Item: Veeam Data Platform
Rating: 10
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Veeam Data Platform

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Here we use Veeam to give us a powerful backup solution. We utilize an on-premises solution and also have Azure backups through Veeam. This product is quite amazing and allows you to have peace of mind within your organization. I have roughly 30 something VM's that are backed up nightly and never have issues with this product. I came from a few other environments where I had hundreds of VM's and multiple locations all with Veeam. It was fun to learn and see how it scales at that size. I'm fairly confident that this product can scale to any size company with great efficiency. I even use it at home in my own lab environment and it works amazing there as well. Granted I have expensive hardware tossed at it, but either way, this is one awesome product. Recommend to everyone in need of a backup solution. If you are broke, they have a community edition you can use for 10 machines at the least! Couldn't ask for a better product.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Scales to any size environment.
Works with almost any network or cloud device.
Allows many levels of automation.
Gives an organization peace of mind that their stuff works.
Amazing customer support.
Crushes every product out there for backups. There IS nothing better.

Cons

Sometimes different backup methods using different tiers can be challenging. Typically have to work with support on that as the documentation is pretty good, but it's also too much at times. I think they'd do better if they did more visual examples. It's their product, they'd benefit.
Every now and then it doesn't clean snapshots from VMware and then keeps creating them until you can't anymore. I would highly suggest they work right with VMware to fix that. Been a problem for long enough.
The last area Veeam can improve is being able to cook and clean for me. If Veeam could do that, I surely wouldn't need to waste my money on an expensive wife and kids.. Those things are overrated anyway, all they do is eat your food and complain. Veeam could definitely beat that if it made food, just sayin..

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

Saved company during hardware failure
Gave us the ability to push backups to Azure
Gave us a second layer of backups to keep us protected better

Other Software Used

PDQ Deploy & Inventory, Zabbix, mRemoteNG, SentinelOne Singularity, KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training

Likelihood to Recommend

I worked for a publicly traded company and they didn't have ANYTHING for backups. I was blown away and could not believe that. All they did was take manual, not even automated, snapshots in their AWS tenants and Azure tenants. This company literally had themselves in the worst spot ever if they got hit with an attack. This was one company that could have greatly benefitted from Veeam. I tried to push it to them, but ultimately I ended up leaving as there was too much else not right there..

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