CloudAlly

CloudAlly provides cloud to cloud backup for software as a service data, and the company states its solutions are now part of the OpenText Cybersecurity portfolio, with the same team and technology continuing inside a broader security ecosystem. That acquisition context is worth knowing before signing a multi year agreement.

The underlying problem is one most organisations discover late. A cloud provider protects its own infrastructure against failure, which is not at all the same as protecting a customer against their own mistakes, and a document deleted by a departing employee or encrypted by ransomware is gone once the provider's short retention window closes.

Cloud to cloud rather than cloud to local is the architectural choice and it matters practically. Backing a cloud service down to a local server means maintaining that server, its storage and its own backup, whereas copying between cloud services keeps the whole arrangement operational without hardware anybody has to look after.

Restoration granularity is what separates a usable backup from a technically correct one. Recovering an entire mailbox to fix one deleted folder is disruptive enough that people avoid doing it, so the ability to restore a single item, to a point in time, without touching anything else is what determines whether the backup gets used when it is needed. No pricing is published.