Happy with Veeam Data Platform
March 18, 2024

Happy with Veeam Data Platform

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

Veeam Backup & Replication

Overall Satisfaction with Veeam Data Platform

We utilize Veeam Backup and Replication version 12 in our organization. We also use Veeam Azure Backup and Recovery. We backup our on premises servers to an onsite storage appliance and Azure cloud. We backup our Azure servers to the Azure cloud. We are planning on purchasing Veeam O365 backup soon.
  • Unified backup solution using one console.
  • Many different restore options.
  • Many different backup options.
  • Console takes some getting used to.
  • SOBR is somewhat complex to set up.
  • Backups take a fair bit of time, but this might be expected.
  • Virtualized workloads
  • Cloud-hosted VMs within AWS or Azure
  • In addition to back up, we also snapshot some of these workloads
  • Application-centric recovery using Veeam Explorers (for Exchange, SQL, Sharepoint, etc)
  • Capacity Tier to store data within object storage for longer term retention
  • Immutable storage to protect against ransomware
  • “Instant” recovery or portability between platforms (physical > virtual > cloud-hosted)
  • Immutable storage to protect against ransomware
We backup a mix of cloud and virtual servers in our organization. We do not have any physical servers, so this was expected when we acquired Veeam Data Platform.
  • Recover from ransomware.
  • Recover from physical disaster.
  • Protection of assets.
Veeam Data Platform was already in place when I came to work here. I had to learn to use it, which was not too steep a learning curve.
I setup immutable Azure blob storage. Prior to that we only had onsite backups. It has been working very well for us.
We backup our file shares using the file share backup. No need to backup the whole file server, this allows us to be more granular in what we choose to backup.
Veeam Data Platform is more user friendly and has more options for backups and restores than Barracuda in my experience.

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?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Veeam Data Platform go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Veeam Data Platform again?

Yes

Personally, I have had an excellent experience with Veeam Data Platform. Immutable backups are an important feature that we use. The ability to restore an on premises server to the cloud is also a great feature. I had some issues getting email notifications to work, but I was able to figure it out.

Veeam Data Platform Feature Ratings

Universal recovery
9
Instant recovery
9
Recovery verification
8
Business application protection
8
Multiple backup destinations
9
Incremental backup identification
9
Backup to the cloud
9
Deduplication and file compression
9
Snapshots
7
Flexible deployment
9
Platform support
9
Retention options
9
Encryption
9