Great Data Protection and Backup Software.
January 22, 2025

Great Data Protection and Backup Software.

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

Software Version

Veeam Backup & Replication

Overall Satisfaction with Veeam Data Platform

Veeam Data platform helps protect our organization's data against malware, ransomware, and the latest cyber threats. Since our organization has several endpoints that need protection, the Veeam Data platform provides comprehensive functionality to protect all our physical, virtual, and Cloud assets. It helps us back up and recover our critical data during data loss or disasters.

Pros

  • Fast Data Backup and Recovery.
  • Disaster Recovery.
  • Proactive Threat Detection.

Cons

  • Veeam API Integration.
  • Automation of Tasks.
  • Disaster Recovery.
  • Virtualized workloads
  • 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
  • In addition to back up, we also snapshot some of these workloads
  • Enterprise applications such as Oracle or SAP HANA
  • Enterprise applications such as Oracle or SAP HANA
  • 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
  • Automating test restores to validate recoverability
  • Immutable storage to protect against ransomware
  • “Instant” recovery or portability between platforms (physical > virtual > cloud-hosted)
  • Failover or recovery scripts/plans for orchestrated recovery
  • Application-centric recovery using Veeam Explorers (for Exchange, SQL, Sharepoint, etc)
The Veeam Data platform in our organization currently protects several Cloud, virtual, and physical workloads. It is difficult to provide an exact number. But for sure, this number has increased since we first acquired the product and is expected to grow. This holds as our customers are increasing every year, and so is our workload.
  • Reduced Downtime lowered costs.
  • Lowered Operational costs.
  • Ransomware protection saved unforeseen costs.
Veeam Data platform had a broader customer base and protected multiple virtual, physical, Cloud, and Saas environments. The platform kept pace with the latest technology improvements compared to our previous backup solution, which had become obsolete. We have more choices to back and recover and better cyber threat protection than we experienced before the Veeam Data platform.
Veeam Data platform provides comprehensive solutions for protecting physical, virtual, and Cloud environments. This has helped our organization preserve the workloads deployed in the cloud. With the flexibility of storing backups in the cloud, we could choose the cloud provider to store backups, which helped protect against local failures.
Our organization made use of a NAS/File-share backup solution for protecting our data on Windows and Linux NFS and SMB file shares. The full and incremental backups are reliable, smooth, and super-fast. The solution also helped us to meet our long-term data protection goals for regulatory and compliance purposes.
Veeam Data platform provides a superior and much more reliable experience than the other solutions mentioned. It kept pace with technological advancements to remain relevant today and has a broader service under its umbrella. Its tools have an easy-to-use user interface, better technical documentation, and a powerful Veeam technical support team.

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

Based on my own experience, the Veeam Data platform is best suited for the backup and recovery of virtual machines. It has integration even with the OpenStack environment. It is also well-suited for ransomware protection, disaster recovery, and business continuity scenarios. However, the platform might not work well with small organizations due to complexity and cost factors.

Veeam Data Platform Feature Ratings

Universal recovery
9
Instant recovery
10
Recovery verification
9
Business application protection
9
Multiple backup destinations
8
Incremental backup identification
10
Backup to the cloud
9
Deduplication and file compression
10
Snapshots
9
Flexible deployment
9
Platform support
10
Retention options
8
Encryption
9

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