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We performed a comparison between Azure Backup and Iron Mountain Connect based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Backup and Recovery solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
To learn more, read our detailed Azure Backup vs. Iron Mountain Connect Report (Updated: May 2024).
769,662 professionals have used our research since 2012.
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Pros
"The most valuable feature of Azure Backup is its ease of use and good integration with other Azure services.""One of the most valuable features is security and connectivity to the data.""The most valuable feature is the ease in which it backs up our data.""There is only one feature, and that is the backup.""With a couple of buttons, we can configure a VM for a backup and use the wall service, the storage wall service, pretty seamlessly.""The daily backups have become easier since we no longer need to handle large backups. The use of Azure Backup as a service has proven reliable and simplified our daily operations. Previously, we relied on LTO backups for data retention, but after migrating to the cloud and adopting Azure Backup, the delivery process has become smoother.""I like that it's a stable solution and their support is good. I think Microsoft's commercial force is superior.""The backup features are very useful."

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"The most valuable feature for me is the policy management capabilities"

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Cons
"While Azure Backup allows ingress data, the egress data is chargeable, which should be excluded.""Azure Backup is limited to certain workloads. It would be helpful if Microsoft focused on enabling backups for Oracle and other unsupported databases.""Lacks an AI system that would enable easier upgrading of the hardware.""I can’t use the solution to restore another native cloud solution. Azure must add this new feature.""The time required to restore files should be a little faster.""To make it a ten, it should have the ability to extend the retention and to perform a copy of the data outside of the subscription - with no additional costs.""The Azure Backup support for on-premises service is limited.""I would like to see more automation, integration, and security. The price could be better."

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"I would like to see more integration with different platforms."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "The pricing of this solution is ok, but I'm expecting that the price will decrease in the future."
  • "The pricing of this solution is good, and it is one of the easiest things that you can sell Azure with."
  • "This is an expensive solution in the Bangladesh marketplace."
  • "We are paying about $100,000 USD per year, just for a couple of servers."
  • "The price is pretty good, maybe $30 for a machine, I can't complain."
  • "It is a bit costly initially, but it is well worth it in the long run, especially for fighting against a number of threats, such as ransomware, which the IT industry is facing."
  • "Price-wise, it's similar to AWS."
  • "The price is somewhat high and could be lower."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:Veeam has a version for Azure but there are organizations, like ours, that are considering moving to an Azure environment and wonder if Azure Backup is better than Veeam Backup and Replication (Veeam… more »
    Top Answer:The most valuable features of Azure Backup for us are its flexible retention options and the ability to recover to a second region with geo-replication and read access.
    Top Answer:I would rate the pricing of Azure Backup around six or seven out of ten in terms of affordability, considering the total cost. The pricing depends on factors like storage choices and retention needs… more »
    Top Answer:The most valuable feature for me is the policy management capabilities
    Top Answer:I would like to see more integration with different platforms, improved stability and security, better protection, more automation, and a more user-friendly experience.
    Top Answer:I primarily use it for various policies related to data, such as data retention, data deletion, and archiving policies. All policies can be set using this system.
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    Overview

    Azure Backup is a scalable backup solution with zero capital investment and minimal operational expenses that can help a company achieve maximal data protection. Azure Backup’s System Center Data Protection Manager provides optional integrations that can enable you to protect both advanced workloads running in your datacenter in VMs as well as those that are on physical servers.

    Azure Backup has many features that make it a most effective product. Included among these is its ability to easily scale up your storage capacity. It taps into the cloud to give you the ability to expand on a massive scale. This can be done without any monitoring or maintenance overhead.

    Benefits of Azure Backup

    Some of the benefits of using Azure Backup include:

    • The ability to control and track the performance of your network from a single centralized location. Azure Backup has a “single pane of glass” interface that enables users to monitor, operate, govern, and analyze their backups from one place. This eliminates any need to add additional management infrastructure. You can manage different workload types, subscriptions, vaults, and regions with Azure’s Backup Center.

    • A wide array of security features allows you to prevent malicious users from doing damage to the system, receive alerts if an unauthorized action takes place, and recover from any damage that results. Azure Backup has authentication requirements built in to protect vital functions, such as the ability to delete backed up data from unauthorized users. If something that impacts the backed up data takes place, users are immediately notified. Azure Backup saves any and all deleted backup data for two weeks. This enables administrators to use recovery points to recover their lost data.

    Reviews from Real Users

    There are a number of characteristics that make Azure Backup extremely effective. Two of these are the flexibility that it offers users and its overall effectiveness.

    PeerSpot user Ayman Y., an IT manager at NOMAC, notes all of the different backup options that Azure Backup offers. He writes, “It has many features. First of all, you can schedule a backup for the client as you like. You can do a backup from the whole virtual machine as an image. You can do a backup only from files and folders. It has every option. All options are available for the backup, for the restore, for the bandwidth utilization to do backups, even virtual machines or a physical machine. If you need to do a backup of the whole image from the virtual machine, all these options are there.”

    PeerSpot user Muzammil M., a senior operations engineer at the AlGosaibi Group, notes the effectiveness of Azure Backup when he writes, “Azure Backup is good because it is entirelycloud-based, which means that you can be 99.9% sure that your backup is safe. This is the reason that I suggest its use for companies that need to back up critical data.”

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    Sample Customers
    Russell Reynolds Associates, Somerset County Council, Kardem, PCL Construction
    University of La Verne
    Top Industries
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    Computer Software Company29%
    Manufacturing Company14%
    Construction Company14%
    Financial Services Firm11%
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    Computer Software Company15%
    Government8%
    Financial Services Firm8%
    Manufacturing Company8%
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    Small Business45%
    Midsize Enterprise19%
    Large Enterprise36%
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    Small Business28%
    Midsize Enterprise16%
    Large Enterprise56%
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    Buyer's Guide
    Azure Backup vs. Iron Mountain Connect
    May 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about Azure Backup vs. Iron Mountain Connect and other solutions. Updated: May 2024.
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    Azure Backup is ranked 9th in Backup and Recovery with 51 reviews while Iron Mountain Connect is ranked 39th in Backup and Recovery with 2 reviews. Azure Backup is rated 7.8, while Iron Mountain Connect is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Azure Backup writes "Straightforward to set up and manage and allows us to monitor all backups in one place". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Iron Mountain Connect writes "Good policies related to data". Azure Backup is most compared with Veeam Backup & Replication, Rubrik, Commvault Cloud, Acronis Cyber Protect and Veritas NetBackup, whereas Iron Mountain Connect is most compared with IBM Spectrum Protect, NAKIVO Backup & Replication and Veeam Backup & Replication. See our Azure Backup vs. Iron Mountain Connect report.

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