Veritas delivers a new offering that will ensure SaaS data protection with Microsoft 365 Backup Storage

How are your customers using Microsoft 365 Backup? What current challenges are they addressing with it?

With Veritas + Microsoft 365 Backup customers will be able to achieve the following outcomes:

  1. Reduced risk and advanced security protection
    1. Tightly integrate cyber resilience and recovery from ransomware or data loss
      • M365 Backup provides fast bulk restore within agreed upon SLA to protect against external ransomware attacks.
      • Adding Veritas Alta SaaS Protection to M365 Backup provides a 360 comprehensive protection by adding flexible recovery to your data loss risk. Veritas includes granular restores at file and object level for greater flexibility and protection on more targeted data loss scenarios.
      • Adding Veritas Alta SaaS Protection to M365 Backup also offers greater flexibility when deciding on how to serve your RPO/RTO needs, and matching these with the appropriate level and cost of protection – one size does not fit all – Veritas Alta SaaS Protection + M365 Backup is better together and offer flexibility of protection choice.
    2. Meet corporate business continuity, disaster recovery, long-term data retention and governance needs
      • M365 Backup offers 1 year retention on your data. By complementing this with Veritas customers can meet longer term data retention and compliance needs
      • Veritas enables customers to export copies of their data outside of M365/Azure, to meet their resilience, retention and compliance requirements.
  2. Lower TCO (achieve cost savings)
    1. Control cloud costs and lower TCO of Microsoft 365 services
      1. Reclaim licenses and storage from employee turnover. Intelligently automate and manage employee turnover data to a centralized and secure cloud while ensuring data immutability and security, with cheap and easy retention and reprovisioning.
      2. Veritas end-user portal self-service restore helps save on IT costs.
  3. Accelerate IT
    1. Manage Microsoft 365 data along with other SaaS applications (including Slack and Salesforce), Enterprise Data Center applications (physical or virtual), and private and public clouds all through a single platform.
    2. Empower SecOps, SaaS and ITOps teams to collaborate faster to address advanced search, compliance, and discovery requests.
      • With Veritas you get ability perform full-text indexing, legal holds, advanced search, exports, audit tracking, cases/case permissions, and more.
      • Accelerate IT ticket resolution and reduce compliance risk by providing quick, easy and global search across all protected workloads with Veritas.

How do your offerings/services support Microsoft 365 Backup?

With Veritas + Microsoft 365 Backup customers will be able to: 

  • Tightly integrate cyber resilience and recovery from ransomware 
  • Meet corporate business continuity, disaster recovery, long-term data retention and governance needs 
  • Globally protect against data loss from malicious attacks or accidental deletion 
  • Meet stringent SLAs with granular recovery  
  • Empower SecOps, SaaS and ITOps teams to collaborate faster to address advanced search, compliance, and discovery requests 
  • Control cloud costs and lower TCO of Microsoft 365 services 
  • Bring M365 Backup values to enterprise customers data protection, recovery, and cyber resilience playbooks spanning SaaS applications, public clouds, and enterprise hybrid-cloud data, all through a common Veritas SaaS platform.

Related products built on Microsoft 365 Backup

Veritas Alta™ SaaS Protection

"Veritas integrating with Microsoft 365 Backup is exciting for our customers who will be able to enhance their cyber resilience to threats like ransomware, with fast, granular recovery and long-term retention that meets data compliance needs."

Lawrence Wong (Chief Strategy Officer, Veritas)

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