Veeam Data Platform is an essential part of our data protection strategy
April 24, 2025

Veeam Data Platform is an essential part of our data protection strategy

David Weikel | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

Veeam Backup & Replication

Overall Satisfaction with Veeam Data Platform

We use Veeam Data Platform essentials for daily and airgap backups of mission critical data to airgap and scale out file repositories.

The platform is solid to the point of being able to do an annual disaster recovery test rebuild from total disaster loss to getting back online from only a single airgap backup of all physical and virtual machines.









Pros

  • Backups/restores of on-prem physical, virual machines, and cloud
  • Data conversion between server platforms, particularly esxi ->Hyper-v.
  • Ability to do sandbox restores to verify data integrity.

Cons

  • Veeam B&R is service based and requires a lot of services to run so pretty long load time initially.
  • When using it with best practices, it is sometimes difficult to get to new, never-installed resources.
  • some issues backing up Linux servers with application-aware processing.
  • You never know how good a backup product is until you actually try to restore something. Veeam Data Platform has been rock solid
  • We can back up our virtualized workloads and, on restore, can get embedded files out, which is 90% of what we typically do. We don't have to do separate file-level backups to get this functionality.
Veeam Data Platform was best value, except in the case of MSP360 where it was just a superior product.

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

It's overkill on very simple installations where simple backups would suffice.

Very well suited to mid-large orgenizations.

Veeam Data Platform Feature Ratings

Data Center Backup
8.3
Universal recovery
9
Instant recovery
7
Recovery verification
10
Business application protection
8
Multiple backup destinations
8
Incremental backup identification
8
Backup to the cloud
8
Deduplication and file compression
8
Snapshots
Not Rated
Flexible deployment
8
Platform support
9
Retention options
8
Encryption
8

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