SaaS data backup specialist Keepit has officially launched protection for Atlassian’s suite of collaboration tools Jira and Confluence, and has revealed a roadmap for other new SaaS application workloads in the coming months.
News of the launch and further app releases was confirmed at last week’s Technology Live! event in Munich, Germany, attended by press and analysts.
From software development to IT service management, Atlassian’s cloud products are the “central nervous system” of modern project execution, whether it’s tracking tickets and development workflows or storing vital knowledge in pages and spaces, says Keepit. Under Atlassian's shared responsibility model, it's up to users and their service providers to safeguard their own data though.
Backing up your data in a separate infrastructure from your production data is an industry best practice to secure business continuity and comply with increasing regulations.
Although Atlassian’s native backup and recovery service is useful for some Jira and Confluence customers, it has some major limitations, we were told by Keepit. For starters, it’s not generally available for all Atlassian customers.
Further, the native backup solution only stores your data for up to 30 days, after which it expires and can’t be restored. Atlassian’s backup also has a limit to how much data you can restore on your own, without the help of customer support: backups larger than 60GB need Atlassian support assistance for restoration.
Therefore, as companies become more and more dependent on SaaS applications, independent backup - and the capability to recover instantly - has become a basic element of cyber readiness, says Keepit.
Keepit backup and recovery for Jira and Confluence Cloud will “ensure and support” business continuity, it is promised.
The SaaS data protection that Keepit offers is always delivered across two different Keepit data centres located across the UK, Germany, Denmark and Switzerland. It also has data centres in the US, Canada, and Australia.
See the other additional SaaS data workloads that will be protected by Keepit in the coming months in the Technology Live! event slide above.
