The French Tennis Federation chooses Keepit for independent backup of Microsoft data

Keepit has been selected by the French Tennis Federation (FFT) to independently back up its Microsoft 365, Microsoft Entra ID and Power BI data.

Keen to strengthen the resilience of its digital environments, the French Tennis Federation chose a sovereign backup solution, independent of major global cloud providers. It chose Keepit, a Danish company that controls its entire hosting chain by operating its own cloud and data centres, across Europe, and in the UK, Canada, Australia and the US. Keepit's architecture, which guarantees uninterrupted access to data even in the event of third-party provider failure, fully met the FFT's requirements of security, independence and business continuity.

"Until three years ago, we had no backup solution for our cloud environments. My objective was clear: to identify a European service provider guaranteeing maximum independence", says Franck Labat, Technical Director at FFT. “Beyond this initial requirement, Keepit was able to meet additional needs that we hadn't anticipated: centralised, traceable archiving of PST files, unified management of all our data via a single platform, and more recently, seamless integration of our directory as part of our complete migration to Entra ID.”

The French Tennis Federation, headquartered at Roland-Garros stadium, organises, coordinates and promotes tennis for over 8,000 clubs throughout France. The FFT's operations also involve the management of a large number of seasonal employees as part of its event-driven activities, generating significant data flows to be processed and restored. To ensure consistent monitoring, it is essential to be able to recover data from people who have left, sometimes after short assignments, in order to pass it on to their managers. This need also led the FFT to choose Keepit: beyond backup, the solution enables targeted copying and restoration according to the needs of the teams. Keepit facilitates the management of these processes, while guaranteeing data security.

The collaboration began in 2022, alongside SCC France, a trusted partner of the FFT for over 15 years, with the initial aim of safeguarding Microsoft 365 environments. Since then, the partnership has gradually expanded to include Power BI and Microsoft Entra ID. FFT now plans to systematically integrate any new Microsoft solution it adopts into the Keepit ecosystem, ensuring continuity and consistency in the protection of its digital assets.

“We are particularly proud to have led this project alongside our partner SCC, to offer the FFT an independent cloud backup and recovery platform that is simple to deploy and administer,” says Cyril VanAgt, Vice President Channel EMEA at Keepit. “We remain fully committed to supporting the next steps in the evolution of its cloud and Microsoft environments.”