Great performance, but corporate greed
September 23, 2023
Great performance, but corporate greed
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software Version
Veeam Backup & Replication
Overall Satisfaction with Veeam Data Platform
We use it for disk and tape backup to protect all of our company data. This protection includes all servers and file shares.
- Virtualized workloads
- Endpoints and physical servers running Windows & Linux
- NAS filers
- Application-centric recovery using Veeam Explorers (for Exchange, SQL, Sharepoint, etc)
- Application-centric recovery using Veeam Explorers (for Exchange, SQL, Sharepoint, etc)
- Application level backup and restore
- File level backup and restore
- Efficient and intelligent cataloging
- Licensing - In my experience, poor structure, unfair application of instances, and impossible to calculate what is needed
- CIFS backup from snapshots
- Greed - In my opinion, recent decisions have left customers alienated and angry
Do you think Veeam Data Platform delivers good value for the price?
No
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?
No
Would you buy Veeam Data Platform again?
Yes
We are almost exclusively on-premise, so no cloud workloads. Very few physical workloads. This was expected.
- We trust it and appreciate its flexibility and features
- Veeam corporate licensing decisions have put us in a diffictult position. We suddenly are being told we need to purchase nearly twice as many license instances mid-stream with no changes in our environment to cause this
We needed more reliable and more granular backups. Veeam Data Platform has provided that. However, current Veeam decisions are causing us to re-think that and we may start looking at other products again.
We use NAS file sharing extensively and this backup functionality is vital to us. However, we were recently penalized for this with recent licensing changes. This has caused to have failed backups and months-long back and forth with licensing agents and sales reps with no end in sight.