AvePoint implementing Microsoft 365 Backup Storage for data protection

How are your customers using Microsoft 365 Backup Storage? What current challenges are they addressing with it?

Whether its user or AI generated data organizations are faced with managing its exponential growth. Large data sizes and technical limitations like API throttling are making it difficult for organizations to meet their service level objectives with SaaS backup. While organizations understand the importance of keeping their files, documents, and collaboration secure while managing it all efficiently, traditional methods of protecting data throughout its lifecycle are no longer enough.

With AvePoint Cloud Backup Express powered by Microsoft 365 Backup Storage, organizations can achieve unprecedented speeds that provide the fastest Recovery Time Objectives and Recovery Point Objectives, allowing organizations to meet aggressive business continuity targets for Microsoft OneDrive, SharePoint, and Exchange, while keeping all data within the Microsoft 365 security boundary.

How do your offerings/services support Microsoft 365 Backup Storage?

AvePoint Cloud Backup Express enables secure data storage in immutable copies for up to one year. Microsoft OneDrive, SharePoint, and Exchange at greater speed, while keeping all data within the Microsoft 365 security boundary.

This evolution brings significant advancement in driving business continuity at scale, which, when combined with the compliance benefits of AvePoint’s multi-SaaS backup solution, provides a holistic approach to protecting and securing data in the event of a malicious attack or accidental data deletion, while satisfying regulatory requirements around retention and data copies.

With 89% of organizations adopting a multi-cloud approach, Gartner recommends selecting one technology provider that can protect all enterprise workloads and systems. Cloud Backup Express is integrated in the AvePoint Confidence Platform, enabling organizations to protect and optimize all enterprise data when using multi-cloud sources such as Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Salesforce, and others, enabling secure and efficient collaboration across their entire digital workplace environment.

ISVs: What products do you have that integrate with Microsoft 365 Backup Storage? How do your products integrate with Microsoft 365 Backup Storage?

As a Microsoft Content AI partner, AvePoint is among the first companies to feature advanced in-product integrations with AvePoint Cloud Backup Express.

Powered by Microsoft 365 Backup Storage, AvePoint Cloud Backup Express offers flexible, secure collaboration in the digital workplace. Combine rapid, unlimited backups with intelligent recovery capabilities to minimize business disruption and restore data quickly.

  • Simple Configuration: No storage provisioning, appliance management or lengthy configuration. Start your first backups in minutes. Easily add on Microsoft 365 Backup Storage protection to AvePoint Cloud Backup without changing your existing data protection policies and benefits.
  • Express Recovery Points: With Microsoft 365 Backup Storage, AvePoint provides data backup and recovery twenty times faster than traditional cloud backup, ensuring minimal disruption and swift restoration of your critical data, even in the event of ransomware or other mass data loss incidents.
  • Smart Restore: Recover the right version of data whether it resides in Microsoft 365 Backup Storage, AvePoint-managed storage, or customer-managed storage.
  • Comprehensive Microsoft Cloud Protection: Truly better together. Easily add-on granular app-aware recovery from secure data copies both inside and outside of the Microsoft trust to ensure data remains safe and meets regulatory requirements. Extend secure protection for your entire Microsoft Cloud investment, including Microsoft Teams, Planner, Azure, Entra ID, Intune, Windows Defender, Viva Engage, Azure, Dynamics 365, and more.

"Data protection is crucial in the age of AI, with 71 percent of respondents in our AI and Information Management Survey stating that data privacy and security are top concerns when considering AI implementation. Organizations must ensure their data is not only protected and easily recoverable, but also classified and governed according to their policies and regulations. With Cloud Backup Express, AvePoint now offers our customers a comprehensive solution that combines speed, security, and compliance, keeping their businesses resilient and secure.”

John Peluso (Chief Product Officer, AvePoint)

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