Item: Veeam Data Platform
Rating: 9
Author: Marc Weigl

Overall Satisfaction with Veeam Data Platform

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are backing up our whole virtual infrastructure around the world. With Veeam we can use several other devices to save our backups, like tape or external ransomware-proofed storage devices. Even saving backup in the cloud via "Veeam Cloud Connector" is possible and not bad. You can just create real backup jobs to certain devices and then copy the backup over to another media without touching your live infrastructure again.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Application-based restores are great & quick.
I like the idea of having several states of backups on different devices.
Copying existing backups to different types of media without touching the actual infrastructure is great.

Cons

Creating different types of jobs sometimes gives you a headache.
The way of creating a retention policy is very hard to understand at the beginning.

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

We are much safer regarding ransomware which saves us money in other cases.

Other Software Used

baramundi Management Suite, OneNote, PRTG Network Monitor

Likelihood to Recommend

I have used some other backup products in the past (like Symantec BackupExec, DELL vRanger, Acronis...) but none of them is as good as veeam is. The guys from Veeam are really doing a great job developing more and more features everytime they release a new major update. So I really like the product and its features (even when its harder to understand as with some other products, because you have way more features here), but I dont like the support. Luckily we have a great IT regional supplier who is helping us everytime we're having issues using Veeam, but every now and then they can't solve issues, so we have to open cases with Veeam. Unfortunately I cant tell one single case which was solved by them... Bottom line: 1. the product is great 2. get a training when starting to use it 3. most important: get a great IT supplier having Veeam experience or even better being a Veeam partner.

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