at a simple, per-user cost.

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The importance of data security cannot be overstated. Data is the lifeblood of countless businesses, driving informed decision making and better business outcomes.

As such, it’s vital that data is well secured, and retained for as long as it’s needed. This is especially true for your customers’ Microsoft 365 environment, which sits at the heart of their business, and generates huge volumes of documents and data. Ensuring this data is properly secured, backed up, and made available for restoration and recovery when needed is a crucial step to protection their organisation against the impact of potential alteration, encryption, or deletion from cybercriminals, as well as inadvertent loss through human error.

Why use a third-party back up Microsoft 365?

For Microsoft 365 data, businesses typically turn to Microsoft’s own backup functionalities, but these protections only go so far.

Deleted data, for example, is kept in a recycle bin for 93 days before being permanently deleted – although it may be removed faster if a user chooses to empty that recycle bin. Admins have a 14-day window to restore any deleted data, but this is often not long enough to realise what’s missing, especially in large enterprises that generate huge volumes of data every day.

This is where a third-party data backup solution offers real value as part of a customer’s environment, ensuring crucial data from M365 apps is securely retained and made easily accessible for as long as it's needed, without the risk of accidental (or intentional) deletion.

AvePoint: Best-in-class backups for M365

For such a third-party solution, our recommendation is AvePoint. Boasting the highest number of Microsoft platform developers outside of Microsoft itself, AvePoint is designed from the ground-up to integrate seamlessly into your customer’s existing Microsoft estate, providing easy data backup and restoration. It seamlessly fills the gaps in Microsoft’s native backup capabilities and is constantly updated to work with the latest versions of M365 apps.

By using AvePoint, organisations benefit from up to 4 daily backups of their M365 environment, governed by a daily scan that ensures new teams, sites, users, and data aren’t missed. Built to directly integrate into Microsoft’s processes, these scans and backups don’t slow down the environment, meaning users can continue working through them without any interruption.

Importantly, AvePoint’s per user pricing model delivers unlimited storage volumes and retention, eliminating the risk of unpredictable increases in backup costs as data volumes grow exponentially.

Plus, a competitive price point makes AvePoint an obvious add-on service to extend the value of existing Microsoft investments and offers an exciting upsell opportunity for not only your own customers, but those looking for more value from their partner as part of a switch following the recent NCE changes.

AvePoint can be easily managed through an intuitive portal, allowing you to quickly add new licenses for your customers at speed, and manage multiple client environments through a single interface. You can even give customers the ability to self-serve as they need – especially useful for organisations who are regularly onboarding new users.

What else can Avepoint do?

Data backups are AvePoint’s speciality. In addition to Microsoft 365 data, AvePoint offers a range of backup solutions for other parts of your customer’s environments, including cloud-based solutions for Dynamics 365, Salesforce, Azure, and AWS, as well as other productivity suites like Google Workspace.

To help keep this data secure, AvePoint’s cloud backups come with built-in ransomware protection features. By design, AvePoint holds data isolated from the production environment of customers and SaaS providers, keeping it out of reach of cybercriminals and always accessible for fast recovery. Plus, as part of their anti-ransomware protections, AvePoint uses the power of AI to detect unusual activity in a customer’s environment, detecting behaviour like mass file deletion and flagging it to the IT team to help them get ahead of a potential attack.

But AvePoint’s portfolio also extends beyond backup, with a range of other products ready to help your customers secure and manage their data in other ways.

AvePoint’s Policies and Insights solution helps you interrogate the current policies and access privileges in place across your estate, while providing intuitive ways to label sensitive information and section it off from the wider IT environment. This is particularly valuable for those preparing for the deployment of AI companions like Microsoft Copilot, helping them to mitigate the risk of the AI surfacing information for users who wouldn’t ordinarily be able to access it.

Additional solutions for licence and SharePoint management also help customers to further optimise their estate before AI adoption, while Fly is a dedicated solution to support seamless cloud migration.

Take AvePoint to market with a special introductory offer

If you’re ready to get started reselling AvePoint to your customers, we’re currently offering an introductory deal for the solution, discounting licences by 20% for purchases of 200 licences or more. While this promotion is only available for a limited time, those who purchase customer licences as part of this offer will see this discount level locked in for as long as the licences continue, ensuring continual value for you and your customers.

If you’d like to learn more about AvePoint or see the solution for yourself in a live demo, get in touch with our team today.