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Azure Backup vs Veeam: Where Each One Fits

COMPARISONPublished 08/09/20269 min read

Azure Backup and Veeam are often compared as if they were interchangeable. They are not. Azure Backup is a Microsoft-native service with tight Azure integration and sensible protections for Microsoft-centric estates. Veeam is a broader backup platform built for mixed infrastructure, migration, and recovery control. The right choice depends less on branding and more on what you need to protect, where it lives, and how much operational flexibility you want.

Backup & Resilience

How Much Does Azure Disaster Recovery Really Cost?

GUIDEUpdated 09/09/20268 min read9 views

Azure Site Recovery is not a single line item you can read off a pricing page and forget about. The licence is only part of the bill. Storage, transactions, outbound data transfer, test failovers and the way you architect recovery all affect the real Azure disaster recovery cost.

Backup & Resilience

Microsoft extends Instant Access snapshots for Azure managed disks: what changes for DR and recovery runbooks

NEWSUpdated 07/09/20269 min read

Microsoft’s Instant Access snapshots for Azure Ultra Disk and Premium SSD v2 change the restore story in a small but operationally important way: snapshots can be used immediately for rapid disk creation before the background copy finishes, then later settle into standard durable snapshot storage. For teams designing backup, DR, and environment-refresh workflows, that reduces waiting time — but it does not remove the need to think carefully about durability, region-copy behaviour, and failure domains.

Backup & Resilience

Why Your Backup Is Not Yet a Disaster-Recovery Strategy

GUIDEUpdated 09/09/20269 min read6 views

Backups are essential, but they are not the same thing as recovery. A proper disaster-recovery strategy has to cover restore time, alternate systems, access control, testing, and the ugly reality of ransomware, regional outages and human error.