Veeam launches new Data Cloud for Microsoft Entra ID

Veeam Software has announced the launch of its new Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft Entra ID.

With Entra ID (formerly Azure AD) facing over 600 million attacks daily, protecting an organisations’ digital identity has never been more critical.

Veeam and Entra ID

Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft Entra ID is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) backup solution designed to simplify data resilience for Entra ID tenants, ensuring organizations can protect their essential assets.

The company highlights that the support for Entra ID is the latest extension of Veeam Data Cloud, a unified and intuitive cloud platform.

Delivered with SaaS, Veeam Data Cloud integrates modern cloud-native technologies and AI acceleration to protect, secure and manage data on-premises and in the cloud to enhance business continuity and usability while driving greater efficiencies.

“Enterprise-ready, pre-hardened, and self-configured”

Niraj Tolia, Chief Technology Officer at Veeam commented: “Security starts with managing your users and ensuring the right people have access to the right systems.

“That’s why protecting Entra ID is so important and why it’s the latest addition to our Veeam Data Cloud platform.”

Tolia concluded: “We are giving customers greater simplicity with an enterprise-ready, pre-hardened and self-configured SaaS solution that removes the burden of managing and maintaining complex backup infrastructure.”

Key features

The company notes that the features of Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft Entra ID include:

• Proactive protection: Enhances visibility and control over changes within Entra ID, ensuring business continuity, security, and compliance
• Effortless recovery: Allows quick restoration of Entra ID users, groups, attributes, app registrations, logs, related metadata, and more with reliability
• Comprehensive inclusion: Offers a secure backup service managed by experts, offloading maintenance, updates, and security fixes