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Overview

Synthesised from 9 reviews | Last Published June 17, 2026

Veeam Data Platform is primarily used for comprehensive data protection, backup, and disaster recovery across diverse environments including virtualized, physical, and cloud workloads. Organizations leverage it to address data loss and ensure business continuity, with reviewers consistently highlighting its ease of use and reliability in core backup and recovery functions. In TrustRadius reviews, users widely adopt application-centric recovery, immutable storage, and instant recovery capabilities.

Reviewers also appreciate the platform's cloud capabilities for offsite backup storage and disaster recovery, contributing to faster recovery times and ransomware protection. However, a significant portion of reviewers (78%) note challenges with reporting capabilities, citing a need for more detailed failure logs and simpler compliance reporting. The platform's initial setup and overall complexity can also present a learning curve for some administrators, and some users raise concerns about licensing costs.

Pros

Reliable and easy-to-use core backup and recovery functions.
Comprehensive application-centric recovery and instant recovery.
Robust immutable storage for ransomware protection.
Effective cloud backup storage and disaster recovery capabilities.
Ease of adding new workloads and expanding 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.
Performance issues with slow file-level restores and large VM replication.
Challenges with backing up live databases and certain cloud storage configurations.

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Veeam Data Platform Reviews

8 Reviews

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Veeam Data Platform

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

June 17, 2025

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

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

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

Verified User

Director in Information Technology (Utilities company, 11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

Reliable Backups

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

April 30, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

This solution is primarily utilized to create secure backups of our various system-critical Hyper-V virtual machines, ensuring that all essential data, configurations, and system states are preserved. This backup process is crucial for safeguarding against potential data loss, system failures, or any unforeseen disruptions that could impact the functionality and availability of our virtualized infrastructure.

Pros

Easy to use
Integrates well with other vendors

Cons

More indepth error reporting
Issues that do arrise can be more easily solvable within software.

Likelihood to Recommend

Has been reliable in situations where a backup was needed.

Mark Jolly

IT Specialist in Information Technology at Best Equipment Company (Utilities, 51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

Veeam - The Comprehensive Data Protection Platform

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

April 24, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it for daily, weekly, monthly backups of all our windows and linux based servers in our Veeam architecture. We also use it for Two different sites and replication is happening amongst them. We also have disaster recovery created on site level. All of our backups are actively monitored for malware and virus protection which is provided by Veeam.

Pros

Taking Incremental backups
Instant VM Recovery in case needed
Data Replication across multiple sites & cloud are pretty good.

Cons

Taking backups on aws, as it only takes EC2 but we need something which can take full backup eg.lamba, Routes and all.
Cost as it can be quite expensive for small to medium business.
Proper integration with HyperV as supposed to Vmware

Likelihood to Recommend

If anyone has VMware infrastructure, then I would recommend Veeam backup quite easily. But if someone has their majority or full infrastructure on AWS or Hyper V then this solution is not recommended at all. Based on my small testing environment for HyperV all of the checkpoints were failing for Veeam which was pretty hectic to fix.

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology (Utilities company, 51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

Veeam Data Platform is great if you don't need a fully managed solution

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

September 28, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Veeam Data Platform to backup a number of on-premise devices, including VMWare VM's and physical hosts. We leverage storage we provide both on premise and in the cloud to ensure all mission critical data is backed up reliably and recoverable quickly. In today's IT world, ransomware is a when, not an if anymore, so having current backups you can trust is crucial.

Pros

Replication to multiple cloud storage providers
Easy to setup new backups
Instant recovery to VMWare is super fast

Cons

You still have to provide your own storage for on prem and cloud backups
No ability to have automated spin up and verification of backups
Not enough backup frequency options

Likelihood to Recommend

It's well suited for companies that have primarily on premise workloads that either already have extra storage to use, or don't mind providing and managing their own backup storage. It's also lower cost since they're not providing storage or management of the backups.

For companies that want more automated testing of backups, things like spinning up backups of servers daily to verify functionality, it's not great, and I'd look at competitors first. In addition, if you want a fully managed backup solution that includes storage and management, this isn't really the product for you.

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology (Utilities company, 51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

15 years of experience

Veeam Data Platform Is A Life Saver

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

September 12, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using the Veeam Data Platform to provide both bare metal and data backups for all of our mission critical servers. The business problems that are addressed for us is disaster recovery for our servers. Due to the nature of the industry we work in and provide services for, we cannot afford any lengthy amount of downtime rebuilding criticial infrastructure servers should anything happen to them. With the Veeam Data Platform, we are able to quickly restore servers as needed without overly long outages.

Pros

Intuitive UI that's easy to follow
Efficient backup/restore features
Notifications of job success/failure

Cons

I'm overall satisfied with the product, can't think of any improvements.

Likelihood to Recommend

We have had servers in the past where they would go down without notice and was lost. Thanks to the restore functionality of Veeam, we were able to get it back in a timely manner and did not affect overall business. This also applied as a test of the platform to verify that it was capable of doing what we needed it to do.

Jason Vansyoc

IT Operations Manager in Information Technology at Voltyx (Utilities, 501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

Veeam Backup awesomeness

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

November 6, 2021

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Veeam backup is very awesome especially backing up VMs on typer 1 hypervisor like ESXi host. Veeam makes the work soo easy and less stressful. I will definitely recommend Veeam backup to my co-engineers.

Pros

Backing up and replicating VMs.
Secure fashioned backup which improves data integrity hence data in transit is ensured due to its zip nature.
Cloud integration.

Cons

Backup with encryption should be made available.

Likelihood to Recommend

Veeam is very awesome to work with especially in backing up VMs.

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology (Utilities company, 201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

A time-saving backup solution

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

March 3, 2020

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using both Veeam Backup & Replication and Veeam Office 365 Backup. It is backing up most of our cloud data and local data.

Pros

Easy set-up and management - We are a small IT team and don't have the time for a time-consuming solution and Veeam covers that for us.
Easy to understand reports, lets you know fast what needs to be done.

Cons

Working more towards cloud solutions, but version 10 is a big step in that direction.

Likelihood to Recommend

As a medium-sized business our needs are more than satisfied. Backing up data, either locally or directly to the cloud (AWZ/Azure) is simple to set up and manage. We see it as a tool that we can scale up our company together with.

Verified User

Employee (Utilities company, 201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience