Microsoft Storage Snapshot Capacity
This Microsoft license provides essential capacity for creating and storing data snapshots, ensuring your critical business information is protected and recoverable.
- Capacity Entitlement: Grants the right to provision and utilize a specific amount of storage for data snapshots.
- Data Protection: Enables the creation of point-in-time copies of your data for backup and disaster recovery purposes.
- Compliance Support: Facilitates adherence to regulatory requirements for data retention and auditability.
- Operational Continuity: Ensures business operations can resume quickly following data loss incidents or system failures.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This Microsoft platform licensing provides the necessary capacity to create and manage data snapshots within your Azure environment. It unlocks the capability to capture the state of your storage at a specific point in time, crucial for backup, disaster recovery, and compliance needs.
Business owners and IT managers in SMB and mid-market companies utilize this licensing to ensure their data is protected and recoverable. It integrates directly into their Azure infrastructure, providing a foundational element for robust data management strategies.
- Snapshot Creation: Allows for the capture of data at a specific moment.
- Storage Allocation: Reserves capacity for storing these critical data backups.
- Point-in-Time Recovery: Facilitates restoration of data to a previous state.
- Compliance Assurance: Supports data retention policies and audit trails.
- Cost-Effective Protection: Provides essential data protection without requiring separate backup hardware.
This essential Microsoft licensing ensures your business data is protected and recoverable, offering peace of mind for SMB and mid-market IT teams.
What This Enables
Enable Point-in-Time Data Recovery
Enable teams to create and store point-in-time copies of their Azure storage volumes. This ensures that data can be restored to a specific, known good state in case of corruption or accidental deletion.
cloud-native applications, data-intensive workloads, disaster recovery planning, regulatory compliance
Support Data Compliance and Auditing
Streamline adherence to regulatory requirements by maintaining historical data snapshots. This provides an auditable trail of data states, essential for compliance in regulated industries.
data retention policies, audit trails, regulatory reporting, business continuity
Facilitate Disaster Recovery Operations
Automate the creation of data backups that can be used to quickly restore services in the event of a major outage or disaster. This minimizes downtime and ensures business continuity.
business continuity planning, high availability environments, risk mitigation, operational resilience
Key Features
Azure Storage Snapshot Capacity
Provides the necessary allowance to create and store point-in-time copies of your data, safeguarding against data loss.
Point-in-Time Data Capture
Enables the restoration of data to a specific previous state, crucial for recovering from errors or corruption.
Regional Storage (West 2)
Data snapshots are stored within the specified Azure region, aligning with data residency and performance requirements.
Subscription Billing
Offers predictable costs with a recurring subscription model, simplifying budget management for IT resources.
Platform Licensing
Unlocks core data protection capabilities within the Microsoft Azure platform, integrating seamlessly with existing services.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
This sector requires stringent data retention and recovery capabilities to meet regulatory compliance and ensure continuous operation of financial services.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations must maintain patient data integrity and availability, making robust data protection and rapid recovery essential for compliance and patient care.
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional services rely on secure, accessible client data and require reliable methods for data backup and recovery to meet client obligations and audit requirements.
Manufacturing & Industrial
These businesses need to protect critical operational data, production schedules, and intellectual property, ensuring minimal disruption in case of data loss or system failure.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a storage snapshot?
A storage snapshot is a point-in-time copy of your data. It captures the state of your storage volume at a specific moment, allowing you to restore data from that point if needed.
How does this license relate to backup?
This license provides the capacity for snapshots, which are a fundamental component of a backup and disaster recovery strategy. Snapshots enable you to recover data, complementing full backup solutions.
Is this a one-time purchase?
No, this is a subscription-based license. It provides ongoing access to the storage snapshot capacity on a recurring billing cycle.
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.