Veeam and Microsoft Forge Partnership to Develop AI Solutions for Premier Data Protection and Ransomware Recovery Platform

Veeam Software has announced a significant extension of its strategic partnership with Microsoft, spanning five years, aimed at fostering innovation in data protection. The collaboration entails integrating Veeam’s product suite with Microsoft Copilot and AI services to enhance customer protection.

In addition to joint innovation efforts, the partnership will focus on delivering data protection solutions for Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Azure, leveraging the newly introduced Veeam Data Cloud.

Through an extensive engineering collaboration over multiple years, Veeam and Microsoft aim to fortify organizations against rising cybersecurity threats, outages, and natural disasters. The amalgamation of Veeam’s leading backup and recovery capabilities with Microsoft’s expansive innovation and scale is poised to empower customers in ensuring cyber resilience.

Anand Eswaran, CEO at Veeam, highlighted the growing trend of organizations embracing cloud computing and software-as-a-service for their transformational journey. With Veeam’s robust data protection solutions, including the fastest data restores for Microsoft 365, the partnership extension with Microsoft aims to extend these benefits to a broader customer base.

Judson Althoff, executive vice president and chief commercial officer at Microsoft, emphasized the shared commitment to safeguarding customer data amidst cloud adoption and the integration of AI capabilities. By combining Microsoft’s Copilot and Azure with Veeam’s data protection solutions, the partnership seeks to deliver enhanced backup, protection, and recovery capabilities.

Key Highlights of the Veeam and Microsoft Partnership:

Collaborative development efforts to integrate additional AI capabilities into Veeam backup and recovery products, leveraging Microsoft Copilot for automated data analysis, cost-effective insights, and simplified data visualization.
Enhanced support for the latest APIs for Microsoft 365 Backup Storage within Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365, facilitating accelerated backup and restore speeds.
Joint go-to-market initiatives to co-sell Veeam’s protection and recovery capabilities for Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Azure customers.
Introduction of new Veeam backup and recovery functionalities tailored for Microsoft Azure, aimed at accelerating customer migration to the Veeam Data Cloud hosted on Azure.
Customer migration to and protection of Azure Kubernetes Services with Kasten by Veeam.

Veeam’s Protection and Ransomware Recovery Capabilities for Microsoft:

Comprehensive protection of critical Microsoft 365 apps and data from cyber threats through secure, air-gapped, and immutable backups, ensuring fast and assured recovery.
Rapid recoverability, industry-leading restore speeds, and advanced monitoring and reporting capabilities, enabling businesses to resume operations quickly.
Unified protection of Microsoft-hosted IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS data via a single, scalable web console, with instant readiness and policy-based automation.
Cost optimization through storing compressed backups on Azure Blob storage for reduced total cost of ownership (TCO).

Veeam Data Cloud:

Built on Microsoft Azure, Veeam Data Cloud offers backup-as-a-service (BaaS) for Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Azure, providing robust resilience and leveraging advanced data protection and security technology in a user-friendly cloud service.