Veeam Expands Partnership with Microsoft to Accelerate the Creation of AI-Powered Solutions

Veeam Software, a global leader by market share in Data Resiliencei , is expanding its partnership with Microsoft—which includes a Microsoft equity investment in Veeam—to build AI solutions that help customers protect, recover, and unlock more value from their data.

According to the companies, 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.

“AI is transforming every aspect of business,” said Jason Graefe, corporate vice president, ISV’s and digital natives, Microsoft. “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.”

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 – The most 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 organizations.

According to the vendors, Veeam’s integration with Microsoft AI will help organizations:

• 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.

“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,” said Anand Eswaran, CEO of Veeam. “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.”

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