AvePoint M365 management India for backup, governance, and Teams sprawl control.
AvePoint Cloud Backup, AvePoint Confide, AvePoint Opus, and Fly migration deployed for Indian M365 estates of 200 to 20,000 seats. Quarterly governance review built in.
Serving 200+ Indian businesses · Pan-India delivery · AvePoint partner · Microsoft Partner.
DPDP Act 2023 statutory penalty cap
₹250 Cr
maximum cap under the DPDP Act 2023 for a significant breach. Microsoft 365 backups, retention, and audit trails are the data fiduciary’s responsibility, not Microsoft’s.
Free 8-hour M365 governance audit
What AvePoint does for Indian M365 estates
AvePoint is a Microsoft 365 management platform covering backup, governance, lifecycle management, and migration for SharePoint, Teams, OneDrive, Exchange Online, and Entra ID. For an Indian buyer, three things make it land. Microsoft’s native M365 retention is not a backup.
We deploy AvePoint for M365 estates of 200 to 20,000 seats across BFSI, manufacturing, professional services, and government. AvePoint is the right pick when the audit ask is heavy, the Teams estate has spiralled, and the buyer needs a recovery point objective measured in hours not weeks.
What sits inside the AvePoint suite
Three product blocks worth understanding before the sizing call. Pick the shape that matches your M365 estate, not the catalogue that looks heaviest.
AvePoint Cloud Backup
Per-seat backup for Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, Exchange Online, Entra ID, and Power Platform. Point-in-time restore at the item, folder, site, channel, or full-mailbox level. Backup data lands in AvePoint’s managed Azure tenant or in the customer’s own Azure storage account, in India residency when needed.
Per-seat per-year · INR billed · Reserved discounts on three-year term
AvePoint Confide and Opus
Confide for sensitive-content classification and DLP enforcement across SharePoint and Teams. Opus for record lifecycle management with retention schedules that map to RBI, SEBI, and IRDAI record-retention asks. Right pick for BFSI tenants over 500 seats.
Per-seat per-year · INR billed
How AvePoint India pricing works
AvePoint pricing is per seat per year for backup, governance, and lifecycle modules, and per seat one-time for the Fly migration tool, billed in INR with GST. We do not publish a fixed price card on this page because AvePoint India MRP moves with module mix, seat band, term length, and storage target. A 500-seat M365 estate on Cloud Backup with AvePoint-managed Azure storage lands at one number.
The honest framing is this. AvePoint Cloud Backup is competitive with Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 at mid-market seat bands when the buyer wants AvePoint-managed Azure storage.
AvePoint vs Veeam vs Microsoft Purview vs BitTitan
AvePoint wins on the integrated backup-plus-governance-plus-migration story, on the India-residency option, and on Teams and SharePoint sprawl control that the M365 native console cannot reach. For BFSI and PSU estates with heavy audit asks, AvePoint is the cleanest answer. Gartner IT research and IDC India both rank this category as a 2026 priority for Indian buyers.
Where AvePoint fits the DPDP Act and M365 shared responsibility
The DPDP Act 2023 caps penalties at ₹250 Crore and treats M365 data as the data fiduciary’s responsibility, not Microsoft’s. Microsoft documents the shared-responsibility line in its product terms. The data fiduciary owns backup, retention, and breach response. AvePoint gives the platform for all three.
Backup data residency in Azure South India
Cloud Backup data lands in Azure South India or Azure Central India when the buyer wants India residency. The contract documents where data lives, which the data fiduciary needs for the DPDP risk register.
Residency
Retention beyond M365 native 93 days
AvePoint Opus runs retention schedules for seven, ten, and fifteen years to meet RBI, SEBI, and IRDAI record-retention asks. The M365 native retention model maxes out at 93 days for the recycle bin path.
Control
Quarterly restore drill
Sirius Star runs a quarterly restore drill on a sample mailbox, site, and Teams channel. Written drill report goes to the audit committee. RBI Cyber Resilience auditors accept the model.
Response
How an AvePoint engagement runs
AvePoint India from Sirius Star is a procurement, deployment, governance roadmap, migration, and managed-backup service. We serve Indian M365 estates of 200 to 20,000 seats across BFSI, manufacturing, professional services, and government, delivered from Vashi, Navi Mumbai. Same-week tenant provisioning, Graph API consent, and a quarterly retainer are included.
A typical engagement runs in four phases:
- Free 8-hour M365 governance audit and seat-band sizing
- AvePoint tenant provisioning and Graph API consent in week one
- Retention policy build, Teams sprawl audit, and first full backup in week two
- Quarterly retainer with restore drill, governance review, and DPDP attestation
- Pair with Microsoft 365 licensing and Purview where E5 Compliance applies
- Stitch in BitTitan MigrationWiz when a mailbox-only migration is in scope
FAQ · AvePoint M365 management in India for backup, governance, and Teams sprawl control.
What is AvePoint and why does it fit Indian M365 estates?
AvePoint is a Microsoft 365 management platform with four modules: Cloud Backup for Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, Exchange, and Entra ID; Confide for sensitive-content classification; Opus for record lifecycle management; and Fly for tenant migrations.
What does AvePoint India pricing look like in 2026?
Indian pricing is per seat per year for backup, governance, and lifecycle modules, and per seat one-time for the Fly migration tool, billed in INR with GST.
AvePoint vs Veeam vs Microsoft Purview, which one fits?
AvePoint wins on the integrated backup-plus-governance-plus-migration story and on India residency.
One AvePoint retainer. Every Team. Every SharePoint site.
Free 8-hour M365 governance audit. Read-only inventory of your current tenant configuration, retention setup, Teams sprawl, external sharing posture, and backup readiness. Written report inside one business day with the AvePoint vs Veeam vs Purview split, the 24-month TCO, and the governance roadmap.
Email care@siriusstar.in · Vashi, Navi Mumbai · Pan-India delivery via standard courier partners
P.S. A manufacturing CIO in Pune told us last quarter he had 2,400 Teams, 800 of which had not been opened in 90 days, and a board audit asking who owned the customer data on the abandoned ones. We ran the AvePoint Opus audit in week one. Friday he had a lifecycle policy that expired the dormant Teams, archived the rest, and gave the board a single owner list. The audit closed without a finding.