New backup and recovery solution offering reveals major enhancements including lower, predictable Azure long-term cloud storage pricing, direct backup to Wasabi S3 for cost-efficient cross-cloud storage, elimination of uncertainty during a planned failover or failback and more.
WEST PALM BEACH, FL — March 26, 2025 — N2WS, a leading provider of data protection solutions for enterprise-grade production environments in the public cloud announced today the general availability of N2WS Backup & Recovery 4.4.
Public cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), such as Microsoft Azure, continues to rapidly grow in adoption for production IT workloads. However, customers face significant challenges when locked into a single vendor storage services, including inflated, non-transparent pricing models and extended restore times.
With NEW N2WS Backup & Recovery, N2WS extends its broad platform support with a comprehensive, enterprise-ready solution for added cost effective data lifecycle management (DLM) in Azure, cross-cloud storage support with Wasabi, more failback and failover control and certainty, and updated API integrations for better-than-ever restore performance and savings.
Cost-effective long-term Azure storage with seamless Azure Blob integration
N2WS version 4.4 enables customers to move data and applications to an Azure repository (vault) storage and to cost-effectively and easily store for long-term retention. Customers can secure their data even more by choosing both cross-subscription and cross-region disaster recovery for fast and reliable offsite data storage.
This Azure DLM enhancement both optimizes costs for Azure long-term storage and ensures those costs are predictable. N2WS Backup & Recovery leverages optimal Azure Blob storage tiering, providing customers with the ability to choose less expensive tiers as compared to Azure Backup. N2WS also has transparent charges per VM ($5 for each), as compared to Azure VM pricing which is based on VM and volume size.
Revolutionizing Azure backup costs: save up to 80% with per-VM pricing
By combining optimal Azure storage tiering pricing and transparent per-VM pricing, customers can optimize policies, avoid excessive or unexpected charges and save up to 80% utilizing Azure Blob storage. Example: If you have 1.2 TB of data in one VM, then the cost using Azure Backup would be $30 plus storage consumed vs $5 plus storage consumed for the same VM using N2W. Customers can significantly lower their cloud Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) particularly as environments scale and retention requirements become stricter.
Similar to N2W’s successful AWS Backup DLM model, with seamless Azure repository (vault) storage, customers can concentrate on their core operations without the burden of storage complexities or hidden fees.
Cost-effective storage with seamless Wasabi S3 compatibility across Multi Cloud environments
In addition, customers can now automate archiving to Wasabi’s third-party S3 compatible storage repositories for simplified, hands-free multi-cloud storage management. By adding support for Wasabi’s third-party S3-compatible storage repositories, N2WS now offers customers highly cost-effective storage options at competitive prices, isolates their backup data from production in an entirely different cloud, and thereby eliminates any risk of vendor lock-in. It also provides fully automated rapid recovery, enhances cross-cloud protection strategy and meets regulatory requirements for off-site storage.
Advanced snapshot technology delivers speed and flexibility across repositories
The N2WS platform now leverages advanced cloud-native, platform-independent block-level snapshot technology to deliver maximum-speed read and write access across Azure, AWS, and third-party repositories. It enables rapid restores from any repository, providing unmatched reliability and flexibility. By integrating secure snapshot technology with Azure APIs, it offers seamless access to both Azure and third-party repositories. These features empower customers to tailor their backups and storage options to meet their unique needs, far surpassing Azure backup by eliminating vendor lock-in and ensuring superior performance.
Streamlined failover and failback remove uncertainty, ensuring efficient recovery during planned scenarios
The Enhanced Recovery Scenarios Functionality removes the uncertainty of identifying resources during a planned failover, ensuring a quick and efficient failback once operations are restored. The new functionality introduces Custom Tags for Recovery Scenarios, enabling the retention of backup tags and the addition of fixed tags, such as marking Disaster Recovery targets. This improvement also enhances the differentiation between original and DR targets during failover.
Targeted retries save time and costs while boosting backup reliability
The Partial Retry for Policy Execution Failures feature enhances backup efficiency and reliability by retrying only the failed resources, without reprocessing the successful ones. This not only saves time and costs but also boosts reliability by targeting only the failed backups, minimizing unnecessary policy-wide failures. By offering greater flexibility, it helps align customer expectations, reducing frustration and improving overall backup success rates.
“Efficiency and affordability are at the core of what sets us apart and resonates with our customers,” said Ohad Kritz, CEO of N2WS. “Our mission is to provide exceptional protection while helping them cut costs, improve backup efficiency, and simplify restore and disaster recovery testing. This commitment to making things ridiculously easy and fast has been the cornerstone of our success, and we’re excited to continue supporting our customers in the years to come.”
“Our mission has always been clear and focused,” said Ohad Kritz, CEO and co-founder of N2WS. “We excel in protecting data—that’s our specialty and our core strength. While others may branch into endpoint security or threat intelligence, losing focus, we remain dedicated to ensuring our customers are shielded from the evolving IT threat landscape. These latest multi cloud enhancements are a testament to our unwavering commitment to data protection and delivering vendor neutrality to our customers.”
The following improvements are now available to Microsoft Azure customers in the latest version of the N2WS platform:
About N2WS:
Founded in 2012, N2WS provides data protection solutions tailored for enterprise-grade production environments in the public cloud. Built from the ground up, N2WS offers comprehensive backup and disaster recovery solutions for enterprises utilizing AWS and Azure infrastructures. Its solutions empower organizations to restore entire servers, instances, volumes, or files across different regions or cloud services, ensuring seamless transitions back to operational activities. To learn more, visit n2ws.com. Subscribe to the N2WS YouTube Channel, and follow the company on LinkedIn.
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