Data protection and ransomware recovery company Veeam Software has announced a five-year extension of its strategic partnership with Microsoft.
As part of the partnership, Veeam’s suite of products will be integrated with Microsoft Copilot and AI services in an aim to increase innovation around data protection, according to the company.
This collaboration will focus on providing data protection for Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Azure users through the Veeam Data Cloud.
Both companies will engage in a multi-year engineering effort to develop technologies that help organizations stay operational despite cybersecurity threats, system failures, and natural disasters by leveraging Veeam’s backup and recovery capabilities alongside Microsoft’s technological innovation and infrastructure, the companies said in a prepared statement.
Executive Statements
Anand Eswaran, CEO, Veeam, commented:
“Organizations are driving transformation through investments in cloud computing and adoption of software-as-a-service. Veeam protects 450,000 organizations – more than any other data backup and recovery vendor. Veeam’s solution for Microsoft 365 data protection provides the fastest data restores available. Extending our partnership with Microsoft brings the benefits of Veeam technology – in both data protection and ransomware recovery – to even more customers using Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Azure. This partnership will also deliver incredible joint innovation, including bringing the capabilities of Microsoft Copilot to the Veeam product family.”
Judson Althoff, executive vice president and chief commercial officer, Microsoft, said:
“As customers continue moving to the cloud and adopt generative AI capabilities, protecting their data remains our top priority. Together with Veeam, we are already helping millions of users fully protect their business data across Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Azure. I am pleased to build on our collaboration by combining Microsoft’s Copilot and Azure with Veeam’s data protection solutions to help our customers back up, protect, and recover their data estate better and faster than ever before.”
Key Partnership Initiatives
- Development of AI-enhanced backup and recovery products through integration with Microsoft Copilot.
- Enhanced Microsoft 365 backup and restore speeds via support for the latest APIs within Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365.
- Joint marketing and sales strategies to promote Veeam’s protection and recovery solutions for Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Azure users.
- Introduction of new backup and recovery functionalities specifically for Microsoft Azure.
About Veeam
Veeam provides comprehensive data protection and rapid recovery solutions for Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Azure, featuring secure and immutable backups, unified protection across Microsoft-hosted services, and cost-effective storage options through Azure Blob storage.
The company made a significant update to its ProPartner Network Program earlier this year.
In December 2023, Veeam also announced a new relationship with Numberline Security to bolster its Data Protection and Ransomware Recovery offering. Prior to that, it announced a strategic partnership with cybersecurity services firm Sophos.
The company also released Cirrus by Veeam, its Backup-as-a-Service (BaaS) offering.
