Microsoft 365 plays an important role in everyday business operations, bringing communication, collaboration and critical information together across services such as Microsoft Exchange, Teams and SharePoint. But organizations still need to consider how they protect and recover the data stored within those environments.
The Seattle Mariners needed to strengthen Microsoft 365 data protection, support compliance and recover quickly from accidental deletion, data loss or security incidents. They turned to Sentry Computing for backup and recovery expertise.
Going beyond default Microsoft 365 retention
The Seattle Mariners rely on Microsoft 365 for day-to-day collaboration, communication and business operations across the franchise. But keeping data in Microsoft 365 doesn’t remove an organization’s responsibility for protecting and recovering it. Microsoft’s shared responsibility approach leaves organizations responsible for ensuring they have the right data protection strategy in place.
Native retention capabilities serve an important purpose, but retention and backup are not the same. Dedicated backup provides an additional layer of protection and recovery for incidents such as accidental or malicious deletion and ransomware.
For the Seattle Mariners, Sentry Computing stepped in with Acronis Cyber Platform to provide dedicated Microsoft 365 data protection. The organization needed a solution that could help its technology team quickly recover deleted or modified information while supporting broader compliance, retention and data loss prevention initiatives. Just as importantly, it needed to be simple to deploy, manage and use for recovery.
Improving protection and building trust through partnership
With Sentry Computing, the Seattle Mariners implemented Acronis Microsoft 365 Backup to strengthen workload protection and recovery.
The Seattle Mariners’ technology team can quickly find and restore individual Microsoft 365 items and critical data while supporting compliance, data loss prevention and stronger data security. It’s not only about having dedicated Microsoft 365 backup with a unified, intuitive console. The partnership also gives Sentry Computing an opportunity to strengthen its credibility and visibility in the community.
According to Tait Covert, President and CEO of Sentry Computing, “There's the feeling people get when they know they've seen your name, they've seen the Seattle Mariners, they've seen Acronis, and the trust factor is there already. You're not having to send a bunch of references… It just gives you that relevance. If these people trust you to do this, then we can trust you to do that”
The added protection gives the Seattle Mariners greater confidence in protecting essential Microsoft 365 data. Jeff Higgins, Vice President of Technology at the Seattle Mariners, explains, “We were looking for a secondary option to where we have better opportunity, more detail and compliance stature, as well as an extra layer of data loss prevention. The feedback from my team is that the tool is super useful, very intuitive and provides that extra security blanket for us.”
Strengthening Microsoft 365 resilience
Through the Acronis TeamUp Program, the Seattle Mariners, Sentry Computing and Acronis have built a partnership that goes beyond the ballpark. By working with Sentry Computing and Acronis, the Seattle Mariners strengthened protection across the Microsoft 365 workloads their organization depends on while giving their technology team a simpler path to recovering important information and maintaining resilience.
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Acronis is a leader in AI-native cyber protection, unifying data protection, cybersecurity, IT operations and hybrid infrastructure to deliver business continuity, security and compliance with less cost and complexity. More than 21,000 service providers trust Acronis to protect over 750,000 businesses in 150 countries. Acronis is headquartered in Schaffhausen, Switzerland.
