Item: Veeam Data Platform
Rating: 10
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Veeam Data Platform

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Old system that was used was an antique, purchased Veeam, wont go back to anything else, so easy to setup and use. Offline and online full backups at a cheap cost considering. Greatest thing ever, if a server goes south, all i do is download the whole server from Veeam and in less than half a day we are back up and running.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Easy Setup
Easy to Use
Cost is good

Cons

Needs to make Sharepoint backups easier to setup

Workloads

Virtualized workloads
Endpoints and physical servers running Windows & Linux
Cloud-hosted VMs within AWS or Azure
NAS filers

Future Workloads

Endpoints and physical servers running Windows & Linux
Enterprise UNIX servers running Solaris & IBM AIX
Enterprise applications such as Oracle or SAP HANA
In addition to back up, we also replicate some of these workloads
In addition to back up, we also snapshot some of these workloads

Key Features

Capacity Tier to store data within object storage for longer term retention
License portability as your environment needs change
Utilizing backup copies for secondary purposes via DataLabs
Automating test restores to validate recoverability
Integration with cyber-security tools for SecureRestore
Immutable storage to protect against ransomware
“Instant” recovery or portability between platforms (physical > virtual > cloud-hosted)
Accessing data for data mining or re-use of backup copies via API
Failover or recovery scripts/plans for orchestrated recovery