Item: Veeam Data Platform
Rating: 10
Author: Warren Pearson

Overall Satisfaction with Veeam Backup & Replication

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Veeam to back up multiple physical, virtual, and private cloud systems. It was implemented to replace Backup Exec and has significantly decreased the number of hands-on work required to ensure that backups completed successfully, while also providing benefits such as data deduplication to reduce the amount of storage required for backups, and synthetic full backups which significantly reduces the backup window.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Reliable backups without the need for regular attention.
Synthetic full backups to reduce the backup window.
Data deduplication to reduce the amount of backup storage required.

Cons

Post-backup copies to additional storage.

Key Insights

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?

Yes

Did implementation of Veeam Data Platform go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Veeam Data Platform again?

Yes

Return on Investment

Positive: Reduced troubleshooting time compared to previous backup system.
Positive: Backups are now reliable enough that we can be sure they work.

Other Software Used

Veritas Backup Exec, Backblaze

Likelihood to Recommend

Well suited to most Windows environments, the community edition is free for people who do not have a large number of servers that need to be backed up, but has the ability to scale to much larger environments.

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