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.

Categories & Use Cases

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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.

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

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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

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

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

Other Software Used

NinjaOne, SentinelOne Purple AI, Sage 100

Jeremy Cejka View profile

Principal System Administrator in Information Technology at Research Innovations Incorporated (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Veeam Data Platform for backup, replication, and disaster recovery across VMware vSphere, Hyper-V, physical servers, and cloud workloads. It ensures data protection, ransomware resilience, and compliance while minimizing downtime.

Business Problems Addressed:

Data Loss Prevention: Reliable, automated backups with fast recovery.

Ransomware Protection: Immutable backups and advanced monitoring.

Compliance & Retention: Long-term data retention with audit-ready logs.

Disaster Recovery: Failover, failback, and DR testing to ensure high availability.

Scope of Use Case

Workloads:

Virtualized environments, databases (SQL, Oracle), cloud (AWS, Azure).

Backup Strategy: 3-2-1-1-0 rule, daily incrementals, offsite replication.

Recovery: Instant VM recovery, granular file/application restores, full-site failover.

With Veeam Data Platform, we achieve secure, reliable, and efficient data protection, ensuring business continuity.

Pros

Data Loss Prevention
Ransomware Detection
DR Compliance

Cons

Performance and Scalability
More hypervisor support given vmwares acquisition by Broadcom
Better Inside Threat Protection
Better Dedupe

Return on Investment

Date resiliency is worth its weight in gold.
Ease of Use and low learning curve for mid/junior admins.
The low side is the change in the licensing to subscription was a hit for our organization. It felt like a money grab.

Other Software Used

Tenable Nessus, Graylog, Netbox

Donald Michaud, MBA, LSS-BB View profile

IT Director in Information Technology at Cherry Health (501-1000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Veeam for our back-up data management. Veeam is a great platform overall. It is easy to navigate and tech to other staff members. It is very intuitive. We like that it is compatible with AWS, Wasabi, Nimble, and other back-up destinations that can be selected for our immutable back-up data management.