6 ways your business could suffer if you don’t backup Office 365
Office 365 makes it easy to lose valuable data regularly, unpredictably, unintentionally, and for good


For all the convenience, reliability, productivity and economy it delivers to your daily workflows, Office 365’s extremely limited versioning, retention and retrieval capabilities make it nothing less than a ticking time-bomb for your organisation.
When hit by the need to restore backed-up data to safeguard the continuity of operations, with Office 365 you’re up against a number of issues, from insufficient retention (14 days by default), to clumsy and expensive storage extension. The responsibility for putting backup in place is yours.
This whitepaper identifies six separate ways your organisation could seriously suffer as a result of failing to use a true backup solution to protect its Office 365 data.
Remember: Microsoft DO NOT backup your Office 365 data.
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