4 Reasons to Backup Microsoft Office 365 Data
While Microsoft Office 365 provides tremendous business value and high data availability, it lacks comprehensive data protection. There are four key backup and protection needs that Microsoft does not cover for your Office 365 data:
1. Data-level security to protect from malware or accidental deletion
2. Long-term data retention with granular recovery options
3. Backup and protection of data at a second location, on-prem or in the cloud
4. Comprehensive legal/compliance hold allowing you to retrieve even data that was purposefully deleted long ago
Download this paper to learn about the Cloudian-Veeam solution to protect Microsoft Office 365 data.
“While O365 is fast becoming the center of business productivity, a backup and recovery strategy is an afterthought. Relying on Microsoft’s native backup capabilities and infrastructure-level uptime features is a risky strategy because regardless of where the data is, it is the company’s responsibility.”
IDC: Why a Backup Strategy for Microsoft Office 365 is Essential for Security, Compliance, and Business Continuity, 2019
Office 365 Backup Need Creates Business Opportunity
VMware Cloud Providers can expand their business and revenue while better serving their customers with Microsoft Office 365 Protection As-a-Service. This new service opportunity addresses the urgent need to backup and protect business-critical Office 365 data — including Exchange, SharePoint, OneDrive for Business and Microsoft teams.
This cost-effective cloud service combines Cloudian HyperStore with Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 (VBO), and VMware Cloud Director to protect and secure Office 365 data from accidental deletion, rogue employees, and malware, ensuring business continuity. As an integrated solution, it’s simple to get started and easy to manage and deliver.
Solution benefits include:
- Complete and secure backup service for Office 365 Data
- 1/3 less cost than public cloud solutions
- Encrypted data-in-motion and data-at-rest
- Fast RPO/RTO
ON-DEMAND WEBINAR
High-Margin S3-Compatible Services for Cloud Service Providers with Veeam
Expand your cloud service provider offerings with new services using Veeam Availability Suite and built on Cloudian S3-compatible storage – a proven path to a profitable services business.
In this webinar, Veeam and Cloudian demonstrate various scenarios which can be wrapped up as new services including:
- Ransomware Protection-as-a-Service
- Office 365 Backup-as-a-Service
- NAS Backup-as-a-Service
- Cloud Tiering Assurance
Veeam Demo
This video from Veeam’s Van Flowers demonstrates how easy it is to create repositories in Veeam Backup for Office 365 and connect them to a secure on-prem Cloudian HyperStore target for complete Office 365 suite protection.
Office 365 Data Protection. It is Essential.
With a cloud platform like Microsoft Office 365 comes the expectation that your business-critical data is safe and protected at all times. After all, you are paying for a service (or subscription model) which is supposed to make business processes and data available at all times, from anywhere. This also means that the data required to ensure business continuity is secured and protected. Right?
Unfortunately, that is an incorrect assumption. Data availability is different from data protection. Data availability is achieved by having redundancy zones. Data protection, on the other hand, refers to the ability to revive or restore data in the event of a failure, disaster, or attack. This is achieved by backing up your data in secure and reliable storage (on-prem or in the cloud).
For all its capabilities, great features and ability, Office 365 only ensures high availability of data. What it lacks is a comprehensive protection for your business-critical assets.
This is a listing of what is covered vs. what your organization needs to focus on for comprehensive protection and business continuity.
DEPLOYMENT GUIDE
Veeam and Cloudian – Backup and Protection for Microsoft Office 365 Data
Cloudian HyperStore provides a cost-effective and secure target for Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 (VBO). With Veeam and Cloudian, you have the access controls, data backups, and data security that protect you from accidental deletion, rogue employees, and malware.
This document will walk through a step-step deployment scenario of the Veeam-Cloudian solution for Office 365 backup.
