Why SaaS is more popular?
As the cloud service continues to boom, users are becoming more sophisticated with the features provided by SaaS. Initially only few apps were available as the part of SaaS application but as the demand grows, the provider have added more apps to their existing apps. As a recent survey indicates, more number of IT managers would switch to the SaaS application very shortly and hence the SaaS application market is growing rapidly. Reality states that more number of mid-size companies are fastly moving towards SaaS Applications. Some of the features that made SaaS more popular are:
- Cloud based storage.
- No need to purchase separate license.
- Pay as you go.
- No need for separate agent installation.
Why it needs to be backed up?
As the user continues to use the SaaS application,they also are more concerned about the need for backups due to some of the risks faced.
Some of the major risks involved are:
- Data loss due to accidental deletion
- Information loss with departed employee
- Cyber crime
- Malicious attack
Some of the customers don’t understand that they need to have backup of their SaaS-based data since they decide that the provider is making backup of its own. But the reality is when the outage comes and it turn out to be not. SaaS provider doesn’t claims full responsibility for restoring the lost data or sometime they agree only if huge amount is paid . For example if an user deletes data from SaaS then there is no possibility to recover the data.
How Vembu SaaSBackup works
Vembu is taking the first step as a cloud-cloud backup vendor in the SaaS sector by rolling out a new product named Vembu SaaSBackup. As of now it supports the backup of SaaS applications Office365, GoogleApps. Vembu would store the SaaS application data in the most secure Amazon Web Server Service(AWS) Cloud.
Vembu SaaS uses API provided by Microsoft to backup the Mails, Calendar, Contacts including metadata of Microsoft Office365. Similarly, Google API are used for GoogleApps and its metadata. Configuring Vembu SaaSBackup to backup the application is very simple. Below are the steps to do backup of SaaS Application.
- Cloud Registration.
- Adding the account (This applies for both GoogleApps and MicrosoftOffice365).
- User selection .
Vembu SaaSBackup also provides the option for time scheduling. The restore process is very simple and time saving and there is no need for an external Agent to be installed.This Product is still in beta and you can expect more apps like Sales force as we move on.
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