Recovery-ready meets retention-ready, with a fully managed archive tier built for the long haul.
Data isn’t slowing down, and neither is what it costs to keep it. As unstructured data keeps multiplying, AI is driving up both the volume that organizations create and the pressure to hold onto it. And a supply-constrained hard drive market is pushing storage costs up and lead times out. Meanwhile, tightening data-residency and compliance rules mean more data must be kept longer, proven clean, and stored in a specific location.
As a result, too many teams end up solving an archive problem with premium primary storage, paying top rates to hold onto data that they rarely touch. That’s the gap Veeam Data Cloud Vault Archive (Vault Archive) closes.
Recovery-Ready Meets Retention-Ready
Veeam Vault Archive completes the backup data lifecycle with a fully managed, archival-class cloud tier built for secure, compliant, long-term retention at the lowest cost.
It’s the natural extension of Veeam Vault. While recent, recovery-critical data stays on performance-optimized Veeam Vault, aged backups tier automatically into Vault Archive. And it all runs under one platform at one predictable price.
No rip-and-replace. No manual data shuffling between tiers. Just the right data, on the right storage, at the right cost.
Your Premium Storage Has Better Things to Do
Cold, infrequently accessed data doesn’t need to live on storage built for performance. Vault Archive ingests large, unstructured NAS backups directly, moving cold data (including redundant, obsolete, and trivial data, or ROT) into a pre-secured, compliant cloud archive at the lowest TCO. Every byte is verified clean and stored on immutable, encrypted, air-gapped storage in a region you of your choosing, all at one predictable, archive-class price.
For storage and infrastructure architects, that means reclaiming premium capacity you’ve already paid for instead of over-provisioning to hold data you rarely touch.
Built to Complete the Lifecycle, Not Replace It
Vault Archive is designed to work with Veeam Vault, not around it. A few things set it apart:
One lifecycle, one platform: Performance, capacity, and deep archive tiers all live under Veeam, with policy-based tiering and no new tools to bolt on.
Archive-class economics: Long-term retention at the lowest cost, with the same predictable pricing model as Veeam Vault.
Secure by default: Immutability, AES 256-bit encryption, and logical air-gapping, backed by malware scanning for NAS and cloud workloads in Veeam Data Platform v13.1.
Data-residency control: You choose where archived data resides, and that’s built in from the start.
A Trusted Last Line of Defense
Ransomware is increasingly targeting backups. And recovering from a compromised copy just reintroduces risk.
Vault Archive holds immutable, air-gapped copies that have already been validated as clean, backed by malware scanning across NAS and cloud workloads in Veeam Data Platform v13.1.
It’s also built to retire physical tape: No handling or media management, with archived data that’s accessible on demand instead of locked in a vault of a different kind.
Where Vault Archive Fits
Vault Archive is built for a handful of scenarios that repeatedly come up:
Compliant long-term retention: Meet retention and sovereignty mandates without over-provisioning primary storage.
ROT reduction and reclaimed storage: Tier cold data directly into low-cost archive and reclaim premium capacity you’ve already paid for.
Tape retirement: Replace physical tape with a fully managed cloud archive that’s secure by default.
Cyber-resilient clean archive: Keep a trusted, validated recovery path after an attack.
Archiving large unstructured data sets: Cut the capacity and power demands of high-volume NAS data while keeping it retrievable.
Ready to Retire the ROT?
Vault Archive rounds out the backup data lifecycle, so recovery-ready and retention-ready finally live under one platform, at one easy-to-predict price. If cold data has been quietly eating into your premium storage budget, this is the moment to put it somewhere built for the job.
Visit the Veeam Vault solutions page to see how Vault and Vault Archive work together, or contact your Veeam team to talk through what a policy-based tiering strategy could look like for your environment.