Veeam is the best among backup products
September 15, 2023
Veeam is the best among backup products
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software Version
Veeam Backup & Replication
Overall Satisfaction with Veeam Data Platform
We needed a backup solution that we could trust to do the basics well. We needed SQL databases backed up consistently. We needed AD and other services, mainly file services, backed up as well. And we needed servers which are running the company applications to be backed up as one might expect.
- Virtualized workloads
- Cloud-hosted VMs within AWS or Azure
- Application-centric recovery using Veeam Explorers (for Exchange, SQL, Sharepoint, etc)
- Capacity Tier to store data within object storage for longer term retention
- License portability as your environment needs change
- Immutable storage to protect against ransomware
- “Instant” recovery or portability between platforms (physical > virtual > cloud-hosted)
- Reporting is good
- The actual backups are almost always good and if there are issues, Veeam tells us what happened
- We like to use it for on premise and cloud, not every product can do both well
- Reporting is good but could be easier to setup
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
We just implemented Veeam Data Platform for the AWS cloud. It worked as well as the on premise solution which protect about a hundred servers. For AWS, we are just targeting our SQL databases at the moment but will likely expand as our presence in AWS grows. I don't intend to use it in Azure.
- Very positive ROI, since it saved our companies data at least once.
We did not have any backup software at the company when I first arrived except Double Take, which is not a real back up software, it is a replication software solution. The best backups were SQL server backups done by the DBA to a file server. Eventually we purchased Veeam and got real back up protection.
I am not sure how much I can say about this except that we are using the immutability option now which is critical when we consider how the data in the cloud could easily become a waste if hacked. That said, we have yet to restore from these backups, so the jury is still out.
We have no NAS but we do use file shares so Veeam has helped us to back up those. These are simple file shares and Veeam still does a fine job. Nothing really complicated about it. Some of our earlier loads in Veeam were quite large and we have to keep them.