Veeam Data Platform

Score8.9 out of 10

2,058 Reviews and Ratings

What is Veeam Data Platform?

Veeam’s® premier product, Veeam Backup & Replication™, delivers availability for all cloud, virtual, Kubernetes and physical workloads. Through a management console, the software provides backup, archival, recovery and replication capabilities.

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Screenshot of an example of the proactive threat assessment technology used to identify adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) before a cyber-attack.

Screenshot of where Veeam Intelligence turns noisy alerts into clear insights with recommended next steps, explaining anomalies and pointing out the next best action.

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Screenshot of the chat flow to watch AI agents scan for anomalies, confirm a clean restore point, and surface integrity and performance insights.

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Screenshot of an example of the proactive threat assessment technology used to identify adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) before a cyber-attack.

Multiple backup destinations
Multiple backup destinations is the ability to backup data to more than one location
Category average: 8.5
Incremental backup identification
Incremental backup identification is the ability to identify incremental changes since last backup
Category average: 8.8
Encryption
Data encryption to ensure that data is safe while being backed-up
Category average: 9.1

Platform support
Product supports multiple operating systems and applications
Category average: 8.7
Flexible deployment
Deployment on any servers with full support for all applications being used
Category average: 8.3
Management dashboard
Web-based dashboard allowing configuration and monitoring of all backups
Category average: 8.6

Cleber Penteado View profile

IT Supervisor in Information Technology at Madeiranit (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The product is great and reliable, especially in terms of backup time, with an intuitive interface. We back up the entire server infrastructure and also replicate it to the D.R. site. It's not 100% perfect only because of a peculiarity of our environment using SQL Availability Group; we can't use the table restore feature because the database is too large and causes a timeout. And in a country where English is not fluent, it's very difficult to open tickets and communicate when urgent support is needed. Excluding these two points, in my opinion, the product is perfect.

Pros

Backup time
Intuitive interface
Instante recovery

Cons

Support in Portuguese for urgent tickets
Restore of tables in SQL A.G.
VBR running on Linux

Return on Investment

Learning curve
Tunning

Alternatives Considered

Veeam Backup for Google Cloud Platform, Bacula Enterprise and Proxmox VE

Other Software Used

Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Tableau Cloud

Rob Lore

Systems Administrator in Information Technology at Rowan College South Jersey (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Veeam Backup and Recovery to secure our critical data on-prem and to copy it offsite. We also use the platform to validate our backups using the Sure Backup functionality. We use VeeamOne to monitor our virtual environment and generate reports of our backup and infrastructure health.

Pros

The UX is very intuitive, which allows quick configuration and deployment of new features and functionality.
VeeamOne lets me generate detailed reports on the health of my backups and the overall environment.
It reliable backups up my data and gives me the ability to test and validate these backups.

Cons

The WebUI is still not feature-complete, forcing a lot of work in the thick client.
Currently, copying backups to the cloud must be done on a per-job basis; it would be nice to do it per VM, since retention might differ across VMs in the same backup job.

Return on Investment

We have been able to consolidate, stop using multiple other products, and centralize on Veeam, giving us a single pane of glass into our backups and infrastructure health.

Alternatives Considered

NAKIVO Backup & Replication and Rubrik

Other Software Used

VMware vCenter, Microsoft 365, Microsoft Teams

Long Le

Senior IT Manager in Information Technology at Manhattan Beer & Beverage Distributors (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

VDP is the sole data protection solution for our organization. It gives us confidence that we can back up and recover our data in any event.

Pros

Backup of entire organization's data and datasets.
Reporting of protected data.
Monitoring and alerting of any issues.

Cons

Perhaps make the VBR interface a little more intuitive.
The reporting interface of VeeamOne can maybe also use a facelift.

Return on Investment

Positive impact: it "saved our ass" on one occasion. In that particular scenario, we were hit with ransomware.
On another occasion, it provided a means of building a staging environment from our production and saved us a significant amount of time from having to build from scratch.

Alternatives Considered

NetBackup from Cohesity

Kevin Collins

IT Manager in Information Technology at Nesbitt Engineering, Inc. (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Veeam to back up several VMWare virtual machines and several file shares. Veeam then sends those backups off-site to a cloud storage provider. This eliminates the need to create a custom backup strategy and protect that system ourselves. This also allows the backups to be handled in an encrypted manner end to end.

Pros

Completely automate backups.
Encryption for security.
log files from every run.

Cons

I wish the upgrade process was simpler.
Being able to move the backup database after the fact would be nice.

Return on Investment

To date we've not faced a real failure that required more than a couple of files be restored, but our tests indicated if it happens it will be a less stressful event because we have Veeam.

Other Software Used

Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365

Scott Blaydes View profile

Intermediate System Administrator in Information Technology at EPA (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We used Veeam Data Platform to back up our Linux servers. Windows were also being done, but not by my department. We are backing up normal webservers, scientific servers, and database servers. We had a wide variety of use levels on the servers. Some servers did not have much use, why some of our database servers where under heavy loads with constant writes to the database.

Pros

Connecting to new servers worked well
Web servers backed up with no issues
Restores were great

Cons

Heavy databases could not get a good backup and repeatedly failed
Couldn't get details about the Linux clients
Could not verify compression/dedup

Return on Investment

Saved substantial amount to budget
Allowed for more flexibility for expanding at a low, known cost
Intuitive dashboard lessened training and thus saved money

Other Software Used

Veritas NetBackup, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

PowerProtect DD Series

Acronis Cyber Protect

Arctera Backup Exec

Commvault Cloud powered by Metallic AI

Rubrik

Cohesity Data Cloud

Veeam Data Platform

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Multiple backup destinations

Incremental backup identification

Encryption

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Flexible deployment

Management dashboard

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