Item: Veeam Backup for Azure
Rating: 10
Author: Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Veeam Backup for Azure helps us improve our data protection and disaster recovery plans for our Azure workloads, especially our SQL databases on Azure. Now we have a continuous backup log strategy much better than our older backup solution and some scripts that helped us maintain a good backup strategy on Azure.
We use Veeam Backup and Replication on our on-premises data center, so it was easy to integrate and operate Veeam Backup for Azure. There was no learning path for our team. Licensing was not a problem (costs and understanding).

Pros and Cons

Reduce storage costs and minimizing the impact on network consuption.
Veaam Backup for Azure provides application-aware backups for Microsoft SQL Server, ensuring that our data is backed up and available for recovery correctly.
Replication: Veeam Backup for Azure helps us to replicate our workloads to another Azure region or on-premises environment for disaster recovery purposes and compliance needs.

Better documentation about permissions on Azure. It was a bit confusing to find a god documentation about it.
There are some Azure features that has no support on Veeam Backup for Azure.
Make the azure client integrated into Veeam Backup and Replication to use just a simple console to operate.

Return on Investment

Positive Impact: Easy Installation and Integration with SQL Databases on Azure
Positive Impact: Return on Investment (based on licensing and Azure costs combined).

Usability

Veeam Solutions is an amazing product. They
innovate new features regularly, and set industry trends. We have been a Veeam Backup for Azure user company for many years and if they keep up what they are doing we will
continue to use them. Backups have always been easy to setup and new
users who onboard learn quite quickly how easy it is to administrate Veeam Backup for Azure.

Alternatives Considered

Commvault Complete Data Protection and Dell Data Protection Suite

Easy to use.
Licensing model and pricing.
No learning curve for our users and administrators.
Fit for our Azure workloads (especially SQL Databases)

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 Data Platform Foundation

Likelihood to Recommend

Well-suited scenarios for Veeam Backup for Azure: Organizations that have critical workloads running in Azure and require a fast and reliable backup and recovery solution to minimize downtime in the event of a data loss event. Organizations that need to replicate their Azure-based workloads to another Azure region or on-premises environment for disaster recovery purposes. Organizations that require granular backup policies that are based on their specific needs to reduce storage costs and minimize the impact on network bandwidth. Scenarios where Veeam Backup for Azure may be less appropriate: Organizations that do not have any workloads running in Azure and therefore do not require a cloud-native backup and recovery solution. Organizations that have very complex backup and recovery requirements that cannot be met by Veeam Backup for Azure.

Support Rating

Great support team!

Veeam Backup for Azure Customer Support Pros and Cons

Pros	Cons
Quick Resolution Good followup Knowledgeable team Problems get solved No escalation required Support cares about my success Quick Initial Response	Need to explain problems multiple times

Veeam Backup for Azure. Great tool for data protection on Azure!

Overall Satisfaction with Veeam Backup for Azure