Run AvePoint India: back up your Microsoft 365 estate, fix the oversharing before Copilot, and move tenants without losing data.
How a Pune services firm found out the hard way that a deleted SharePoint site was gone for good, put AvePoint backup in days, and cleaned up the permissions mess before turning on Copilot. Story below.
AvePoint Microsoft 365 Backup and Governance at a glance
Why AvePoint anchors most Indian microsoft 365 backup and governance estates.
- OEM
- AvePoint, a Microsoft 365 data management company founded in 2001, NASDAQ listed, and one of Microsoft’s largest ISV partners over a 20-year relationship. Its products sit in the Microsoft 365 admin world for backup, governance and migration.
- What it does
- Backs up your Microsoft 365 data so a deletion or a ransomware hit is recoverable, governs how Teams and SharePoint sites get created and shared, finds and fixes oversharing before Copilot reads it, and migrates tenants and file shares into Microsoft 365.
- Product lines
- AvePoint Cloud Backup for Microsoft 365, Cloud Governance for provisioning and lifecycle, Policies and Insights for permissions and security posture, Fly for migration, Opus for records and information lifecycle, and Confide for confidential collaboration.
- Where your data sits
- AvePoint Cloud Backup can store backup copies in a Microsoft Azure region, and an India data region can be chosen so backup data stays in India for DPDP reasons. Sirius Star sets the storage region during scoping.
- Where it fits in India
- Indian businesses on Microsoft 365 from 200 to 20,000 seats: services firms, BFSI, manufacturing and any company that has put its files, mail and Teams in the cloud and now has to protect and govern them.
- Licensing
- Subscription, per user per year, scaled by the modules you turn on and the seat count. Most buyers license backup first and add governance when Copilot or an audit forces the question.
- Support
- Licensing, deployment, permission cleanup, migration runs and a quarterly governance review run through Sirius Star, coordinated from Vashi, Navi Mumbai.
The AvePoint Microsoft 365 Backup and Governance ranges Sirius Star supplies
Pick the range that matches the use case. We size the mix in the free 30-minute review.
AvePoint | Cloud Backup
The backup Microsoft does not give you: recover a deleted site, mailbox or Teams chat after the retention window closes.
- Back up Teams, SharePoint, Exchange, OneDrive and Groups on a schedule
- Restore a single item, a site or a whole mailbox after a deletion or a ransomware hit
- Keep backup copies in an India Azure region for DPDP
- Recover data a departing employee took with them
AvePoint | Cloud Governance and Policies and Insights
Stop the Teams and SharePoint sprawl, then find and fix the oversharing before Copilot reads it.
- Control how Teams and sites get created so the estate does not sprawl
- Find files and sites shared with everyone or with public links
- Cut the oversharing that Copilot would otherwise surface
- Expire and archive sites nobody has touched in months
AvePoint | Fly
Move file shares, mailboxes and whole tenants into Microsoft 365 without losing permissions or version history.
- Migrate old file servers and shares into SharePoint and OneDrive
- Merge or split tenants after an acquisition or a demerger
- Move from Box, Google Workspace or Dropbox into Microsoft 365
- Keep permissions, metadata and version history through the move
AvePoint | Opus and Confide
Records lifecycle and confidential collaboration for the data that has rules attached to it.
- Apply retention and defensible disposal to records under DPDP and sector rules
- Archive cold data out of the live estate to cut cost
- Run confidential board and deal documents in a controlled space
- Keep an audit trail of who saw a sensitive document
AvePoint Microsoft 365 Backup and Governance vs Veeam, Druva, Commvault
All four are honest choices. Most Indian buyers land on the first option for service depth and ecosystem fit.
| Brand | Where it wins | Best fit |
|---|---|---|
| AvePoint | The broadest Microsoft 365 platform: backup, governance, permission cleanup, migration and records lifecycle from one vendor, with India deployment and support. | Indian M365 estates that want backup and governance and migration handled by one partner, not three tools. |
| Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 | Clean, well-known backup for Microsoft 365, often run self-managed by the IT team. | Teams whose only need is backup and who have the staff to run it in house. |
| Druva | Agentless SaaS backup delivered fully from the cloud, with little to manage. | Cloud-first teams that want backup as a service and nothing more. |
| Commvault Cloud (Metallic) | Enterprise backup-as-a-service spanning Microsoft 365 and on-prem workloads. | Large enterprises standardising backup across M365 and the data centre together. |
How a Sirius Star AvePoint procurement runs
Free 30 minute review first. Then a written quote in 24 working hours.
Review
Free. We look at your Microsoft 365 estate, your backup gap and where the oversharing sits.
Scoping plus sizing
Right modules turned on, no shelfware. We size backup first, governance where it earns its place.
Written quote plus deployment
In 24 working hours. INR billing, GST broken out, backup running and storage region set to India.
Quarterly governance review
We check restores work, review permissions and keep the estate clean from Vashi.
Buying Microsoft 365 backup and governance in India, a field guide
The deeper read for IT heads protecting a Microsoft 365 estate and getting governance right before Copilot.
- The full we-thought-Microsoft-backed-it-up story
- Four questions before you license M365 backup
- How to fix oversharing before you switch on Copilot
- What the shared responsibility model actually leaves to you
AvePoint Microsoft 365 Backup and Governance India FAQ
Common questions about this brand for Indian buyers. Hover any underlined term for a plain-English definition.
What is AvePoint?
AvePoint is a Microsoft 365 data management company founded in 2001 and listed on NASDAQ. It is one of Microsoft’s largest ISV partners. Its products back up Microsoft 365 data, govern how Teams and SharePoint sites are created and shared, find and fix oversharing before Copilot, migrate file shares and tenants into Microsoft 365, and manage records through their lifecycle. Sirius Star licenses and deploys it for Indian businesses from Vashi, Navi Mumbai.
Does Microsoft 365 not back itself up?
No, and this trips up most teams. Microsoft runs the platform and keeps it available, but under the shared responsibility model your data is your job. Microsoft 365 has a recycle bin and a retention window, not a backup. Once that window passes, a deleted site, mailbox or Teams chat is gone, and ransomware or a departing employee can still take data with them. AvePoint Cloud Backup gives you a real, recoverable copy.
Is AvePoint available in India?
Yes. AvePoint sells and supports its platform in India, and AvePoint Cloud Backup can keep backup copies in an India Azure region so data stays in country for DPDP reasons. Sirius Star handles licensing, deployment, permission cleanup, migration and a quarterly governance review, coordinated from Vashi, Navi Mumbai, with a free review of your estate before any quote.
How does AvePoint help with Microsoft 365 Copilot?
Copilot can read whatever a user can read. If files and sites are shared too widely, Copilot will surface them, which turns old oversharing into a live data risk. AvePoint Policies and Insights finds where files are shared with everyone or with public links and helps you cut it back, so you clean up access before you switch Copilot on rather than after a leak.
What does AvePoint cost in India in 2026?
Indicative*: AvePoint is licensed by subscription, per user per year, scaled by the modules you turn on and the seat count. A backup-only deployment for a mid-size estate usually runs from a few lakh rupees a year, and adding governance, migration or records lifecycle raises it from there. Most of the saving comes from licensing backup first and adding modules when an audit or Copilot forces the question, which is what a scoping pass sorts out.
Ready for an AvePoint licence and deployment quote?
Tell us your Microsoft 365 seat count, whether you have any backup today, and whether Copilot is on the table. We will review, size the licence, then send a written quote.
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