- Veeam Data Platform
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Veeam Data Platform Essentials
Backup that grows with your business
Veeam Data Platform Essentials gives small businesses powerful, affordable data protection without the complexity.
- Protect without complexity with a unified platform for backup, recovery, and immutable storage
- Recover to on-premises, Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and more with confidence
- Portable backups with predictable pricing and no vendor
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Free, full functionality for 30 days
Benefits
Beyond backup. Built for what's next
Your infrastructure is evolving, and threats are accelerating. Backup alone isn't enough. Veeam Data Platform delivers security, portability, and proven recovery, so you can protect every workload, recover clean, and operate across on-prem and hybrid environments from one unified platform.
Advantages of Veeam data protection for your business
Protect without complexity
Get one integrated solution for backup, recovery, and immutable cloud storage, no more stitching tools together.
Recover anywhere with confidence
Keep business running with fast, proven recovery to your location of choice: on-premises, Azure, AWS, and more.
Move to cloud on your terms
Control spend and strategy with predictable pricing and the freedom to move your data anywhere.
Key Capabilities
Protect without complexity
Veeam is all about ease, so your data is protected by scalable backup and recovery technology. Get all the features you need at half the price of our enterprise solution. Veeam is dedicated to data resiliency, so your data is secure with our scalable backup and recovery technology. Acquire all the features you need at half the price of our enterprise solution.
Protect without complexity
Industry Leading Security Integrations
Enhance threat detection, response, and automation.
AI threat detection
Malware detection and proactive threat assessment and agentic analysis with rapid reports and guided threat recovery.
Instant Recovery
Restore workloads in minutes directly from backups to minimize downtime and business disruption.
Recovery Orchestration
Automates, tests, and executes for fast, reliable recovery.
Software-defined
Flexibility across on-prem, multi-cloud, SaaS, and dark site.
Recover anywhere with confidence
Move to cloud on your terms
Unmatched Portability with Zero lock-in
Rapid recovery to unaffected environments.
Immutable by design
Turnkey, hardened software appliance and air-gapped SaaS.
Universal licensing
Flexibility across workloads and platforms.
HOW IT WORKS
Resilient Data Protection for Your Business
Protect your business from outages and cyber threats, including ransomware, by leveraging our comprehensive, easy-to-use platform.
Next-Gen Data Protection Engine
Fast, reliable recovery that will keep your business productive and secure.
Secure, Built-In Backup Replication
Replicate backup data and VM replicas for all your storage using enhanced data security.
Flexible Cloud Recovery
Easily recover any Windows or Linux agent backup as a public cloud VM.
Cyber Threats You Can Measure
Mitigate threats in real time to instantly identify risks and prevent potential damage.
Latest Release
Resilience rehearsed.
Recovery proven.
- Unified resilience and security
- Freedom to choose
- Clean & fast recovery, guaranteed
pricing
Protect your workloads with confidence
Protect VMs, physical servers, NAS, and cloud instances with one- to five-year bundles, licensed per workload with VUL. Sold in five-license packs up to 50 workloads, discounted for small businesses.
Veeam Data Platform Essentials
Feature-rich solution designed for small businesses
$95 USD MSRP
/license/year*
Sold in increments of 5
Veeam Data Cloud Vault
Immutable, air-gapped storage with predictable pricing
Pre-configured and fully managed secure cloud storage
Managed Services
Managed Backup and DR services delivered by Veeam partners — Backup as a Service
Backup as a Service
* Annual subscription bundles ranging from one to five years
Why choose Veeam Data Platform Essentials? See how Veeam compares to other products.
Why choose Veeam Data Platform Essentials? See how Veeam compares to other products.
Customer ratings
Don’t just take our word for it
*Ratings and reviews 4.6/5 based on 1,825 reviews as of June 03, 2026 in Enterprise Backup and Recovery Software Solutions. GARTNER is a registered trademark and service mark, and PEER INSIGHTS is a trademark and service mark, of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and internationally and are used herein with permission. All rights reserved. Gartner Peer Insights content consists of the opinions of individual end users based on their own experiences with the vendors listed on the platform, should not be construed as statements of fact, nor do they represent the views of Gartner or its affiliates. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in this content nor makes any warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this content, about its accuracy or completeness, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
Resources
Data Protection Insights
and Trends
Where Do You Stand on Resilience?
See where you fall on the data resilience curve and get personalized results.
Protect What Connects Your Cloud
This session breaks down invisible risks hiding in your cloud apps and shows how small IT teams can protect what connects it all without adding more tools, stress, or hours.
Assessing Your Small Business Cybersecurity Needs
Discover how to enhance cybersecurity using the industry-recognized NIST framework.
SMB Guide to Ransomware Recovery
Don’t let ransomware derail your business. Learn proven strategies for quick, secure recovery.
FAQs
How does Veeam Data Platform Essentials provide data protection for small businesses?
Ideal for small businesses, Veeam Data Platform Essentials is a bundle that combines the powerful data protection features of Veeam Data Platform Foundation with the monitoring capabilities of Veeam ONE. When buying Veeam Data Platform Essentials, you'll gain a comprehensive protection, recovery, monitoring, and reporting solution for virtual, physical, and cloud workloads from a single console. This bundle is designed specifically for small businesses with fewer than 250 employees and 50 workloads.
What should a small business consider when buying licenses for data protection software?
Understanding the licensing structure is crucial when considering a data protection solution like Veeam Data Platform Essentials. A minimum of five licenses is required, and these are sold in packs of five, allowing for scalability of up to 50 licenses as your business needs evolve.
How does Veeam's data protection solution adapt to my small business' growing needs?
Veeam Data Platform Essentials offers flexible licensing options to cover a variety of workload scenarios, from virtual machines on different platforms (like VMware, Hyper-V, AHV, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) to physical servers, workstations, and NAS. This ensures that as your business grows, your data protection capabilities can grow with it.
Can Veeam protect my small business from ransomware attacks with Veeam Data Platform Essentials?
Veeam Data Platform Essentials is designed to swiftly identify and isolate ransomware threats, reducing the risk of data loss and downtime. This robust defense mechanism is critical in today's data protection landscape.
How easy is it to implement Veeam's data protection solution in a small business?
Veeam Data Platform Essentials is designed with ease of use in mind. The solution's installation and implementation are straightforward, eliminating the need for extensive training and onboarding. This means you can focus on what matters most – running your business.
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