Veeam Data Cloud

Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365 is a Veeam-managed backup service. Veeam manages the backup infrastructure, all data is stored in an Azure region of your choice, and you have full control of creating backups and completing restores. The SaaS backup application is accessible through a web browser.

The Veeam Data Cloud application connects to your Microsoft 365 account and takes frequent backups of your data, storing them securely in a dedicated storage account in a location of your choice, ready for you to recover what you need, when you need it. 

Yes, Veeam takes a zero-trust approach to ensure the security of your data, including but not limited to encrypting data in transit and at rest, always using multi-factor authentication, and having strict security controls for users and administrators. 

Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365 includes service-level immutability capabilities on the primary backup, at no additional cost to the customer, based on how the data is protected. 

• The backup data lives in a virtually air-gapped location, hosted by Veeam on Azure, isolated and decoupled from the Microsoft 365 and/or customer infrastructure.  

• Customers also benefit from the inherent data security provided by Microsoft Azure at the storage level. 

• Once the data is backed up, it cannot be altered, tampered with, or deleted by users, including administrators or attackers.

• Veeam Data Cloud uses local redundant storage (LRS), where three copies of customer data are stored in three separate disks within the primary Azure region. 

Veeam Data Cloud can back up all your data stored in your Microsoft 365 account, including SharePoint Online, Exchange Online, OneDrive for Business and Microsoft Teams data.   

The Veeam Data Cloud user interface is accessible through a web browser which is always accessible by going to Veeam.com and identifying the “Log In” button in the top of the page.

You can learn more about Veeam’s fundamental principles and security capabilities within the security section of the user guide.  

https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/vdcm365/userguide/security.html

Your Microsoft 365 backup data can get targeted to and reside in any Microsoft Azure region of your choice. Veeam Data Cloud provides locally redundant storage (LRS) which is replicated three times within a single data center in the primary region.

For more information on Veeam’s SLAs for the Veeam Data Cloud backup service, visit the Veeam Customer Support Policy.  

You still maintain that data within your Veeam Data Cloud backup, for as long as your retention period is set to retain it. For example, retention is set for seven years by default, but it can be customized. 

Veeam Data Cloud is designed for Microsoft 365 business plans, not Microsoft 365 home plans. Business plans include all types of organizations including school, non-profits, government, etc. 

With Veeam Data Cloud Flex package (and available within the Premium package), there is no data lock-in. After a subscription is cancelled or terminated, your backups will still be retained for an additional 30 days. During this timeframe, you will have the ability to reassign your backups to your own Azure storage account, and can continue to use Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 Community Edition (for free) to restore Microsoft 365 data from those backups.

For the strongest data protection capabilities, first look at Premium. It provides the best mix of flexibility and control over backups and restores combined with speed and scale. If you decide not to protect all your users with Premium, we still recommend using Premium to protect your “top users”, e.g. Managers and above, finance, operations, HQ employees. Whether you choose Flex or Fast for your remaining users depends on your risk tolerance. If you value granular restores and customizable backup capabilities to meet low RPOs, you will find Flex to be the right solution. If your priority is fast backup times and ransomware protection, then you will find Express to be a better solution. To help you decide, please reference the plan comparison chart.

There are two licensing models – the Variable License Model and the Fixed License Model.

The Variable License Model makes it easy to protect your entire organization, including data that is not tied specifically to an individual Microsoft 365 user (ex. SharePoint sites or Teams public channels). This model provides the richest capabilities and automation, including automatic backup of all users and data, dynamically adds new users into the backup job, and enables administrators to customize their backup schedule. This model also makes it easy to add additional licenses when you need them.

The Fixed License Model has limited capabilities as it only protects the data associated with a specific number of users within your organization and requires manual configuration of backups.

Unlimited storage and the backup infrastructure are included at no additional cost within both models.

For additional information, go to https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/vdcm365/userguide/licensing.html.

Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft Azure is a Veeam-managed backup service. Veeam manages the backup infrastructure, all data is stored in an Azure region of your choice, and you have full control of creating backups and completing restores.

When setting up Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft Azure, you will be prompted to enter information about your Microsoft Azure subscriptions. During setup, you’ll follow wizard-driven steps to automatically set backup policies, based on the Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and retention needs of each workload – a process that can be streamlined by automatically assigning policies per workload, tag, etc. Then, your data is stored within Microsoft Azure storage, maintained by Veeam, ready for restore and other recovery functions. 

After sign-up, there are two ways to access your instance. Option 1: you will be sent a direct link, which you can bookmark/store as you see fit. Option 2: you can log in to Veeam Data Cloud by going to Veeam.com and identifying the “Log In” button at the top of the page.

Your Microsoft 365 backup data can get targeted to and reside in any Microsoft Azure region of your choice. Veeam Data Cloud provides both locally redundant storage (LRS) and globally redundant storage (GRS), with the default being LRS which is replicated three times within a single data center in the primary region. 

With Veeam Data Cloud, there is no data lock-in. After a subscription is canceled or terminated, backups will still be retained for an additional 30 days. To access this data, the Veeam Support team can assist you with the reassignment of your storage accounts.