25,000 Organizations Downloaded Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365

Demand for Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 accelerates as enterprises move to the cloud
• More than 25,000 organizations, representing 2.3 million Microsoft Office 365 mailboxes, have downloaded Backup for Microsoft Office 365 to protect their data
• The company reports 327% quarter-over-quarter revenue growth of Backup for Microsoft Office 365
• Huge adoption on the heels of the most successful fiscal year for Veeam’s Cloud business, reporting 50% Y/Y revenue gains and 18,000 Veeam cloud and service providers

Veeam Software, Inc. has experienced strong and accelerating demand for its 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 2Q17 to 3Q17, sales grew 83%. In the most recent fiscal quarter, from 3Q17 to 4Q17, sales grew faster with the release of Backup for Microsoft Office 365 v1.5, at 327%, accelerating firm’s momentum – and reporting four consecutive quarters of growth.

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 control of their data and ensure availability to their users.

As enterprises look to place more critical services in the cloud, there is an opportunity for those able to deliver the data protection and availability needed in this environment.

“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, VP 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.”

Recognized as a finalist for Microsoft Partner of the Year (application development), the vendor has taken an aggressive position in this market by adapting quickly to this new and rapidly growing market opportunity with Backup for Microsoft Office 365.

The new release of Backup for Microsoft Office 365 v1.5 has resulted in an 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.

Vodafone Espana, Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Fresno County Sheriff department IT team, College Success Foundation, and the City of Mairie de Versailles are all leveraging the scalability and reliability of the solution.

In addition, this new release provides the ability for 18,000 firm’s cloud and service provider partners to offer Office 365 backup services to enable their clients to protect critical email data in the event of a malicious attack, human error or outage.

Veeam is also seeing strong usage via hybrid email deployments. It enables enterprises to backup Office 365 email data as well as on-premises exchange with the same solution. Customers can store the data in their choice of location, whether that’s in a public cloud like Microsoft Azure or on-premises. Backup for Microsoft Office 365 simplifies management of a hybrid email deployment and migrates mailbox data and users between Office 365 and on-premises Exchange.

Backup for Microsoft Office 365 is licensed on an annual subscription basis with a special introductory price starting at $18 per user per year with additional discounts for multi-year subscription. All subscription licenses are sold per user and include production 24×7 support.

“SaaS usage has uncovered unique internal and external security threats, as well as all-to-common data deletion scenarios and retention policy gaps. We see a rapidly growing opportunity to provide much-needed data protection services for a wide range of infrastructures and applications – which is why we are excited about Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365,” said Thierry Schaal, cloud solution manager, Adista SAS, a Veeam cloud and service provider partner.

“Veeam guarantees our Office 365 data is backed up and stored locally so it’s available 24.7.365. Veeam provides us with the peace of mind that we remain in control of our company’s data, and we’re covered from a legal and compliance perspective,” said Karen St. Clair, IT manager, Columbia Power & Water Systems.

“We were concerned that, while Microsoft provides HA, that does not mean data recoverability in the event a mailbox, say, was corrupted or deleted. With Veeam Backup for Office 365 we now have peace of mind with local backup copies. Having Office 365 backup in tandem with our current Veeam implementation was a no-brainer,” said Justin Durrant,senior systems engineer, Noble Conservation Solutions, Inc.

“We see managed backup services for Microsoft Office 365 customers as an exciting revenue-generating opportunity for our organization. As workloads continue to move from on premises deployments to cloud-based environments, customers need to ensure the data is backed up. We can provide the data protection services so our customers can focus on meeting the unique needs of their business,” said William Bell, VP of products, phoenixNAP global IT services, a Veeam cloud and service provider partner.

“Before this product I thought my emails were safe. Now, I am sure they are safe,” said Hur Taner, IT manager, Egelim Lojistik A.S.

Resources:
Download a copy of Adopt Microsoft Office 365 Backup for Damage Control and Fast Recovery After Malicious Attacks
More about Veeam’s six critical reasons why organizations need to backup Office 365 data