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Backup and archive

Protect your data and applications no matter where they reside to avoid costly business interruptions or to meet compliance requirements. Securely extend your on-premises backup storage and data archiving solutions to the cloud—reducing cost and complexity, while achieving efficiency and scalability.

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PCL Construction

"Using Azure is cheaper than our previous backup solution—one quarter the cost. The savings increase with every gigabyte of data we add."


Chris Palmer, Solutions Architect, PCL Construction

Increase capacity, reduce costs

Keep pace with the exponential growth of your enterprise data while lowering deployment and management costs. With a low-cost, massively-scalable, tiered backup storage solution in the cloud, you’ll reduce forecasting risks while transforming capital expenditure commitments to a pay-as-you-go cloud model.

Get hassle-free backup and data archiving

Improve your organization’s productivity by spending less time managing and maintaining your on-premises backup storage infrastructure and software. Simplify backup and data archiving with backup-as-a-service and hybrid storage solutions that easily restore data and applications from the cloud.

Rest assured your compliance goals are met

Take advantage of policies designed to meet your business or regulatory compliance requirements. Benefit from the most comprehensive compliance portfolio available, get more than 99 years of retention for your backup data, and pick any Azure region around the globe for your backup and archive location.

Keep remote and branch offices running smoothly

Move your backup storage to the cloud to save on infrastructure investments for remote and branch offices. Replace expensive intranets with low-cost internet and archive data in your preferred Azure datacenter region across the globe, so that your data is close to your branch office—maintaining enterprise-grade security for data in transit and at rest.

Jumpstart backup and archive in your organization

Build your own backup and archive solutions with help from our trusted partners

Rubic

Rubrik

Rubrik simplifies backup and recovery, accelerates cloud adoption, and enables automation through a single platform to manage and help protect data.

Rackspace

Rackspace

Rackspace is a trusted hosting and service provider that’s helped thousands of global enterprises migrate to and optimize in the cloud.

Slalom

Slalom

Slalom builds strategies and systems to help clients solve some of their most complex business challenges and prepare for the future.

Deploy prebuilt backup and archive solutions

Commvault

Commvault

Commvault offers comprehensive services for data backup, recovery, management, and online discovery, as well as data management software.

Veeam

Veeam

Veeam hyper-availability solutions enable business continuity, digital transformation, and visibility into on-premises and cloud resources.

Veritas

Veritas

Harness the power of data with solutions designed for the largest and most complex, heterogeneous environments.

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Related solution architectures

Back up on-premises applications and data to cloud solution architecture

Back up on-premises applications and data to cloud

Back up data and applications from an on-premises system to Azure using Azure Backup or a partner solution. An Internet connection to Azure is used to connect to Azure Backup or Azure Blob storage.

Backup cloud and on-premises workloads to cloud solution architecture

Backup cloud and on-premises workloads to cloud

Azure Backup comprehensively protects your data assets in Azure through a simple, secure, and cost-effective solution that requires zero-infrastructure. It's Azure's built-in data protection solution for a wide range of workloads.

Archive on-premises data to cloud solution architecture

Archive on-premises data to cloud

This solution is built on the Azure managed services: StorSimple and Blob Storage. These services run in a high-availability environment, patched and supported, allowing you to focus on your solution instead of the environment they run in.