1. Home
  2. Data Center Backup Solutions
  3. Veeam Data Platform Reviews
  4. User Review of Veeam Data Platform
Veeam Data Platform -- great backup application for the mid-size business
October 03, 2023

Veeam Data Platform -- great backup application for the mid-size business

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

Veeam Backup & Replication

Overall Satisfaction with Veeam Data Platform

We utilize Veeam to protect around 60 virtual systems and a few physical hosts. Probably the best feature we use is their ability to perform a sandboxed restore of systems for disaster recovery testing. We utilize the platform to spin to immutable tape as well as spin a copy off to Azure as well.
  • Virtualized workloads
  • Endpoints and physical servers running Windows & Linux
  • In addition to back up, we also replicate some of these workloads
  • Cloud-hosted VMs within AWS or Azure
  • Automating test restores to validate recoverability
  • “Instant” recovery or portability between platforms (physical > virtual > cloud-hosted)
  • Automating test restores to validate recoverability
  • Sandbox recovery for validation is simple
  • Flexibility of backup targets
  • UI could use some work in finding features, etc.
  • Immutable backup requires a new setup of a backup target, can't convert.

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 have over 50 virtual systems and a handful of physical systems. Our growth has been up and down and is inline with what we thought the use case would be.
  • Veeam has allowed us to take control of our DR testing process instead of relying on an MSP.
  • We have had a fairly predictable expenditure.
We chose Veeam primarily as an alternative to the Carbonite product that our MSP used for managing our backups. Once we shifted away from that MSP, we looked for a solution that would be easy to manage in-house and Veeam fit the bill. There is not a lot of overhead or maintenance for us internally to maintain the platform, which is great.
We have Azure as a target to store a copy of our backups, which is great because it gives us an off-site target. We are not using Veeam currently to protect any cloud workloads themselves.
We do use Veeam to manage our fileservers for individual file-level restores. It has proven quick and easy.
Veeam is very much focused on virtual environments -- if you have a lot of physical systems, although they are supported, that is not Veeam's primary focus it would appear. The sandbox recovery for in-place DR testing is fantastic, and really makes our annual DR test and recovery of certain systems a snap. As you scale up, Veeam probably isn't a solution for really large environments, but for small to mid-size companies the price point and value is good.