HYCU

HYCU provides data protection for SaaS applications, cloud platforms and on premises workloads, publishing a per user rate for Microsoft 365 protection with a slider so a buyer can see the cost for their own user count. The company positions itself around resilience for the data behind AI as well as conventional workloads.

Publishing a per user price with a calculator is a real departure in enterprise data protection, where almost everything is quoted. A buyer can size Microsoft 365 protection in seconds and compare it against alternatives without entering a sales process, which suits a purchase that is frequently made by a small IT team rather than a procurement function.

The SaaS focus addresses the widest gap in most organisations' protection. Companies back up servers diligently and assume their SaaS applications are covered by the provider, which is not what the shared responsibility model says. The provider guarantees the service, not the customer's data within it.

Breadth across SaaS applications is where the difficulty lies, since each application has a different API, data model and restore semantics, so supporting many of them properly is engineering work rather than configuration. R-Serve extends that to specific platforms such as iManage.