Item: Veeam Data Platform
Rating: 8
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Veeam Data Platform

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it for disk and tape backup to protect all of our company data. This protection includes all servers and file shares.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Application level backup and restore
File level backup and restore
Efficient and intelligent cataloging

Cons

Licensing - In my experience, poor structure, unfair application of instances, and impossible to calculate what is needed
CIFS backup from snapshots
Greed - In my opinion, recent decisions have left customers alienated and angry

Key Insights

Do you think Veeam Data Platform delivers good value for the price?

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?

Would you buy Veeam Data Platform again?

Yes

Return on Investment

We trust it and appreciate its flexibility and features
Veeam corporate licensing decisions have put us in a diffictult position. We suddenly are being told we need to purchase nearly twice as many license instances mid-stream with no changes in our environment to cause this

Other Software Used

Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SQL Server, VMware vCenter Server

Likelihood to Recommend

I think it is great for medium and large businesses for reliable and granular recovery. Probably not the best choice for smaller businesses since it is overly complicated and powerful.

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Great performance, but corporate greed

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