PillarM365 Backup18 Aug 2026 · 7 min read
"We Back Up Microsoft 365" Is Not a Specification
The covered list is marketing. The not-covered list is where your restore fails
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M365 Backup & Restore
Granular restore, retention, encryption, audit chain.
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PillarEconomics18 Aug 2026 · 7 min read
Bring Your Own Storage: Who Owns the Bucket, Who Sets the Rate
The vendor is not party to your storage contract, which is the whole point
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M365 Backup18 Aug 2026 · 6 min read
Your Recovery Point Has a Number Attached. Here It Is.
An 8-hour window on a 200-seat tenant is roughly 8,000 unrecoverable messages
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Economics18 Aug 2026 · 6 min read
Churn Compounds Into Your Backup Bill
A 500-seat client at 8% churn carries 280 departed users by year seven
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Economics18 Aug 2026 · 5 min read
A Volume Discount Is a Bet on Your Own Retention
Model the offboarding case, not the growth case
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Economics18 Aug 2026 · 5 min read
Calculating Backup Margin Mid-Call
Four numbers, no spreadsheet, no call to the vendor
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MSP Economics13 Aug 2026 · 6 min read
We Tried to Price Eleven M365 Backup Vendors. Eight Would Not Say.
What a morning of primary-source research actually turned up
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