Backup for Microsoft 365 is a product or solution that creates and maintains backups for data stored in the suite of productivity tools and services, including Exchange Online, Teams, SharePoint Online, and OneDrive.
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Cyber resilient Microsoft 365 backup and recovery
Protect your business-critical M365 data and trusted access from cyber attacks with a modern data platform powered by immutable backups, Zero Trust Security, and secure recovery capabilities.
Overview
480x faster instant recovery, independently benchmarked 1
Extend cloud-native protections with secure backup and recovery for Exchange Online, OneDrive, SharePoint Online, Entra ID, and Teams. Ensure that your data and identity is secure and cleanly recoverable. Choose the right deployment model — backup as a service (BaaS) or self-managed software — to fit your needs and ensure your most critical business data is protected.
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Automate protection to save time
Protect and secure new mailboxes, documents, and files to M365 with policy-based automation.
Granular search to find what you need fast
Use global search to find individual documents, files, or emails to speed legal or compliance inquiries and audits.
Recover rapidly and securely from ransomware and other destructive cyber attacks
Quickly recover clean files in bulk to prevent reinfection or provide granular recovery for mailboxes to meet RTO targets.
Benefits
Improve cyber resilience for M365
Safeguard your critical M365 data from cyber threats and help ensure retention and rapid recovery with ease.
Pay for only what you need, when you need it
Get the latest features automatically (we‘ll do software upgrades for you)
Enjoy a unified administrative experience spanning SaaS and self-managed environments
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Simplify M365 protection
Get the protection you need for critical M365 business data to boost cyber resilience.
Get rapid granular recovery
Contain and recover efficiently from a variety of M365 data loss scenarios. Search and recover individual emails or files globally with powerful metadata indexing.
- Recover data to any point in time, to the original or an alternate location
- Help reduce downtime and meet business RTO targets
- Quickly recover at any scale without compromise
Get the unprecedented performance that Microsoft 365 Backup Storage provides with the powerful and seamless protection provided by Cohesity.
Analyst Report
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Cohesity rated 4.8 out of 5 on Gartner Peer Insights for Backup and Data Protection Platforms, with 81% of customers giving a 5-star review, part of its 8th consecutive Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice recognition.
Testimonials
“The main reason we chose the Cohesity hosted service was so we wouldn’t have to bring everything back on-prem for M365 restores. With BaaS, we can keep everything in the cloud so we aren’t using excessive bandwidth to pull that data down every day. Although cost savings were not the main driver in our decision to go with Cohesity for M365, it will be less expensive to keep our data in the cloud rather than buying more on-prem hardware in the future.”
"We do everything we can to prevent cyberattacks, but having the ability to restore clean M365 data from Cohesity’s immutable backup copies means we have a solid fallback."
Cohesity plays especially well with Exchange. After switching to Cohesity we were able to reclaim six Exchange servers previously reserved for snapshots for an immediate return on investment."
"Cohesity gave us the ability to start leveraging our OneDrive, SharePoint, and Team sites more without worrying about excessive cost overruns.”
“After the ransomware attack we restored all 2.5 TB of M365 data—protected by Cohesity DataProtect on Azure—in 12 hours. “We paid no ransom.”
"We use Microsoft 365 with its built-in retention policies, but that isn’t robust backup.We count on Cohesity for robust, reliable backup of our Exchange Online user mailboxes onsite as an additional fail safe so if something happens—like ransomware—we have a way to quickly recover mailboxes, files, and sites. The added benefit is we can perform searches within a user’s mailbox and do recoveries directly from Cohesity. We expect to use Cohesity soon to also backup our SharePoint Online and Microsoft Teams environments. With corporate data shared across these collaboration platforms, it becomes increasingly critical to be able to retain and restore from our backups."
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Commonly asked M365 cyber resilience questions
It’s important to understand that Microsoft provides redundancy measures for its cloud services, but protecting Office 365 through backup and recovery of individual parts of the service—or items belonging to you—is your responsibility. Most organizations have RTO and SLAs they need to satisfy that wouldn’t be met through native protections and redundancy measures.
There are several ways to back up and protect Office 365 data. Third-party solutions offer more comprehensive backup and recovery capabilities and go beyond what Microsoft provides.
Third-party solutions offer a more robust solution for Office 365 data, with features like automated backups, item-level restores, long-term retention, granular search and recovery, and extra security and compliance measures.
There are various ways to back up and protect M365 Teams data. Third-party solutions offer more comprehensive backup and recovery capabilities and go beyond what Microsoft provides. Here’s our Microsoft 365 Teams data protection guide.
Microsoft 365 data is generally considered secure. However, it’s important to recognize that no system is immune to threats such as ransomware. To enhance the security of your Microsoft 365 data against ransomware, you might consider implementing a modern data protection solution. Here are some facts about ransomware protection and M365.
No. Microsoft provides limited retention (roughly 14 to 60 days depending on the app), which is not the same as backup. Protecting the data is the customer’s responsibility.
The ability to withstand, adapt to, and quickly recover from an identity system compromise, assuming a breach will happen rather than hoping it won’t.
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