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Main thing to consider is where you’re storing the backups. Are you wanting to store the locally or in another cloud service? The other consideration, of course, is cost.
The most CapEx friendly solution is to buy a Synology with a ton of drives. Their built in software can backup 365 and Google without any additional cost or license. Your only limitations here are bandwidth, storage space, and the fact the data is local. A cheap place you could store this data back in another cloud would be Wasabi, which the Synology can also connect to.
Veeam can back to up to local or cloud based repos, Wasabi included, but you have to pay a per user license, which can add up.
A Cloud to Cloud backup solution I’ve worked with is SysCloud. Easy to use interface, especially for plucking out files and folders for recovery. You can pay per user or buy bulk storage. I’ve only used it for Google Suite for Drive/classrooms/and other non-mail stuff, but I know it can do 365 content as well.
Finally, for strictly email (and not OneDrive/SharePoint, etc), one option is Mimecast. They are a great email security gateway that you can route your email through ahead of 365, and I think for security alone are a good investment if you can afford it. In addition to it handling security functions, you can also buy the archival service for capturing everything that goes through before users interact with them. Being able to near instantly search our entire email archive is super handy when doing legal/hr searches. It ain’t cheap though.
Another cloud to cloud I know but don’t use for 365 is Druva. We used them for endpoint backup and are quite happy with them in that regard, but I do know they do 365 as well, don’t know much about how that is licensed though.
Definitely compare some other products but those should be a good list to start with.
However, I do think the Synology is probably slightly more unique in its space. The software that comes their NAS are really powerful, does all kinds of things without cost beyond buying the hardware it self.