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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Azure Backup

    Score8.2 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft's Azure Backup is a cloud backup service.

    $5

    Veeam Backup for Azure

    Score7 out of 10
    N/AVeeam® Backup for Azure delivers native, policy-based protection for reliable recovery from accidental deletion, ransomware and other data loss scenarios. With an API-first approach, immutable backups and full- and file-level restores ensure resilient protection that’s easy and cost-optimized, freeing up time and resources for more strategic IT priorities. Immutable and Encrypted - Data integrity through WORM state and encryption Logically…

    $40

    per year Azure VM/year Backup and recovery

    Pricing
    Azure BackupVeeam Backup for Azure
    Editions & Modules
    Storage in GB/Month
    $0.0224 to $0.0569
    per GB
    Backup Instance <50GB
    $5.00 + storage consumed
    Backup Instance > 50 GB but < or = 500 GB
    $10.00 + storage consumed
    Backup Instance Instance is > 500 GB
    $10 for each 500 GB increment + storage consumed
    BYOL edition
    $40
    per year per Azure VM (Back up and recover in Azure only with 24/7 production support)
    Free Edition
    Free
    Backup up to 10 Azure VMs FREE with no limitations on features or number of restores.
    BYOL edition (Hybrid-/multi-cloud)
    VUL Portable licensing
    Backup and recover anything, anywhere via Veeam Universal License for any supported workload – cloud, virtual and physical – interchangeably
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Azure BackupVeeam Backup for Azure
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Azure BackupVeeam Backup for Azure
    Considered Both Products
    Microsoft
    Chose Azure Backup
    Azure Backup, Commvault, Acronis Data Protector, and Veeam Backup are popular backup solutions that offer similar functionality to protect data and applications.Azure Backup vs CommvaultCommvault is a comprehensive data backup and recovery solution that covers everything from …
    Incentivized
    Chose Azure Backup
    Azure Backup is cheaper however Veeam is more visually pleasing and allows you to send the backups to other places including Azure, or other competitors remote DR vaults.
    Incentivized
    Veeam Software
    Chose Veeam Backup for Azure
    Azure Backup services give reliable backups with the bare minimum needed to get the job done.
    Veeam Backup takes it several steps further with better management, better features, better reporting and better integration with on-prem backups. It does the same job, it just does it …
    Incentivized
    Chose Veeam Backup for Azure
    It is much faster, easier to use, has multiple scale out repositories that are immutable. Azure Backup works but it is slow when processing backups, and restoring backups. It is not flexible compared to Veeam.
    Incentivized
    Chose Veeam Backup for Azure
    While we have a big Cove Data Protection usage it is simply not able to offer the same functionality as Veeam Backup for Azure, in a case a Azure VM fails to boot due to a configuration error or faulty Windows Update we would not be able to restore it with Cove Data Protection.
    Incentivized
    Chose Veeam Backup for Azure
    Veeam allows much more flexibility in scheduling backup jobs, It also allows you to copy backups to an on prem server or another cloud if you wanted to, it also allowed you to restore Azure VMs on premise or to another cloud.
    Incentivized
    Chose Veeam Backup for Azure
    The other products we considered had higher overall costs and appeared to offer less functionality/customisation. We had also experienced reliability issues with one of the other products so did not have confidence it would provide a suitable backup and DR solution.
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    11 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    38 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    91%
    Delivers good value for the price
    10 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    36 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    11 Answers
    97%
    Happy with the feature set
    37 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    10 Answers
    97%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    34 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    11 Answers
    97%
    Implementation went as expected
    35 Answers
    Features
    Azure BackupVeeam Backup for Azure
    File Sharing & Management
    Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of Azure Backup and Veeam Backup for Azure
    Feature
    Azure Backup
    8.7
    11 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Veeam Backup for Azure
    -
    Ratings
    Versioning9.09 Ratings00 Ratings
    Video files9.16 Ratings00 Ratings
    Audio files8.26 Ratings00 Ratings
    Document collaboration9.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Access control9.111 Ratings00 Ratings
    File search7.89 Ratings00 Ratings
    Device sync9.06 Ratings00 Ratings
    Cloud Storage Security & Administration
    Comparison of Cloud Storage Security & Administration features of Azure Backup and Veeam Backup for Azure
    Feature
    Azure Backup
    8.7
    11 Ratings
    0% above category average
    Veeam Backup for Azure
    -
    Ratings
    User and role management9.111 Ratings00 Ratings
    File organization9.09 Ratings00 Ratings
    Device management8.28 Ratings00 Ratings
    Cloud Storage Platform
    Comparison of Cloud Storage Platform features of Azure Backup and Veeam Backup for Azure
    Feature
    Azure Backup
    9.0
    11 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Veeam Backup for Azure
    -
    Ratings
    Performance9.111 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reliability9.111 Ratings00 Ratings
    Storage Reports8.811 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Center Backup
    Comparison of Data Center Backup features of Azure Backup and Veeam Backup for Azure
    Feature
    Azure Backup
    -
    Ratings
    Veeam Backup for Azure
    8.3
    37 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Management dashboard00 Ratings8.237 Ratings
    Retention options00 Ratings8.337 Ratings
    Encryption00 Ratings8.533 Ratings
    Enterprise Backup
    Comparison of Enterprise Backup features of Azure Backup and Veeam Backup for Azure
    Feature
    Azure Backup
    -
    Ratings
    Veeam Backup for Azure
    7.7
    21 Ratings
    11% below category average
    Malware protection00 Ratings7.721 Ratings
    SaaS Backup
    Comparison of SaaS Backup features of Azure Backup and Veeam Backup for Azure
    Feature
    Azure Backup
    -
    Ratings
    Veeam Backup for Azure
    8.0
    31 Ratings
    13% below category average
    SaaS Product Integration00 Ratings7.621 Ratings
    Multiple Data Restoration Options00 Ratings8.126 Ratings
    Data Storage in the Cloud or On-Premises00 Ratings8.429 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Azure BackupVeeam Backup for Azure
    Small Businesses
    Egnyte
    Score9.7 out of 10
    Backupify
    Score10 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    ownCloud
    Score9.2 out of 10
    Spanning Backup
    Score8.6 out of 10
    Enterprises
    ownCloud
    Score9.2 out of 10
    Keepit
    Score9.8 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Azure BackupVeeam Backup for Azure
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.1
    (11 ratings)
    8.0
    (39 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.5
    (38 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.7
    (4 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Azure BackupVeeam Backup for Azure
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Microsoft
    Azure Backup is suitable for companies of various sizes, with varying amounts of data. The cost of the investment should be thought out carefully so that there are no bad surprises with unnecessary files going to Azure Backup. The interface is friendly and easy to configure and it does not require your company to have a backup expert. It is highly recommended for companies with smaller number of servers and better if the servers are already running in an Azure environment.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Veeam Software
    For our purposes I can't particularly find any shortcomings of Veeam Backup for Azure. It has been working well for our needs for a few years now. Maybe for someone with a larger cloud footprint or more complex needs, or maybe someone who wants to be able to deploy and configure the appliance using infrastructure as code it may not be as practical.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Pros
    Microsoft
    • Azure Backup is fast! Coupled with the fact that Microsoft created Azure and Windows - these two operate phenomenally together!
    • Administering the backups inside of Azure is a breeze. The ability to mount, restore entire backups, or recover files, has been made very easy. You do not have to download any media to recover something, you do this all in the cloud and it gets mounted in Microsoft's systems. Making this process less than a quarter of the time you would have spent with your 'other' backup solutions.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Veeam Software
    • Reduce storage costs and minimizing the impact on network consuption.
    • Veaam Backup for Azure provides application-aware backups for Microsoft SQL Server, ensuring that our data is backed up and available for recovery correctly.
    • Replication: Veeam Backup for Azure helps us to replicate our workloads to another Azure region or on-premises environment for disaster recovery purposes and compliance needs.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Cons
    Microsoft
    • backup schedule calendar would be cool
    • Backup vaults should ask if you want to send notifications when you first set it up, there have been a couple of times when I noticed a month later that, backup job failures were not configured to send email notifications.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Veeam Software
    • Documentation around service account permissions was a little sparse when we implemented it
    • It's sometimes hard to get the reason behind a (rare) job failure without going into logs
    • The UI around snapshots and backups could do with some clarity around the restore points that will be available
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Likelihood to Renew
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Veeam Software
    Plainly, the product just works. I don't have to babysit it.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Usability
    Microsoft
    Azure backup is easy to implement, accessible by using the web portal GUI, and has the ability to restore at the file level or the complete VM. We have experienced zero issues with the backup process or performing file-level restorations. We have not restored an entire VM to date.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Veeam Software
    It was so easy that you thought it wasn't working. Once you saw data and was able to recover it or do a restore with the product those beliefs in the system went to the roof. Once you get a product that does everything you want it to do, you will give it it's props.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Support Rating
    Microsoft
    One of the differentials of the solution is the high level of guarantee and support of the Azure Backup solution. Microsoft is a reference in a technology company with a highly trained support team and helps us with any questions or technical problems with the tool. Service is fast and efficient with trained engineers.
    Incentivized
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    Veeam Software
    Great support team!
    Incentivized
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    Alternatives Considered
    Microsoft
    Azure Backup works on Azure, the most famous of the cloud systems that the whole world has switched to, which is now a very large part of the Microsoft ecosystem that we have been used to using for years. Therefore, it is less tiring to use the additional service of an infrastructure that we already use, even if it is a part of it, which can be easily integrated with existing systems, which is one of the most important issues we IT professionals pay attention to. For this reason, we wanted to swim in familiar waters instead of another brand.
    Incentivized
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    Veeam Software
    Backup Exec was a very clunky application and took forever to backup to and restore from. We would backup to SSD external hard drives from a flash array, but the process still took forever to finish. Sending our data to the Azure blob storage via Veeam is a faster and more secure process than saving to the external hard drives with Backup Exec.
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    Microsoft
    • It allowed us to have our VMs protected very quickly and with simple implementation.
    • It saved us from taking backups from Azure workloads from the on-prem environment, or even deploying a Backup environment on the cloud.
    • It has a low/'controlled' cost as you "pay-as-you-go."
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Veeam Software
    • We have had fast recovery of documents when needed; sub 10 minutes from start of restore to complete and in the users hands
    • Easily a value add for backing up files outside of the given Microsoft retention period; piece of mind
    • Easy tool to use with minimal training required to use it and set up backups
    • When you do change your cloud licensing it does require manual intervention to update backup data requirements. if the business makes changes then your backup person may not know to make these changes
    Incentivized
    Read full review
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    Veeam Backup for Azure Screenshots

    Screenshot of Welcome screenScreenshot of Policies setupScreenshot of Cost estimationScreenshot of Restore options