Head-to-Head: Veeam vs. the Rest

Minimize downtime with instant recovery for VMs and cloud workloads—mount images directly from backups to hosts across VMware, Hyper-V, AHV, Azure, databases, file shares, and more.

Most vendors offer instant recovery for VMware and Hyper-V only (no other workload), and make recovery finalization a manual process (e.g., storage vMotion via the hypervisor console). Some vendors can recover only one machine per instant recovery job.

Migrate or recover data across platforms for the broadest set of virtual, cloud, and physical platforms. Veeam’s bidirectional cross-platform recovery allows you to move data back and forth across platforms.

Unlike many vendors that either lack cross-platform restore capabilities or restrict them to VMware and Hyper-V, Veeam delivers seamless, automated recovery across platforms, including direct restores to the cloud. No manual conversions, no limitations.

Effortlessly recover individual items from backups, snapshots, or replicas for leading apps like Exchange, SQL, Oracle, SAP, and more, with advanced search and filters for quick, precise restores.

Most vendors offer limited granular recovery, often only for Exchange or SQL, and may require agents or third-party tools. Many only export/download items, not restore to production, and few provide transaction log management.

Detect more cyber threats with Veeam’s broad threat detection: ML entropy analysis, file activity, IoC, built-in and 3rd-party signatures, YARA, Recon Scanner, and external engine alerts.

Most vendors detect threats only by monitoring backup changes, risking false alerts. They often lack advanced detection like signatures, ML entropy analysis, Indicators of Compromise, or YARA engine support.

Avoid reinfection with Secure Restore. Scan restore points for malware using up-to-date signatures or rules, abort recovery if threats are found, and ensure only clean data is restored to production.

Most vendors don’t scan backups during recovery, risking reinfection from malware missed at backup due to outdated signatures. Those that do scan usually support only a couple of antivirus tools, unlike Veeam’s broad, up-to-date detection.

Investigate infected systems securely in isolated clean rooms. Run forensics or scripts, and recover data from backups or snapshots to a safe environment while cleaning your production site.

Other vendors can’t run forensics or custom scripts in an isolated environment. Their recovery testing is limited to booting VMs, ping tests, and screenshots, and usually only applies to backups.

Secure your Veeam solution with automated checks and recommendations. The Threat Center dashboard shows your security score and helps you spot and resolve issues quickly.

No automated security checks and recommendations. Vendors just point customers to technical user guides.

Easily recover data even if backup infrastructure fails, thanks to Veeam’s portable, self-contained backup files, enabling true data mobility across hardware and platforms with no dependencies.

Most vendors’ backup files depend on external backup infrastructure components (e.g., management server, deduplication catalog). This makes recovering backups without these components either impossible or very slow.

Utilize any hardware that meets your performance needs or budget through Veeam’s storage agnosticism. Store backups on any hardware, including any direct-attached storage, NAS, deduplication appliance, or object storage.

All vendors can store backups on a broad set of storage platforms from various storage vendors, including DAS, NAS, SAN, object storage, or tape. Vendors typically do not support deduplication appliances.

Enjoy appliance simplicity and built-in security without high costs or hardware limits. Veeam’s pre-hardened software appliance is hardware-agnostic, scalable, and centrally managed, with flexible licensing and modular expansion capabilities.

Most vendors lack an appliance form factor, instead of delivering their solutions as software-only. Some vendors offer an OVA, but it is not pre-hardened and pre-secured. A couple of vendors offer a physical appliance deployable on a limited set of hardware models.

Simplify data resilience by using Veeam-managed backup services with Veeam Data Cloud. Services include Microsoft 365 backup, Entra ID backup, Salesforce backup, Azure backup, and secure cloud storage (Veeam Data Cloud Vault).

Most vendors offer SaaS only for limited workloads, such as Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace. Some provide secure storage on their proprietary cloud but lack the cybersecurity expertise of AWS or Azure.

Protect data on any mainstream hypervisors with native integration for the broadest set of hypervisors, including VMware, Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV, Oracle VM, Red Hat VM, Proxmox VE, and Scale Computing HyperCore.

Most vendors natively protect VMware and Hyper-V only. A couple of vendors support a few more hypervisors, such as Proxmox VE.

Natively protect data on AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud with Veeam. Safeguard VMs, cloud-native databases, NAS, object storage, and virtual private network configurations across major cloud platforms.

Most vendors only protect a single cloud hyperscaler, such as AWS or Azure, and focus solely on compute instances (e.g., EC2), leaving cloud-native databases, object storage, and network settings unprotected.

Protect data on primary SaaS applications, including Microsoft 365, Entra ID, and Salesforce, with advanced backup and recovery options, as well as data archiving and sandbox seeding for Salesforce.

A few vendors do not yet protect SaaS applications. Other vendors are typically limited to Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace only.