Demand for Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 on a rise

Veeam Software has announced that it has experienced strong and accelerating demand for Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 since the product’s initial release. Over 25,000 organizations have downloaded the software, representing in aggregate more than 2.3 million Microsoft Office 365 users. From Q2 2017 to Q3 2017, sales for Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 grew 83 per cent.

Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 provides organizations additional options to protect their data on top of the automatic data replication Microsoft provides across its data centers, as well as native resiliency controls available in Office 365. This combination lets companies have complete control of their data and ensure availability to their users.

“It’s a big mistake to think that enterprises no longer need to be concerned about ensuring availability and protecting their data in the cloud,” said Paul Mattes, Vice-President of Global Cloud Group, Veeam. “As organizations increasingly move to cloud-based applications like Microsoft Office 365, they need to clearly identify and understand who is responsible for what. For example, Microsoft takes on management of the infrastructure built underneath Office 365 while companies have complete control over its data to ensure availability to users and meet the needs of compliance and legal requirements.”

“Organizations are moving key business applications onto SaaS-based platforms and the rapid growth of Microsoft Office 365 adoption is a key indicator of this trend,” said Asanga Wanigatunga, Senior Director, APJ – Global Cloud Group at Veeam. “The SaaS platform takes on the responsibility of application uptime and associated infrastructure components. However, the data within the application platform remains the customers’ responsibility – to manage and protect, which makes Veeam a partner of choice to enable this.”

The new release of Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 v1.5 has resulted in a large influx of Enterprise adoption due to several sizable scalability enhancements, led by a multi-repository, multi-tenant architecture addition which enables protection of large enterprise Office 365 deployments with a single installation.