Item: Veeam Backup for Azure
Rating: 9
Author: Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The main pro is that the setup is easy, the app registration is as good as automatic as it can get. The hard truth is that Microsoft isn’t responsible if you lose your data. With Veeam Backup for Azure we’re assured that our data safe. We had the pleasure to do restores from OneDrive/Outlook/SharePoint & Teams sites. For potential buyers be aware, that you will need a license for each user that has an smtp address/mailbox that is known by Azure

Pros and Cons

Restore mailboxes
Restore Teams/SharePoint/OneDrive
Ms needs you to have an backup solution for Azure

Licensing is a little bit strict, soft-deleted/ to be deleted accounts will take an Seat

Return on Investment

Restore of classified documents

Usability

Would be a 10, if the licensing would be softer + we’ve had No settings for incremental-only fulls. This means we can only store away a week of full backups... It's enough, but a smarter setup would make a lot of storage difference

Key Insights

Do you think Veeam Backup for Azure delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Veeam Backup for Azure's feature set?

Yes

Did Veeam Backup for Azure live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Veeam Backup for Azure go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Veeam Backup for Azure again?

Yes

Likelihood to Recommend

If you have an cluster and using hyper-v make sure the resource has been created by hyper-v and not an other manager like failover cluster manager

Veeam with Azure is a must

Overall Satisfaction with Veeam Backup for Azure