Case Study: Thirteen achieves 100% Microsoft 365 data protection and 95% faster recovery with Druva

Thirteen protects Microsoft 365 data from accidental deletion and ransomware with Druva

Thirteen is a social landlord and housing developer in Northeast England managing 34,000 properties with 1,500 employees serving over 70,000 customers. After moving core collaboration and business-critical data to Microsoft 365, the IT team realised Microsoft’s default 90‑day recycle retention and their existing backup tool (SkyKick) left them vulnerable to accidental deletion, large SharePoint file‑structures, platform disruption, and ransomware.

Thirteen ran a proof of concept with Druva and adopted its cloud‑native, AWS‑based backup platform to isolate and manage backups for Exchange Online, OneDrive, SharePoint, and Teams. Druva’s integration, SSO/MFA/RBAC controls and customer‑managed encryption keys delivered 100% protection of Microsoft 365 data, reduced recovery time by 95 (hours to minutes), simplified GDPR “right to be forgotten” requests, and restored confidence in ransomware recovery.

Thirteen

Hassan Bahrani

Head of IT