Veeam Data Cloud or Backup as a Service (BaaS)?

Veeam Data Cloud is entirely hosted on Microsoft Azure. If you’re backing up Microsoft environments, you are effectively backing up your data to another storage account within the same Microsoft cloud. This introduces a potential “all your eggs in one basket” scenario where a single widespread Microsoft service disruption could put both your live environment and your backups at risk simultaneously.

With Covenco BaaS, your mission-critical backups reside in our totally private and dedicated UK-based data centres. Our infrastructure is exclusively designed for customer backup and recovery, ensuring a completely separate and independent environment for your critical data. This adheres to the core rule of offsite backup: independence.

We offer unique recovery solutions designed to dramatically reduce your Recovery Time Objective (RTO). For very large datasets, we can bypass internet bottlenecks by shipping restored data directly to your premises on an independent NAS drive. In a complete site loss, we can rapidly provision and install your restored data to fresh rental hardware, enabling you to create a replacement data centre within hours.

With the data cloud, the experience of data restoration directly from Azure, especially for large volumes of data, can be notoriously slow and unreliable. Recovering massive datasets over the internet can be severely constrained by network bandwidth and egress limitations, leading to extended recovery times.