AvePoint targets AI-era risks with unified data protection and governance push

With AI‑driven breaches rising and compliance challenges stalling adoption, AvePoint is equipping partners with the tools, automation and incentives needed to protect customer data, streamline service delivery and unlock long‑term AI value

Today, as data security threats evolve and AI adoption accelerates, organisations all around the world are in urgent need of stronger, more comprehensive data protection and AI governance frameworks to solve persistent data security, compliance, and AI adoption challenges.

In fact, according to Omdia, governance and compliance issues are the biggest barriers to AI adoption in the channel today. Similarly, Gartner has found that 40 per cent of agentic AI projects will be abandoned by the end of 2027 due to data quality and data protection concerns, while AvePoint’s own research has found that 75 per cent of organisations experienced an AI-related data breach in the last year.

To prevent breaches, optimise AI performance, and make AI work effectively, end-customers need more support, and that’s exactly what AvePoint and our partners are working to deliver.

Leading the way in data protection

As the global leader in data protection—unifying data security, governance, and resilience—AvePoint comprehensively protects data estates to deliver a trusted foundation for AI.

Today, more than 28,000 end-customers rely on the AvePoint Confidence Platform to secure, govern, and rapidly recover data across Microsoft, Google, Salesforce, and other cloud environments.

With a single platform for lifecycle control, multi-cloud governance, and rapid recovery paired with clear ownership across the business, we prevent overexposure and sprawl, modernise legacy and fragmented data, and minimize data loss and interruption. Our global partner ecosystem includes approximately 6,000 MSPs, VARs, and SIs, and our solutions are available in over 100 cloud marketplaces.

Recognised by Forbes as one of the world’s best companies in 2025, AvePoint regularly appears on CRN’s annual Storage 100 list, and the newly-relaunched AvePoint Partner Programme recently received a “5-star” distinction from CRN in its 2026 Partner Programme Guide. AvePoint has been included in Gartner’s Voice of the Customer Reports for backup-as-a-service (BaaS), data posture security management (DSPM), and data protection and governance platforms, and in 2026 alone, AvePoint has been listed as a preferred vendor in 11 analyst reports in data protection market categories.

Addressing the market’s most pressing challenges

AvePoint is constantly innovating our products and support systems to drive sustainable, repeatable, long-term growth for and with our channel partners.

In 2025, AvePoint relaunched our global channel programme to meet the needs of end-customers in the AI era, introducing a points-based system that rewards the behaviours that actually drive revenue (as opposed to revenue commitments alone), and helps partners build recurring, security-centric revenue streams.

Also in 2025, AvePoint introduced the latest iteration of our partner-facing technology, the AvePoint Confidence Platform – Elements Edition, which is carefully optimised to meet the demands of partners and end-customers today. The platform addresses common and pervasive end-customer needs, while also streamlining service delivery for partner organisations. As AvePoint’s SVP of Partner Strategy, Scott Sacket, said to CRN: “Managing hundreds, even thousands, of tenants manually is a huge challenge for MSPs. Our platform automates these tasks so partners can focus on delivering exceptional services to their customers rather than getting bogged down in operations.” The relaunched platform is designed to streamline services delivery and address end-customer data protection challenges with the best technology on the market today.

AvePoint’s partners are at the heart of everything we do. That’s why we’re continually enhancing our partner offerings to meet the demands of the market and our partner ecosystem.

To learn more about AvePoint’s Partner Programme or to see a demo of the AvePoint Confidence Platform – Elements Edition in action, visit our website: https://www.avepoint.com/partners