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

Overall Satisfaction with Veeam Data Platform

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Veeam Data Platform to protect all of our major servers. Currently we have M365 on a hybrid configuration with Exchange, and Veeam Data Platform saved us when my Exchange server crashed. We also use Veeam Data Platform to back up our main SQL databases and application servers. Again Veeam Data Platform saved us when a developer made a mistake on our most important SQL server and I was able to replace the table that had been corrupted.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Backups are very easy to setup
Restoring is as simple as it can be
Setting up the backups is also very simple
Setting your own retention policies

Cons

To be honest apart from some initial hiccups
I can not see any room for improvement for Veeam Data Platform
It is the best backup and recovery software I have used in my 35 years of working in IT

Workloads

Virtualized workloads
Endpoints and physical servers running Windows & Linux

Future Workloads

Cloud-hosted VMs within AWS or Azure

Key Features

Application-centric recovery using Veeam Explorers (for Exchange, SQL, Sharepoint, etc)
License portability as your environment needs change

Most Used

Application-centric recovery using Veeam Explorers (for Exchange, SQL, Sharepoint, etc)

Number of Workloads Protected

6, is exactly the amount I envisioned using and it has never changed in the two years I have used Veeam Data Platform

Return on Investment

The cost of Veeam Data Platform covers itself as we have had it save our business on a couple of occasions

Needs Assessment

The company I work for is a small company that had zero redundancy and zero backups in place when I joined, therefore I set all this up to protect my company.

Cloud Capabilities

We haven't used the cloud apart from backing up M365

NAS Backup

We do backup to a NAS device as soon as I worked out how to add that repository, it has worked almost flawlessly since then

Alternatives Considered

Veritas NetBackup

Veeam Data Platform is superior in every way to each and every backup solution I have ever used.

Key Insights

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

Likelihood to Recommend

As I said previously Veeam Data Platform is very simple to setup, including retention policies etc. It runs very smoothly, only issues I ever had with Veeam Data Platform was when my NAS device was updated I had to go into Veeam Data Platform to fix it until I found the permanent solution for this. Since then it has run perfectly