How we use Veeam Data Platform in our Enviroment
June 23, 2025

How we use Veeam Data Platform in our Enviroment

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

Software Version

Veeam Backup & Replication

Overall Satisfaction with Veeam Data Platform

In our organization, we use Veeam Data Platform primarily for data protection, disaster recovery, and business continuity. The platform supports our on-premises, cloud, and hybrid IT infrastructure by providing reliable and secure backup and recovery. Veeam Data Platform enables us to recover data quickly in the event of accidental deletion, hardware failure, ransomware attacks, or natural disasters to reduces potential downtime and data loss. ALso the platform helps us meet regulatory requirements like FERPA by keeping student records safe

Pros

  • Backup Recovery
  • Daily Backups
  • Data Security

Cons

  • Integrate M365 backup more into the main Veeam Data Platform console.
  • Improve search and restore performance for large Exchange or SharePoint backups
  • Virtualized workloads
  • Endpoints and physical servers running Windows & Linux
  • In addition to back up, we also replicate some of these workloads
  • In addition to back up, we also snapshot some of these workloads
  • Utilizing backup copies for secondary purposes via DataLabs
  • 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
  • Utilizing backup copies for secondary purposes via DataLabs
Our entire virtual environment of servers are on Veeam Data Platform which is about 14. We also have 2 physical servers on Veeam Data Platform. We actually had a lot more on physical until we decided a virtual environment was cheaper and easier to run.
  • Reduced Downtime and Faster Recovery
  • Scalability Without Major Reinvestment
  • Complexity for Smaller Teams
We've had Veeam Data Platform before I've even started in my position but we always needed a backup solution and I have seen no reason to switch from Veeam Data Platform. Plus the increase of Ransomware is incredibly high in this day of age, we have to protect our data in a timey manner to avoid the risk of education loss.
Veeam Data Platform enables cloud-based disaster recovery by replicating critical workloads to a secondary cloud region or by using cloud object storage to recover on-demand. Veeam Data Platform’s cloud integration has allowed us to move from a traditional backup mindset to a flexible, cloud-ready data protection strategy. We now protect and recover workloads regardless of where they are housed on-prem or in the cloud with manageable cost control, and efficiency
We do not use this part of the product.
Veeam Data Platform offered a more user-friendly interface and a faster uptime for data repopulation. Plus no software hacks reported was a bonus.

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?

I wasn't involved with the implementation phase

Would you buy Veeam Data Platform again?

Yes

Good Use: Virtual Environments, M365 Environments or more specifically Microsoft Windows environments since this is so pushed towards Windows

Bad use: IoT environments since there is minimal storage that needs backed up. Mac or Linux environments since this is mainly windows based and Mac is very limitedly supported. A lot of schools have Both windows and Mac environments

Veeam Data Platform Feature Ratings

Universal recovery
Not Rated
Instant recovery
8
Recovery verification
10
Business application protection
10
Multiple backup destinations
10
Incremental backup identification
Not Rated
Backup to the cloud
5
Deduplication and file compression
10
Snapshots
Not Rated
Flexible deployment
10
Platform support
7
Retention options
10
Encryption
10

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