Asigra hires HYCU with SaaS application backup – blocks and files

Canadian data protection company Asigra is launching a SaaS backup product with an SDK for developers to write plug-ins and buy marketplaces for customers. HYCU competes for third-party SaaS backup connectors and marketplace.

There are tons of SaaS applications out there, and it’s not possible for any backup provider to write the code that connects their backup software to every SaaS application’s API. In late 2021, Asigra started working on a system where MSPs and their partners would rather write connectors.

Eric Simmons, CEO of Asigra, said in a statement: “IT professionals are beginning to understand that protecting SaaS application data within an organization is not only a legal obligation, but also vital to protecting reputation and finances. The importance of this cannot be overstated and we are focused on protecting the entire SaaS application spectrum.”

The use of SaaS is widespread. According to Fortune Business Insights, “The global Software as a Service (SaaS) market was valued at $215.10 billion in 2021 and will grow from $251.17 billion in 2022 to $883.34 billion by 2029, a 19, 7 percent CAGR.

Asigra calculates that the average user has nine SaaS applications, while the average company uses 137. There should be a single backup option for customer data in SaaS applications, and Asigra designed SaaSBACKUP to be exactly that.

Asigra’s software already works with the most popular SaaS applications – M365, Google Workspace and Salesforce. Connectors are required for the mass of other SaaS applications.

The software has an SDK and supports multi-tenancy and AWS, S3-compatible storage, and Wasabi and Backblaze as backup targets. But it also supports the use of MSP’s preferred storage backend, either cloud storage or on-premise object storage. It has a pay-per-use business model and a marketplace for discovering and reaching out to connectors. It helps security if more than one person is needed to make backup decisions, such as deleting a storage container.

It works with third-party vendor Augmentt so potential customers can discover and manage their SaaS application.

According to Asigra, SaaSBACKUP software adapts and protects data in an unlimited number of SaaS environments and enables mass deployment for hundreds or thousands of SaaS application users simultaneously. New users are automatically detected and added to the backup environment. Users can recover data at any level of detail, including recovery of an email or an entire mail system. When the lost data is identified, the system restores the user account or another location. Data can be encrypted and protected with multi-factor authentication for as long as necessary to meet regulatory and compliance obligations.

The SaaSBACKUP beta program will start in May 2023. Supervised service providers can register to participate in the program here. Asigra believes it will announce general availability in North America for MSPs in the third quarter of 2023, GA in the UK and mainland Europe, VARs and VADs in the fourth quarter. Support for other geographies will arrive in 2024, along with multilingual services and a SaaSBACKUP marketplace for connectors and any other services.

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Both HYCU and Asigra independently recognized that protecting customer data in the bulk of SaaS applications is not always covered by backup software vendors who write their own connectors. Therefore, it is recommended that this be done by a third party. We believe other backup vendors may come to the same conclusion. If they want to enter the mainstream SaaS privacy market, they need to provide an SDK for their software, motivation for plugin writers, a what-SaaS-apps-do-I-use service, and a marketplace to find and access plugins. .