All Your Eggs in One Basket: Why Real Resilience Demands More Than Backup

All your eggs in one basket? That’s fragility, not resilience.

We’ve all heard the warning: don’t put all your eggs in one basket. Yet in IT, we’ve done exactly that.

We trust a single cloud provider to hold our SaaS data. We rely on one vendor’s storage platform to keep our backups safe. And we hope that because the basket has a big brand logo on it, nothing will ever go wrong.

But outages, ransomware, misconfiguration-or simply the wrong retention setting-remind us of a hard truth: one basket means one point of failure.

SaaS Resilience: The Keepit Basket

From fragile shell to unbreakable vault - Keepit keeps SaaS data independent and recoverable.

SaaS platforms like Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, and Salesforce have transformed how businesses run. They guarantee uptime of their platforms, but that doesn’t mean they guarantee the safety of your data.

The risks are subtle but real:

• A user accidentally deletes critical files.

• A misconfigured retention policy silently erases months of records.

• A ransomware attack encrypts productivity apps and identity services.

• Or the platform itself suffers an outage, leaving you locked out at the exact moment you need access most.

  
  

And every time, your eggs are still in their basket - not in yours.

Keepit flips the equation. Instead of relying on the same platform that failed you, Keepit creates a completely independent basket for SaaS backup and recovery. That independence is the difference between waiting helplessly for Microsoft to come back online, and restoring your data directly to users within minutes.

With Keepit, you get:

• Independent recovery that works even if Microsoft itself is offline

• Immutable, sovereign storage hosted outside hyperscale clouds, removing Cloud Act exposure

• Predictable retention and compliance controls that keep regulators and auditors satisfied

The result? Your SaaS eggs stay safe, even when the Microsoft basket cracks. Independence isn’t a luxury - it’s resilience.

Infrastructure Resilience: The ExaGrid Basket

Recovery harder than ransomware. ExaGrid delivers instant restores, immutable protection, and scale-out growth - turning fragile backups into titanium resilience.

For on-premise and hybrid workloads, the same “all eggs in one basket” risk shows up in a different form. Traditional backup storage vendors funnel all your data into a single silo: expensive hardware, vulnerable to ransomware, and inflexible as your environment grows.

It works - until it doesn’t.

• Recovery takes hours or even days because backups are stored in deduplicated format that must be rehydrated.

• Ransomware can encrypt or delete backups if they live on a network-facing system.

• And when capacity runs out, you’re forced into costly forklift upgrades that break budgets and business continuity alike.

A shiny badge doesn’t make a fragile basket resilient

ExaGrid was built to break this pattern. Instead of a monolithic silo, ExaGrid uses a tiered architecture designed for speed, security, and scalability.

• Landing Zone keeps the most recent backups in native format, enabling instant VM boots and file restores in seconds, not hours.

• Immutable Repository Tier is non-network facing and locked down - so backups can’t be deleted or encrypted, even by ransomware.

• Scale-out architecture means you simply add appliances as data grows, with performance increasing linearly and costs staying predictable.

The difference is crucial: backup jobs will nearly always complete. But when disaster strikes, what matters is how fast you can stand the business back up. That recovery speed is the true test of resilience - and it’s where ExaGrid delivers.

Together: A Mesh of Resilience

Resilience doesn’t come from a single product. It comes from eliminating shared points of failure - across every layer of the stack.

Keepit and ExaGrid each solve the same fundamental flaw, but in different domains:

• Keepit protects the SaaS layer - your collaboration, communication, and identity services by removing dependence on Microsoft, Google, or Salesforce as the sole custodian of your data.

• ExaGrid protects the infrastructure layer - your servers, databases, and applications by removing the bottlenecks, vulnerabilities, and hidden costs of traditional backup storage.

When you weave the two together, you create a resilience mesh:

• SaaS data stays available even if Microsoft 365 suffers a global outage.

• On-prem workloads can be recovered instantly, even in the face of ransomware.

• Compliance requirements are met with predictable retention, immutability, and sovereignty baked in.

The key is independence. No single outage, breach, or compliance change can take every egg down at once. Your SaaS basket and your infrastructure basket reinforce each other, ensuring the business survives every shock.

Two baskets. One outcome. Recovery without compromise.

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