Item: Veeam Backup for Azure
Rating: 8
Author: Stephen Maunder

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We used Veeam Backup as a product to help us consolidate our on premise and cloud estate together, we make use of Azure Backup and Veeam Backup for Azure and found the Veeam Backup for Azure was much easier to work out the costing for and much easier to use.

Pros and Cons

Pricing
Ease of use

Backing up other offerings in azure such as Azure NetApp Files, Azure SQL

Return on Investment

Being able to work out exact costings

Usability

It does exactly as it says "allowing users to run fully automated backups after a simple implementation process"

Alternatives Considered

Azure Backup

Veeam allows much more flexibility in scheduling backup jobs, It also allows you to copy backups to an on prem server or another cloud if you wanted to, it also allowed you to restore Azure VMs on premise or to another cloud.

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

Other Software Used

Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365, Veeam ONE, Azure Backup

Likelihood to Recommend

Being able to backup Azure VMs is super simple to setup and hook in to azure, and it "just works". Pricing is simple to understand and can be backed up to multiple locations.

Simple to use and just works

Overall Satisfaction with Veeam Backup for Azure