We’re thrilled to announce the release of N2WS Backup & Recovery v4.4 — a huge update for Azure customers bringing major features that revolutionize how enterprises secure their data, cut costs, enhance flexibility, and provide true multi-cloud and cross-cloud backup capabilities across AWS, Azure, and Wasabi.
Breaking Free from Vendor Lock-In
The future is no longer having to be tied to a single vendor’s storage services. Enterprises no longer want to accept non-transparent pricing, manual testing and risk of vendor downtime. N2WS v4.4 changes the game by delivering true, transparent pricing and significant savings for Azure vault storage and revolutionary cloud-native snapshot technology, allowing you to immediately and easily store your backups across cloud providers (AWS, Azure and Wasabi).
Slash Your Azure Storage Costs by Up to 80%
One of the standout features in this release is our revolutionary approach to Azure storage costs. With N2WS v4.4, you can now:
- Take advantage of transparent, predictable per-VM pricing at just $5 per VM (compared to Azure Backup’s variable pricing based on VM and volume size)
- Leverage optimal Azure Blob storage tiering for long-term retention
- Choose less expensive tiers compared to Azure Backup
- Store only incremental changes and restore immediately
- Secure your data with cross-subscription and cross-region disaster recovery
Let’s put this in perspective: For a 1.2 TB VM, Azure Backup would charge you $30 plus storage consumed, while N2WS charges just $5 plus storage consumed. As your environment scales and retention requirements become stricter, these savings become even more significant.
Seamless Multi-Cloud Archiving with Wasabi
We’ve expanded our multi-cloud capabilities by adding support for Wasabi’s S3-compatible storage repositories. This integration allows you to:
- Automate archiving to Wasabi’s cost-effective storage
- Isolate your backup data from production in a different cloud
- Eliminate vendor lock-in risks
- Enable fully automated rapid recovery
- Meet regulatory requirements for off-site storage
This feature is perfect for organizations looking to enhance their cross-cloud protection strategy while keeping costs under control.
Advanced Snapshot Technology for Unmatched Speed and Flexibility
Our platform now leverages advanced cloud-native, platform-independent block-level snapshot technology that delivers:
- Maximum-speed read and write access across Azure, AWS, and third-party repositories
- Rapid restores from any repository
- Seamless integration with Azure APIs for access to both Azure and third-party repositories
This technology far surpasses native Azure backup capabilities by eliminating vendor lock-in and ensuring superior performance tailored to your unique needs.
Streamlined Failover and Failback with Custom Tags
Uncertainty during disaster recovery scenarios can add unnecessary stress to an already challenging situation. Our enhanced recovery scenarios functionality:
- Removes uncertainty when identifying resources during planned failover
- Ensures quick and efficient failback once operations are restored
- Introduces custom tags for recovery scenarios
- Enables retention of backup tags and addition of fixed tags (such as marking DR targets)
- Enhances differentiation between original and DR targets during failover
Targeted Backup Retries for Greater Efficiency
We’ve all experienced the frustration of a failed backup requiring a complete restart. Our new Partial Retry for Policy Execution Failures feature:
- Retries only the failed resources without reprocessing successful ones
- Saves valuable time and reduces costs
- Boosts reliability by targeting only failed backups
- Minimizes unnecessary policy-wide failures
- Aligns with customer expectations for smoother backup operations
N2W v4.4 Additional Resources
N2WS Backup & Recovery v4.4 is now available to Microsoft Azure customers.
You can follow below documents and videos on how to upgrade to and utilize N2WS Backup & Recovery 4.4
- User Guide: N2WS Documentation
- Release Notes: Release notes for the latest 4.4
- N2WS Upgrade KB: Upgrade instructions
- N2W v4.4 Overiew & Demo: TL;DR Episode 13 On-Demand
- Wasabi Integration Step-by-Step: Our blog on how to backup into Wasabi
Any questions or would like a demo? Talk to us! Email info@n2ws.com
