IBM Storage Protect for Cloud November 2025 Release
The latest round of updates to IBM Storage Protect for Cloud underscores IBM’s commitment to delivering comprehensive, enterprise-grade data protection across today’s leading SaaS and cloud platforms. With new capabilities spanning Microsoft 365, Salesforce, Google Workspace, and Azure, this release focuses on strengthening flexibility, resilience, and governance for organizations managing complex hybrid environments. From advanced restore options and expanded app support to enhanced audit, monitoring, and redundancy features, these enhancements empower IT teams to better safeguard business-critical data, streamline compliance, and maintain continuity in an increasingly interconnected cloud landscape.
IBM Storage Protect for Cloud Microsoft 365
The latest release of IBM Storage Protect for Cloud Microsoft 365 delivers powerful new capabilities designed to give organizations greater flexibility, control, and efficiency in protecting their cloud data. Administrators can now prioritize which containers and objects get backed up first—ensuring that critical data is protected without delay and helping meet tighter RPO targets. The release also introduces Power BI restore, allowing users to recover workspace permissions, reports, and datasets with full support for both in-place and out-of-place restorations, complete with conflict handling and bring-your-own-storage (BYOS) options. Support for custom apps with delegated permissions, including Power Platform and Viva Engage, now extends across all service types, enabling broader coverage of modern Microsoft 365 workloads. Restore functionality has been enhanced as well: SharePoint, OneDrive, and Group sites can now be restored directly to Microsoft Teams channel sites, giving Teams-centric organizations more flexible recovery options. Education-specific Teams templates are now fully supported, preserving original metadata and channel structure during restores. Finally, administrators can now export mailbox data from Microsoft Teams, including data at both the Group mailbox and individual folder or item levels—an especially valuable addition for compliance, discovery, and archival workflows. Together, these updates strengthen IBM’s end-to-end cloud data protection offering, empowering businesses to safeguard collaboration data with greater precision and confidence.
IBM Storage Protect for Cloud Salesforce
The latest release of IBM Storage Protect for Cloud for Salesforce introduces key enhancements that strengthen visibility and governance for protected data. The audit logs backup feature is now generally available, allowing organizations to preserve detailed records of user and system activities for compliance, security investigations, and operational transparency. In addition, administrators can now configure alert rules based on a percentage of total records for a single object or metadata type within Activity > Monitor alerts. This improvement provides more granular control over monitoring, helping teams quickly identify unusual data changes or activity spikes before they impact operations. Together, these updates enhance both the security posture and proactive management capabilities of Salesforce data protection within IBM Storage Protect for Cloud.
IBM Storage Protect for Cloud Google Workspace
The latest release of IBM Storage Protect for Cloud Google Workspace expands its data protection capabilities with new support for Vault. This enhancement allows organizations to include Google Vault data—such as retained emails, files, and other archived content—within their broader backup and restore workflows. By extending coverage to Vault, IBM Storage Protect for Cloud helps businesses ensure that even their compliance and retention-related data is securely backed up, centrally managed, and easily recoverable when needed. This update strengthens governance, streamlines eDiscovery readiness, and provides greater confidence in meeting regulatory and organizational data protection requirements.
IBM Storage Protect for Cloud Azure
The latest release of IBM Storage Protect for Cloud Azure introduces Geo-Redundant Storage (GRS) support for users leveraging Azure’s default storage. With GRS enabled, data is automatically replicated across geographically separate Azure regions, ensuring an additional layer of durability and disaster recovery protection. This enhancement helps organizations safeguard their critical workloads against regional outages or data center failures while maintaining business continuity and compliance. By combining IBM’s enterprise-grade backup management with Azure’s built-in redundancy, customers can achieve higher data resilience and greater confidence in the availability of their protected cloud environments.
To explore these updates in greater detail and stay informed about future enhancements, visit the IBM Storage Protect for Cloud “What’s New” page. There, you’ll find comprehensive release notes, feature documentation, and guidance to help you make the most of the platform’s evolving capabilities. IBM continues to innovate in cloud data protection—ensuring your organization is equipped with the tools, flexibility, and security needed to protect critical workloads across Microsoft 365, Salesforce, Google Workspace, Azure, and beyond.