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Rearchitected Barracuda Cloudto-Cloud Backup delivers fast search and restore experience
California-based Barracuda introduces fast , scalable and resilient backup platform to protect data in Microsoft Office 365 .
Barracuda , a trusted partner and a leading provider of cloud-enabled security solutions , has announced the latest version of Barracuda Cloud-to- Cloud Backup with a new platform that delivers a fast search and restore experience for Office 365 data , including Teams , Exchange Online , SharePoint and OneDrive .
Compared to traditional backup and recovery solutions , a cloud-native solution provides scale and resiliency , fast performance and wide global coverage to protect Office 365 data born in the cloud .
According to an October 2020 Microsoft blog post : “ This quarter , Microsoft 365 users around the world generated more than 30 billion collaboration minutes in a single day as people communicated , collaborated and co-authored content across work , life and learning . This new metric combines both synchronous and asynchronous collaboration and reflects the changing nature of work .”
Tim Jefferson , SVP , Engineering for Data , Networks and Application Security at Barracuda , said : “ As the workforce becomes increasingly dispersed , adopting cloud-based apps like Microsoft Teams for productivity and communication is an obvious move .
“ Protecting Microsoft Office 365 data requires a modern cloud-native approach . The new version of Barracuda Cloud-to- Cloud Backup is built and runs natively in the cloud , which enables fast set up , simple management and no maintenance .”
Highlights of the new version of Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup include :
• Scale and resiliency : Cloud-native platform ( built and runs in the cloud ) across a global range of locations .
• Fastest performance : Simple management makes it easy to monitor your backups to find and immediately restore what you ’ re looking for . Easy sign up and set up could have customers running first backups in five minutes .
• Ease of use : New fast modern user interface with improved visibility and brand-new dashboard .
The latest version of Barracuda Cloudto-Cloud Backup is based on a new , modern cloud-native platform that lays the foundation for :
• Extending to new data sources such as additional SaaS applications .
• Integrating with Barracuda ’ s security services such as threat protection .
• Adding data security capabilities such as data classification and data loss prevention .
Nills Franssens , Senior Cloud Solution Architect , Microsoft , said : “ With a cloudnative solution , you get the benefit of scale on your backup and your solution is fully managed . So unlike with traditional backup solutions , where you have to do capacity management and capacity planning and make sure you have enough storage , a cloud-native solution , like Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup really offers you a managed solution with virtually unlimited capacity to store your data .” p
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