How to protect M365 data with ORIIUM

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The ORIIUM Data Protection Platform and M365: A Guide

There are few things more important than data in your business. In this post, we explore market-leading data protection platform ORIIUM and look at how it can help safeguard vital company data in Microsoft 365.

Data security: the state of play

According to the University of Texas,

“94% of companies suffering from a catastrophic data loss do not survive.”

Data is, of course, everywhere. Whether you store it on-premise or opt for a cloud-based system, it’s more difficult than ever to keep it secure.

Threats from hackers and malware are more advanced. Constantly evolving and improved systems are required to stay ahead of new techniques used to target your data.

According to the 2022  Cyberthreat Defense Report :

  • Over 80% of UK organisations had experienced at least one cyberattack in the year 2021/22.
  • 2021/2022 losses to fraud and cybercrime in the UK amounted to over £3 billion.

So what can you do to protect your data and valuable business assets?

The ORIIUM data protection platform:

It’s never been more important to ensure you have a comprehensive data protection platform to safeguard your business against a host of fraudulent activities, from hijacking to phishing and more.  

“ORIIUM SaaS is a cloud based complete data protection platform which delivers market leading backup (BaaS) and disaster recovery (DRaaS) services, enabling businesses to protect, store and recover their data and servers on demand no matter where they reside or where they want to recover to .” ORIIUM

The service is completely configurable, so you can select from just BaaS or DRaaS or both BaaS and DRaaS service options depending on your requirements. There’s also a choice of whether you opt for a managed or unmanaged service and a range of payment options too, based on consumption. So you really can tailor the service to work for your business.

So, is ORIIUM the right fit for your business – just what are the benefits?

With ORIIUM, you can both protect your data, and also target your chosen cloud or on-premise platform of choice for speedy restoration. There are plenty of other benefits which might make it a good fit for your organisation, some of which we’ve listed below.

  • Complete protection with rapid recovery: Your data is protected at all times and can be recovered on demand in the event of external intrusion and data corruption/ransom.
  • Cloud backup: Premium support for on-premise and cloud applications and Software as a Service (SaaS) platforms.
  • Ransomware protection: Market leader for both detection of and recovery from malicious data or data loss.
  • Cloud agnostic: The ability to recover data to the target of your choice.
  • Managed service: With the managed service option, you can make the most of 24/7 support from data experts, who will always have their eyes on your valuable assets.
  • Reduction in costs: Replacement of a traditional infrastructure means that associated costs such as appliances, storage solutions and corresponding software are no longer required.
  • Scalability: ORIIUM provides a single data protection solution that scales to large enterprise – protecting all your data sources, across multiple environments.
  • Long-term data retention: Ability to retain data as required by industry or government regulations, safely, securely and according to business demands.
  • Physical server backup and DR: Support for physical server backup – most services only support virtual servers.
     

ORIIUM Managed Service: 

As mentioned, with the ORIIUM managed service, your data is monitored 24/7/365 by a team of experts to ensure all backup jobs complete successfully.

Any issues are immediately flagged, reviewed by the  ORIIUM team and addressed with the customer. The service provides:

  • Technical support: Ongoing and far-reaching support for the backup of a range of applications, hypervisor and container platforms.
  • Support with complex data protection requirements: The experts at ORIIUM will provide bespoke data protection solutions for customers with a range of large, diverse data estates.
  • Service performance guarantees: Tailored customer service level agreements will be put in place, with regular service reviews.

The managed service can help you to reduce the complexity, risk and cost of your data protection operations. This unlocks multiple business benefits such as:

  • Daily job monitoring:  Monitoring of your environment and reacting to resolve incidents within relevant service levels.
  • Data restoration:  Management or assistance with the restoration of your data within Commvault.
  • Client/policy deployment:  Configuration and deployment of new clients and/or policies within your environment.
  • Patch deployment:  Deployment and configuration of patches to your Commvault Commcell and media agents.
  • Incident management:  Management of all incidents within your environment, ensuring management until resolution with escalation to Commvault where necessary.
  • Proactive management:  Proactive steps taken to prevent issues and problems within your environment.

How to protect M365 data with ORIIUM

Your M365 data is backed up by default, right?

Not quite…

Though Microsoft will offer certain tools to manage compliance and data loss, much of the responsibility still falls to your organisation to protect M365 data against the myriad security threats that are prevalent today.

The retention policy at Microsoft will only hold data for 30 days after a user has deleted it (active deletion) or for 180 days after a subscription ends (passive deletion).

With ORIIUM’s M365 protection, you’ll get complete control of your data retention duration. You’ll be able to source deleted data for years to come.

ORIIUM’s backup and recovery solution also extends and enhances your data protection outside of M365 to any cloud storage target of your choosing. This is a far safer option.

The good news for businesses is that ORIIUM integrates directly with M365! ORIIUM can also provide a backup solution for a multitude of other platforms, such as Microsoft Azure.

You can protect your business from a range of potential threats such as user deletion, accidental deletion, service interruptions and plenty more. Further to this, you can restore individual emails that were deleted years earlier, not just whole folders.

The ORIIUM service also mitigates the risk of ransomware attacks. Ransomware is an ever-evolving threat that attacks both production data sets and backup data, but ORIIUM will employ ransomware protection at multiple levels.

As you can see, there is an array of benefits to backing up your platforms to ORIIUM.
 If you’d like to discuss how you could improve your data security, give us a call today.

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