The popularity of public cloud services has soared in recent years, with Microsoft Azure emerging as a prominent choice for businesses worldwide. As more organizations transition their workloads to Azure, the need to secure and maintain these environments becomes increasingly important. Managed service providers (MSPs) are tasked with ensuring the safety of their customers’ data across all platforms, necessitating robust backup solutions.
While Azure is known for its security, it does not safeguard against all potential data loss scenarios. User errors, accidental deletions, malicious attacks, and regulatory requirements all highlight the importance of having reliable backups in place for Azure infrastructure. Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud’s latest release introduces agentless backup capabilities for Azure virtual machines.
This innovative solution offers a variety of benefits, including simplified deployment and reduced maintenance efforts due to its agentless nature. By eliminating the need for software installations on individual virtual machines, performance is optimized and administrative overhead is minimized. Additionally, agentless backup ensures compatibility across different operating systems and configurations, ultimately enhancing scalability and security.
By utilizing Microsoft’s restore point API, Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud offers faster recovery times, reduced storage costs, and maximum data consistency for multi-disk virtual machines. This technology ensures the integrity of complex applications, such as databases, during backup processes. Typical use cases for agentless backup include seamless data mobility, large-scale infrastructure management, hybrid/multi-cloud environments, performance-sensitive applications, scalable infrastructures, and cost-conscious organizations.
For detailed instructions on enabling and utilizing agentless backups for Azure virtual machines with Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud, users can refer to the product documentation. As Acronis continues to innovate and enhance its data protection solutions, users can expect ongoing updates and improvements to optimize their Azure environments.
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