Case Study: Microsoft Azure streamlines VM backup and recovery with HYCU for Azure

Backup-as-a-Service Choices for Protecting VMs Hosted in the Microsoft Azure Cloud

Microsoft Azure needed a better way to protect virtual machines running in its cloud as organizations moved more workloads to Azure. The challenge was finding a backup approach that was cloud-native, easy to manage, and capable of handling different VM protection needs without adding administrative overhead. HYCU for Azure and Azure Backup were compared as backup-as-a-service options for this environment.

HYCU for Azure was positioned as the stronger solution because it offers multiple default backup policies, automatic discovery and protection of new VMs, centralized policy management, and file/folder recovery without mounting the full VM. HYCU also keeps backup processing off the production VM, automatically optimizes Azure Blob storage placement, and includes premium support at no extra charge. The result is a simpler, more automated backup and recovery experience for Microsoft Azure customers, with easier billing and no reported performance impact on the protected workloads.

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