#1 most frequent
United States of America
50.0%13 installations of 26
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.
Categories & Use Cases
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Top Performing Features
Incremental backup identification
Incremental backup identification is the ability to identify incremental changes since last backup
Category average: 8.7
Encryption
Data encryption to ensure that data is safe while being backed-up
Category average: 9.1
Universal recovery
Universal recovery is the ability to restore backups to any machine regardless of the platform
Category average: 8.4
Areas for Improvement
Business application protection
Protection of all applications running in the data center
Category average: 8
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
Who Buys & Uses Veeam Data Platform
#1 most frequent
Health Care and Social Assistance
19.2%5 installations of 26
“We use Veeam Data Platform to replicate on premise data backup to the cloud and able to save the cost and achieve our data resiliency requirements”
#2 most frequent
Public Administration
15.4%4 installations of 26
“the job template”
#3 most frequent
Manufacturing
15.4%4 installations of 26
“No single management console. Veeam Data Platform, Veeam Data Cloud (for M365/Azure/Salesforce), plus add‑ons like ONE and DR orchestration, feels like a collection of related products rather than a single, seamless platform.”
#2 most frequent
Canada
15.4%4 installations of 26
#3 most frequent
Germany
7.7%2 installations of 26
Pros
- Comprehensive backup and restore for diverse virtual, physical, and cloud environments.
- Intuitive interface and straightforward management for daily backup tasks.
- Reliable and fast recovery operations, including instant VM and file-level restores.
Cons
- User interface is perceived as fragmented, with a legacy Windows-based look and feel.
- Desire for a unified, web-native console with complete feature parity across components.
- Licensing costs and complexity, particularly for enterprise-scale deployments.
Veeam Data Platform was a game-changer
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
Class Leading Product.
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
My Veeam Data Platform Protection Review.
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's Veeam Review
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
Veeam Data Platform is great depending on your needs.
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)
