Veeam on-premise moving to cloud

We have two on-premise datacenters with an array of different storage types and a wide array of different business needs. Our data comes from a variety of sources and is governed by various different business requirements and legislative aspects given its nature, with some sensitive data including GDPR and medical data. We have seen similar organisations compromised by cyber attacks and this underlines the importance to us of an effective data protection solution.

Our adoption is currently relatively limited due to the organisational split between on-premise and cloud teams. As the initial adoption was performed by the on-premise team, we have not been able to realise the full potential of the Veeam Data Platform and this is something we aim to explore in future.

Our backup solution was reviewed as the previous solution reached its end of life and we explored the market to review alternative options on offer. There was no massive triggering action for us, this was just a business as usual change taken in line with our usual business review processes.

We have yet to fully adopt Veeam Data Platform fully as I have previously detailed, so we will be looking at whether we can leverage it for protection of our cloud workloads going forward in the future. Disaster recovery is becoming an increasing concern for us and it is likely to drive such decisions.

File share backup is currently our main use for Veeam as we have a large on-premise estate with a wide array of different file shares and other unstructured data stored in a number of mediums and with different governance around it, covering aspects such as GDPR and medical data which must be considered even in backups.