How Microsoft’s Investing in Veeam For Data Resilience
As cyber threats escalate amid increasing regulatory demands for data protection, enterprises face mounting pressure to safeguard information assets while extracting maximum value from their data.
The convergence of AI with data resilience technologies is also developing enterprise security – leading organisations to seek automated threat detection and accelerate recovery capabilities.
Tackling these challenges, Microsoft has made an equity investment in Veeam Software to develop AI solutions that enhance data protection and recovery capabilities.
Microsoft AI integration with Veeam platform targets enterprise customers
The partnership aims to integrate Microsoft's AI technology with Veeam's data resilience platform.
This will support organisations in improving threat detection, accelerating data recovery processes and extracting greater value from their information assets.
Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365
By integrating machine learning (ML) and other AI technologies across its product line, the collaboration will enhance Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365, which safeguards over 23.5 million users.
- Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365
- Veeam Data Cloud Vault
- New Entra ID Solutions
Veeam will also invest heavily in AI-driven innovations, leveraging Microsoft's architectural expertise and collaborative design.
Veeam Data Cloud Vault
Additional products receiving AI enhancements include Veeam Data Cloud Vault, a protection-as-a-service offering built on Zero Trust principles for storing backups in Microsoft Azure and new solutions for Entra ID, Microsoft's identity and access management service.
“In a world where cyber threats and the dynamic nature of the cloud are constant, data resilience is no longer optional – it's mission-critical,” says Anand Eswaran, Chief Executive Officer of Veeam.
"By joining forces with Microsoft, we're bringing AI-powered intelligence to 550,000 customers and the majority of Fortune 500 and Global 2000 companies, enabling them to protect, detect and recover faster than ever before."
Veeam Data Cloud services expand Microsoft Azure capabilities for enterprise protection
The partnership will also enhance Veeam's ability to detect suspicious activities before they escalate to full security incidents, identify vulnerabilities in backup systems, automate compliance reporting and accelerate data restoration processes.
This means that these capabilities will address growing concerns among enterprise customers about data resilience in the face of increasing cyber threats.
The AI-powered features aim to reduce recovery time and strengthen protection against sophisticated attacks that specifically target backup systems.
Meanwhile, Veeam Data Cloud, built on Microsoft Azure cloud computing platform, provides backup-as-a-service for Microsoft 365 productivity suite and Azure environments – meaning that the service combines backup software, infrastructure and storage in a cloud-native design to simplify management while maintaining security through isolation from production environments.
The design offers policy-driven simplicity for administrators, making protection readily available without complex configuration.
Furthermore, the architecture implements continuous versioning of backup data and stores information in Azure Blob Storage, a Microsoft service for storing large amounts of unstructured data separate from operational systems.
"By integrating Microsoft AI with Veeam's market-leading data resilience solutions, we're helping customers not only protect their critical data but also unlock new insights and efficiencies across Microsoft 365 and Azure,” says Jason Graefe, Corporate Vice President, ISV's & Digital Natives at Microsoft.
"By joining forces with Microsoft, we're bringing AI-powered intelligence to 550,000 customers and the majority of Fortune 500 and Global 2000 companies, enabling them to protect, detect and recover faster than ever before," concludes Anand.
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