Microsoft Storage Tiered Backup Software Subscription
This Microsoft Storage Tiered Backup Software Subscription provides essential data protection capabilities, ensuring business continuity and compliance for your organization's critical data.
- Platform Access: Entitlement to use Microsoft's tiered backup software for data archiving and retrieval.
- Compliance Assurance: Supports regulatory requirements for data retention and disaster recovery planning.
- Operational Continuity: Enables reliable data backup and restore processes to minimize downtime.
- Cost Efficiency: Utilizes tiered storage to optimize backup costs based on data access frequency.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This is a platform software subscription for Microsoft's tiered backup solution, designed to manage and protect business data across different storage tiers. It unlocks features for efficient data archiving, retrieval, and long-term retention, ensuring compliance and operational resilience.
IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market companies utilize this subscription to implement robust data protection strategies. It integrates with existing IT infrastructure, providing a scalable and cost-effective way to handle growing data volumes and meet retention policies.
- Tiered Data Management: Automatically moves data to appropriate storage tiers based on access frequency and retention policies.
- Enhanced Data Protection: Provides reliable backup and restore capabilities to safeguard against data loss.
- Compliance Support: Helps meet industry regulations and internal policies for data retention and archival.
- Scalable Capacity: Offers flexible capacity to accommodate growing data storage needs.
- Cost Optimization: Reduces storage costs by leveraging lower-cost tiers for less frequently accessed data.
This Microsoft subscription is the ideal choice for SMB and mid-market teams seeking efficient, compliant, and cost-effective data backup and archival solutions.
What This Enables
Enable Long-Term Data Archival
Enable teams to archive historical data for compliance and regulatory purposes. Streamline the process of moving inactive data to cost-effective, long-term storage tiers.
cloud-first deployments, hybrid cloud environments, on-premises infrastructure, data governance initiatives
Optimize Backup Storage Costs
Streamline the management of backup data by leveraging tiered storage. Automate the movement of data to lower-cost tiers based on access patterns and retention policies.
growing data volumes, budget-conscious IT departments, disaster recovery planning, data lifecycle management
Ensure Data Accessibility for Compliance
Automate data retention policies to meet regulatory requirements for data availability. Ensure that critical historical data can be retrieved when needed for audits or legal discovery.
regulated industries, legal hold requirements, audit preparedness, business continuity planning
Key Features
Tiered Storage Management
Reduces overall storage costs by intelligently placing data on the most appropriate and cost-effective storage tier.
Automated Data Archival
Simplifies compliance by automatically moving data to long-term retention tiers, meeting regulatory requirements.
Data Retrieval Capabilities
Ensures critical data can be accessed when needed, supporting business continuity and disaster recovery efforts.
Scalable Software Licensing
Provides flexible capacity that grows with your data needs, avoiding upfront over-provisioning.
Microsoft Platform Integration
Works within the familiar Microsoft ecosystem, potentially simplifying deployment and management for existing users.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
This sector has stringent data retention and compliance requirements, making tiered backup essential for managing historical financial records and customer data securely and cost-effectively.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations must comply with regulations like HIPAA, requiring long-term secure storage and retrieval of patient records, which tiered backup solutions facilitate efficiently.
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional services companies handle sensitive client data and case files that require extended retention periods and secure, compliant archival to meet legal and ethical obligations.
Government & Public Sector
Government agencies are subject to extensive record-keeping mandates and data preservation laws, necessitating robust and scalable solutions for archiving public records and operational data.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a tiered backup solution?
A tiered backup solution categorizes data into different levels or 'tiers' based on how frequently it is accessed and how long it needs to be retained. This allows for cost optimization by storing less frequently accessed data on less expensive storage.
How does this subscription help with compliance?
This subscription enables you to implement and manage data retention policies that align with various industry regulations and legal requirements. It ensures that data is stored for the required duration and can be retrieved when necessary for audits or legal purposes.
What kind of businesses benefit most from this?
Small to mid-market businesses that are experiencing data growth and need a cost-effective way to manage backups and meet retention policies will benefit. It is particularly useful for organizations with compliance obligations.
Deployment & Support
Deployment Complexity
Medium — IT-assisted
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.