HubStor Extends Cloud Backup and Archiving

HubStor Inc., a provider of data-aware cloud storage solutions, announced extended support for Office 365 with data protection, archiving, and recovery for Exchange Online.

With the HubStor service available exclusively in Azure, clients can bring their own Azure account to protect, discover, and manage Office 365 information assets conveniently and securely with low-cost public cloud economics.

In May 2017, new research published by Gartner called for IT firms using or evaluating Office 365 to consider investing in third-party backup and recovery tools for more improved recovery speed and flexible options for response to malicious attack.

“As organizations shift their IT strategy to the cloud, they discover requirements for data protection and BC that exceed what is natively available in their SaaS applications,” said Geoff Bourgeois, CEO, HubStor. “The biggest concern with SaaS applications such as Exchange Online or SharePoint Online is protection against accidental or malicious deletion. Many businesses want recovery features that exceed the built-in deleted items retention of Office 365.“

With extended support for Exchange Online, Microsoft customers will benefit from: 

• Data protection: performs auto-discovery of new mailboxes to enroll them into protection policies.
• Content coverage: backup and archiving scope includes messages, calendars, tasks, and other content types found in user mailboxes (both active and archive), public folder mailboxes, journal mailboxes, recoverable items folders, and system folders.
• Flexible recovery: provides point-in-time recovery for individual items, folders, and mailboxes, as well as bulk operations of multiple mailboxes. Recovery jobs can be filtered using message metadata as well as date ranges.
• Advanced access control for BC: includes self-service access whereby users can authenticate to HubStor in the same way they sign in to Office 365 through Azure Active Directory. The Web-based access enables users to retrieve, search, and share their content securely from the backup. HubStor processes messages by converting email recipients into a Security ACL with a particular handling of BCCs and journal reports to ensure strict data-level authorization.
• Unified data governance: Clients of HubStor have full access to the service’s suite of content connectors that include support for Windows Server backup and storage tiering, CIFS/NFS file shares, PST file processing, journaling, and the Office 365 unified audit log. HubStor includes WORM storage options, analytics, and data management in Azure.

With this update, HubStor also adds policy-based archiving for Exchange Online and Exchange Server 2010, 2013, and 2016. Organizations retain large amounts of data from former employees.

Customers can capture mailbox data for long-term retention and maintain it securely in Azure in a low-cost and searchable manner.

“Rounding out HubStor’s support for Office 365 is one of the top enhancement requests we receive from our client base,” said Greg Campbell, CTO, HubStor. “Adding backup, archiving, and recovery for Exchange Online is our latest advancement towards HubStor becoming the most comprehensive data protection and information management service for Office 365 customers.“

HubStor support for Exchange Online is available.

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