Availability of Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 V5 With Teams Data Protection

Veeam Software, Inc. announced the availability of the latest version of Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365.

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Version 5 adds purpose-built backup and recovery for Microsoft Teams, making it easier for users to quickly find and restore Teams data, including entire groups, specific channels and settings.

Protecting this data is critical, as the shift to remote working has created an explosion in Microsoft Teams adoption over the past year, with 115 million daily active users last month, up 475% from 20 million daily active users almost 12 months ago.^[i]

With 85% product growth Y/Y in Q3’20, Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 has exceeded 133,000 downloads across tens of thousands of organizations, which are relying on the product to protect their Office 365 data, including Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, and backup and recovery specifically built for Microsoft Teams.

“For many, Microsoft Teams has become the center of our productivity universe and holds valuable IP. But protecting data in Microsoft Teams has been a challenge historically,” said Danny Allan, CTO and SVP, product strategy. “Although Microsoft Teams data has its own basic retention, it doesn’t fully protect vs. accidental deletion or security threats that lead to data loss, nor does it enable long-term retention for compliance or regulatory purposes – a significant concern for many companies. Teams is not a self-contained application, as the data is scattered throughout Exchange Online, SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business. In addition, the Teams configurations, which include settings, members and team structure, are vital components to ensure Teams data is fully protected and easily recoverable. Veeam is meeting this critical business need with our new version of Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365.“

In addition to safeguarding Microsoft Teams applications, channels and tabs, and the data within those components, the company’s Backup for Microsoft Office 365 provides a customized, granular recovery experience using firm’s Explorer for Microsoft Teams. This Explorer is built specifically for Microsoft Teams, providing eDiscovery with a set of search criteria, combined with effortless recovery back to Teams – making it for businesses to search, find and recover the Teams data they need.

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Ultimately, whether Microsoft Teams or the entire Office 365 environment, it’s the responsibility of each business to protect and control their data.

Teams support in the firm’s Backup for Microsoft Office 365 v5 includes:

Purpose-built Microsoft Teams backup: Full control and protection over Teams data
Faster and easier recovery: Restore options built for Teams
Unmatched eDiscovery: Enables granular search and find across Teams components for governance and compliance

In addition, v5 provides scalability with architectural enhancements that deliver 5x the scale increase to support larger enterprises, combined with the ability to browse the UI for over 100,000 objects simultaneously. Version 5 also provides up to 2x faster Office 365 data movement to object storage, along with parallel processing for digesting massive SharePoint Online lists, and faster PowerShell and Rest API calls that execute ins.

Backup for Microsoft Office 365 v5 is available. Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 Community Edition provides free backup and recovery of Office 365 data for up to 10 users, ten teams and 1TB of SharePoint data.

“There has been a spike in usage of Microsoft Teams with over 115 million people using Teams every day ^{[ ii]}, the risk of losing and compromising data within the platform is also increasing. However, IDC research shows that despite the evident risk of loss of data, Office 365 backup is still an afterthought, and more than 75% rely on Native Microsoft Data Protection Capabilities – which is not enough. With purpose-built backup that covers Teams environment, companies like provide faster and easy recovery, and granular searches, Office 365 customers can mitigate this risk firsthand and feel confident about their BC, compliance and resiliency,” said Archana Venkatraman, associate research director, IDC.

“As remote working has exploded, Microsoft Teams has become mission critical in terms of allowing our company to work effectively. We’re already protecting our Office 365 users with Veeam, and version 5 will now give us peace of mind that our Microsoft Teams deployment is equally protected with a solution that’s built for Teams.” said Yair Ventura, senior system engineer, DavidShield Group.

“Veeam is arguably the easiest, fastest and most flexible solution in our data centers. It integrates beautifully with HyperFlex to backup and recover at warp speed, giving us peace of mind that critical data in Oracle ERP and Microsoft Office 365 are a click away.” said Elliot Segler, senior cloud engineer, Wesfarmers Chemicals, Energy & Fertilisers (WesCEF).

“Veeam Availability Suite and Veeam Agent for Windows backup 16TB across 319 VMs on-premises and in Azure. Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 backups SharePoint Online, Exchange Online, One Drive for Business and Microsoft Teams, giving ADE total access and control of data for legal compliance. Veeam protects any workload anywhere and for us that includes native backup to Azure and backup in Azure. Veeam is simple to use, making it easy to manage everything under a single pane of glass.” said Chris Henry, infrastructure manager, AZ Department of Education.

“The IT team was so impressed with Veeam that it also deployed Veeam Agent for Windows to backup hundreds of laptops in the field, as well as Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 to maintain access and control of historical information in Exchange, OneDrive and SharePoint. We worried about losing historical data before we transitioned to Office 365, but Veeam alleviated that worry. We have backups at our fingertips. That’s awesome from a data standpoint because we retain 30 years’ worth – a total of two petabytes and growing.” said Raj Perumal, CIO, Ducks Unlimited.

^[i] Microsoft Teams at 3: Everything you need to connect with your teammates and be more productive, By Jared Spataro, corporate VP, Microsoft 365
[ii] “Microsoft Teams with over 115 million people using Teams every day“

Resources:
V5 What’s New
Blog: Microsoft Teams backup and recovery in new Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 v5

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