Veeam Software has announced an expanded partnership with Microsoft, which includes a Microsoft equity investment in Veeam.

The investment will be used to build AI solutions that help customers protect, recover and unlock more value from their data, the company reports.

Findings

The company found that 77% of the Fortune 500 and 67% of the Global 2000 rely on Veeam to safeguard their data from cyber-attacks, outages and disasters.

By integrating Microsoft AI into Veeam’s data resilience platform, such integration will support customers in gaining faster insights, smarter threat detection and more automated recovery, helping ensure data is always secure, available, reliable and working for them.

Bringing AI to Data Resilience

Veeam will focus on research and development investments, architectural expertise and design collaboration with the support of Microsoft to accelerate AI-powered innovations for customers.

Veeam will integrate Microsoft AI services including machine learning (ML) to enhance:

• Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365 – A widely used backup solution for Microsoft 365, protecting over 23.5 million users
• Veeam Data Cloud Vault – A Zero Trust Data Resilience-based data protection-as-a-service (DPaaS) for secure, offsite backups in Microsoft Azure
• New Entra ID Solutions – Strengthening identity security and resilience for cloud-first organisations

AI-Powered Protection and Recovery

Veeam’s integration with Microsoft AI will help organisations:

• Detect suspicious activity before it escalates
• Identify backup vulnerabilities that need attention
• Automate compliance and recovery reporting
• Accelerate data restores, getting businesses back up and running faster

“It’s mission-critical”

Anand Eswaran, CEO, Veeam stated: “In a world where cyber threats and the dynamic nature of the cloud are constant, data resilience is no longer optional, it’s mission-critical.

“By joining forces with Microsoft, we’re bringing AI-powered intelligence to 550,000 customers and the majority of Fortune 500 and Global 2000 companies, enabling them to protect, detect and recover faster than ever before.”

“Unlock new insights and efficiencies”

Jason Graefe, Corporate Vice President, ISV’s & Digital Natives, Microsoft commented: “AI is transforming every aspect of business.

“By integrating Microsoft AI with Veeam’s market-leading data resilience solutions, we’re helping customers not only protect their critical data but also unlock new insights and efficiencies across Microsoft 365 and Azure,” Graefe concluded.