Veeam Data Platform is best bang for the buck

My company uses Veeam Data Platform in multiple locations to backup servers. At my site, we use Veeam Data Platform to backup our Hyper-V virtual servers. This secures our data and servers from everything from an accidental file deletion to a failed server that needs to be restored. We backup to onsite disk storage systems, and it also seamlessly backs up our data to cloud storage. We used to also use it for replication, but we have stopped using that feature because of business needs changing; the feature worked great. It is a lower cost solution that does everything we need to secure our on-site business data. This is important when budget matters. It is not difficult to restore single files or folders, and it is just as simple to restore an entire server.

I have about 20 virtual servers (Hyper-V) at my site my organization that are protected by Veeam Data Platform. That's about what I expected when it was purchased. There was a good plan was in place so we have not had to change the plan. There are other sites in my organization that use Veeam Data Platform, and they have more servers.

I review decisions every time I renew contracts. I have reviewed the decision to use Veeam Data Platform a few times now and I have not switched companies. It is a benefit that we already have Veeam Data Platform and I consider the added burden of switching companies. However, there is not another solution that is dramatically better or that cost considerably less than Veeam Data Platform. If there was something like that, I would really consider switching. So far I haven't found any.

Veeam Data Platform seamlessly works with cloud solutions. It is easy to add a cloud solution. I use one for archiving backups with their feature called backup copies. I make full backup copies monthly to a cloud solution and you can't really tell from the software that this particular job is off-site. It's built-in well. There are several cloud vendors that are in the configuration window that are built-in. It makes it easy.

We save backups locally to a NAS . We also backup a file server that has several file shares. I'm not sure if we use this feature for "unstructured data." I know that I can select certain parts of a hard drive to backup instead of an entire server. That is beneficial in case I want to restore a file system to a different location.