Veeam Explorer for SharePoint

Veeam Software, Inc. announced its Explorer for SharePoint, a new capability that anyone may try out in an upcoming free public beta.

Registration to participate in the public beta is open.

In the past, IT had to procure expensive add-on tools for granular recovery of items from SharePoint backups. Veeam is disrupting this market. Explorer for SharePoint will be included at no additional charge in both the next release of Backup Free Edition and in Backup & Replication v7, which will become available in the second half of this year.

SharePoint has become ubiquitous throughout business IT, from small businesses to global enterprises. When an employee needs a file that’s been corrupted or deleted, the help desk seldom has a quick solution because recovering the file often requires restoring the entire SharePoint database. Retrieving an individual item can take hours or even days.

When it comes to e-discovery, Explorer for SharePoint enables users to zero in on exactly the information required to quickly locate and restore individual SharePoint items.

It gives IT an intuitive interface to look inside SharePoint backups, all without the use of agents.

Capabilities include:

• Browsing SharePoint databases within compressed, deduplicated image-level backups of SharePoint VMs without having to restore the entire database;
• Searching for specific SharePoint items with search capability for e-discovery purposes;
• Recovering and exporting items directly to the original SharePoint server, or sending items as email attachments to specific users; and
• Support for SharePoint running on both Hyper-V and vSphere.

Explorer for SharePoint is the latest in a series of innovations that enable IT to browse, search and recover individual items.

Previously released features include:

• U-AIR (Universal Application Item Recovery): General purpose application item-level recovery. Introduced in Backup & Replication v5 in October 2010.
• Explorer for Microsoft Exchange: Quickly find and restore individual Exchange items directly from the backup file without the need for a full restore. Introduced in Backup & Replication v6.5 in October 2012.
• Explorer for SAN Snapshots: Quickly restore any or all of a VM directly from a SAN snapshot. Introduced in Backup & Replication v6.5 in October 2012.

Robert Amatruda, research director, data protection and recovery, IDC, said: "Companies of all sizes have come to depend on SharePoint to power employee collaboration on critical files and other business content. If the help desk cannot find and recover individual SharePoint items quickly from backup files, it hurts productivity. Veeam Explorer for SharePoint offers an elegant solution to the problem."

Ratmir Timashev, president and CEO, Veeam, said: "With Veeam Explorer for SharePoint, finding and restoring individual SharePoint items takes just a couple of mn. It’s yet another example of Veeam disrupting the market. Just as we did with Veeam Explorer for Exchange, Veeam will include these new capabilities in Veeam Backup Free and Veeam Backup & Replication at no additional charge, enabling IT to replace expensive SharePoint discovery tools that charge per user."

Explorer for SharePoint will be available soon in public beta.

This capability will be included in the new version of Backup Free Edition and in Backup & Replication v7 when they become available in the second half of this year.