Item: Veeam Data Platform
Rating: 7
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Veeam Data Platform

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 and Cons

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

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?

Did Veeam Data Platform live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Veeam Data Platform go as expected?

I wasn't involved with the implementation phase

Would you buy Veeam Data Platform again?

Yes

Return on Investment

In terms of ROI, that's difficult to quantify until you have an event that needs restoring
It has been helpful in the past to instant recover a VM to a test environment to validate if a previous configuration was working
Negative impact would be the need to provide and manage the storage resources for Veeam Data Platform

Other Software Used

Datto Cloud Continuity, Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage, Rubrik

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.

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

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