The Gold Award in the Backup and Storage category goes to
a longtime leader in the virtualization backup marketplace: Veeam Software


NEW Veeam Backup & Replication v4 offers a major breakthrough in full and incremental backup speeds. Using technological advancements in VMware vSphere 4 and the VMware vStorage APIs for Data Protection, Veeam customers experienced the following benefits derived from native support of thin-provisioned disks and Changed Block Tracking:
- 10+ times faster for incremental backups
- Up to 5 times faster for full backups
- 80% lower cost for near-continuous data protection (CDP) compared with traditional CDP
- Up to 30 percent lower storage costs
- Increased reliability by leveraging the latest vStorage technology
Veeam Backup & Replication is the first enterprise-ready solution that combines backup and replication in a single product for fast recovery of your VMware ESX and ESXi environment.
NEW: Update 4.1.2 includes full VMware vSphere 4.1 support
2-in-1: Backup and replication combinedAs virtualization increasingly handles mission-critical production workloads, organizations must be assured of effective backup and appropriately fast recovery of the virtual infrastructure. Balancing cost with flexibility is the key: some data requires replication to ensure business continuity, while other data is best backed up and recovered using less expensive hardware and techniques. Veeam Backup offers both techniques – backup and replication – through one interface, in one product, at one price. Full ESXi support with & without VCBWith introduction of ESXi, Veeam was the first and only vendor to support ESXi both with AND without VMware Consolidated Backup (or VCB). Customers with and without shared storage are able to perform ESXi backups without having the additional overhead of deploying VCB. No ESXi FREE support – Learn More... Heterogeneous file-level recovery in secondsBackup is easy, but recovery can be hard – and that’s when the clock is ticking loudest. But with Veeam Backup & Replication, fast recovery is easier than you ever thought possible. Veeam’s fast file-level recovery feature allows you to restore individual files from your image-level backups and replicas in seconds to the latest state, or to a specific point in time. Veeam’s file-level recovery does not require extracting the full VM image to your local drive, or backing up your data twice in order to have both file-level and image-level recovery options readily available. Unlike competitive solutions, file-level restores are performed directly from image and support most of the major operating and file systems, including Windows, Linux, Unix, BSD and Mac. Enterprise Management ConsoleNEW A new Enterprise Management Server allows distributed enterprises to manage multiple Veeam Backup & Replication installations from a single web console. This allows you to deploy Veeam Backup & Replication and manage backups and restores according to your administrative, business and security requirements and boundaries. While providing you with centralized backup, Veeam Backup & Replication 4 makes decentralized recovery and backup verification possible, thus addressing real-world enterprise deployment scenarios. For example, Exchange recoveries can be handled by the Exchange administrators group, while domain controller recovery requires another skill set, and is best performed by Active Directory administrators. Native support for this distributed architecture also gives you the ability to easily scale your VMware backup infrastructure as your virtual environment grows – while still providing centralized management and reporting capabilities to senior IT management. Native support for vSphereNEW Veeam Backup & Replication now offers not just compatibility, but full and native support for VMware vSphere, including all new vSphere functionality:
Veeam Backup also fully supports the new vStorage API – the next generation of VMware Consolidated Backup, the vStorage API for Data Protection is the recommended API for VMware vSphere backup going forward. For example, the backup of vSphere Fault Tolerant VMs will only be possible with the vStorage API. While Veeam is still committed to supporting VCB as long as our customers will require it, native support for the vStorage API makes Veeam Backup the most future-proof solution currently available on the market. Near-CDP replication at a fraction of the costNEW Veeam Backup & Replication 4 leverages the new vSphere ESX(i) 4 functionality to be able to provide extremely fast incremental replication cycles. This ability to run replication jobs as often as every few minutes allows extremely low recovery point objectives, thus providing near-CDP replication at a fraction of the cost. Unlike competitive solutions, Veeam Backup & Replication does not require that replicated VMs run with open snapshots that prevent Live Migration and DRS. Database-consistent backup for application recoveryVeeam Backup & Replication leverages Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) functionality to ensure consistent hot backups of the applications within your running virtual machines. Unlike other vendors featuring limited VSS support, Veeam provides the most complete implementation of VSS support, equipping you for proper restore of VSS-aware applications (e.g. Active Directory, Exchange) from the created backups. Reduced storage costs with data de-duplicationWhen performing backups of multiple virtual machines, Veeam Backup & Replication de-duplicates similar blocks inside the backup file. De-duplication provides exceptional results when you back up multiple virtual machines created from a single template, or VMs with gigabytes of free space on their preallocated logical drives. Data de-duplication reduces disk space requirements for your backups, which results in significant cost savings. Veeam Backup & Replication also offers a compatibility mode for storage devices using hardware de-duplication. Replica rollbackBackups and replicas produced with Veeam Backup & Replication can be easily restored to a particular point in time. This protects your infrastructure against both hardware and software corruptions – such as in the case of a virus – when software corruption is usually noticed only after a few replication cycles. |
Backup and replication combined Full ESXi support with & without VCB Heterogeneous file-level recovery in seconds new Enterprise Management Console new Native support for vSphere new Near-CDP replication at a fraction of the cost Database-consistent backup for application recovery Reduced storage costs with data de-duplication Success Stories“...it seemed clear that Veeam has surpassed its competition as the new leader in the VM backup space.“ Doni Katz, Director,Technical Operations, The Deal, LLC/TheDeal.com Continue... > Kim Byram, Director, Business and Information Systems ISCO Industries, LLC Continue... > |
Join the Veeam CommunityJoin the Veeam Community Forums to meet virtualization experts online. Ask questions, share your experiences, and learn new ways to do more with VMware. |
Customer Feedback
![]() ![]() |
7 Reasons to Choose Veeam |
|---|---|
|
Read this firsthand account from a Veeam customer about why he chose Veeam Backup & Replication and how his organization is using the product today. |
|
Customer Success Stories
Customer Comments
“We chose Veeam Backup & Replication because it solved our longstanding backup issues instantly.”
“I bought Veeam for backup, but it is the best DR tool I have ever used. Thanks, Veeam for a great product.”
“We've been running Veeam Backup & Replication 4.0 for about two weeks now, and I can honestly say it's been a revelation. Incremental backups are extremely fast on most VMs. An incremental backup of our 500GB+ fileserver (2.6 million files) is done in under 3 minutes. The initial full backup took only 1:19:00. Due to the nature of our previous backup product's file level restore function, we were still relying on file-by-file backup using Backup Exec, which took us 6 hours every night. That has just been cut down to 3 minutes.“
Jonathan Koutstaal, Network Administrator, VARA, Hilversum, The Netherlands“I am happy to suggest Veeam Backup as a VMware backup solution, not only because of the reliability of the software, but also the reliability of the pre- and post-sale services. In my case, Veeam responded within the hour – while a competitor did not respond at all. This helps Veeam win 1:0 in comparison to other VMware backup tools.“
Paul J. Shadwell, CTO, Peak Partners SA, Switzerland“Veeam Backup seems to be superior, as it allows you to do a file-by-file restore or a full VM restore from the same backup. If we were to use a physical backup solution, we would need a whole other load of agent licenses, which would make it a lot more expensive. So far, Veeam Backup seems to do just what it says on the tin.“
Tim Carter, Senior Systems Administrator, Isaac Agnew (Holdings), UK“Our testing of Veeam Backup at Tower Hill Insurance Group compared to other products in the market showed a consistent trouble free approach to VM backups. VCB integration was so simple and we thought their additional features of replication, deduplication, and reporting were nice features that the others just didn’t have. Thanks Veeam!“
Allan Howard, Tower Hill Insurance Group, USA“We tried for several months to get a competing product to work, investing a lot of time and money in the process. That product brought our system to a crawl, and backups failed 75% of the time. Our environment is almost 100% virtualized, so we need a backup system we can rely on. We switched to Veeam Backup, and we’re very happy with it. Nothing else in the virtualization space offers comparable functionality and reliability.“
Kim Byram, Director, Business and Information Systems, ISCO Industries, LLC, USA“I was able to back up a 16GB VM and do a file-level restore in under 30 mins. The scheduling is a breeze, the interface is clean, and the performance is amazing. I highly recommend this product.“
Nathan Simon, Systems Engineer, EPIC Information Solutions, Canada“I am a happy customer that was delighted to see a real VMware backup solution appear. Veeam Backup 3.0 will allow me to sleep better at night.“
Even Glemmestad, Felleskjopet Agri BA, Norway“Blue Copper reviewed the market looking for a virtual infrastructure backup solution. After trying most of the competitors, we tried Veeam Backup. We found it is very easy to use -- it's saved our bacon quite a few times.“
Tom Soulsby, Blue Copper Technology, UK“It works like a charm.“
Sven Huisman, Technical Consultant, QNH Business Integration, Netherlands
Request Pricing from Veeam ProPartner
To request a quote or to get pricing information, please contact a Veeam ProPartner within your region.
Find a ProPartner
Need Assistance?
If you have difficulties in finding the ProPartner in your region please contact Veeam Sales using
Sales Inquiry Submission Form
|
View all tools for VMware ESX/ESXi backup, monitoring and perfomance reporting |
| Request a live demo | Free 30-day evaluation | How to buy | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Request now | ![]() |
Download trial | ![]() |
Request a quote |










































English 
Deutsch
Français
Русский
Italiano
Español
Nederlands
