Microsoft Backup Protected Instances Licensing
Microsoft Backup Protected Instances licensing provides essential data protection capabilities, ensuring your critical business data remains secure and recoverable for up to 5 years.
- Coverage for Data Recovery: Access to restore your protected instances to a previous state, minimizing downtime and operational disruption.
- Compliance Assurance: Maintain regulatory compliance by ensuring your data is backed up according to industry standards and retention policies.
- Operational Continuity: Protect against data loss from hardware failures, cyber threats, or accidental deletions, enabling swift recovery.
- Feature Entitlement: Unlock advanced backup and recovery features within the Microsoft ecosystem for enhanced data management.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This platform software license grants access to Microsoft's Backup and Protected Instances capabilities, designed to safeguard your organization's critical data. It ensures that your virtual machines and data are securely backed up and can be restored efficiently, providing a vital layer of business continuity.
Ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals within SMB and mid-market companies, this licensing fits into environments that rely on Microsoft technologies for their core operations. It supports businesses with on-premises infrastructure or those utilizing Microsoft cloud services, ensuring data resilience across their IT landscape.
- Secure Data Backups: Enables automated and scheduled backups of your protected instances.
- Rapid Recovery Options: Provides the ability to restore data and systems quickly to minimize downtime.
- Compliance Support: Helps meet data retention and recovery requirements for regulatory adherence.
- Scalable Protection: Licenses capacity for protected instances, allowing for growth.
- Cost-Effective Licensing: Subscription model offers predictable budgeting for essential data protection.
This Microsoft licensing is the right choice for SMB and mid-market teams seeking reliable, integrated data protection without enterprise-level complexity.
What This Enables
Enable Automated Data Backups
Enable teams to configure automated backup schedules for critical virtual machines and data. This ensures consistent data protection without manual intervention, reducing the risk of data loss.
on-premises servers, virtualized environments, hybrid cloud deployments, business continuity planning
Streamline Disaster Recovery Processes
Streamline disaster recovery by having protected instances readily available for restoration. This allows for quick recovery of operations following an outage or data corruption event.
business continuity strategy, IT resilience, operational uptime, risk mitigation
Automate Compliance Data Retention
Automate the retention of backup data to meet regulatory and compliance requirements. This ensures that historical data is available for audits and legal discovery as needed.
regulatory adherence, data governance, audit trails, legal hold requirements
Key Features
Automated Backup Scheduling
Ensures consistent data protection without manual effort, reducing the risk of human error and data loss.
Point-in-Time Restore Capabilities
Allows recovery to a specific previous state, minimizing data loss and operational downtime.
Subscription-Based Licensing
Provides predictable costs and easy scalability for data protection needs as your organization grows.
Integration with Microsoft Ecosystem
Works seamlessly with existing Microsoft infrastructure for simplified management and deployment.
Compliance and Governance Support
Helps meet data retention and recovery mandates, simplifying audit processes and regulatory adherence.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
This sector has stringent regulatory requirements for data retention and disaster recovery, making robust backup solutions essential for compliance and business continuity.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations must comply with HIPAA and other regulations, requiring secure, reliable, and auditable data backup and recovery processes for patient data.
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional services rely heavily on client data and face strict confidentiality and retention mandates, necessitating secure and accessible data backups.
Manufacturing & Industrial
These organizations require continuous operation and protection of critical production data and systems, where downtime can lead to significant financial losses.
Frequently Asked Questions
What are Protected Instances?
Protected Instances refer to the virtual machines or workloads that are configured to be backed up by Microsoft's data protection services. This licensing covers the capacity for these protected instances.
How is this licensed?
This is a subscription-based software license. The billing is recurring, providing continuous access to the backup and recovery features for your protected instances.
What is the primary benefit of this license?
The primary benefit is ensuring business continuity by safeguarding critical data against loss and enabling rapid recovery, thereby minimizing costly downtime and supporting compliance efforts.
Deployment & Support
Deployment Complexity
Low — self-service
Fulfillment
Digital Delivery
License keys / portal provisioning
Support Model
Zent Networks Managed
Renewal, add-license, and lifecycle management included
Subscription Terms
Cancellation
Cancel anytime — no charge on next cycle
You may cancel this subscription at any time. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period. You will not be charged for the following billing cycle. Access remains active through the end of the paid term.
Returns
Subscription licenses are non-refundable
Digital software licenses and SaaS subscriptions cannot be returned once activated or provisioned. Contact a Zent Networks account manager if you have questions before purchasing.