Veeam Definitive Guide 2023

2023 Definitive
Guide to Veeam
Table of contents
Table of contents
Introduction Technical Differentiation Veeam Data Platform Overview
Own and control your Data. Any Cloud. • Cloud Mobility: AWS, Azure & Google Veeam BaaS & DRaaS
We Keep Your Business Running • Fast, Reliable Recovery to meet SLAs Strong partner ecosystem
• Software-defined. Infrastructure Veeam Accolades
Agnostic. No Lock-In.
• Scalability
Business Value • Reduced Complexity.
Ease of use. Low TCO.
• Comprehensive Data Protection Summary
• Enterprise Application Support
• Ransomware Protection
and Data Security • SaaS: Microsoft 365 and Salesforce
• Hybrid Cloud Acceleration • Kubernetes and Future IT
• Backup and Recovery Modernization • Data Reuse & Digital Transformation

About Veeam
• Flexible, Portable Universal Licensing
© 2023 Veeam Software. Confidential information.

All rights reserved. All trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
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Introduction
Introduction
Outages and data loss are an unfortunate reality for businesses today. What is clear is things are changing, but for many organizations,
These outages can cause big risks to your company’s reputation and their aging backup solution hasn’t. As you move forward, outdated
revenue…because every minute of downtime means that critical data solutions can hold you back because they’re difficult to manage,
isn’t accessible to your business. And if things weren’t complicated prone to failure and lacking the speed, flexibility and security
enough, managing a complex hybrid, multi-cloud environment just required for critical business operations. This adds cost, complexity
makes continuity harder. These challenges increase complexity and additional burden to your overburdened team.
exponentially and greatly impact your ability to stay in control.
You’re entitled to a data protection solution that can evolve and
Veeam® recently conducted a fully independent research study of grow with your business by supporting your needs today and
nearly 4,200 IT professionals and decision makers to better understand beyond. This is what Veeam ® calls the Veeam Data Platform.
data protection trends, including:
• Organizations’ needs and priorities
• Ransomware and cyberthreats
• Infrastructure and cloud considerations

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Own and control your Data. Any Cloud.
Own and control your Data. Any Cloud.

Data is everywhere, across different applications, in multiple With a single platform Veeam empowers you to protect, access
locations across your expanding ecosystem including on-premises, and control your data, no matter the location, the cloud or
public cloud and hybrid all at the same time. But who really owns it? application with a solution built to meet your needs. Veeam keeps
Can you access the data now? Can you control your data when you you in control with data protection for cloud, virtual, physical,
need it most? SaaS and Kubernetes workloads.
Modern Data Protection

Be confident your data is protected and always available across
on-premises, edge and cloud environments.
• Ransomware protection
Secure Backup is your last line of Defense.
• Hybrid cloud acceleration

Own your Data. Any Cloud.
• Backup and recovery modernization.

Reduce cost and complexity, avoid infrastructure
lock-in and meet recovery SLAs.

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We Keep Your Business Running
We Keep Your Business Running

Veeam provides organizations with resiliency through a broad platform that How we do it
provides data security, data recovery and data freedom for their hybrid cloud.
Data Security: Multi-layered security, including
secure backup with trusted immutability
everywhere, secure access to prevent
Veeam Data Platform unauthorized entry, and secure recovery
to ensure ransomware-free restores.
Data Recovery: Recover exactly what you

need, where you need it, and when you need
it. Instant, granular and orchestrated recovery
of individual items, VMs, or a large-scale data
center operation.
Data Freedom: Protect all your data, anywhere,

Data Security Data Recovery Data Freedom any way with a platform that supports multi-
cloud mobility for ultimate flexibility, while
managing costs and minimizing downtime with
infrastructure observability.
Why Veeam
This is what makes Veeam the leader in
Data is the fuel of business, and at Veeam, we are committed to keep your Modern Data Protection and provides you
business running. Veeam ensures organizational resiliency through a broad platform with the peace of mind your data is secure
that provides data security, data recovery and data freedom for your hybrid cloud. and always readily available.

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Business
Value
Business Value / Comprehensive Data Protection
Comprehensive Data Protection

A single platform to protect ALL workloads
Organizations need a comprehensive and

extensible data protection platform that can
manage all kinds of data and applications Veeam Data Platform
from a single platform, including Cloud,
Virtual, Physical, SaaS and Kubernetes Proven Recovery Orchestration
environments. Veeam not only addresses
the common issues that come with backup
failures and long restoration times, but Proactive Monitoring and Analytics
also natively supports each workload and
platform in your hybrid- and/or multi-cloud Secure Backup and Fast Recovery
data center. Veeam does not retrofit legacy
technology into new locations; rather, it PLATFORM
Native APIs EXTENSIONS
uses a purpose-built approach.
AWS
The Veeam Data Platform is modular and
Microsoft 365
extensible, meaning it can deliver virtual Azure
and physical protection on-premises, cloud- Google Cloud Salesforce

CLOUD VIRTUAL PHYSICAL APPS SAAS
native protection in AWS, Azure and Google Kubernetes
Cloud environments, Kubernetes anywhere, On-Premises • In the Cloud • XaaS

as well as SaaS protection for Microsoft 365
and Salesforce environments.

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Business Value / Comprehensive Data Protection
With Veeam, all workloads are protected by native-running Veeam not only protects VMware and other virtual workloads but
solutions that integrate into a single platform for comprehensive expands to protect other key aspects of your ecosystem including
data management capabilities. This includes backup and recovery, Windows, Linux, AWS, Azure, Google and much more. Veeam is
ransomware protection, hybrid cloud acceleration, monitoring and the leader in protecting Microsoft 365 and Kubernetes as well.
analytics, and DR orchestration. Whether you are new to data protection, an industry veteran
or looking to expand your existing Veeam estate, Veeam offers
Veeam pioneered many aspects of data protection and became solutions to meet your ever-expanding data protection needs.
the industry leader for virtualization when we created our patented
Instant VM Recovery®. We have since expanded instant recovery
across multiple applications, servers and NAS while delivering robust,
easy to use, reliable and powerful capabilities to protect all aspects
of your ecosystem.
Veeam provides a 4-in-1 data capture capability so that you can

meet your recovery point objectives (RPOs). Veeam eliminates data
loss by protecting your critical data through 1) backup; 2) replication;
3) storage snapshots; and 4) continuous data protection (CDP).
NAS and unstructured data file shares have grown to have petabytes
of capacity. Veeam offers a changed file tracking capability that
delivers fast file scanning and restores across any NAS device or
Windows or Linux file share. Integrations with enterprise-grade
NAS Storage Snapshots are supported, in addition to immutable
backups and object support.
Veeam has offered in-depth Storage Snapshot and replication

integrations for a decade. We can provide reduced production
system impact and fastest recovery times while leveraging all
your existing infrastructure investments.

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Business Value / Ransomware Protection and Data Security
Ransomware Protection and Data Security

Stay safe from Ransomware:
Secure Backup is your last line of Defense.
Ransomware Protection
Ransomware is one of the most serious and
prevalent threats to enterprises today. According Secure Backup Is Your Last Line of Defense
to Veeam’s 2023 Data Protection Trends report,
85% of enterprises have experienced one or
more ransomware attacks in 2022. Even more Backup Recovery
concerning, companies report that on average,
they are only able to recover 64% of the data
from the attack. When fundamental operations are Trusted Immutability Instant Recovery at Scale
disrupted, companies find their hands tied and their
capabilities and customer confidence impacted.
Backup Verification Secure Restore
Veeam believes that the best offense is a solid
defense, including having a robust strategy for 3-2-1-1-0 Rule DR Orchestration
backing up your data. Successful backups are
the last line of defense for cyberattacks and can
be the deciding factor to prevent considerable
downtime, data loss, and paying a costly ransom. Software-defined. No lock-in with proprietary hardware.

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Secure Backup
Veeam recommends that you follow the 3-2-1-1-0 Rule as a best Trusted Immutability is a key step that will prevent cybercriminals
practice, which is our enhancement to the well-known industry from accessing, encrypting or deleting your data. Immutability
3-2-1 Rule. It’s suggested that you have three different copies of provides the trusted protection of air-gapped, offline storage in
your data on two different media types, one of which is off site and a Write Once, Read Many (WORM) fashion making the backup
one of which is offline, air- gapped or immutable. After all of this, data impenetrable to attack. Veeam offers several options of
there also should be zero errors on backup copies since they have immutability including AWS S3, S3 Glacier, Azure Blob Storage
already been tested and verified as recoverable. and S3 compatible object lock, as well as the Veeam Hardened
Repository for on-premises immutability, not to mention tape
A robust, comprehensive cyber defense strategy always starts with backup options too.
the backup and they need to be reliable, verified and tested. Veeam
SureBackup® pioneered automated backup verification. This is a key
capability in any ransomware resiliency best practice.
Veeam’s 3-2-1-1-0 Backup Rule
With Veeam SureBackup™ —

automated backup testing
and recovery verification —
you’ll be confident that
your backups are valid and 3 2 1 1 0
reliable. Recall that backup
reliability is a top reason
Different copies Different media Offsite copy Offline air-gapped No errors after backup
or immutable recoverability
to change backup products. verification

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Secure Recovery
Veeam’s patented Instant Recovery at scale provides organizations Since Ransomware is a disaster, Veeam has some great capabilities in
with the fastest way to get their data back online in the event of Veeam Data Platform that help you stay prepared. The Veeam ONE™
a disaster. Leveraging a portable data format, Veeam delivers cross- monitoring and analytics add-on provides alerts and alarms that
platform access to ensure the fastest recovery. let you spot potential cyber issues early on and see if the backup
data has been altered.
Veeam was the first-to-market with Secure Restore, which scans
backup data with antivirus software before restoring the machine With Veeam Recovery Orchestrator, you can create and automate
to the production environment. Secure Restore is easy to enable your DR plan, perform automated testing, generate documentation
and lets you use your preferred antivirus software to verify that you to prove compliance and perform fast and reliable one-click
won’t reintroduce threats to your data center before restoring data, recovery for everything from a group of virtual machines (VMs)
all in a non-production, network-isolated sandbox. to an entire data center.
Automated testing Dynamic documentation One-click recovery
More information on how Veeam helps you win the war on ransomware can be found here: www.veeam.com/ransomware-protection.html

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Business Value / Hybrid Cloud Acceleration
Hybrid Cloud Acceleration

Veeam helps you accelerate your initiatives to
the cloud with Hybrid and Multi-cloud solutions to
meet your backup objectives in any environment.
Standardized protection for confident cloud use
Protect, Control and
Manage Cloud Data
Azure Google
• Cloud-Native — Backup, recovery and disaster
recovery (DR), fully-automated to effortlessly
protect, secure and manage your AWS, Azure
and Google Cloud data. On-Premises Azure Google
• Cloud Mobility — Backup and move data with

ease while maintaining control without lock-in.
• SaaS — Powerful and secure backup and Veeam Data Platform

recovery for Salesforce and Microsoft 365 A Single Platform to Protect ALL Data
data — including Exchange Online, SharePoint
Online, OneDrive for Business, Microsoft Teams. Platform Native Cloud Mobility Modular Architecture
• Kubernetes — Easy-to-use, scalable and
secure backup/restore, DR and application
mobility for cloud-hosted and on-premises
Kubernetes distributions.

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Business Value / Hybrid Cloud Acceleration
Leverage Cloud for Protection and Security

• Backup and Archive to Cloud — Automatically tier Veeam backups to
AWS, Azure and Google Cloud object and archive storage to reduce
costs and lack of scalability associated with more expensive on-
premises backup storage.
• Disaster Recovery to Cloud — Two-step, wizard-driven recovery

of any Veeam backup of cloud, virtual and physical workloads
to AWS, Azure and Google Cloud.
• Ransomware Recovery — Utilize Amazon S3, Azure Blob Storage

or S3-compatible storage as an offsite repository for backups,
including integration with Amazon S3 Object Lock to secure
backup data with Write Once, Read Many (WORM) protection.
• Migrate and Modernize — Leverage the same two-step

technology for recovering cloud, virtual and physical
workloads to AWS, Azure and Google Cloud for application
migration and modernization.

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Business Value / Backup and Recovery Modernization
Backup and Recovery Modernization

Reduce cost and complexity, avoid Veeam enables you to avoid catastrophic Lastly, Veeam enables you to recover
hardware lock-in and meet recovery SLAs. downtime by offering the fastest RPOs what you need, how you need it with fast,
of under 5 seconds. This is achieved flexible and granular recovery options.
Your business relies on data, and protecting by storage snapshot integration across Veeam’s Instant Recovery options using
it is paramount. We live in a world where we the widest range of storage appliances, a portable data format empower you to meet
have to expect and be prepared for outages, providing both choice and the fastest the most demanding RTOs, SLAs and cloud
so fast, reliable recovery is critical. To do this, recovery times possible. mobility requirements.
your backup solution needs to be flexible
enough to meet your needs, no matter where
your data resides, without complex rules
and restrictions. This includes being able to
protect the data you need, on the hardware
that you have while meeting your recovery
time objectives.
Backup and Recovery Modernization
Inflexible backups and disparate or proprietary Decrease cost and complexity • Meet recovery SLAs with confidence
hardware solutions can lock you into a costly
situation, crippling your ability to meet SLAs
and maintain control of your data when you Software-defined. Industry Instant Recovery
need it most. Veeam is software-defined and No Lock-in Best RPOs for best RTOs
infrastructure agnostic, meaning that you
can deploy on the hardware of your choice,
where you want and never be locked into
a costly, proprietary appliance.

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Technical
Differentiation
Technical Differentiation / Cloud Mobility: AWS, Azure, & Google
Cloud Mobility: AWS, Azure, & Google

Accelerate your move to Hybrid Cloud. Move your data more Veeam accelerates your cloud adoption plans with:
confidently using a single platform with a common control plane. • single platform
Organizations have increased their adoption of AWS, Azure, Google • modular and cloud-native approach
Cloud and other cloud services and this is expected to accelerate
• advanced cloud and data portability
further. This applies to SaaS and Kubernetes solutions as well. Moving
to cloud-based backup capabilities is a top driver for organizations that
are evaluating backup capabilities. However, some backup vendors
require bolt-on products, make data retrieval more challenging or
Standardized protection for confident cloud use
charge extra fees when users access the cloud.
Veeam has a different approach. Purpose built for AWS, Azure and Azure Google
Google Cloud, our API-driven architecture utilizes native snapshots,
storage and security. These snapshots are then copied to inexpensive
object storage in Veeam’s portable data format. Veeam delivers On-Premises Azure Google
modular, cloud-native backup and recovery to an ever-expanding

list of workloads in AWS, Azure and Google Cloud, integrated
directly into Veeam Backup & Replication. Veeam is passionate about
ensuring that you maintain ownership and control of your data, with Veeam Data Platform
the ability not only to protect and manage your data, but also to A Single Platform to Protect ALL Data
move it across platforms without barriers. Whether you’re looking Platform Native Cloud Mobility Modular Architecture
to protect your data in the cloud, leverage the cloud to protect non-
cloud workloads, or just want confidence that you can move data to,
from, or across clouds, Veeam can help. Own your Data. Any Cloud. On-premises, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud.

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Technical Differentiation / Fast, Reliable Recovery to meet your SLAs
Fast, Reliable Recovery to meet your SLAs

Backups are critical, but when your business is on the line, available, and that operations are resumed without incident.
it’s the recovery that counts. You need fast, reliable recovery to Veeam continued innovating and now offers Instant Recovery for
meet the expectations of your business and your customers and VMs as well as applications, servers and NAS to meet your most
partners. And frequently auditors or regulators now require that you important recovery time objectives (RTOs).
demonstrate the ability to resume operations quickly after an outage.
Speed is critical to getting back to business. Meet your recovery Veeam Patented Instant Recovery
SLAs with confidence.
Lightning Fast • Multiple VMs at Scale • Anything to VMware and Hyper-V
Veeam has over 420,000+ customers globally, and over 1,000,000
active installations, proving that you can count on the Veeam Data
Instant
Platform to deliver the availability that you need. And again, this is Multi-VM Recovery
VMs
done without requiring proprietary hardware, and without locking
you into any specific set of infrastructure purchases that only work Instant
for some things. Cloud Instant Recovery
Cloud-VM Recovery
Meet your service level agreements (SLAs) with the industry’s best RPOs Instant
Disk Recovery
and RTOs on your terms with a modern, software-defined solution. Physical
Veeam
Veeam pioneered Instant VM Recovery , where data is quickly ® Repository
Instant
mounted, and made available directly from backup repositories, Database DB Recovery
without having to wait first for long restoration times. Access to
critical data is not gated by the entire restore being completed — Instant
NAS Recovery
instead Veeam ensures that business-critical data is quickly NAS
Instant Recovery at Scale!

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Technical Differentiation / Fast, Reliable Recovery to meet your SLAs
Meet your SLAs

How much data can you stand to lose? How fast do you need to While choice in backup and speed of recovery are critically important,
recover? These are the RPO and RTO decisions you need to make. so is the ability to recover to a variety of platforms and locations.
With Veeam, direct restore to the major cloud providers is only a few
Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs) are critical, with some applications
clicks away, including direct restore to AWS, Azure or Google Cloud,
requiring the absolute minimum of data loss. Modern workloads
as well as restoring anything to VMware.
require an expanded choice of protection methods, from backup, to
replication, to storage snapshots, to continuous data protection (CDP).
Veeam provides the flexibility to protect your data in four

different ways to best achieve your RPO and RTO requirements,
all in one solution. Veeam’s well-tested streaming backups allow 4-in-1 for Best RPOs
data protection as often as several times per day. For more critical
workloads, VM replication allows the frequent and efficient
replication of VMware and Hyper-V snapshots to target hosts, 1. Backup 2. Replication
reducing potential data loss to a few hours. Storage integrations with
all major storage platforms reduce potential data loss even further by
leveraging hardware-based snapshots and replication. And for the most
critical VMware workloads, Veeam’s continuous data protection (CDP)
3. Storage snapshots 4. CDP
offers constant asynchronous data replication to a waiting VMware
host. All 4 options are offered in one solution, with nothing else
to purchase, all controlled through a single, simple interface.

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Technical Differentiation / Software-defined. Infrastructure Agnostic. No Lock-in.
Software-defined. Infrastructure Agnostic. No Lock-in.

Avoid lock-in to proprietary hardware. Choose the infrastructure that how to manage. The Veeam Universal Storage API enables direct
is right for your business, with over 100 storage and cloud integrations integration with the world’s leading storage providers, giving you
for the greatest flexibility and best TCO. the largest set of storage options.
Some backup solutions are predicated on specific, proprietary Veeam is certified to run on a broad range of infrastructure
hardware. Often, this hardware is just commodity compute and components, all-in-one implementations and pre-configured
storage that a vendor charges a premium for. This can be inflexible backup appliances. Veeam achieves this through interfaces like
and force costly upgrades for many components, even when perhaps Veeam Universal Storage API, Restful APIs and PowerShell. Veeam can
only more storage capacity is needed. Making matters worse, given integrate with your management solutions including Ansible, Chef,
the economic realities that many businesses face today, existing Chocolatey, Puppet and Terraform, just to name a few. See github.com/
infrastructure cannot be reused, and therefore, businesses may be VeeamHub for more examples of Veeam community integrations.
forced to implement hardware outside of their preferred vendors.
This can make scaling up or down difficult, which reduces backup
solutions’ extensibility. The broadest ecosystem
of storage partner integrations
Veeam is software-defined and infrastructure/hardware agnostic.
Our expertise is in delivering innovative backup software, and
there are many hardware vendors that have spent countless years 89 96 32
Primary Storage Backup Disk and Object Storage
innovating their storage, compute and networking solutions. Veeam Dedup Storage (19 Immutable)
feels that you should have the flexibility to choose the right mix
of components that meet your requirements based on your unique Azure
specifications and previous purchase decisions. This enables you to
get the best ROI possible by leveraging storage and infrastructure
that you already have or purchasing hardware that you already know

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Technical Differentiation / Software-defined. Infrastructure Agnostic. No Lock-in.
Freedom with No Lock-in!

It’s your data, and you should be able to protect and access it no matter where
it resides or on what sort of infrastructure. And you should be able to move that data
freely as well, without being locked into a single cloud or a proprietary appliance.
Too often, data gets stranded in isolated silos because multiple backup approaches
with a variety of data formats need to be deployed. This creates friction for data
movement, especially when you’re trying to move data to, from or across the multi-
cloud. Your backup should not be holding your data hostage. Similarly, selecting
a cloud provider should not lock your data into only that cloud. It’s your data, you
own it, and that data should be effortless to access and seamless to move however
you need it to.
Veeam doesn’t lock you in. With the ability to backup data across your entire
ecosystem, on-premises, in the cloud and beyond, you have the freedom to choose
and avoid lock-in. You also have licensing freedom, as Veeam doesn’t penalize, or
tax you when you want to use other platforms or go to the cloud. Veeam is open
and portable. It’s your data. You own it. Any Cloud!
Veeam’s portable data format means that with your credentials, you can use our
Windows and Linux extract utilities to bring back your data even without a Veeam
backup server. You can also download the free Veeam Community Edition version of
a product and quickly restore your data with the same credentials. This means that
you’ll never be locked out of your data, even years down the road.

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Technical Differentiation / Scalability
Scalability
Being enterprise-grade doesn’t just involve offering powerful features and supporting
a broad range of workloads and environments, it also includes being scalable to
meet your needs. Scalability means different things to different organizations and
roles, including:
• Supporting a large number of varying workloads across a broad ecosystem
• Protecting the largest, most taxing enterprise applications
• Infinitely scale storage capacity and backup storage targets with ease
• Offering a breadth of supported storage vendors and ecosystem partners so

you are in control
No matter your definition, Veeam is ready to handle your most demanding backup
and recovery needs. Veeam doesn’t just offer multiple ways to protect data, we scale
to support your data’s growth and your retention mandates. With over 1,000,000
active installations, Veeam is proven and ready for the challenge!
Veeam can support tens of thousands of workloads, ensuring even the largest
organization’s needs are met. For backups, Veeam can support millions of files, and
petabytes of unstructured data on file shares and more. Whether protecting a single
machine, or operating the largest environments, the power and scalability of Veeam
can meet your needs.

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Technical Differentiation / Scalability
Infinitely scalable capacity

Veeam offers a vertically and horizontally scalable software-defined Even more powerful is the fact that data in cloud storage can
storage (SDS) architecture to help meet your storage objectives. be accessed just as if it were on-premises in the performance
Veeam Scale-out Backup Repository™ is a software-defined tier. This means that Veeam’s Instant VM Recovery capability and
construct that pools different types of storage devices for backup entire computer, disk, file and item-level recoveries are just a few
data, including performance, capacity and archive tiers to meet your clicks away. Veeam customers have enthusiastically adopted public
speed, cost and long-term storage needs. Through Veeam’s policy cloud object storage, and they are on track to exceed 1 Exabyte of
engine, data can be placed on the most appropriate devices, additional backup data to the cloud in 2022.
including direct-attached storage (DAS), deduplication appliances,
NAS, object storage and the cloud. With Veeam, storage device
migration and capacity additions or subtractions become seamless.
Veeam Scale-out Backup Repository (SOBR)
Are you looking to save costs through the cloud or through third-
party object storage for capacity optimization and long-term
retention? Veeam has you covered with object storage compatibility
with Amazon S3, Azur Blob Storage and Google Cloud object storage PERFOMANCE
Built for Instant Recovery
CAPACITY
Infinite Scale
ARCHIVE
Low Cost
options, including a suite of S3-compatible object storage providers
in the cloud and on-premises. For your Archive needs, Veeam offers
S3 Glacier and Glacier Deep Archive Tier and Azure Blob Storage and Veeam Repository Amazon S3 Amazon S3 Glacier
Archive Tier Storage options.

DAS S3 Compatible
Best of all, you can automate your backup data lifecycle to meet
Azure
your needs with our policy-driven process. Veeam can send aged SAN Azure Blob
Archive Storage
data to object storage at a specified time, or send data to the cloud

Google Cloud
immediately, with the option to use S3 Object Lock for immutability NAS
and the utmost in data protection and ransomware prevention. - Immutability

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Technical Differentiation / Reduced Complexity. Easy to use. Low TCO.
Reduced Complexity. Easy to use. Low TCO.

Veeam has had a long-standing design Simple Flexible
philosophy of delivering solutions that Reducing complexity and Veeam’s flexibility comes
are simple, flexible, reliable, and powerful. operational management from the software-defined
Simple does not mean lacking features or (i.e., ease of use) has been architecture and from our
one of the top drivers behind broad ecosystem of partners,
capabilities, but rather that solutions are switching backup products for as well as the universal
easy to deploy, configure and manage. This over a decade. licensing options.
equates to ease of use and fast time to value.
Ease of use and reduced complexity

aren’t just nice to have, they’re essential. Reliable Powerful
Modern backup solutions should save Reliability is key because Veeam’s power means fast,
you time and effort while delivering your backup solution is your secure, scalable, and future-
reliable backup and restore capabilities. data’s last line of defense. proof solutions. The Veeam
After all, this is what you expected when Organizations are well aware next-gen Instant VM Recovery
of this — in fact, Veeam’s 2023 engine delivers lightning-
you implemented your legacy backup Data Protection Trends Report fast mass recovery at scale in
product(s). However, if you’re like the many revealed that the number case of an outage. This and
people that were surveyed above, you one reason to switch backup many other powerful industry-
found that backup was neither reliable products is to improve backup first capabilities enable our
success and reliability. customers to achieve the most
nor easy. Veeam delivers ease of use and demanding recovery SLAs while
reduced complexity in a single platform, also dramatically reducing data
without infrastructure lock-in, resulting in loss and downtime.
lower TCO and better ROI.

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Technical Differentiation / Enterprise Application Support
Enterprise Application Support

Veeam provides the power, flexibility and scalability that’s required You shouldn’t have to restore an entire backup or image just
for the largest organizations. This is proven by our consistency, since to get the specific data that you need. Veeam Explorers™ provide
Veeam has been the vendor of choice for over 82% of Fortune 100 granular recovery, search and eDiscovery for different enterprise
companies. Veeam understands that keeping critical application data applications including Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint, Active
always available is paramount. This applies especially to the primary Directory, SQL Server, Teams, Oracle and PostgreSQL databases.
applications that large organizations depend on, including Microsoft
Connect directly to your Oracle or SAP HANA databases to create
365, Oracle, SAP, and other leading database solutions. Veeam enables
transactionally consistent backups with our Oracle RMAN and SAP HANA
availability for enterprise applications with dedicated plug-ins and
plug-ins, which seamlessly integrate with those database solutions.
tools to ensure that backup is reliable, and recovery is fast.
While sitting at the leading edge of technology, enterprises also need to
Veeam can also instantly recover enterprise applications like
support legacy applications and operating systems. Veeam can help here
Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle, as well as unstructured data
by protecting Windows, Linux, IBM AIX and Oracle Solaris.
in file shares and NAS.

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Technical Differentiation / SaaS: Microsoft 365 and Salesforce
SaaS: Microsoft 365 and Salesforce

SaaS is quickly becoming the way organizations do business, and Veeam is continuously expanding in this space. The combination of
Veeam’s cloud-native backup modules for SaaS applications and data portability let you reduce risk when moving to SaaS applications.
You own your data, and you can always get it back.
Microsoft 365 • Take advantage of Veeam’s familiar advanced search capabilities

and flexible recovery and export options when performing
Microsoft 365 is the leading productivity solution across the world. eDiscovery on Microsoft 365 mailboxes, emails, files or sites.
However, even though Microsoft hosts its infrastructure, this
doesn’t replace your responsibility to back business-critical data Veeam has been the industry leader in protecting Microsoft 365 data
up to prevent permanent loss. Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 for 4 consecutive years.
eliminates the risk of data loss for Microsoft 365 data, including
Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business and Salesforce
Microsoft Teams.
There’s no arguing the growth and business criticality of Salesforce data,
• Retrieve Microsoft 365 data from a cloud-based instance of yet organizations rarely back it up. Why? They often misunderstand
Microsoft 365 and back the data up as often as every five minutes the shared data protection responsibility within Salesforce. Like
in Microsoft’s native format. Microsoft 365, businesses need to understand that Salesforce manages
the infrastructure responsible for availability of their SaaS clouds, but
• Protect data that’s posted and shared with Microsoft Teams again this doesn’t replace your responsibility to protect the Salesforce
chats, files and sites, since Teams data is recorded into Exchange data — and metadata — which is extremely critical within the Salesforce
Online and SharePoint Online. architecture, with data vital to your business operation. Veeam Backup
• Make it easier for your users to quickly find and restore Teams for Salesforce eliminates the risk of losing your Salesforce data
data and components, including entire teams, specific channels, and metadata — so that your business is reliably protected, giving
settings, applications and tabs. you complete control.

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Technical Differentiation / Kubernetes and Future IT
Kubernetes and Future IT

Cloud-native applications based on Kubernetes are
growing enormously in popularity. Kubernetes
delivers common APIs and services for running Data Services
software distributed on modern cloud-based Amazon RDS
infrastructure. Veeam recognized the strategic

importance of providing you with modern data Distributions
management that’s deeply integrated into cloud-
native application protection. By bringing together Container Data
Orchestration Management
Kasten K10’s Kubernetes-native backup solution Platform
in the Veeam Data Platform, Veeam created
the complete platform for cloud-native and Storage Azure Blob S3 Compatible
container data protection. Infrastructure

AWS EBS
#1 Kubernetes Backup
Protect Critical Cloud-native Applications
Kasten K10, a data management platform purpose-built for Kubernetes, is an easy-to-
use, scalable, and secure system for backup and recovery, DR and application mobility
for your Kubernetes clusters.
• Securely protect your Kubernetes-native applications and data.
• Enable application portability across critical use cases including DR, clone and migration.
Kasten K10 for Kubernetes • Meet regulatory and corporate mandates for protection of cloud-native applications.

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Technical Differentiation / Data Reuse & Digital Transformation
Data Reuse & Digital Transformation

It’s difficult to imagine a business that is not engaged in at least one digital transformation
project. Digital transformation is leveraged as a method of expanding customer and
partner relationships and a method of delivering new products and services and optimizing
costs. The ability to quickly and easily reuse data to achieve better business outcomes is
what’s needed most to achieve digital transformation. However not all data protection
solutions make it easy to leverage backup data for alternate use cases.
Veeam pioneered Instant Recovery of data over a decade ago and we’ve been
optimizing that capability ever since. In addition to instant recovery, Veeam allows
you to run production workloads in a network-isolated environment directly from
backup storage. This allows value-added use cases like patch testing of applications and
operating systems, application development, and DevOps. Expanding on this capability
Veeam’s Data Integration API allows backup data to be presented to Windows or Linux
servers for additional purposes such as DataOps, data classification, forensic analysis and
reporting and analytics.
Veeam combines instant recovery capabilities with data portability and cloud mobility,
to provide the digital dexterity that modern, fast-moving organizations need. Veeam
removes dependencies on legacy systems and technologies that impede Digital
Transformation. Do more with your data and help drive your business forward-fast.

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Technical Differentiation / Flexible, Portable Universal Licensing
Flexible, Portable Universal Licensing

Licensing isn’t something that IT professionals normally care to think
about. However, licensing can be extremely valuable in your ability
to deliver the backup services your business needs, where they need
Veeam Customer Environment:
Stay with “per CPU sockets”
them. Workloads and deployment models are shifting constantly which
can mean that organizations get stuck with legacy solutions in a flash.
Veeam uses the Veeam Universal License (VUL), which is a flexible

per-workload license that protects all workloads across on-premises,
hybrid- and multi-cloud environments. As an industry first, VUL is PER CPU SOCKET VUL (Veeam Universal License) SaaS & K8s
portable and transferable between workloads, and is thus future- per User
per Workload
proof. The license moves easily from physical to virtual to multi- Virtual:
cloud, including support for Windows, Linux, NAS, VMware, AWS, VMware Cloud: SaaS:
Hyper-V
Azure, Google Cloud, Nutanix and beyond. AWS
Azure
Microsoft 365
Salesforce
Google Cloud
• Transfer licenses across workloads and locations
Physical:
per Node
• Move licenses on your own schedule Windows
On-prem, Cloud, Virtual:
Linux
• Avoid getting stuck with licenses you can no longer use NAS Kubernetes
VUL allows you to purchase protection for the workloads you need
to protect, no matter their location. This provides flexibility and
avoids “shelfware”, or wasted investment, and it means that you
Future-proof Portable Low TCO
can get the best use out of your backup investment, even if your
requirements change in the future. Multi-cloud No lock-in No cloud tax

CONTENTS
Veeam
Data Platform
Overview
Veeam Data Platform Overview
Veeam Data Platform Overview

The Veeam Data Platform provides organizations with data resiliency through secure backup and fast, reliable recovery solutions for their hybrid
cloud. We integrate seamlessly with AWS, Azure and Google Cloud, as well as offer native backup and application mobility for Kubernetes. We also
have integrations with some of your most data-intensive SaaS workloads.
Backup and Recovery Monitoring and Alerts Recovery Orchestration

Platform Edition
Veeam Backup & Replication Veeam ONE Veeam Recovery Orchestrator
Premium
Advanced
Foundation
Platform Extensions Cloud-native SaaS Kubernetes

Veeam offers integrated
Standalone cloud-native backup Simple backup and flexible recovery Kubernetes-native backup
extensions to the Veeam that’s built for simplicity, savings for top SaaS applications: and restore, DR and
Data Platform to extend data and security: applications mobility:
• Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365
protection to your critical • Veeam Backup for AWS • Kasten K10
data, wherever it resides. • Veeam Backup for Salesforce
• Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure
These extensions may also
run stand-alone. • Veeam Backup for Google Cloud

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Veeam Data Platform Overview / Veeam BaaS and DRaaS
Veeam BaaS and DRaaS

For over a decade, Veeam-powered Backup
and Disaster Recovery aaS partners have
delivered a variety of services across Managed Backup and DR as-a-Service
the world, ranging from simple backup
extensions to complete and fully managed With Veeam-powered Service Providers
as-a-Service offerings. Service Providers
deliver the full Veeam portfolio for
customers who are looking for a hosted,
as a Service solution for their applications
and data protection needs. You can learn
more about the BaaS and DRaaS services DATA CENTER CLOUD ENDPOINTS SAAS
our partners provide or find a service
provider that can meet your needs here: VMware vSphere AWS Windows OS Microsoft 365
http://vee.am/splookup. Microsoft Hyper-V Microsoft Azure macOS Microsoft Teams
Nutanix AHV Google Cloud Linux Salesforce

Veeam provides total freedom of choice
IBM Cloud
with where you want your data to reside Red Hat
and what platform you want it to reside Windows Server VMware

Cloud Director
on. And with our global VCSP network, you NAS
Kubernetes
can also choose to let an expert partner Linux
run your backup and DR solution for you.

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Veeam Data Platform Overview / Strong partner ecosystem
Strong partner ecosystem

Veeam provides a software-defined,
infrastructure and cloud-agnostic platform Foundational Cloud
that is supported by a broad ecosystem of
Foundational, Technology, Global System
Integrator (GSI), Platform, Cloud, and
as-a Service partners. Together, we deliver
availability, data center transformation,
infrastructure modernization, cloud solutions
GSI
and services to our joint clients worldwide.
Veeam’s global ecosystem incorporates more
than 32,000+ active, including our global
network of certified channel partners, Veeam
Cloud & Service Providers (VCSPs), who
provide Veeam backup solutions as-a-Service.
Technology
Veeam partners with industry-leading
hardware and software vendors and system
integrators, many of which are shown in
the diagram here, allowing customers to
choose their infrastructure and storage while Veeam Cloud & Managed Service Providers
driving optimal return on investment from
existing and future infrastructure purchases.
A sample of some of the many industry leading partners in the vast Veeam ecosystem

CONTENTS
Veeam Data Platform Overview / Veeam Accolades
Veeam Accolades
Continuous innovation has placed Veeam in the leadership position protection across the spectrum of data center and cloud platforms
in every top-tier analyst ranking and peer review platform, and is ultimately your greatest priority. Our greatest satisfaction comes
our financial stability and growth far out-paces any other vendor from helping our customers achieve their business objectives, so,
in the market. While we pride ourselves on our software-driven we’re very proud of our extensive industry recognition:
model providing the freedom of choice and delivering data
Trusted by
81% 450K+ 32K+

Named 2021 Magic Quadrant Leader
for the fifth consecutive year
of Fortune 500 customers active partners

and 70% of Global
2000 companies
#1 180+ 250+
in ability to execute countries industry awards
and LEADER
per the Gartner
Magic Quadrant
#1 in Market Share Growth
4.6 1314 Reviews

CONTENTS
Summary
Summary
There are many challenges that plague backup and data protection Top four reasons why customers choose Veeam
professionals, and far too many of these issues remain year after
year, decade after decade. We hope that you use the data protection • Veeam provides a single platform for data security, data recovery
capabilities and best practices in this paper to build a decision and data freedom.
framework or checklist to improve and modernize your backup practice.
• Our platform is open and complements a broad ecosystem of
Veeam provides a single platform for cloud, virtual and physical backup partners so we can easily integrate our solution into any customer
environments to support all modern workloads both on-premises and environment (100+ storage integrations).
in the cloud. This includes VMware, Hyper-V and AHV, Windows, Linux,
• Veeam is software-defined and hardware agnostic, which means
macOS and UNIX physical servers, NAS, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and
we provide the ultimate best-in-class solutions and customer
many others, all controlled from a single interface. With 450,000+
flexibility, without infrastructure lock-in.
customers in 180+ countries, 25+ major and updated product releases.
No other backup vendor has delivered as much new and enhanced • We provide simple, flexible, reliable, and powerful data protection
product capabilities as Veeam. so our customers can focus on their business; there’s a reason why
customers say Veeam “just works.”
Expect more from backup. It’s time for Veeam.
Try Veeam for free today!

Free 30 day trial

CONTENTS
About Veeam
About Veeam
Veeam provides organizations with resiliency through data security,
data recovery and data freedom for their hybrid cloud. The company
provides a single platform for Cloud, Virtual, Physical, SaaS and
Kubernetes environments that give businesses the peace of mind
their apps and data are protected and always available so that they
can keep their businesses running. Headquartered in Columbus, Ohio,
with offices in more than 30 countries, Veeam protects over 450,000
customers worldwide, including 82% of the Fortune 500 and 69%
of the Global 2,000. Veeam’s global ecosystem includes 35,000+
technology partners, resellers, service providers, and alliance
partners. To learn more, visit www.veeam.com or follow Veeam on
LinkedIn @veeam-software and Twitter @veeam.

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• Hybrid Cloud Acceleration • Kubernetes and Future IT

• Backup and Recovery Modernization • Data Reuse & Digital Transformation

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• Organizations’ needs and priorities

• Ransomware and cyberthreats

• Infrastructure and cloud considerations

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Own and control your Data. Any Cloud.

Modern Data Protection

• Hybrid cloud acceleration

• Backup and recovery modernization.

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We Keep Your Business Running

Data Recovery: Recover exactly what you

Data Freedom: Protect all your data, anywhere,

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Comprehensive Data Protection

Organizations need a comprehensive and

and physical protection on-premises, cloud- Google Cloud Salesforce

Cloud environments, Kubernetes anywhere, On-Premises • In the Cloud • XaaS

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Veeam provides a 4-in-1 data capture capability so that you can

Veeam has offered in-depth Storage Snapshot and replication

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Ransomware Protection and Data Security

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With Veeam SureBackup™ —

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Automated testing Dynamic documentation One-click recovery

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Hybrid Cloud Acceleration

• Cloud Mobility — Backup and move data with

• SaaS — Powerful and secure backup and Veeam Data Platform

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Leverage Cloud for Protection and Security

• Disaster Recovery to Cloud — Two-step, wizard-driven recovery

• Ransomware Recovery — Utilize Amazon S3, Azure Blob Storage

• Migrate and Modernize — Leverage the same two-step

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Backup and Recovery Modernization

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Cloud Mobility: AWS, Azure, & Google

modular, cloud-native backup and recovery to an ever-expanding

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Fast, Reliable Recovery to meet your SLAs

Instant Recovery at Scale!

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Meet your SLAs

Veeam provides the flexibility to protect your data in four

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Software-defined. Infrastructure Agnostic. No Lock-in.

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Freedom with No Lock-in!

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• Supporting a large number of varying workloads across a broad ecosystem

• Protecting the largest, most taxing enterprise applications

• Offering a breadth of supported storage vendors and ecosystem partners so

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