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Many organizations are at risk of losing access to their critical Microsoft 365 data. But Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage and Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 provides unlimited backup to cloud object storage, according to industry experts from Wasabi and Veeam.

For many organizations, Microsoft 365 acts as a hub for daily business operations.  mails gather in the thousands and documents, presentations and spreadsheets propagate into the uncountable masses. Organizations continue to produce more and more data through Microsoft 365 each year but many of them can’t confidently  say that their data is secure.

Although Microsoft 365 provides powerful services through Exchange, SharePoint and OneDrive, organizations must look elsewhere for a comprehensive backup solution.

Organizations don’t have to look further than Veeam’s backup and recovery capability and Wasabi’s low-cost, fast, and reliable cloud storage, you can trust that your Microsoft 365 can be easily (and quickly) restored in the case of a disaster.

First, when it comes to Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), “There is what I call SaaS backup disconnect,” Cristophe Bertrand, practice director at Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), said Oct. 31 during the webinar “Data Loss or Data Protection: The Ultimate Trick or Treat with Wasabi and Veeam.”

He reviewed three years of data, saying there is “really a question that centers around whether you are responsible” for your firm’s data “as the IT professional or end user in general, the organization — whether you’re responsible for your data — or whether you think that the actual vendor, the SaaS vendor is, and then there’s” a shared responsibility model.

“A third of you think that the SaaS vendor is solely responsible for the backup and recovery of your data. And let me tell you that answer is wrong,” he said.

Meanwhile, “about 22% of you are saying, ‘No, it’s really on us.’ And the truth is somewhere between a shared responsibility model and you being solely responsible,” he told attendees. “I think mentally you should be solely responsible,” he said.

“This is the parade of pain,” Drew Schlussel, senior director of product marketing, said when asked for his take. “What I find, I think, the most interesting, is that “not everybody is under attack” he said, although he conceded there are a lot of people under attack by bad actors online. “But the fact that so many people selected an attack as the cause for data loss is frightening,” he said.

There is also clearly a “misunderstanding of retention and deletion policies,” Schlussel said, urging everybody to read their End User License Agreements (EULAs) and contracts.

Agreeing, Dave Russell, VP of enterprise strategy at Veeam, said: “It’s your data; it’s your responsibility,”

They went on to explain how Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage and Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 can help organizations overcome their challenges and prevent data  loss. Russell, for example, pointed to Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365. Schlussel pointed to the strong protection that Wasabi provides for object storage.