Veeam Data Platform for all
August 25, 2023
Veeam Data Platform for all
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software Version
Veeam Backup & Replication
Overall Satisfaction with Veeam Data Platform
Veeam Data Platform serves our need for maintaining backups of our systems and facilitating the recovery of those systems should a Disaster Recovery situation arise. The wide variety of recovery options allows us to recover full systems down to individual files that a user accidentally deletes or becomes corrupted.
- Virtualized workloads
- Endpoints and physical servers running Windows & Linux
- In addition to back up, we also replicate some of these workloads
- In addition to back up, we also snapshot some of these workloads
- Enterprise applications such as Oracle or SAP HANA
- Cloud-hosted VMs within AWS or Azure
- Application-centric recovery using Veeam Explorers (for Exchange, SQL, Sharepoint, etc)
- License portability as your environment needs change
- Utilizing backup copies for secondary purposes via DataLabs
- Automating test restores to validate recoverability
- Immutable storage to protect against ransomware
- “Instant” recovery or portability between platforms (physical > virtual > cloud-hosted)
- Failover or recovery scripts/plans for orchestrated recovery
- Immutable storage to protect against ransomware
- Elastic recovery to recover only what is needed whether it's a single file or a full system/servers
- Allow for immutable storage
- Integration with virtual platforms and some SAN providers directly
- Allow for a Backup and Replication to occur in one job
- Allow for further flexibility with data retention such as allowing some servers in a job different retention than others or changing in retention over time. Example is backup daily for 7 days, then store a weekly backup for 8 weeks, monthly backup for 13 months, etc. all within the job.
- More communication about platform updates. Many new features come out and we are not aware until a little further down the road.
Do you think Veeam Data Platform delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Veeam Data Platform's feature set?
Yes
Did Veeam Data Platform live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of Veeam Data Platform go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Veeam Data Platform again?
Yes
All datacenter level systems are protected by Veeam Data Platform. Workstations are not as we do not store any information on them worth backing up/restoring. This is in line with our expectations.
- Positive in saving employee work hours to be spent on other projects/initiatives
- Positive in recovery time compared to previous solutions resulting in less downtime
Slow recovery times on the previous solution and quick growth in the company drove for this change. Our recovery operations were greatly improved with the move to Veeam Data Platform.
We do not currently have many workloads in the cloud, but the platform does give us the feeling that as solutions would move in that direction that we will be able to maintain backup and recovery expectations without any issues. We have recently moved to MS365 exchange and know that Veeam Data Platform will be able to take over these backup operations once we are ready to move off our current solution.