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8. Business Case
Microsoft Office 365 is one of the fastest growing software as a service solution for productivity applications today. Users can do away with their own infrastructure reducing their capital expenditures and have access across an array of devices.
Microsoft operates on the Office 365 Shared Responsibility Model. The following Veeam article outlines the responsibilities of Microsoft vs the user:
The Office 365 Shared Responsibility Model
Veeam Backup for Office 365 is a solution built from the ground up to provide a multi-tenant data protection solution for Microsoft Office 365 data. It provides the following:
- Protection against Accidental Deletion
- Protection against Retention Policy Confusion / Gaps
- Protection against Internal Security Threats / Malicious Insiders and Departing Employees
- Protection against External Security Threats / Ransomware and Rogue Apps
- Maintaining Legal and Compliance Requirements
- Managing Hybrid Deployments and Migrations
VBO365 allows users to meet their responsibilities in protecting their data.
This document is aimed at helping service providers protect Microsoft 365 data on behalf of users. It’s provided information on the requirements needed to scale up a VBO365 system as well as scale-out based on a set of educated assumptions. Guidance on architecting the VBO365 solution in a Microsoft Azure environment leveraging Azure Blob while tailoring to Microsoft subscription accounts was defined in this document. This information can be used to form a cost analysis and help to scale the system as the customer base grows.
A full runbook provided a step by step process in which such a system can be deployed, reducing implementation time and effort, and establishing service faster!