Online Data Backup:
Blaze Vault

Blaze Vault Backup  

Responding to evolving business backup and recovery needs, Blaze Vault is a simpler, more agile, and cost-optimised modern data backup and protection solution for today’s business environment. Speed of restoration of access to off-site backed-up data in the event of data loss in your production environment is a top priority in the architecture of Blaze Vault.  

Blaze Vault is built using Veeam – the global market leader in backup technology. With Blaze Vault your business data is sent securely to multiple datacentre facilities ensuring complete protection against all data loss eventualities.

No matter what your backup requirements are, Blaze Vault can backup and protect your most valuable business assets whilst also offering business continuity and complete peace of mind.

The Blaze Vault environment has been built from the ground up to support maximum speed for both restoration and access to backed-up data in the event of data loss in your production environment. This is the highest priority in our design and the way Blaze Vault is architected, delivering support for the most complex DRaaS implementations – covering both the backup solution and network capability, supporting data moves and restorations.

Blaze Vault is a private cloud-based, secure backup and restore solution for all your enterprise and endpoint data. It is based on Veeam technology and backed with our infrastructure and service desk team – with decades of experience in protecting and supporting customers’ critical workloads and data.

Blaze Vault can fully recover or restore elements of the most common systems including Microsoft, Linux, NAS and Microsoft 365 workloads.

We provide Blaze Vault as either a fully managed or co-managed service which is powered by Veeam technology combined with Blaze’s highly secure and resilient cloud network infrastructure. The Blaze Vault infrastructure is a segregated network and platform architecture, owned and operated by Blaze.

No data within the Blaze Vault offering is stored in common public cloud providers’ infrastructures (such as Microsoft Azure or AWS), and data is kept and managed entirely within the UK (meeting UK data sovereignty requirements), making Blaze Vault the best choice to back up your data outside of these common public cloud offerings.

Deployment options include:

  • Blaze Vault (Backup and Recovery) – Fully Managed
  • Blaze Vault (Backup and Recovery) – Co-managed
  • Blaze Vault DRaaS (Disaster Recovery as a Service)
  • Blaze Vault 365 (Microsoft 365 backup and recovery)

Blaze Vault online backup and restore overview diagram.

Key Features of Blaze Vault Cloud Backup

Backup & Recovery

Ensure your data is backed up and recoverable on your terms with various backup and granular recovery options. 

Fast Recovery Time

Minimise the business cost of downtime with Instant VM Recovery using the ability to mount backups in Blaze Cloud for immediate access (rather than spending days or weeks to recover using legacy off-site backup solutions or waiting for physical replacement equipment to arrive). 

Comprehensive coverage

Support for Microsoft, Linux, NAS and Microsoft 365 workloads. 

Data Sovereignty – Data in the UK

Once backed up, your cloud backup data is completely managed and stored in the UK on equipment owned and maintained by Blaze Networks.  

Reliable Backups

As part of the Blaze Vault service your backup can be restored when needed with the expert help your business deserves. Our service desk team check each day to ensure backups are complete and without issues, automatically testing and verifying every backed-up VM for recoverability. Backup success and failure reports are sent to key customer contacts every time a backup is conducted.  

Governance & Compliance

Meet compliance requirements with Long Term Retention policies available following the industry standard trusted model of GFS (grandfather, father, son). Blaze Vault is a compliancy-driven solution offering, providing the assurance of ISO 27001, 9001 and Cyber Essentials Plus certification.  

Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS)

If on-premises or cloud virtual servers fail, then the last backup can be spooled up in Blaze Cloud. Networks and remote users can be re-routed automatically to access services, whilst the customer’s old physical or virtual workloads are fixed. This capability within the solution reduces downtime and removes complexity from a company’s business continuity and disaster recovery procedures.
As part of the Blaze Vault DRaaS offering and customer onboarding process (where the DRaaS add-on service is provided) a full disaster recovery playbook is created and shared with the customer. Additionally, yearly disaster recovery testing is provided as part of the service. Support with customer documentation is also available – providing complete business support to align to ISO 22301:2019 standards.

Blaze Vault is designed to restore access to data extremely quickly, keeping the cost of downtime to an absolute minimum in the event of a problem.

The default Blaze Vault setup backs data up to primary storage (isolated clusters) on Blaze Cloud. When access to backed-up data is needed, Blaze Vault mounts a copy of the backup on a dedicated customer production cluster within Blaze Cloud and establishes the connectivity link to it. This enables an organisation to rapidly re-commence using their data without the need for the backup to be restored back through the network onto an alternate platform provided by the customer.

Fully Managed or Co-managed Cloud Backup

Blaze will fully manage all aspects of your cloud backup and recovery solution, with optional co-management for IT teams that want to also restore items into their environments. Customer IT teams have the immediate support of Blaze’s Veeam-certified engineers who are experts in data recovery.

BlazeVault Functionality

Blaze Vault backup and restore - Veeam Functionality Diagram

Best of Breed Technology 

Blaze provide BlazeVault using industry-leading technology from one of our industry partners, Veeam. Veeam is rated as a global leader in this field by industry analysts Gartner (ref. Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Centre Backup and Recovery Solutions, August 2024), as well as recognized by numerous awards including being named by CRN to its 2024 Software-Defined Data Centre 50 list, citing Veeam as a software leader in backup and recovery, data protection and advanced monitoring in the data centre. 

With Blaze Vault, we have combined Veeam technology with our highly secure isolated hyperconverged infrastructure to produce a highly dependable, secure, and resource-efficient solution which will keep downtime to an absolute minimum in the event of data loss in operational systems.      

Backup of Network Attached Storage (NAS) 

Blaze Vault enables native backup and restore of NAS devices. The system is software based and hardware agnostic, able to backup SMB and NFS shares. The NAS feature is also able to backup SMB file shares hosted on Windows systems and NFS shares on Linux servers. NAS backup utilises change tracking, allowing incremental jobs to backup only what has changed.  

Instant Recovery allows the immediate recovery of a VM by running it from the backup. VM Instant Recovery enhances performance by methods including caching to RAM and read ahead and multiple VM’s can be instantly recovered in a single operation. 

Blaze Vault is Dependable, Rapid, and Cost-Effective 

Blaze Vault has been designed as a highly cost-effective backup and recovery solution, providing an extremely high level of security and data protection.
The solution combines Veeam’s industry-leading virtual, physical, and cloud data management software with Blaze Networks’ secure network and cloud infrastructure, and with continuous management, monitoring, and recovery action by our Service Desk. In so doing, Blaze Vault enables businesses to mitigate against the risk of data loss and minimise any interruption to operations in a highly cost-effective and secure way with a minimum of IT management overhead.

Meet Compliance Requirements (lower Insurance Cost)

Comprehensive, reliable, and fast backup and restore practices have become an increasingly important part of cybersecurity strategy, particularly with the dramatic rise in cyber-attacks like ransomware in recent times.
By protecting access to your data in a secure, ISO 27001-certified environment Blaze provides a verifiable, easy to manage method of assuring business continuity, particularly in the event of cyberattack. Accordingly, this would be recognised by most cyber-insurance policies (influencing their insurance premium charges).

Blaze Vault uses Veeam technology to deliver secure, managed, and agile backup and rapid restore services

Partners

We partner with leading manufacturers like Microsoft, Fortinet, Veeam, Bitdefender, Cisco, Lenovo and other industry-leaders.

In doing so, Blaze have access to a vast array of products that allow us to overcome our customers’ business challenges and requirements.

Microsoft
Blaze is a Microsoft Solutions Partner

Blaze is a Microsoft Solutions Partner and Tier 1 Microsoft CSP Partner. We specialise in Microsoft 365 (including Teams and Teams Phone System), in Microsoft On-Premise and Hosted / Cloud Infrastructure (including Azure), and enable businesses to continue their digital evolution by fully exploiting the latest capabilities of Microsoft products as they evolve.

As a Microsoft Solutions Partner for Modern Work, Blaze has demonstrated a broad capability to help customers boost productivity and make the shift to hybrid work using Microsoft 365.

Fortinet

Blaze is an Expert Partner of Fortinet, a global industry leader in the supply of secure networking infrastructure systems. Fortinet are our technology partner of choice when building customer-specific Private SD-WANs, and Blaze is one of only a handful of Fortinet SD-WAN Specialization Partners in the UK and a Fortinet top-level Expert Partner. Blaze is also a Fortinet-accredited Managed Secure Solutions Provider (MSSP) and Integrator Fortinet partner. A Leader in several of Gartner’s Magic Quadrants, the Fortinet platform combines excellent performance with advanced security features, superb manageability, and excellent Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) per Mbps.

Veeam
Blaze Networks is a Veeam Cloud and Service Provider Silver Partner

Veeam is a highly respected leader in cloud-based backup and recovery software, data protection and advanced monitoring in the data centre.

Blaze is a Veeam Cloud and Service Provider Silver Partner and we have combined Veeam technology with our highly secure Blaze Cloud™ infrastructure to produce BlazeVault™, a highly dependable, secure, and resource-efficient solution which will keep downtime to an absolute minimum in the event of data loss in operational systems or ransomware attack.

Bitdefender
Blaze is a Bitdefender Gold MSP Partner

Blaze is a Bitdefender Gold MSP Partner. Bitdefender is a global cybersecurity leader protecting over 500 million systems through OEM technology partnerships, including with many global IT companies. Tests show it is unmatched in Attack Prevention. Based on Bitdefender technology, Blaze Endpoint Protection hardens endpoints to prevent malware and malicious attacks, and it provides the investigation and remediation capabilities needed to dynamically respond to security incidents when they evade protection controls. Blaze Managed EDR keeps your organisation safe with 24×7 security monitoring, advanced attack prevention, detection and remediation.

Cisco
Cisco Select Partner Logo

Cisco has long been the world’s pre-eminent network systems vendor, particularly for technology used at the core of major corporate networks and the internet. In addition to using Cisco equipment within our customers’ private networks, Blaze incorporates Cisco technology into the heart of our own network operations; the Blaze Private Core Network is built utilising Enterprise-class CISCO core routing equipment.