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About Keepit

Companies need to ensure their data is backed up, by adding another layer of data security using Keepit. That’s why companies turn to Keepit – the world’s only independent backup and recovery cloud, to avoid any data loss. With more than 20+ years of experience in data hosting, Keepit is on a simple mission to help companies protect their data in the cloud.

With Keepit, you get data availability – always. Our offsite, vendor-neutral data center infrastructure provides four back-up copies stored in two separate locations every day.

Keepit is the simplest way to protect data in your key SaaS apps. Easy to use with fast restore features to minimize downtime. Everything is included – even unlimited storage and archiving – that’s why Keepit is the cost-effective choice.

Dedicated to SaaS data protection, loved by customers.

How to get Started

For more information on how to get started or general inquiries:
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The power of independent cloud backup

In today’s fast-paced digital world, safeguarding your data is more complex and more critical than ever. Keepit provides fast, reliable data recovery that ensures your business stays resilient, even when your SaaS provider goes down. With an independent cloud infrastructure, secure encryption, and predictable pricing, Keepit protects your data, ensures compliance, and future-proofs your business. Discover how Keepit can strengthen your disaster recovery and business continuity plans.

Keepit - Security & Platform

Global Data Centers and World-Class Security is our pride.

Security is the most important aspect of delivering a data protection service. This ties into how Keepit is built and architected, but also the global data center partners, carefully selected by Keepit.

Data Center Locations

Keepit offers backup services from multiple data centers across the world through our partners Equinix and Global Connect. To meet data sovereignty requirements, data is stored in Keepit’s data hosting locations in either Americas, Europe or Asia-Pacific. Each data center location is completely isolated from each other, offering full data sovereignty to our customers.

All data center locations feature a high level of certification, amongst these all data centers are managed under ISO 27002. In addition we keep all data in 4 copies across at least 2 physical locations in each region. Safeguarding your data is key for us.

Data Security

A significant variety of security measures are used to protect and safeguard your data. Encryption in transit and at rest is implemented, using the latest and best practices with TTL 1.2 only and a unique symmetric 256-bit AES (Advanced Encryption Standard). Passwords are stored using a 256-bit SHA2 hashing and large random salts.

Certifications and Compliance

Not only does Keepit help our customers stay compliant, we also practice strict compliance ourselves. Keepit meets demanding regulatory requirements making it easy for you to comply with compliance requirements.

Keepit is audited by Deloitte on Service Organizational Controls ( ISAE 3402 II ) annually. Get a full overview of security around Keepit including our Service Level Agreement (uptime).

Get the full data security overview

For more information on Keepit’s data security, certification as well as the certification of our data center partners please visit:

Get the Keepit Security Guide

Keepit storage and security design. Purposely built for high-scale, fast access and secure storage of vast amounts of data – that’s been Keepit’s design principle. Read the in-depth view right here.

Built for the cloud

The Keepit architecture is centered around a multiple data center strategy for redundancy. Each location is a complete mirror of each other set-up in a load-balanced way so one full location can be offline without service interruption.The architecture gives a fundamental edge for Keepit and its customer with storage of backup data 2 separate locations and with 2 copies in each locations you can rest assured Keepit holds 4 copies of your data.

Storage Encryption and Blockchain
  
Keepit has been built to be tamper-proof offering a guarantee that data stays immutable. The application does not expose any APIs or other means that allow data overwrites. Furthermore, the application uses a patent-pending, blockchain algorithm, which makes any low-level tampering impossible and easily evident.In addition, Keepit features a deletion retention of all configured backup connections of at least one month thereby completely protecting the customer from data loss due to ransomware attacks.
 
As can also be seen on the right each software component of Keepit has been developed with scale and speed in mind. Below are some important points on the software stack:
 
  • No single point of failure in the platform – any single system can be lost without affecting the operation
  • Front-end nodes are the load-balancers; front-ends can be added as needed to scale
  • All internal components are simple single-purpose components
  • All internal components can be scaled vertically and horizontally
  • Any number of full platforms can be deployed for perfect isolation and scalability
  • Each location has 2 full copies of user data = 4 copies in total
Scalability
 
  • Seamless scalability to millions of users
  • Storage Islands support to facilitate complete knowledge of customer data location
  • Multi-threaded processes to leverage easy scaling of each important workload. Adjustable down to tenanet level.
  • Intelligent backup algorithm ensures maximum throughput
  • Ability to deploy multiple independant instances of Keepit for increased scalability
  • Fully automated deployments Encryption
 
Ready for tomorrow
 
  • Not API first – API only!
  • One API – Integrate once
  • All features available as API end-points
  • Cloud Backup SDK
  • Licensing: License configuration, provisioning and deactivation through API or Web UI

Keepit - Backup Services

Keepit for Office 365 Get a quick introduction to Keepit backup and recovery for Office 365

Keepit cloud backup gives you the best SaaS cloud backup solution in the market. Fully automated data protection of core SaaS applications Office 365, Salesforce, Dynamics 365 CE, and Google G Suite.

On top, Keepit’s universal restore view gives you the control back with multiple restore options on demand across snapshots.

5 Reasons for choosing Keepit

Microsoft Office 365

Keepit is the most comprehensive backup & recovery service on the market, ensuring full business continuity with Microsoft Office 365.

Salesforce

Leverage Keepit to protect against disruption of your customer-facing organization with an intuitive data protection suite for Salesforce.

Salesforce

Leverage Keepit to protect against disruption of your customer-facing organization with an intuitive data protection suite for Salesforce.

Salesforce

Leverage Keepit to protect against disruption of your customer-facing organization with an intuitive data protection suite for Salesforce.

Keepit - Services - Backup Microsoft Office 365

Keepit for Office 365 Get a quick introduction to Keepit backup and recovery for Office 365

Microsoft Office 365 Backup and Recovery from Keepit protects Groups, Teams, Exchange, SharePoint, OneDrive and more

Your Need
Organizations assume that comprehensive backup is included in Microsoft Office 365. This is not the case. Global SaaS vendors like Microsoft do not assume any responsibility for your data, or for how you use their application.

According to Gartner, Microsoft Office 365’s Recycle Bin does not meet the definition of backup. In addition, data retention, which in some cases is legally required, is not possible within Microsoft Office 365.

The Solution
Keepit Backup and Recovery for Microsoft Office 365 gives you full protection of your critical business data across Office apps like Teams, Groups, SharePoint, Exchange, and OneDrive.

Hassle-free protection through fully-automated daily backups and detailed reporting on health.

Simple and fast restores with Keepit’s unique data recovery features allows you to search across time, finding those missing files instantly with versatile restore options.

Keepit’s own unique and tamper-proof storage is your guarantee data stays untouched. To meet your backup strategy, Keepit backs up to dual data centres in different geographical locations.

Unlimited storage and retention are key to Keepit Backup and Recovery for Microsoft Office 365. And you have the option to retain data for as long as needed, allowing you to offload archiving tasks via Keepit.

What is covered?

Exchange Online
Backup and restore Mailboxes, Shared Mailboxes, Folders, Calendars, Contacts, Tasks, and In-place Archives

OneDrive
Backup and recover all files and folders inside your personal OneDrive and protect against that annoying sync-error

SharePoint
Backup and restore everything in SharePoint from Site Collections, Document Libraries, Lists, Views, Permissions, Content Types, Columns, and Sub-sites Groups.
Cover the strong part of Microsoft Office 365, capturing conversations, notebooks and sites.

Teams
Protect the modern collaboration tool with everything from channels (including posts and replies), files, planners, tasks, calendars, Wiki, Team Sites, and more.

Public Folders
Keepit also protects the much-used collaborative feature of Microsoft Office 365 including all messages and permissions

Versatile Restore Options

No backup solution is better than its recovery capabilities. It is up to you to choose whether you want to restore single items by sending users a time-limited link, or do an in-place restore right away. Keepit has numerous flexible restore options:

  • In-place restore
    Most efficient option is the in-place restore for instantly getting lost data back to users.
  • PST Download
    On-demand recovery through PST file download of Exchange and Public Folder contents.
  • In-Place Archives
    In-place archives of your Public Folder content.
  • Cross-user restore
    Easily migrate content from one user’s email folders or OneDrive into another user’s for simple and seamless transitions of projects.
  • Download
    When you need to examine content before performing the restore you can download individual items or complete folders.
  • Shareable Links
    Provide users with instant access to data without potentially overwriting data in-place. Protect links with expirations and passwords.
  • SharePoint cross-site restore
    Use the cross-site restore option to restore a SharePoint site with a new URL, e.g., to test new features or because you have a DevOps process flow.

Lost Data Explorer

Keepit Backup and Recovery is the only solution on the market featuring truly unique access to your data, giving you opportunity to store and manage your data easily. Browse your point-in-time snapshots, covering the retention span you have chosen. Or simply search for specific items and choose to do this across time.
Keepit crunches terabytes of data in an instant, giving you a very low effort supporting your organization in recovering from data loss.

Keepit As a Service

There is no need for servers, software, or operations when choosing Keepit, as everything is included. With direct access to your data from anywhere in the world, you will never have to buy capacity or hire a competent technical team. Everything is included:

  • Compliance
  • GDPR
  • Audit Log
  • Job Monitor
  • Validation
  • Status Monitoring

Keepit - Services - Backup Microsoft Office 365 - Microsoft teams

Keepit for Microsoft Teams Quick introduction to Keepit backup and recovery for Teams

Keepit Backup and Recovery for Microsoft Teams. Always be in control of your data.

Now that you’ve implemented Microsoft Teams, you need to protect this data, too. Always stay in control of your Teams data with the most complete backup and recovery on the market.

Born in the cloud, Keepit protects businesses from damaging data loss with rock-solid security and easy restore into Teams. Customers worldwide choose Keepit as their third-party backup provider for safeguarding their data.

Microsoft is not backing up your Teams data

By 2022, Gartner predicts that 70% of businesses will have suffered unrecoverable data loss in a SaaS application. According to Gartner, the Microsoft 365 Recycle Bin architecture does not meet the definition of backup.

A proper backup and recovery strategy is key to ensuring your business continues during any disruption or data loss – something that Microsoft expects you to do:

“We recommend that you regularly backup Your Content and Data that you store on the Services or store using Third-Party Apps and Services”

Microsoft Service Agreement Section 6b

Top 3 reasons to protect your Teams data with Keepit:

Best-in-Class Coverage
Keepit offers the most complete backup and recovery, including private and public channels, channel chat, Tasks by Planner, Wiki, files, and attachments: All covered for in-place restore.

Remarkably Easy Recovery
Simple and intuitive design, intelligent search, and versatile restore options. Created for you to easily manage your data, ensuring business continuity.

Predictable Pricing
All-inclusive pricing, matched to your user accounts, includes everything: retention, infrastructure, compliance, and certificates. No hidden costs and unlimited storage.

Introducing Keepit for Microsoft Teams
Keepit for Teams makes manual, time-consuming backup and recovery processes a thing of the past.

Built in the cloud, for the cloud, Keepit gives you:

  • Smart Search
    Find your data at lightning speed with Keepit’s Smart Search
  • File Previewer
    Previewing the file ensures you restore the right data
  • Restore Options
    Perform in-place restores to Teams, download data directly, or create a secure, shareable link

And many more features, so that you are always in control of your data.

More about Backup and Recover for Microsoft Teams

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