Can you afford not to use Veeam?
October 25, 2023
Can you afford not to use Veeam?
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software Version
Veeam Backup & Replication
Overall Satisfaction with Veeam Data Platform
We use Veeam Backup and Recovery mainly for server-level and file-level data protection. Being able to simply mount a backup image in order to recover a file or validate that operating system level backups are working as intended is monumentally important and gives us back valuable time that lesser backup solutions cannot. Veeam also makes it insanely easy to keep copies of backup data offsite at our other locations and the in the cloud with integrated, automated jobs that do all the work for us. I also love the fact that we can backup on one platform and restore to another (like HyperV to VMWare). We plan on using that feature in the future for a migration. Veeam support is top notch as well. Any support tickets I have get addressed by support techs that know the product inside and out.
- Virtualized workloads
- NAS filers
- Endpoints and physical servers running Windows & Linux
- Cloud-hosted VMs within AWS or Azure
- In addition to back up, we also replicate some of these workloads
- Capacity Tier to store data within object storage for longer term retention
- Automating test restores to validate recoverability
- Immutable storage to protect against ransomware
- “Instant” recovery or portability between platforms (physical > virtual > cloud-hosted)
- Immutable storage to protect against ransomware
- Immutable backups to protect against ransomware
- Easily integrate jobs that create copies of your data offsite or in the cloud
- Explore backed up files from the image
- Test OS level backups straight from the backup image
- I honestly can't think of anything
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 currently have around 60 workloads that we use Veeam to protect. And we usually end up adding more, because it is so easy. We mainly use Veeam to protect on-site workloads but are looking to add cloud hosted workloads in the near future. The integration of cloud storage was very easy and I have no doubt that cloud hosted backups will be any different.
- Veeam has given us back time because it is so easy to manage
- Veeam has given us peace of mind on immutable and offsite backups
- Veeam has made it easy to pass audits
Failure to have a good, trusted system backup was the triggering point for purchasing and integrating Veeam. Our other solution was mediocre and would sometimes prove unusable without us knowing it until we needed it. We needed something that we could trust would do exactly what it said it would do and alert us when backups weren't successful and needed attention.
We have been using immutable backup storage in the cloud for a long time now and it has definitely eased our peace of mind. Thankfully we have never needed to restore from it yet, but we have tested restores from it and it worked beautifully.
We use file-share backups for a few important file shares in our company. Mostly these are used to restore previous versions of files when users accidently overwrite the file. It is easy to set up backups jobs that keep any number of days worth of changes we desire with any daily time increment needed. Veeam has the capability to configure the more recent backups very granularly and automatically converts to less granular backups as time progresses. Beautiful feature!