Microsoft Storage Snapshot Capacity License
This Microsoft license provides essential capacity for data snapshots, ensuring your critical business data is protected and recoverable.
- Data Protection: Coverage for creating and storing point-in-time copies of your data.
- Operational Continuity: Entitlement to recover systems and data quickly in case of failure or corruption.
- Compliance Assurance: Protection against data loss incidents, supporting regulatory record-keeping requirements.
- Cost Efficiency: Access to essential snapshot capabilities without upfront hardware investment.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This platform software license from Microsoft enables the creation and management of data snapshots, providing a crucial layer of data protection and recovery capability. It grants the necessary capacity for storing these point-in-time copies, ensuring that your business can revert to a previous state if data corruption, accidental deletion, or system failure occurs.
Organizations utilizing Microsoft platforms for their core operations, including IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market companies, will find this license essential for maintaining data integrity and operational resilience. It integrates directly into the Microsoft ecosystem, supporting environments with on-premises servers or cloud-based infrastructure managed by the business.
- Snapshot Creation: Enables the capture of data at a specific moment in time.
- Data Recovery: Facilitates restoration of data and systems to a previous operational state.
- Storage Capacity: Allocates licensed capacity for storing these critical data backups.
- Compliance Support: Aids in meeting data retention and recovery objectives for regulatory needs.
- Operational Stability: Reduces downtime risk by providing a reliable recovery mechanism.
This Microsoft licensing provides essential data snapshot capabilities, empowering SMB and mid-market teams to safeguard their operations and ensure data recoverability.
What This Enables
Enable Data Recovery from Accidental Deletions
Enable teams to quickly restore files or entire systems to a previous state, preventing data loss from unintentional user actions. Streamline recovery processes to minimize disruption to daily business operations.
on-premises servers, virtualized environments, cloud-managed infrastructure, business-critical applications
Support System Recovery After Hardware Failure
Streamline the process of bringing systems back online by restoring from a known good snapshot after a hardware malfunction. Automate the capture of system states to ensure recovery points are always available.
server infrastructure, storage arrays, critical databases, production workloads
Facilitate Disaster Recovery Planning
Automate the creation of point-in-time data copies that can be used as part of a broader disaster recovery strategy. Enable teams to meet recovery time objectives (RTO) and recovery point objectives (RPO) with reliable data backups.
business continuity planning, data resilience strategies, hybrid cloud deployments, remote office support
Key Features
Snapshot Creation
Capture data at specific points in time, providing granular recovery options.
Point-in-Time Recovery
Restore systems and data to a previous operational state, minimizing downtime.
Storage Capacity Licensing
Provides licensed capacity for storing essential data snapshots cost-effectively.
Data Integrity Assurance
Helps protect against data corruption and loss, ensuring business continuity.
Compliance Support
Aids in meeting data retention and recovery requirements for regulatory adherence.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
This sector requires robust data protection and rapid recovery to meet stringent regulatory compliance like SOX and GDPR, and to ensure uninterrupted trading and client services.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Critical patient data must be protected and readily available, necessitating reliable snapshot capabilities to meet HIPAA compliance and ensure continuity of care.
Legal & Professional Services
Maintaining client confidentiality and case data integrity is paramount, requiring secure snapshot storage for compliance with legal record-keeping and e-discovery requirements.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Operational uptime is crucial; snapshot capabilities support rapid recovery of production systems and data, minimizing costly downtime and ensuring supply chain continuity.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a data snapshot?
A data snapshot is a point-in-time copy of data that captures the state of a system or storage volume at a specific moment. It allows for quick restoration if data is lost or corrupted.
How does this license relate to backup?
This license provides the capacity for creating and storing snapshots, which are a form of data protection. Snapshots are often used in conjunction with traditional backups for enhanced recovery capabilities and faster restoration.
Who is this license intended for?
This license is for businesses that use Microsoft platforms and need to ensure their data is protected and recoverable. It is suitable for SMB and mid-market companies managing their own IT environments.
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.