Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 Scalability
I found that Veeam Backup for Office 365 is not scalable.
View full review »For larger companies, automation becomes crucial due to the impracticality of manually handling user inquiries. It would be beneficial to implement a mechanism that allows for more efficient input processing, such as recognizing the first capital letter of an email account. This feature should be monitored and considered for inclusion in future versions of the platform.
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Kevin Heron
Technical Operations Manager at Ocient, Inc.
As to scalability, right now, if you wanted to expand usage because you have more users, you have to buy more licenses. There is really no limit. The only limit is your wallet. That is also why I like the idea of a different licensing model: so I do not have to constantly consider the number of licenses. That cost depends on how many people you are going to onboard just makes it cumbersome. You could pay upfront each year, and try to figure out how many licenses we are going to need, but that is just a guess. We do that and I have never taken licenses back, so I do not know how good Veeam would be with that type of request. But that is another reason why a different licensing model makes sense: it would allow me to scale a little bit easier. You change the number of users in an organization far more frequently than you change the number of cores.
Currently, in our organization, I would say there are about 50 or 60 users on Veeam Office 365 Backup. I would call that relatively small. Veeam has lots of other companies as customers that are way larger. There are integrators out there that include this stuff in modeling for companies big and small. I'm pretty confident that it scales easily even for large organizations.
We do not have anybody on staff to deploy and maintain the system. It is just another part of the architecture and one of the many hats that we all wear. After the set up is done, it is just a part of the monitoring checklist. You come in and get yourself all squared away. You check the backups — what completed, and what did not — then you check these backups to be sure everything backed up successfully. If it did, that is great. If not, you have to find out why. We have internal policies behind how we address failed backups. So there are a certain number of retries that we do before it leads to having to really research a failure as an issue.
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Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365
March 2024
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The product scales well. It's very easy to expand.
We tend to work with small and medium-sized organizations.
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reviewer2079627
Head of Projects at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
The solution is extremely scalable.
We have a few thousand people using the solution.
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Per Martin Haddeland
Senior Engineer at Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences
We have three people on the solution currently. Just the IT department handles it.
It is possible to actually scale out more than we actually do since we have been very in-house to keep control over cost. That said, we can actually scale out to cloud storage without any problems with that. It's built into the solution. It's pretty scalable.
View full review »I have not tested the scalability of Veeam Backup for Office 365 because I have not reached the one terabyte limit I have.
The solution could improve scalability, both in terms of more storage and users. These two attributes are quite important when you talk about good scalability.
We have four or five people using this solution.
View full review »Veaam Backup goes up to 5,000 email users before you need to do another implementation. A lot of their customers are within that size, so it works for them, but once you get into really large corporate customers, it gets more complicated.
View full review »The solution scales well.
Mostly, I am the person on the solution. There may be an administrator as well.
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reviewer2552674
Project Manager and Technical Consultant at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
This is a simple backup for Office 365. It doesn't need to be scalable.
View full review »The solution is quite scalable. It's up to us, how we develop and deploy it. How we deploy the proxy and extend the infrastructure is very straightforward. In just one click you can add servers.
We have about 20 or 21 users at this time.
View full review »I rate Veeam Backup for Office 365 a ten out of ten for scalability. It is good for the purposes that we use it for.
In my organization, 100 people are using the solution, and we do not have plans to increase the usage.
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reviewer2044197
Backup & Recovery Administrator at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
It is a scalable solution.
It's basically for administrators. It's only useful for administrators and if there's a request for data recovery they only perform it for the user. The end user is not going to directly use this product. We have three admins on the solution currently.
View full review »My company has 10 users for Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365. I rate its scalability a ten out of ten.
View full review »It is a scalable solution. I would rate it a ten out of ten.
View full review »The solution is scalable.
View full review »I don't have too much information in regard to scaling.
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reviewer1615452
Senior Technical Specialist at a tech consulting company with 11-50 employees
It is pretty flexible and scalable. You can set up servers and multiple proxies depending on your usage. It can handle a big volume of data.
In our company, we have less than 50 people. It is used by IT admins. Typically, you would need one or two people to do some routine tasks. For example, if a user deleted an email and wants to restore it, the user will call the IT admin to restore the email.
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Oola Opiyo
Senior Engeneer at Telco Systems
The solution is scalable. However, it depends on the client and whether they are small to medium-sized or large enterprises.
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reviewer1053252
Technical Presales Consultant/ Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
I am not able to tell you how many customers we have because we are in the distribution business, and there are many.
We mainly support an ecosystem of partners of no less than a thousand partners, who also sell this product to many customers. Veeam is the fastest, growing vendor in the backup industry, and it is difficult to keep track of how many customers are using the product.
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Reinhardt Coetzee
Senior Engineer at MRB Secure
It is not really scalable. It's only Windows-compliant. You cannot install it on anything else.
We have about 50 virtual machines. We're actually running at a loss.
View full review »Veeam is scalable. If you have 20 users and you want to scale to 50 or 100, you only need to request it.
View full review »This system is pretty scalable. I find it good because you can start with a package that is not very big, and then just add to it as much as you like. Also, you can remove things that you don't like or don't need.
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reviewer2280276
Spectrum Protect/TSM Specialist at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
The product has flexible scalability. It is suitable for medium and enterprise businesses. I rate its scalability a seven out of ten.
View full review »I rate the scalability a nine out of ten.
View full review »Veeam Backup for Office 365 is scalable.
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reviewer1053252
Technical Presales Consultant/ Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
This is the big one about Veeam in general. The good part about Veeam is that they make modular solutions, so you can install Veeam Backup for Office 365 and Veeam Backup and Replication in one single server. You can do an all in one installation, and roll it out.
Some scenarios may require that you scale-out. You can dedicate modular components to specific services. In that case, you need backup for Office 365, that's not like Veeam Backup and Replication.
There are basically three major Veeam components for Office 365: Backup Server, Backup Repository, and Backup Proxy. In short, Backup Server is the granular solution. It's basically responsible for managing the tasks and jobs of all the other components. Backup Proxy is basically the muscle of the solution. So, this is what actually is interacting with Office 365 and doing the actual backup. It is coordinating Veeam Backup Server to do that. Veeam Backup for Office 365 Repository is where you store your backups. Any storage that is presented to the Windows operating system, you can use as a storage for the Veeam backup storage for 365. So long as you have internet connectivity, no firewalls in place (or specifically the required firewall forced to be open would be the Office 365), and you have the administrative privileges for Office 365, it's an easy task.
There are a lot of companies that use Veeam backup for Office 365, and those companies range from 15 users to 5,000 users. There are a few use cases. Some companies have compliance standards that force them to have a specific backup policy and a specific retention policy. That is kind of hard to do manually. Some people just prefer to have a solution that also meets that and makes it easy. Some people just want to take control of their own details. Some people are actually upset about protecting their data.
Most of the users we deal with are shared. They are behind the entire IT environment. The main pitch from our end is based on the fact that this edition is really easy to use, and we think you should try it and see that. There are a lot of challenges in the market. Our companies don't usually have dedicated IT personnel for everything. They usually share one IT person or all the IT folks for all the workflows of the IT department.
So, it's basically a decision criterion for them, whether they want to have a solution that's really easy to use and manage. It doesn't require more than one person, but from a backup perspective, the best practice is always to have some redundancy on it. You can have two, but you don't really need two people. It's just for the case that if someone doesn't show up to work or something goes wrong with backups and that guy is not available, someone else should be there. But purely speaking, it's a one man job, and he can also share with the other IT workload.
View full review »I rate Veeam Backup for 365 nine out of 10 for scalability.
View full review »Veeam Backup for Office 365 is a scalable solution.
We have 14 people using this solution in my organization.
View full review »Scalability is good. It's very simple.
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reviewer1962972
Business Development Management at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It is a scalable solution.
The process of adding more users to extend your license is really easy. They're really reactive.
We have about 1,000 people on the solution right now.
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Computescience67
Computer Scientist at a tech services company
I do think the program is scalable as it has a lot of options for improving volume and processing. Right now we haven't had much reason to scale it ourselves and just maintain it. We use two people to take care of the product. Even if you had much heavier use than we do you would not need more than two people.
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Nitin Gunnoo
Senior Support Engineer at Rogers Capital Technology Services
I believe the solution is very scalable. We can continuously add mailboxes and sites.
View full review »It is easily scalable. We just need to add the licenses. We have around 50 users who use it on a daily basis.
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Engeline Snijders
Teamlead Enterprise Content Management at a pharma/biotech company with 501-1,000 employees
We didn't try the scalability. We made an agreement in the beginning with a view to the end. We paid more than what was necessary. We ran it for so many users for so many years, and our manager at that point thought that it was a good offer. We have a license for 750 users, but we have approximately 550 users currently. We aren't using all subscriptions, so in the end, we may have paid more, but I should see other offers as well.
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Vincent Ho
Director at Infoware Systems
The scalability of Veeam Backup for Office 365 is good. We arranged the appreciate scaling with the Veeam subscription.
We have approximately 20 people using this solution in my company.
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reviewer861231
Senior Solutions Specialist at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
The solution is scalable. You can expand it out if you need to. It's not a problem.
Currently, in our company, we have about 200 users on the solution. We do plan to increase usage. However, it will depend on the requirements of the organization.
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Darshil Sanghvi
Consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
We have approximately 50 users using this solution.
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reviewer1512921
Product Manager - Netapp at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It is scalable. We currently have about a hundred users. We are currently testing it, and we are looking at expanding to almost 2,000 users.
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Joshua Muvuti
Team Lead Manager at Adonai Corporation
The solution is scalable.
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BartHeungens
Hybrid Infrastructure Solution Architect at Bitcon
It is very scalable.
While I still have customers who are using Office 365, I will continue to use this solution to protect their data.
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reviewer1042635
Science Technician at a government with 201-500 employees
The scalability is good. We have no complaints. If a company needs to expand outward, it can do so easily.
We do plan to increase the usage of the solution. As it is, we do use it every day.
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reviewer1127400
Director at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
While I haven't had the need to scale, I'm confident that if I needed to scale the solution to thousands of users, it wouldn't be a problem.
At the moment, I only have two customers on the solution.
I'd rate the solution at an eight out of ten.
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reviewer938022
Lead Presales at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
We have installed the solution for three or four customers.
View full review »We plan to increase usage in the future.
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Kike Maldonado
Project Manager at Aktios
It is scalable when we are doing the initial full backup. We can scale horizontally as we need to.
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ITAdminstrtr67
IT Administrator at a government with 501-1,000 employees
We have seven users and we have no plans to increasing that.
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Hairulnizam .
Solutions Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Veeam Backup for Office 365 is scalable. We have 50 users in our company and we have plans to continue using it.
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Shay Hyams
Pre-sales Engineer at Dorcom
We don't actually need to scale this product. Maybe for an enterprise organization, it can be a bottleneck if they are using just one server. They need to control the scale-out services a bit.
In terms of the number of users we have, I have customers that have thousands of mailboxes with Veeam backup.
View full review »It is scalable.
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Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
768,740 professionals have used our research since 2012.