Backup as a Service
Ransomware, hardware failure, and human error close businesses permanently. Aiwel delivers backup as a service built around your recovery objectives, with every job monitored and every restore tested, so your data is there when the incident that would otherwise stop you actually happens.
Backup as a Service Options Aiwel Manages
Full Backup
Aiwel configures and monitors full image backups so your entire complex environment can be restored quickly, without guesswork.
Incremental Backup
Aiwel tunes backup frequency and retention to your RPO, balancing storage cost against how fast you actually need to recover.
Cloud Based
Aiwel keeps immutable, offsite copies in the cloud, isolated from production so ransomware cannot reach your recovery data.
DRaaS
Aiwel protects Exchange, SharePoint, OneDrive, and Teams, closing the gap Microsoft’s shared responsibility model leaves open.
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Designing Your Backup as a Service Program
Aiwel works through these three areas with your team before recommending anything, so the backup as a service we build gives you reliable access to your data under pressure.
Data Type
Aiwel starts with a business impact analysis: which systems are mission-critical, how much data loss you can absorb, and how fast each one must return.
Evaluation
Aiwel stays vendor-neutral, matching you to pre-vetted partners and the retention, frequency, and storage model that fits your budget.
Support Level
Aiwel supports healthcare, manufacturing, higher education, hospitality, and municipalities, and we own the work through implementation and operations.
Where Aiwel’s Backup as a Service Adds Value
Most providers will sell you a backup tool and leave you to run it. Aiwel does the opposite. We monitor every job, investigate every failure, run scheduled test restores, and produce the compliance reporting your auditors ask for, so nobody on your team has to chase it.
Most organizations think two copies is enough, but production plus one local backup is really one, and ransomware reaches both. Aiwel builds to three copies across two media with one stored offsite and immutable. Whether cloud, on-premises, or hybrid is right for you depends on your recovery objectives, compliance obligations, and budget, and Aiwel builds that comparison honestly. The result is a restore you have already proven, not one you are hoping works.
Beyond Backup as a Service
Aiwel’s backup as a service connects to our disaster recovery, cybersecurity, compliance, and network practices, so resilience is one program. Explore our other services to ensure your organization stays secure from all ends:
Frequently Asked Questions About Aiwel's Backup as a Service
What does Aiwel actually manage in a backup as a service engagement?
Aiwel owns the full lifecycle: design, deployment, daily monitoring, failed-job investigation, scheduled test restores, compliance reporting, and recovery support. Your team doesn’t watch jobs or chase failures.
How many copies of our data do we actually need?
Three. Most organizations count production plus one local backup and assume they’re protected, but production isn’t a copy. The standard is three copies, on two different types of media, with one stored offsite and isolated. Aiwel builds to that baseline and verifies it, because a local backup sitting on the same network as your production environment is exactly what ransomware encrypts first.
Does Aiwel back up Microsoft 365?
Yes, and it’s the gap we find most often. Microsoft runs on a shared responsibility model: they keep the service available, you own the data. Aiwel’s backup as a service protects Exchange, SharePoint, OneDrive, and Teams with retention aligned to your compliance obligations.
Is backup as a service enough on its own?
It depends what you’re protecting against. Backup gives you clean copies to restore from. If you also need systems back online in minutes rather than hours, you need somewhere to fail over to, which is what disaster recovery as a service provides. Most clients run both.
How does Aiwel decide our backup frequency and retention?
Aiwel starts with a business impact analysis: which systems are mission-critical, how much data loss you can absorb between backups, and what your compliance obligations require. Frequency and retention follow from that rather than from a default setting.
Will Aiwel work with the backup platform we already own?
Often, yes. Aiwel is vendor-neutral. If your current platform is sound, we’ll manage it and close the gaps around it. If it can’t meet your recovery objectives, we’ll tell you plainly and show you the comparison.
Does backup as a service protect against ransomware?
Yes, when it’s built correctly. Aiwel keeps immutable, offsite copies isolated from production, so even an attacker with full admin rights to your network cannot reach them. 96% of backup repositories are targeted during ransomware attacks, which is why isolation matters more than frequency.
Do you support public sector organizations?
Yes. Aiwel is a Canadian-based firm delivering business resilience consulting and managed services to private and public sector clients across Canada and the United States.
What does backup as a service cost compared to doing it internally?
A predictable monthly managed cost against the cost of one major incident: lost revenue, recovery expenses, ransom demands, and compliance penalties. It also frees internal IT capacity for higher-value work.
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