Veeam Backup & Replication Benefits

IK
IT System Engineer at Hoffmann GmbH

It allows us to perform instant recovery for SIM machines. This means that we can quickly install the configuration and check whether the machine is operational or not. This efficient process allows us to assess the status and decide to proceed or make necessary adjustments. Unlike traditional methods that may take up to two hours for restoration, our instant recovery feature enables us to recover in as little as five minutes, providing a prompt evaluation of the machine's functionality.

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Business Development Executive at Digital Alliance Limited
Fatai Akinwande - PeerSpot reviewer
Specialist Datacenter and Server at IHS Towers

In terms of backup installation and business continuity, VM has been invaluable. There was a time when we had an issue with one of our systems, and Veeam became unavailable. This particular Azure machine is utilized in about six or seven countries. All I had to do was log into my Veeam account in that location, activate the Continuity and Recovery (CR) feature, and everyone could resume working. It involved changing the IP address or the capabilities of the application server since the assessment is based on the application server's availability in another location. The IP addresses would vary.

So, I informed the application department to make the necessary modifications, and they immediately restarted the system for use.

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Buyer's Guide
Veeam Backup & Replication
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about Veeam Backup & Replication. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
768,246 professionals have used our research since 2012.
SA
Snr. Infrastructure Architect (Data Centre) at DHA

Some time ago, we lost some of the groups within our AD Organizational Units, but through Veeam we were able to successfully recover all the data thanks to Veeam's AD backup functionality.

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CA
Director of Information Technology and Communications at Enertotal sa esp

There haven't seen any changes to the way the organization has improved.

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AH
Project Manager and Technical Consultant at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

veeam help us a lot to expand our business in the market and provide our customer with an advanced backup solution to protect their Data centers and increase the availability and performance of data recovery to match with target RPO and RTO

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TM
Account Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Veeam Backup & Replication has most definitely improved our organization because it saves the IT a lot of headache. 

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it_user164904 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior System Engineer with 1,001-5,000 employees

I used to work for a company that provided Backup/DR as a service to its clients we had to look at various backup and recovery tools to quickly and easily bring back customers data. Before Veeam introduced the backup to tape and WAN acceleration features we were using 3 different products across a number of our clients to provide the required services. After those feature releases, we just used one tool through a single console (the infamous single-pane-of-glass) which reduced the complexity and management overheads within our solutions but also provided our customers with a far greater level of service and reliability.

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KS
Managing Director/ VP of Sales at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We've had catastrophic failures at sites due to our location in Florida. Over the years, hurricanes come through and things happen, and we've had to deploy backups to get clients back up and running.

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RW
Systems Administration at Camosun College

It has improved the way that our organizations function.

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AL
Infrastructure Architect at Grupo Protege

Previously, we had to manage the tapes and backups locally. When we needed to restore data, we needed to ask for people in the branch offices to insert the tapes and manage everything manually. When we deployed this solution, we no longer had to contact people on-site, to make these actions happen.

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JM
Inside Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It's streamlined the backup and recovery for my customers in the sense that it has an easy management console that's easy to set up any type of instant recovery. 

It also has helped them as it plugs into just about any cloud. They can not only have backup and recovery but have a disaster recovery plan as well. It really just takes the heavy burden of backup and recovery disaster recovery off of customers and streamlines it.

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NS
IT Infrastructure Excellence Lead at a non-profit with 10,001+ employees

We use it for failover and disaster recovery. There have been times when our primary systems have failed, and we've been able to run virtually until our primary systems are available again. From a business continuity experience, it has worked fairly well.

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it_user379761 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Director at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

Veeam is a very stable product. The ease of use and UI are some of its highlights. Learning this tool is very easy and you do not need any training classes.

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it_user159822 - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Technology Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Easy to use product, If you have a virtual environment and also are worried about putting in a DR solution - This is an easy product to get to grips with, Plugs into Vcentre and has the same feel as Vcentre. the replication feature is great - Seamless on enterprise version that I use for my DR solutions.

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Chris Childerhose - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead Infrastructure Architect at ThinkON

With moving the Veeam server to a physical server and creating a Proxy server on each of the hosts, we are able to leverage SAN based backup which is very fast. Jobs are completed overnight and never run in to the business hours.

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DJIBRINE AGADJI - PeerSpot reviewer
Ingénieur systèmes et réseaux at e-services

Veeam's Instant Recovery feature allowed my organization to continue operations during file server failure by immediately restoring lost data.

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Pradeep Kabbur - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Lead at Stratogent

Veeam Cloud Connect has helped us to reduce the cost of cloud storage for an offsite solution using their archive storage feature. 

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DR
IT Analyst at Deschutes County

It has improved our organization. I don't have to spend all day troubleshooting backups, so it has freed up a lot of time.

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PH
Senior Engineer at Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences

The most important part is that we know we have a backup of the whole virtual server. We can restore the whole server if we want, or just take some specific files. I like this duality of the product. That's how I put it on virtualized software.

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IC
Sr. System Admin at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

It has decreased downtime issues. By using replication, we decreased our downtime for crashed servers and having other service/system issues.

It is very simple and fast to power-on a replicated server, making it come online again.

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it_user156621 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Administrator at a educational organization with 51-200 employees

To us the ability to restore an entire VM for Development and User Acceptance Testing is invaluable the need to Develop continues to grow and Veeam supplies us the ability to manage this seamlessly. Utilizing the de-duplication and compression built into Veeam we are able to keep backup longer and have the ability to perform more frequent backups.

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OZ
Infrastructure Section Head at Citystars Properties

It has improved my organization by 90%. Now we can restore a single box with all of its folder contents. We could install one email, one folder or one lead and it could have still one email. This has helped us a lot. Before we used to store the entire database and then we would go to the single mailbox we need to use and we could restore it. Now we could do it instantly whereas it used to take three to four days. 

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GN
Manager - I.T. Operations at a leisure / travel company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We had an issue with power in the data center and one of the IBM storage devices could not startup. We managed to restore all of the VMs from Veeam and disaster recovery was executed as expected within our SLA.

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BM
IT manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

We tried to set up the application from SQL to SQL. We did this for the department, but the process took us almost a year. After we had signed off on the solution we noticed that it was affecting the performance of the SQL.

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SD
Network Operations Manager at a educational organization with 501-1,000 employees

Veeam Backup & Replication is far more dynamic as far as being able to generate backup jobs. We used to use a product called NetWorker, and at the time the version of NetWorker we had would not back up to the cloud. I think it does now, but we're not using it anymore. But at the time, NetWorker was fairly new and it was just a tape backing up the disc. So Veeam is far better dealing with virtual environments and the cloud as targets. The capability with Veeam is just there.

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CE
CTO at F12.net

As our datacenters continue to grow, we had a challenge of reducing backup windows while being able to scale our total protected VMs. Before Veeam, we had backup infrastructure sprawl. Veeam was able to reduce our overall backup windows while reducing our dedicated backup infrastructure.

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RS
Lead Linux Administrator at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

By using the “Instant VM Recovery”, we test new patches or features on a VM, which is the same as our production environment.

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it_user581187 - PeerSpot reviewer
Architect Backup/Recovery with 1,001-5,000 employees

Veeam does its job well. However, there are more than a dozen commonsense items which should have been built into the software, such as being able to sort the column of server names while in a backup job and being able to see what VMs are already in a job when you add a new server.

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it_user165915 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Systems Engineer at a healthcare company with 51-200 employees

Before this product we were using something else that was entirely unreliable for our company. Backups need to be counted on. In Feb of 2014 in Columbus, Ohio there was a major Power Failure downtown that was the result of a gas explosion of the corner of our Data Center. Entire Data Center was offline for a week. (Catastrophic Event could be classified as a Disaster). With a proper configuration of this product we were able to restore the Hyper-V Infrastructure to our 2nd Data Center and restore functionality to about 20 Hospitals and Imaging centers around the state of Ohio. (Tier1 systems were restored with in 30 minutes and remaining filtered in).

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it_user159810 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Analyst at a hospitality company with 10,001+ employees

We were able to turn the data recovery process over to technicians instead of allowing only engineers to recover customer data. Another big bonus, is that the data recovery process was fairly simple and fast.

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RL
Systems Specialist at KESA

Veeam has saved us many hours retrieving deleted files as well as testing backups. Our old backup solution was getting to the point where we could not go more than a couple of days without backups failing. With Veeam we have not had any time where backups did not run. We also have been able to run since January 2014 with no “failed” backups.

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CB
HR Manager at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees

This product helps because when something has changed that we didn't know about or didn't want to be modified, and we find out about it the following day, we can go back to exactly where we were and when it worked perfectly.

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it_user247767 - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Technology Manager with 501-1,000 employees

This product has significantly reduced our backup windows as backup times have been significantly reduced, as well as the speed at which we can recover systems if needed.

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LL
IT Infrastructure Manager at a paper AND forest products with 501-1,000 employees

It really helps secure our data.

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MH
System Engineer at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

It has not improved anything. It is just a backup solution. Our customers needed something for disaster recovery in case something bad happens. It is something they needed, and it is something they have got.

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MA
manager technique at a consumer goods company with 10,001+ employees

The solution protects our system environment which has helped the company.

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AM
Network System Specialist at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We was concern about ransomware attack and with Veeam now we are protected. Thnaks Veeam

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it_user165330 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Storage & Virtualisation Engineer (Managed Services) at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

This product has improved the entire RTO and allows us to restore applications and services to customers within a few minutes.

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it_user206187 - PeerSpot reviewer
President & CEO at a tech services company

It has greatly reduced the man power required to monitor the backup process. Coupled with the email notification feature, the BDR services that we offer can be managed by one person and subject matter knowledge can easily be transferred to another technician without extensive training.

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it_user389337 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Manager at a logistics company with 501-1,000 employees

Our company now has nightly backups, whereas before we only had weekly backups. It’s also allowed us to retire our cloud backup solution (HP Autonomy LiveVault), saving us about $40,000/year in storage costs. Since we completely control the backup environment, we’re able to have onsite backups, offsite backup copies, an archive, and even replication all through one interface. It’s made our infrastructure much more flexible, and in a disaster recovery situation allows us to resume business within hours instead of days or weeks.

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it_user295755 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Infrastructure Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

We can now perform replication for migrating data.

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it_user159084 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

a. Other than it has saved us from hours of work not having to rebuild servers and the many times it has helped us recover data that was valuable, I don't know how to translate that into money, but it's no small thing.

b. This one is HUGE: We moved our entire data center, from one physical location to another, mind you we are 24 hour operation with sites across the state relying on the systems being up, and we never lost one hour of downtime. We used Veeam Backup and Recovery to migrate our entire Vmware Farm from old location to the new. It was awesome.

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VP
Technical asst. at a educational organization with 501-1,000 employees

Before using Veeam and HCI, we were performing the functions physically. We used physical machines to run our services. Hardware failure leads to the pillar of our services. Now we have high organization and we can sustain any failure. 

We have found the Veeam function very useful because it saves us a lot of storage.

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KC
Director of Professional Services | Senior Solution Architect | Trainer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Today’s rapid pace of technological innovation is forcing your digital and physical worlds to collide – and it’s also transforming the way you operate, regardless of your industry. This digital transformation can either make or break your business. Because, in the digital world, your customers expect 24/7/365 Availability.

For today’s enterprises, this means that expectations for SLAs for data and application uptime can be revolutionized. You no longer need to be constrained by the RTPOs of hours or days of legacy solutions – you can think in minutes or seconds instead – for all applications, data, and workloads on-premises or in the cloud. 

Veeam Backup & Replication provides an improvement in this framework

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it_user581421 - PeerSpot reviewer
Owner

It ensures the security of the stored data. It saves time for recovery and disk space.

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it_user653964 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director, Information Technology at a newspaper with 51-200 employees

There’s not much a backup software can do to the organization but its features enable us to have an inexpensive data recovery solution that ultimately plays a factor when choosing to move applications and services to the cloud.

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it_user245553 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Architect - Cloud Services at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

Ability to attract customers with a simple product to protect their data and lead them into conversations about how to enable business outcomes that are positive as opposed to catastrophic. With the multiple facets of potential data compromise (ie: Virus, Ransomware, employee mistake, etc., etc.) and or destruction, educating our customers on the inexpensive options that can provide quick remediation to inevitable outages that could be extremely detrimental to business continuity.

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it_user159276 - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Center Expert with 501-1,000 employees

Reliable backups are so critical and my Veeam backups (disk-to-disk) have never failed to be restorable. I can’t say that about other products I’ve used.

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it_user315348 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at a non-profit with 501-1,000 employees

Fortunately, we have not had to use the restore functionality (touch wood), but it does give us the reassurance that we can perform a restore if needed, in a real situation as well as performing regular testing in our virtual lab. The other functionality that has really had an impact is being able to granually restore Exchange mailboxes.

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it_user295746 - PeerSpot reviewer
ICT Consultant at a government with 501-1,000 employees

It really just works, we don't have backup issues anymore. We're now implementing SureBackup so we can check the quality of the backups. Great feature.

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it_user165150 - PeerSpot reviewer
Server Systems Analyst with 501-1,000 employees

During a "zero day" virus outbreak that caused several critical systems to fail, the ability to boot and run a "replica" that hadn't been infected yet kept the business running and productive.

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it_user427374 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior IT Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Before Veeam our customer used to backup data with obsolete tools and had no central console management, so every site had single task to be checked everyday. Now, he receives the full backup report as an email attachment everyday.

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WG
Senior Infrastructure Engineer at a government with 501-1,000 employees

The manageability is very easy. It's one console and you can see all of the backups and the replication. The restore processes, the RTO and RPOs, are very low.

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VS
Technical director at scsi co.,ltd

Veeam communicates with the vCenter in VMware, which means it's very smooth and doesn't interrupt production on VMware and you can backup or restore anytime, anywhere.

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SK
Enterprise Architect at SH Data Technologies

Veeam has simplified backups for MSPs over the years and is one of the easiest products to deploy.

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it_user280926 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant infrastructures at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Backups and restoration are 100% successful, plus we have the ability to automate backup recoverability tests.

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it_user285060 - PeerSpot reviewer
Acting Manager, Ground Systems Development and Operations Program at a aerospace/defense firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

It helps us to restore and backup our data, along with ease of use.

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it_user271851 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Infrastructure Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

I've been an end user and deployer of this software as a consultant. It's easy to implement, and easy to spot any issues and resolve them. It slots in great with other virtualization products.

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it_user164898 - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO with 51-200 employees

It's been an overall improvement many places at our client sites where almost everyone runs vm's or Hyper-V.

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it_user250971 - PeerSpot reviewer
President at CONNEKT|IT Services

The safety and reliability of data loss and retrieval has been amazing ever since we implemented Veeam.

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it_user164028 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT ADS Section Manger with 1,001-5,000 employees

Very reliable and fast data recovery

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it_user427374 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior IT Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Let me start by mentioning that, before Veeam, my company used to backup data with Microsoft Robocopy. Backup times now are more than ten times faster and the data to be moved is only a fraction.

This behaviour has been improved with the new version, 9.5.

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it_user145584 - PeerSpot reviewer
Architect at a tech services company

We had a vendor screw up a financial accounting program at tax season, a critical time for one of our customers. We were able to roll the VM back in under five minutes, and users were back on the software in under 10 minutes from restore.

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it_user250251 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Engineer with 51-200 employees

Previously we had been using a CDP based backup solution where an agent was installed on the guest OS. Besides taking longer to configure backups, performing a BMR was much more complicated and required creating a new VM and using a boot disk. Using Veeam has made the entire process much easier and I can quickly restore an entire VM even in a test environment.

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it_user326679 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Administrator at a construction company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It has provided a higher level of reliability to core company systems and services.

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it_user203934 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Fast recovery, backup stored in 3 locations: locally, other location, and in the cloud (iLand).

If our primary data center goes down, our VMs are replicated to another data center so we will be up and running in less than 15 minutes.

Backup stored in multiple locations.

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it_user249768 - PeerSpot reviewer
Datacenter Core Infrastructure with 1,001-5,000 employees

Veeam B&R software is transparent and easy to use, which improves usability and manageability for the daily operations a backup/system administrator performs. Setting up a backup application/infrastructure is one thing, but to keep it operational without having to deal with big issues is another. I barely encounter situations where Veeam B&R setup disappoints our customers.

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it_user176604 - PeerSpot reviewer
Server Administrator at a religious institution with 501-1,000 employees

Restores are faster. Moving virtual machines from one location to another is easier and is far less time consuming than Tape backups. Setting up jobs replicas or backup jobs is also quick and easy.

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it_user162867 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Infrastructure Manager at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

We are currently using Veeam B&R to replicate our VMware environment to a disaster recovery site, in the event of a major outage we can fail-over to our DR site. From a business continuity aspect it has removed the need for arranging warm-start DR arrangements.

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it_user159642 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Systems Engineer with 51-200 employees

Veeam allowed me to eliminate the need for tape backups and replace legacy backup software. The reliability of Veeam is amazing compared to the solution(s) I was using. I am now able to spend 2 minutes a day reviewing backup logs instead of hours troubleshooting errors and calling vendor support. The ability to replicate backups off-site disk to disk also saves a ton of time compared to swapping tapes and manually moving them off-site.

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DV
Systems Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

I know it's not exactly a feature, but I accept it works and it's easy to use. With Veeam Backup & Replication, we have no problems in managing restore. Obviously, the most important thing about backup software. I used to say that every backup software can make backups, but only good ones can make a restore.

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MN
Database Administrator / Database Architect at a manufacturing company with 501-1,000 employees

The solution saves our organization some money as we don't need to store to a physical machine.

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it_user675693 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Architect / Delivery Manager - Salesforce CRM - Tech Mahindra at Tech Mahindra (formerly Mahindra Satyam)

The company has its own Veeam backup infrastructure to offer this service. It manages billing, etc.

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it_user168507 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior System Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It provides more efficiency to restore lost files that were deleted by users. It provides a restoring process for a complete server and replications on another site for the DRP servers.

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it_user237264 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Administrator and Sr. VMware Engineer at a retailer with 501-1,000 employees

Our virtual datacenter is protected with different types of backups, but critical ones are "always protected". We can restore a VM backup in just minutes, even from a snapshot.

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it_user280926 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant infrastructures at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

No time has to be spent on debugging backups. We know everything works just fine and we can focus on our business.

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it_user248538 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at Asheville Head, Neck and Ear Surgeons, PA

We’ve taken the human out of the equation when it comes to our backups. This means backups run when they should, like they should.

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it_user998895 - PeerSpot reviewer
Project Manager at renaissance group

Veeam Backup & Replication assists us to improve to good infrastructure. 

  1. Veeam system makes a server image that is relative to our network requirements. 
  2. We get strong back-up capability.
  3. We are announcing to users that our server will not shut down for a single second. 
  4. Failover with Veeam is okay. 
  5. We are trying to make NES Network Extronance and Network Express copy to replication server using Veeam.
  6. Using distribution file systems, we take backups from users and clients. 
  7. We use copies struck to one server by Veeam and make it replication-to-replication. 
  8. We use Veeam for replication-to-replication virtual machines.

With Veeam Backup & Replication, data is secure and strongly stored to replication machines. If we consider the IT systems and infrastructure, then Veeam is making us environmentally friendly.

We are not taking more human resources to take manual back-up systems. With Veeam, we are not taking manual copies to offline or online backup. This is not necessary.

Also, we are reducing the maintenance cost for hardware because of not deploying more than required for our infrastructure.

Veeam helps us on data confidentiality using a simple file transfer. The set of file systems in our data is open, but when we use Veeam, we just make an image, a compact file. Nobody can open it and no one can keep it. 

The ransomware and other exploits cannot attack this file. Veeam optimizes our cost for recovering files and data. In this way, Veeam Backup & Replication is a help to our company.

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Senior System Engineer at Vantage Drilling

It helps with process restoration. With Veeam, we never had backup or restoration issues. It is always good when performing complete backups. It always restores, when needed.

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it_user587100 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at a non-tech company with 10,001+ employees

In the past, we were using another backup product. We used it to restore the machine multiple times, until we reached the required version of the machines. This process takes a very long time to finish.

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it_user379497 - PeerSpot reviewer
Professional Service/Solution Team at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

Veeam B&R saved many files that had accidentally been deleted. By using file level recovery, all of them got restored easily and in a timely manner.

From a business point of view the recovery time objective (RTO) and recovery point objective (RPO) can now be realized and improved.

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MB
Data Center Engineer at Strategic Solutions of Virginia

Veeam drastically lowered the strain on our hosted environment during backup windows all while decreasing the amount of time the backups require for completion. Upgrades to the backup environment take considerably less time to complete.

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it_user190125 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems/Network Administrator at a printing company

We have been able to move away from file-based backups, and now have total VMs protected.

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it_user350622 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Administrator - Backup & Storage Specialist at METRO SYSTEMS Romania

First of all, it has provided us with much needed HA for our retail sites. Until Veeam, the servers from stores were backed up, and in case of disaster with the production hypervisor, we would have faced a far too long restore time that would seriously impact the business.

Second, it allowed us to replace the older, slower, and much pricier backup solution in our virtual environment.

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it_user287370 - PeerSpot reviewer
Virtualization Specialist at InterLAN S.A.S.

I am a specialist in Veeam, and my clients optimized their recovery procedure, and it now requires less time to restore services. They love how easy it is to operate.

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it_user163335 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of Information Technology at a religious institution with 51-200 employees
  • As long as you are good with your grouping of servers, the dedupe process is wonderful.
  • Once installed and configured, it just works. The management dashboard is pretty easy to use and very easy to read.
  • On top of the easy to configure and manage, it is also lightning fast during recovery. It took just 20 minutes to recover a 500GB Windows Server.
  • Since the product connects directly to your vcenter, most of the traffic stays within your virtual switching environment, making backups run that much faster.
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it_user164319 - PeerSpot reviewer
Backup & Storage Systems Manager at a university with 501-1,000 employees

One of our managers lost his mail box completely and using my product's explorer for exchange function I installed only that user's mail box without turning back to all exchange back up folder.

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EG
Architect at a recreational facilities/services company with 1-10 employees

It's a backup solution. The only way it has improved the organization is by giving us a modern and robust backup solution. The previous solution wasn't complex, lacked features, and was abandoned.

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it_user135252 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Operations Team Lead - EU at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

Coming from tape backup environment to using Veeam and cloud upload dramatically changed and improved our backup process. The increase in backup speed was truly amazing, backup windows shrunk, we can also perform more frequent backups if more protection is required. There is obviously also the integration with VMware (which we utilize) and administration via PowerShell. All this, together with CloudBerry allowed us to fully automate our backup and offsite upload process. Reporting via PowerShell is extremely useful too i.e. for our daily checks.

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it_user165330 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Storage & Virtualisation Engineer (Managed Services) at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

This product has really reduced our recovery time objective considerably because we are able to restore entire virtual machines in under 15 minutes whenever that has come up. 

Not just that, though, as we are also able to restore individual objects requested by customers, e.g. deleted messages from an Exchange server. The Veeam product has reduced the time it takes to configure and monitor backups.

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it_user325755 - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Technology Bureau Deputy Director at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

For us, it's a simple solution for our complex environment. It has helped us reduce the time to manage backups.

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it_user271026 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Administrator at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
  • In various ways, we are using an Active Directory OS-aware backup, and I can recover deleted objects to AD.
  • When I need to duplicate a machine for test purposes, it is very easy to restore from a backup.
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MJ
Technical Service Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

The solution has improved our organization because it's very fast in backup recovery. In case of emergency, the instant recovery is very fast, and that's made everything better.

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it_user385404 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Consultant / EUC Specialist at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

One of our customers was hit by a ransomware attack shortly after they implemented the multi-tier backup with Veeam. They were able to recover 10.000+ files almost instantly and never lost more then 2 hours of work.

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it_user265821 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

With Veeam Backup and Replication, we have closed the time it would take to recover from a VM failure. We are able to assure greater uptime for our servers and clients.

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it_user382581 - PeerSpot reviewer
System and network administrator at a government

In a fully virtualized environment, the ability to perform instant or quick restore full VM is invaluable, and because this product is reliable, I often forget the backup appliance for weeks or months.
Veeam Backup makes me more confident and agile in managing and maintaining my IT infrastructure.

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it_user398709 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Architect at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

Backing up a virtual environment is quicker than our previous solution.

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it_user164025 - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Engineer at a local government with 501-1,000 employees

It's afforded our organisation peace of mind knowing that we have reliable, fast and a cost effective backup solution for our virtual environment which also allows us to provide our developers with both test and pre-prod environments in hours rather than days.

I am currently running secondary backup jobs (B2Bcopy) for our business critical virtual machines which are located at an offsite repository in addition to replication jobs which are located at our disaster recovery site without any issues.

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it_user265821 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We no longer use tapes. The restoration of files, email and entire servers have been reduced to mere minutes instead of hours or days, which it was at times.

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it_user165609 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Administrator at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The tool SureBackup allows me to check, once a month in my case, the situation of my backups: I always have the truth about my backups. Regarding the tool Replication, we use it for customers who do not have large financial resources, while allowing us to have the opportunity to restore their ambient edi production in the shortest time possible.

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it_user164895 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Lead & ICT Senior Infrastructure Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Real and fast restore and if needed a VM Instant Restore(1/2m).

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it_user160767 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager of Network at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Ability to have disaster recovery site capabilities integrated into our backup solution as well as a backup product that scales along with our needs.

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it_user160494 - PeerSpot reviewer
Architect with 1,001-5,000 employees
  1. Faster and more reliable backup.
  2. SAN Snapshot reduce backup window.
  3. Integration of Exchange and SQL granular restore reduce our RTO.
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it_user159813 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Support Analyst at a government with 501-1,000 employees

We have been able to instantly recover VMs from catastrophic failures to point in time and recover files easily without the long wait of searching and restoring from tape.

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it_user162141 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Allowed simple backup and restore of virtual machines as well as granular restore of files and Exchange databases.

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it_user159177 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Administrator at a recreational facilities/services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

There was a lot of time spent using other backup products in the past, and the best part about Veeam is its ease of use. I am able to spend my time doing other tasks instead of babysitting my backup strategy.

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it_user157914 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

It has given me and my customers ease of mind in regards to virtual backup, furthermore it has given us the opportunity to actually test the backup so that we know we can rely on it. With instant recovery you can recover an entire server in minutes. This means you can test if your server can start from backup, in case of a breakdown.

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TT
Group Product Specialist at a wholesaler/distributor with 201-500 employees

Provided much more, best to say, time, and less worry about backup. It automated backup to the point of almost no involvement needed and our backups can be checked, tested and verified at any time in accordance with our policies.

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it_user165615 - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Development Consultant at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees

Previously, a backup expert would be required to get a backup product to function properly. With Veeam Backup and Restore, things are so simple and efficient that you do not need to spend hours on end configuring the product. This allows engineers to focus on other business critical applications.

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it_user268605 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Infrastructure Executive at a energy/utilities company with 51-200 employees

Backup and recovery windows have been significantly improved. By using an adequate number of backup proxies, more jobs can be executed simultaneously. Image replication for DRP and Sure backup to verify data consistency have also met our audit criteria for data protection objectives.

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it_user317904 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Architect at a government with 501-1,000 employees

Saves IT operations a lot of time and frustration.

Also, the ROI for our CFO is tremendous whereas we did not have data deduplication on our previous backup product, unless licensed at a cost higher/GB than buying storage. We can now leverage in-box Windows deduplication with excellent results. We have longer retention times and spaces to spare on our backup targets.

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it_user313080 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

We were struggling with having software that would give us reliable backup and when we implemented the Veeam solution, it solved the problem for us.

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it_user165585 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 51-200 employees

Able to backup virtual servers and setup and DR for critical applications.

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it_user158727 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Senior Systems Engineer at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees

Very fast & reliable backup, less management, fast restores

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TM
Director of Enterprise Infrastructure Services with 501-1,000 employees

Veeam was very easy to use, set up, and manage.

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KP
System Engineer at Elecon

After we bought this product, we backed up all the servers of Azure, as well as our physical servers. 

The product is user-friendly. 

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it_user207291 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Operations Manager at a legal firm with 51-200 employees

By allowing us to restore from our NetApp appliance directly, we have realized a tremendous time and resource savings in our virtual environment.

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it_user248913 - PeerSpot reviewer
Support Services Manager with 51-200 employees

It's improved backup recovery time significantly, and makes backup testing a breeze.

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it_user165330 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Storage & Virtualisation Engineer (Managed Services) at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We used to have many backup solutions for different purposes but Veeam allowed us to use just one backup solution to backup our vms and due to the granularity of the system, it allows us to restore of single objects when the vm is mounted.

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it_user164016 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees
  • Veeam Backup has given us the power to protect the critical VM's that are core to our business. For example we protect our VMware vCenter Server, vCenter MS Sql Server.
  • Active Directory Domain Controller. This help us recover the Internal management tools like vCenter Server within 30 minutes from Veeam Backup.
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it_user393267 - PeerSpot reviewer
Master Solutions Architect (APAC) / Data Protection Specialists at a tech company with 5,001-10,000 employees

It helps the discovery of the new VM. It allows me to use the same tools when we decided to move from VMware to Hyper-V.

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it_user642204 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior System Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

We are a MSP and we deliver the best solutions to our customers.

Veeam was one of the key products available for the virtualized environment.

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it_user165408 - PeerSpot reviewer
Engineer with 51-200 employees

Using Veeam as a primary backup tool for the virtual environment we were able to reduce drastically the backup windows and offer better services for provisioning VMs for both the testing and development environments.

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it_user165570 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Engineer at a healthcare company with 51-200 employees

It has given us the ability to restore our systems very, very quickly. The backups run very quickly as well, which helps us free up bandwidth on our network.

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it_user164832 - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO with 51-200 employees

We are able to restore VM very fast, with 0 downtime.

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DA
Implementation and Support Engineer at PRACSO S.R.L.

It protects us from losing data and having downtime.

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it_user216207 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Implementation Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

With storage integration, it has improved the backup windows and reduced the impact on the VMs. SureBackup has also come in handy when we are looking at updating applications. We kind of use it as a test environment.

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it_user363294 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We are less of an end user than provider. But, yes, I’d like to mention a scenario where we have been able to churn out lost VMs in just minutes for our cloud customers.

This makes life easier for all IT professionals by ensuring a reliable and hassle-free backup and replication solution, and thus it is reliable business IT.

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RA
Solutions Engineer at a tech company with 501-1,000 employees

In term of cost saving, it does reflect the justification made to the management to invest on Veeam B&R rather than build a redundant high availability in either Virtualize or physical environment which is costly to manage and maintain. With IVR, you can also improve your recovery point objective (RPO) and recovery time objective (RTO) by bringing up the VM within a short period of time, thus minimizing the troubleshooting duration.

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it_user1001379 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Administrator at a wholesaler/distributor with 201-500 employees

Reliable and easy-to-use backup and restore. Version 9.5 has been the most reliable with little to few failed backups.  

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it_user182694 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Manager & Vice Chairman of the Board at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Its backup speed and data compression power have improved the way my organization functions.

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it_user12039 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Project Manager at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

Veeam B&R saved our many files that accidentally had been deleted. By using File Level Recovery, all of them got restored easily and in a time manner.

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it_user452412 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Architect at FLEXdata Solutions

Veeam Backup allows FLEXdata Solutions to offer a more complete data protection strategy to our client-base, and one that delivers greater business value than the majority of legacy backup solutions in-place today.

Each organisation we work with has different data protection products and processes in place, so we are exposed to many different products and approaches. We specifically chose to partner with Veeam for a number of technical and commercial reasons. These include its rich feature set coupled with ease-of-use, strong roadmap, roadmap delivery history, simple and predictable licensing model, channel model, and deep integration with NetApp Integrated Data Protection features.

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it_user215970 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Lead with 51-200 employees

By using Veeam, backups times for the entire virtual environment have been reduced, and backup windows now have no impact on production VMs.

Instant recovery has revolutionised client DR plans, reducing recovery time objectives (RTO) and improving available recovery point objectives (RPO).

Also as Veeam "just works" less time is spent troubleshooting backup technologies and failed backups.

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it_user254622 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Engineer / System Administrator at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

Restores are easier to do.

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it_user248922 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Administrator at a government with 501-1,000 employees

I have a backup of my infrastructure every night, and have improved the speed of performing restores.

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it_user248910 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Engineer at a healthcare company with 501-1,000 employees

Surebackup allows verification of the backup. This provides a higher level of confidence.

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it_user168507 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior System Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

- Reducing backup storage

- Reducing backup time

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it_user163353 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Engineer at a healthcare company with 501-1,000 employees

With this product we are able to drastically reduce our backup and restore times. We are able to have a true DR site with Veeams replication jobs.

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it_user791478 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Architect at SCC
it_user408273 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Infrastructure Division at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

We reduced licensing costs for our backup, as the trend of the backup is always increasing. The tool also provides significantly simpler management and easier backup and restore operations, among other factors such as the ability to test the backups and replicas of backups in our backup site.

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it_user233868 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Development Manager at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

It's affordability, ease of use, and reliability has allowed us to save both man-hours and money.

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it_user160449 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Solution Specialist at Zones Inc.

Very smooth backup and restore when required.

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it_user419235 - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Senior Specialist at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

Based on my previous experience with different backup products, Veeam is the best one that understands and integrates easily with virtual infrastructure.

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it_user269748 - PeerSpot reviewer
Specialist for System Integration at a tech vendor

Veeam improved our backup infrastructure to help save backup space. With the integrated WAN acceleration, the data transfer of our backup files to cloud storage sped up.

Instant VM Recovery provides very fast recovery of our critical VMs.

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it_user303678 - PeerSpot reviewer
Windows System Administrator at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We can now perform restores as file level instead of the whole VM.

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it_user300552 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manger at a energy/utilities company with 51-200 employees

After we started using Veeam, we transferred all our 30 virtual servers in seven hours to our disaster recovery side. 

Also, during our disaster recovery test w,e did not have any issues replicating servers.

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it_user159807 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. security/system engineer at a media company with 501-1,000 employees

We wanted to replicate a very old database which is running on VM. We were looking for solution long time and finally using this product we are able to do it.

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it_user250974 - PeerSpot reviewer
Freelance IT Consultant at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees

It has made the VM infrastructure easier to manage, as well as simplifying the backup and restore process.

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it_user244143 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Administrator at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It drastically reduced the backup time window and improved data protection.

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it_user199806 - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Center Operations Manager at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

Versions of backup files helped us to recover files as per users requirement.

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it_user165912 - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Systems Manager at a energy/utilities company with 501-1,000 employees

Improved virtual infrastructures backup and recovery.

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it_user626055 - PeerSpot reviewer
Virtualization, Storage & Data Protection Specialist at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We have significantly improved the restore process of single items, like an Exchange Mailbox with a very simple wizard-driven process.

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it_user210792 - PeerSpot reviewer
Professional Services at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees

We use Veeam with EMC Data Domain. This allowed us to simplify our backup processes and enable us to have faster and more streamlined backup jobs. It's also easier to manage than our previous solution with huge space savings. Since Veeam also allows us to replicate machines we use that feature in a way that provide us more flexibility when we need to test some updates or changes without risking our production environment.

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it_user248904 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network specialist at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

We looked for the best solution to get backups of our VM without downtime, and I found this was the best solution. We highly recommend it for virtual servers.

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it_user157938 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Consultant with 51-200 employees

Improved backup and recovery speeds, ease of use.

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it_user675321 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Marketing Manager at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees

We use Veeam to protect our production environment without the need to install clients on every VM for every different MSFT applications that we have in production.

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it_user164022 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Administrator at a transportation company with 51-200 employees
  • Drastically reduce administrative effort
  • Friendly User Interface
  • Faster backup recovery
  • Disaster Recovery Plan
  • Decrease amount of backup completion
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it_user160614 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

It is helpful in BCP in the event of disaster and human errors on VM infrastructure to reduce MTTR and fast recovery.

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it_user795153 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sales Representative at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees

Get only one interface to manage all backup sites, secure them with replication, and manage outside LTO media.

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PP
Senior IT Infrastructure Manager at a computer software company with 11-50 employees

If it backs up, then I'm sure it will restore!

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NM
VP Business Development with 11-50 employees

It has mainly been in dev testing, so I would say it's helped us to protect our IP address and critical information.

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it_user755142 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior IS/IT Consultant, Backup D/R Specialist at a tech company with 51-200 employees

Faster and safer backups and restores means less time worrying.

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it_user165327 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Marketing Engineer with 201-500 employees

It simplifies the backup process by allowing applications that are virtualized to be treated as virtual machines. Veeam's virtual labs actually takes into account all the required dependencies of testing application servers with ease. Not all solutions have this feature.

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it_user159843 - PeerSpot reviewer
Support Manager at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees

Backups don't fail often which saves time and data.

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HL
NSW Practice Lead at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

Great RPO and RTO.

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it_user395730 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Admin at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

It provides simple DR operation & management for our heterogeneous virtualisation platform.

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March 2024
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