Microsoft 365 is designed to ensure high availability, disaster recovery, security, and data privacy. As the number of ransomware attacks and the scale of impacted data increase year over year, customers want enhanced self-service recovery capabilities over extended time periods. We’re excited to announce the general availability of Microsoft 365 Backup, and the underlying developer-focused Microsoft 365 Backup Storage platform, delivering capabilities to help you address these growing challenges. 

Included:

• Microsoft 365 Backup provides performant backup and recovery for your critical active data to maintain business continuity at speeds orders of magnitude faster than with traditional migration-based backup methodologies.

• Microsoft 365 Backup Storage gives third-party backup developers a way to provide you with the same benefits of the native Microsoft 365 Backup solution through their own integrated application.

Microsoft 365 Backup

Microsoft 365 Backup allows for ultra-high-speed recovery of your OneDrive, SharePoint, and Exchange data. Because those backups are kept within the Microsoft 365 trust boundary, security breach surface and excessive application data access is limited. Microsoft 365 Backup provides business continuity peace of mind while offering fast backup with frequent recovery points and low average recovery times at mass scale. Many customers will see average speeds for mass restores that are 20 times faster than traditional means of backing up and restoring large volumes of Microsoft 365 data (Microsoft internal research, 2024).

Get started with Microsoft 365 Backup today. Microsoft 365 Backup is offered through the Microsoft 365 admin center and is sold as a standalone pay-as-you-go (PAYGO) solution with no additional license requirements.

Microsoft 365 Backup Storage

Microsoft 365 Backup Storage is our preferred platform for backing up and restoring Microsoft 365 data at scale. In addition to powering our native Microsoft 365 Backup offering, the platform enables independent software vendors (ISVs) to build applications using the Microsoft 365 Backup Storage APIs to backup and recover a healthy state of end customer data to restore business continuity as quickly as possible after an attack. Users of these solutions can therefore gain all the benefits of Microsoft 365 Backup plus additional value from vendor-delivered applications that leverage the Microsoft 365 Backup Storage platform.

Microsoft 365 Backup Storage architecture provides speed, tight security and privacy controls, and business continuity recovery with built-in service and data resiliency

Partner Solutions

While you can experience the advantages of the Microsoft 365 Backup Storage platform directly through the Microsoft 365 Backup offering, there are also benefits to using a partner-developed solution. Our partners offer robust and integrated solutions that combine Microsoft 365 with other data sources, all within one interface. Using Microsoft 365 Backup Storage, these partner applications ensure fast backup and restore operations.

We are excited to have our partners committed to bringing the benefits of Microsoft 365 Backup Storage to our customers. They include AvePoint, Cohesity, Commvault, Rubrik, Veeam, Veritas, and more to come.

Product Recognition

If you’re looking for a preferred backup solution built on the Microsoft 365 Backup Storage platform, we’ll be publishing a Microsoft 365 Backup Product Recognition guide. In that guide, we’ll highlight ISV solutions that take advantage of our platform to deliver high speed reliable backup and restore.

Get Started Today

Remember, you’re only truly backed up if you can recover quickly at scale. Microsoft 365 Backup uses our new Backup Storage platform to provide protection for Microsoft 365-based data sources with mass recovery speeds 20 times faster than traditional solution. It backs up and restores your OneDrive, SharePoint, and Exchange data at scale – while also keeping multiple redundant backups within the Microsoft 365 trust boundary to maintain business continuity, security, and privacy.

Setup Microsoft 365 Backup in a few simple steps
https://aka.ms/M365Backup/Setup

Learn more about Microsoft 365 Backup

Find a recognized Microsoft 365 Backup Storage solution from our launch partners
http://aka.ms/M365BackupStorage/Apps

Learn more about Microsoft 365 Backup pricing model and calculator
https://aka.ms/M365Backup/Pricing-Model

Watch the Microsoft 365 Backup anthem video
https://aka.ms/M365Backup/Video

Read the Microsoft 365 Backup guidance whitepaper
https://aka.ms/M365Backup/Whitepaper

Get Microsoft 365 Backup adoption resources
https://aka.ms/M365Backup/Adoption

Learn more about Microsoft 365 Backup Storage
https://aka.ms/M365BackupStorage

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