Veeam Data Platform

Score8.6 out of 10

1,640 Reviews and Ratings

What is Veeam Data Platform?

Veeam’s® premier product, Veeam Backup & Replication™, delivers availability for all cloud, virtual, Kubernetes and physical workloads. Through a management console, the software provides backup, archival, recovery and replication capabilities.

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Screenshot of the Veeam Data Platform dashboard, that puts the spotlight on malware. It will also highlight threats, identify risks, and measure the security score of the environment in the Veeam Threat Center.

Screenshot of backup properties. Veeam Backup & Replication does not back up "dirty blocks" on VM guest OS.

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Screenshot of the Veeam Data Platform dashboard, that puts the spotlight on malware. It will also highlight threats, identify risks, and measure the security score of the environment in the Veeam Threat Center.

Incremental backup identification
Incremental backup identification is the ability to identify incremental changes since last backup
Category average: 9.1
Encryption
Data encryption to ensure that data is safe while being backed-up
Category average: 9.4
Multiple backup destinations
Multiple backup destinations is the ability to backup data to more than one location
Category average: 8.4

Deduplication and file compression
Integrated deduplication and compression capabilities
Category average: 8.3
Retention options
Provision of best-practice and customizable retention policies with reporting
Category average: 9.1
Management dashboard
Web-based dashboard allowing configuration and monitoring of all backups
Category average: 8.9

Most Frequent Users

Top 3 industries using Veeam Data Platform.

Based on HG Insights installation data

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#1 most frequent

Health Care and Social Assistance

19.2%

5 installations of 26

#2 most frequent

Manufacturing

15.4%

4 installations of 26

“We use VDP to back up all of our virtual and physical servers at our main corporate datacenter and also at 12 regional facilities.”
— Infrastructure Engineer, Stepan Company (1001-5000 employees)

#3 most frequent

Public Administration

15.4%

4 installations of 26

Pros

Reliable and easy-to-use core backup and recovery functions.
Comprehensive application-centric recovery and instant recovery.
Robust immutable storage for ransomware protection.

Cons

Deficiencies in reporting and logging capabilities, especially for compliance.
Complexity of initial setup, installation, and overall learning curve.
Concerns regarding licensing costs and year-over-year price increases.

Shahnawaz Akhtar View profile

SR Specialist IT in Information Technology at VDX.Tv (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

In our organisation we use Veeam data platform for data backup and data recovery in case of disaster.

we use it for our server data backup,endpoints and some VM's we have.

we also use it as a ransome ware protection

Pros

Faster and flexible recovery option
secure backup repository features is a best features
Sure backup faetures that ensures automatic testing.

Cons

Data backup sometimes take high CPU usage with large VM hat could be more adpative.
A centralised auto update function could help us to make endpoint easier
backup job scheduling option could be the best initiative in improvement.

Return on Investment

Veeam delivered possitive ROI by providing automatic data backup and reducing downtime
It reduces the manual data backup workload and ultimately reduces man power for it
Minor drawback is its initial licensing cost and storage cost

Alternatives Considered

Azure Backup

Other Software Used

ServiceNow Cloud Observability, Microsoft 365

Verified User

Technician in Information Technology (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Veeam Data Platform (CDP), replication and backup to protect our database, VMs and files. CDP ensure realtime backup and recovery for our databases and most critical information without downtime; ongoing replication backs up our important servers and VMs; backup is used to back up all our regular VMs and files. The three tier Veeam backup strategies provide us different levels of redundancy, backup and system protection.

Pros

Continuous Data Protection for databases without downtime
Veeam replication protects important servers, VMs and files
Veeam backup backs up all the regular servers, objects and files

Cons

For Veeam Data Platform (CDP), once it's switched to secondary, we have to rebuild the scenario to switch back. We can't switch back and forth as necessary.

Return on Investment

We always have backups
Data can restored a specific time point as we want
We can switch to secondary by easy operation for our realtime online services and instances

Alternatives Considered

Arcserve Backup

Other Software Used

Arcserve Backup, Arcserve Appliances, VMware vCenter

Verified User

Administrator in Information Technology (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Veeam Backup & Replication to backup 15 vitual machines and to then copy those backups to an offsite SAN. These backups are shceduled daily. THe off-site backup runs nightly. This software ensures we aren;t left without options in the event of a Virtual machine failure. It's worked very well for our organization.

Pros

Backup virtual machines
Remote copies for VM backups

Cons

Licensing is a bit confusing

Return on Investment

Veeam has saved us from losing data in the past.

Other Software Used

Blackbaud Education Management Solutions, Google Workspace for Education, Microsoft Office 2016 (discontinued)

Verified User

Professional in Corporate (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Veeam Data Platform data platform is used for back up services. It enables us to back up of critical systems and data. It has been utilized only for virtual machines but ideally we want to leverage more features to allow thorough back up capabilities. The customizable rules for back up makes automating back up jobs simple and easy to implement.

Pros

Back up jobs
Data retention
Automation
Cataloging

Cons

Include Machine learning capabilities
Faster response times
Updates to UI

Return on Investment

ROI and cost flexibility
Automation
Ease of use

Alternatives Considered

Advanced SystemCare Ultimate, Dell Avamar and HPE Nimble Storage

Other Software Used

Azure API Management, HPE Nimble Storage, Dell Avamar

Chris Eidem

System and Network Administrator in Information Technology at Aperture Pet and Life (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Veeam to back up VMware and stand-alone clients. We need to have our business-critical devices back online within an hour (RTO) and to have no more than 15 minutes of our past processes lost (RPO). Veeam also allows us to test code by restoring production servers into a test environment and to apply changes without risking our production servers. This is invaluable for accurate and timely fixes and improvements.

Pros

The ease of use in creating jobs and adding clients enables our new and less skilled administrators to work efficiently, quickly, and accurately.
The same ease of use is essential for junior admins as well. Backups are quickly and accurately restored, allowing our networking team to bring clients back to production within expected times.
The ability to create a restore for testing and to remove it quickly has proven to be an excellent asset for our production and DB teams.

Cons

They could simplify the On-demand Sandbox capabilities. The current setup seems overly complicated and is not very performant.
I would like to see more documentation on how to use Veeam with Proxmox, as that is the platform we are moving to.
I would like the ability to see more detail in the failure logs, as the reports from the Veeam Backup and Restore client aren't very helpful. Some way to easily access the log in a parsed format would help with the (few) difficulties we've had.

Return on Investment

A day's outage can cost us over $100,000 in our production facility. Our ability to bring devices online quickly can save us tens of thousands of dollars.
I cannot quantify the losses we'd incur if we were to lose our ability to ship our product. Still, our reputation would undoubtedly take a hit these days of immediate ratings and commenting.

Alternatives Considered

Commvault Cloud Rewind, Cohesity and Norton Small Business

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NinjaOne, SentinelOne Purple AI, Sage 100

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