With many businesses now using hosted email services such as Office365 and Google Apps, the temptation is to ignore backup and recovery and trust that the provider can provide it as standard.

Whilst this is true to some extent, one of the key principles of backup is to store a copy of data away from its original location to ensure redundancy, and so using the email provider to backup your data is a potentially dangerous strategy.

Asigra is capable of backing up Office 365 and Google Apps, in what’s known as a ‘cloud-to-cloud’ backup. This extremely cost effective method of protection gives you the benefit of offsite backups, customer-defined backup policies and long-term retention options if necessary.