EMC NetWorker vs. Veeam Backup Report From IT Central Station 2016-03-04

User Reviews of EMC NetWorker and Veeam Backup A PEEK INTO WHAT REAL USERS THINK 2016

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Vendor:

EMC NetWorker

Veeam Backup

EMC

Veeam

Overview:

EMC NetWorker backup and recovery software centralizes, automates, and accelerates data backup and recovery across your IT environment. NetWorker delivers record-breaking performance and a wide range of data protection options to safeguard your critical business data.

Veeam Availability Suite v8 combines industry leading backup, restore and replication capabilities of Veeam Backup & Replication with the advanced monitoring, reporting and capacity planning functionality of Veeam ONE.Veeam Availability Suite v8 delivers everything you need to reliably protect and manage your vSphere and Hyper-V environments.

Sample Customers:

Secure-24, Riverside Health System, Shriners, Panatonni, Qatar Islamic Bank, Eurosport

Vodafone, American Standard Brands, Welch’s, University of Florida, Tata Global Beverages Limited, National Bank of Abu Dhabi, Hirslanden Private Hospital Group, MacLean-Fogg Company

Top Comparisons:*

Veeam Backup vs. EMC NetWorker: Compared 22% of the time.

Zerto Virtual Replication vs. Veeam Backup: Compared 9% of the time.

HP Data Protector vs. EMC NetWorker: Compared 9% of the time.

Symantec Backup Exec vs. Veeam Backup: Compared 8% of the time.

EMC Avamar vs. EMC NetWorker: Compared 7% of the time.

Acronis Backup vs. Veeam Backup: Compared 8% of the time.

Top Industries:*

Company Size:*

Financial Services Firm

11%

Software R&D Company

11%

Real Estate/Law Firm

9%

Healthcare Company

8%

1-100 Employees

35%

100-1000 Employees

26%

1000+ Employees

39%

* Data is based on the aggregate profiles of IT Central Station Users researching this solution.

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Deep Dive: Valuable Features

EMC NetWorker Bratislav Petkovic, Senior Associate - System Engineer at a financial services firm with 100-1000 employees:

Support for various operating systems, we use, AIX, Solaris, Linux, VMware, and Windows Excellent deduplication with Data Domain Boost A good user interface, so we can, from a single console, manage the entire backup infrastructure Marcio Shigueki Okubo, Infrastructure Analyst at a engineering company with 1000+ employees:

It's easy to configure and manage. Mourad BELKHODJA, Engineer at a tech services company with 100-1000 employees:

Backup jobs can be scheduled and automated Monitoring of backups and configuration tasks are centralized Compatibility of the solution covers large OS/DataBases/Applications

Veeam Backup derek.hennessy, Senior System Engineer at a pharma/biotech company with 1000+ employees:

This is actually quite a hard choice to make when dealing with Veeam Backup & Replication. There are a number of great features such as WAN acceleration, deduplication & compression, replication and the grandfatherfather-son backup tree. Not to mention backup to tape which has been a key reason to migrate to Veeam. The primary feature of most value to me is the SureBackup and SureReplica featureset. Having the ability to verify backups and replicas of critical servers in a sandboxed environment means that I can sleep comfortably at night knowing that the data is valid and I can confidently restore data and services if required by the business. Snapshot capabilities within NetApp would also be high on that list. Michael Jipping, IT Systems Engineer at a healthcare company with 1-100 employees:

Continuous Data Backup and Replication features that allow us to have our entire Virtual Infrastructure recoverable in minutes.

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Sigurd Blom Rossel, CEO at a tech consulting company with 1-100 employees:

The backup and blocklevel incremental backup, where daily full backups are done. Also the hotcopy feature is valuable. Rafael DelCastillo, Senior Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 1-100 employees:

-Reliable consistent Backups/Restores -Ease of use despite doing complex work -Replication Chris Childerhose, Infrastructure Architect at a real estate/law firm with 100-1000 employees:

Features with the most value are Instant VM Recovery, SQL Explorer and Exchange Explorer. Don Potter, Server Administrator at a religious institution with 100-1000 employees:

Replication WAN Accelerator Backup Ease of use File Level restoration Yasin AKILLI, Backup & Storage Systems Manager at a university with 100-1000 employees:

The most valuable features of this product are "explorer for exchange" and "instant vm recovery." Ian Salgado, IT Senior Systems Engineer at a tech vendor with 1-100 employees:

Backup, Restore, Replication

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William Reigle, Sr. Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 1-100 employees:

The ease of use and intuitiveness of the interface are excellent. Ability of the software to work reliably and consistently is very important. The instant restore option to mount backups and read data from them in a matter of seconds/minutes is very helpful. Ability of Veeam to replicate backups cross-site is critical to my DR strategy. Rizul Khanna, System Administrator-L2 at a tech services company with 1-100 employees:

Seamless Replication/ Switch ON of the VM from Backup/ Faster Response on cancellation of a Job/ Fast Backup and Replication Result time/ Reverse Incremental Backup Provisioning/ SureBackup is the kickass feature. Zero failure on restoration of the backups is the best part and you don’t have to use Surebackup for being assured of the restoration. Mihai Langa, System Administrator - Backup & Storage Specialist at a tech services company with 100-1000 employees:

The main feature we're currently using is the replication function that allows us to provide high availability in all of our company's retail sites throughout Europe & Asia. Backup is also a good tool, but we mainly use it in our HQ. Schneider Kumi Larbi, IT System Engineer at a tech services company with 1-100 employees:

Support for VMware Virtual Volumes (VVols) that allows direct backup from snapshots of storage systems that support VVols and VMware Virtual SAN 2.0 Granular recovery of objects from MS SQL, Active Directory, Microsoft Exchange Backup and replication of Fault Tolerant (FT) VMs Cross-vCenter vMotion awareness Hot-Add transport mode of SATA virtual disks Support for Veeam Cloud Connect that allows customers to backup their offsite backups into the cloud 

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SysAdmin679, Systems Administrator at a construction company with 1000+ employees:

Virtual Machine replication between sites. Gareth Petersen, Infrastructure Engineer at a local government with 100-1000 employees:

There are so many valuable features but my favourites would have to be Instant Recovery especially when you have very demanding RTO's imposed on you. Virtual lab is also a brilliant feature for spinning up a DR/Test environment for your replicas. Eric Machabert, Consultant infrastructures at a tech services company with 1000+ employees:

Backup recoverability tests (SureBackup) Backup from storage snapshots (3PAR) Itemlevel recovery for Active Directory, Exchange, SQL Server and SharePoint Virtual lab and on-demand sandboxes Ed Motsinger, Acting Manager, Ground Systems Development and Operations Program at a aerospace/defense firm with 1000+ employees:

Ease of use Reporting Great integration with vCenter Dedupe abilities No tape DeanLewis, Senior Infrastructure Engineer at a tech services company with 1-100 employees:

The ease of use is valuable. Dennis Schmidt, Information Technology Manager at a financial services firm with 100-1000 employees:

The most valuable feature for my organization is the ability to perform replications to a DR site with minimal impact to our bandwidth and production environment. On some systems we run near constant backups and replications on a 24/7 basis.

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Nichola Van de Voorde, Datacenter Core Infrastructure at a tech services company with 1000+ employees:

It is important that a backup product delivers what it promises. As backup features are important, so are restore features. The ability of Veeam Backup & Replication suite to restore various items in a granular and fast way (RPO & RTO importance) is key for our customers. Marco Carmo, Systems Engineer / System Administrator at a tech services company with 100-1000 employees:

Efficiency Objectivity Reliability  Features Asif Punjwani, System Engineer at a healthcare company with 100-1000 employees:

The ability to perform exchange restores. Sam Clark, IT Manager at a healthcare company with 1100 employees:

The ability to manage backups from any machine from one location. DataCenterOpMgr806, Data Center Operations Manager at a financial services firm with 1-100 employees:

Exchange and File server backup are valuable features. Laurent Lonay, Senior System Engineer at a tech services company with 1000+ employees:

- CBT (Change block tracking) - Agent less Replication - Dedupe 

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Faisal Niaz, Information Systems Manager at a energy/utilities company with 100-1000 employees:

VM Replication, Individual item restore. Ray Todich, System Engineer at a healthcare company with 1-100 employees:

There is no one feature that is most important. I love the ability to either restore the entire VM or just a single file if needed. We have had to restore VMs both ways and it saved us a lot of pain and money. The speed of the restore jobs was extremely quick as well. Christian Baldigari, Systems Administrator at a tech services company with 1-100 employees:

Two features are unmatched compared to other products: SureBackup and the possibility of Replication (and Virtual LAB). These are a “must”. David Azar, IT Manager at a tech services company with 1-100 employees:

I started working with Veeam because of its replication capabilities. Later on when version 7 was released, with the addition of the tape support, I started migrating to pure Veeam environments. RichardG321, IT Infrastructure Manager at a tech services company with 100-1000 employees:

The ability to restore files in a matter of seconds or minutes depending on file size and number of files to restore. I have also used the Active Directory Explorer add-on tool for recovering AD objects this is now built-in to Veeam B&R v8.

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Schneider Kumi Larbi, IT System Engineer at a tech services company with 1-100 employees:

Deduplication, built-in wan accelerators, advanced monitoring, backup copy and tape drive integration, explorer for MS exchange, and replication feature. Jim Greeley, Server Systems Analyst at a insurance company with 100-1000 employees:

The instant recovery and quick boot of the replicas. Ability to boot replicas from a deduplication storage device (degraded performance). SrEngineer454, Senior Infrastructure Engineer at a tech services company with 1-100 employees:

Replication, Sure Backup and Instant Recovery; very easy to use. Ashish Malik, vBlock Cloud Specialist at a tech services company with 1000+ employees:

Surebackup, reverse incremental, parallel processing for VM and the hdd and many more. Juan Cruz, Systems Administrator at a transportation company with 1-100 employees:

Replication  Exchange Integration Bandwidth Optimization File Level Restore VM Restore from backup Ibrahim Quraishi, User at a comms service provider with 100-1000 employees:

File level recovery  Point in time backup

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seniorne160767, Senior Manager of Network at a tech services company with 1-100 employees:

Flawless virtual machine backup. Mark Horne, Principal Technology Manager at a financial services firm with 1000+ employees:

I use both features Backup and the replication for my 2nd Datacentre - Is my DR Solution. Andy Keeney, Director of Information Technology at a religious institution with 1-100 employees:

Ease of use, ease of setup, and ease of recovery. Thibaud LENIK, Architect at a tech services company with 1000+ employees:

Reliability and simplicity. Rusty Pass, Senior Systems Engineer at a healthcare company with 100-1000 employees:

The file level restore and the instant restore of a whole VM from a snapshot. Dipak Avichal, Senior Windows Engineer at a media company with 100-1000 employees:

Its backup capabilities and also day to day replication. Jerry Smith, Support Manager at a tech services company with 1-100 employees:

Ease of use, it's simple to backup and restore.

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Gil Gross, Technical Consultant at a tech services company with 1-100 employees:

Backup. Russell Lynch, Systems Specialist at a insurance company with 1-100 employees:

There are quite a few features for Veeam which are helpful, but in my mind the ability to take a backup from a week ago and spin up a temporary VM to retrieve files is the feature I use the most. The wizards are extremely user friendly and easy to use. Another very nice feature of Veeam is the ability to seamlessly intergrate with your VM environment. From within Veeam I can browse all of my VMs and choose the appropriate vm I want to add to backup. The low disk warnings are awesome in Veeam, I am alerted well before we run out of space. Paul F., Network Administrator at a K-12 educational company or school with 1-100 employees:

I have managed Veeam for several years and the user experience, the minimal complexity of management have been a breath of fresh air compared to experiences with similar products. I have had issues with other products from implementation to upgrade of versions and basic restore of data. Veeam has simplified the upgrade process and made it straightforward. I have experienced no issues with the installers. I can’t say I’m lucky so I have to say the product has been solid for me. The value of the feature set is a difficult question.

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Paul F., Network Administrator at a K-12 educational company or school with 1-100 employees:

The instant restore is a great feature knowing that in the event of an outage our downtime will be minimal, as well as the Exchange explorer, the ability to restore files so granular to an entire VM is exceptional. I would also have to mention the Veeam One monitoring tool is used daily. The ability to have Grandfather, Father, and Son backups is extremely useful when preparing backup for tape or offsite. The compression and de-duplication capabilities for space savings and off-site backups. Güven Yakan, IT Manger at a energy/utilities company with 1-100 employees:

The ability to perform de-duplication is the most valuable feature for me. It also performs SQL backups so that I can restore SQL database table bases.  Replication time very good. For example, I can replicate 4TB data to the DR side in 5 hours with a 10 Mbps data line everyday. Replica server tests on the DR side are very easy because I just need to power on the server on from there. Tomás Céspedes, Information Technology Bureau Deputy Director at a government with 1000+ employees:

With Veeam Cloud Connect and Azure Storage you can get your backups offsite. With it, you don't have the complexity of managing an offsite infrastructure. It may even help to reduce your DRC strategy costs. Didier Van Hoye, Technical Architect at a government with 100-1000 employees:

Ease of use Robustness Scalability

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Shaun Herridge, IT Manager at a non-profit with 1001000 employees:

Regular backup/recovery is the main feature, but I really like the Exchange mailbox recovery tool, and the ability to isolate test environments. It is really easy to use as well, and it's a powerful backup/recovery solution. ITManager866, IT manager at a wholesaler/distributor with 100-1000 employees:

Recovering single emails from Exchange and single items from Active Directory. John Bailey, Network Engineer at a financial services firm with 100-1000 employees:

Off-site replication was good. Richard Haverly, Technical Lead at a tech services company with 1-100 employees:

The functionality available with Veeam enterprise licenses, allow a VMware vSphere snapshot to be integrated and transferred to HP 3PAR storage snapshots; this effectively offloads all backup traffic to the storage network. The Original VMware snapshot is then released (this process takes less then a minute), and Veeam continues the backup operation directly form the 3PAR storage. This operation ensures minimal impact on the VM, VM network and Host hypervisor, while ensuring backups are performed at storage network speeds (8Gb fibre).

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Richard Haverly, Technical Lead at a tech services company with 1-100 employees:

Reverse incremental backups with block level changes - Following the initial seed backup, only block level changes are captured in the following daily backups. This ensures backup times are kept to a minimum and reduces the amount of data that is replicated to additional disk off-site. 50x WAN optimisation - With the enterprise licence option you get WAN optimisation. this reduces the amount of bandwidth required to replicate VMs or backup copies off-site. I use this to transfer all VM backups to a co-location storage device at a dedicated DR site. Instant recovery - this allows a Veeam protected VM to be instantly booted direct from the backup image. Veeam creates an NFS Datastore and presents this to the selected Esxi host. This can be used to test backups are being taken correctly, to recover a live VM or as a low cost DR solution. Once a VM is booted, this can be migrated live using vMotion back to production storage. Kevin Finkley, Senior Infrastructure Engineer at a tech services company with 1000+ employees:

Its replication piece allows us to migrate over to different servers and data centers. Veeam lets me move machines from older platforms. I could have used the replication tools from VMware, but not for the older platform. Veeam allows the upgrade of infrastructure as well. It's easy to use once you get to know the tool. ICTConsultant746, ICT Consultant at a government with 100-1000 employees:

Reliability: we need backups we can depend on Ease of use: when there's an issue and downtime, there's stress involved, and we should be able to restore things without reading 40 pages in a manual Reporting: we want to know what happened during the backup and what the results are Value for money (of course!)

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Mahdi Mohammadnezhad , Network specialist at a government with 1000+ employees:

The speed of performing backups and restores. It's super fast. Harvey Jimenez, Virtualization Specialist at a tech services company with 100-1000 employees:

Capacity to start a VM directly from the backup repository (Instant VM Recovery) The explorer for restoring items (Active Directory, Exchange, SharePoint, MS-SQL and Oracle (soon)). Sheikh Abdul Farhan, IT Consultant and Engineer at a aerospace/defense firm with 100-1000 employees:

The file-level recovery option has filled a gap in our system. Abdul Latheef M, System Administrator at a university with 1000+ employees:

As a backup solution, the de-duplication and direct-to-tape functions are very valuable. It also has WAN acceleration, though I've yet to use that feature. Bartosz Kowalski, Systems Engineer at a tech company with 100-1000 employees:

Instant restore, file level restore, backup, copy/restore to/from cloud, VM replication from one data center to another for DR. Jeremy Steger, Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 1-100 employees:

Instant recovery of an entire VM, as there are times when I need to do it.

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Daniele Marconi, Systems Administrator at a government with 100-1000 employees:

I use the backup, replication, and the backup copy features. The most useful one is the backup feature. Mojib A. Haleem, President at a tech consulting company with 1-100 employees:

I can do a backup of an entire VM or just guest files. Renjith, Senior Systems Administrator at a healthcare company with 1000+ employees:

Sure backup Synthetic backups Ian Sanderson, Support Services Manager at a tech services company with 1-100 employees:

Ease of use Reliability ITconsultant974, Freelance IT Consultant at a tech consulting company with 1-100 employees:

The product is really easy to use. MarktngEngineer33, Technical Marketing Engineer at a tech vendor with 1-100 employees:

Application Aware simplifies the backup of applications that are deployed as virtual machines. Treating VMs as VMs. Virtual lab is also another useful feature for verifying backups with SureBackup and also allowing us to deploy test environments for test/dev.

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Javier Pérez Iglesias, CTO at a tech services company with 1-100 employees:

Granular restore and Vmware integration. Ravinder S Rana, Consultant at a tech services company with 1000+ employees:

Inter site backup replication, object level AD restore and complete VMDK level VM backup and restore. Patrick Dorn, Senior Systems Support Analyst at a government with 100-1000 employees:

Instant recovery of a VM, ease of use for item level recovery, ability to also send disk to disk jobs to tape for meeting retention policies. Nick Fisher, Systems Analyst at a hospitality company with 100-1000 employees:

The replication features and data recovery technology. NetworkConsultant162, Network Consultant at a tech services company with 1-100 employees:

Both backup and replication, simple to read reports. ITmanager140268, IT ADS Section Manger at a financial services firm with 1000+ employees:

Ease of use Lance Hietpas, System Administrator at a recreational facilities and services company with 1000+ employees:

The ease of use is the most valuable to me. I was able to save so much time in my day because the product did exactly what it said it would do. Veeam makes backup what it should be, set up back up jobs and when you need to restore something, click a couple buttons and restore. The speed of backups is also very valuable, it is amazing how fast backups and restores take place compared to other products. © 2016 IT Central Station To read more reviews about Backup and Recovery Software, please visit: http://www.itcentralstation.com/products/comparisons/emc-networker_vs_veeam-backup

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Rui Alves, Account Manager at a tech services company with 100-1000 employees:

2-in-1: backup and replication Sandbox and Open FIles Instant VM Recovery Kristian Dybmose, IT Consultant at a tech services company with 1-100 employees:

The backup and instant recovery features are the most valuable to me.

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Deep Dive: Room for Improvement

EMC NetWorker Bratislav Petkovic, Senior Associate - System Engineer at a financial services firm with 100-1000 employees:

I think, first of all, the part that relates to backup virtual machines. I've seen better and faster solutions, for example: Veeam. Marcio Shigueki Okubo, Infrastructure Analyst at a engineering company with 1000+ employees:

We pretend to start image backups from VMware, but we are also working with Xen and RHEV, and this product doesn't support those platforms.

Veeam Backup derek.hennessy, Senior System Engineer at a pharma/biotech company with 1000+ employees:

Backup of physical servers. I know that Veeam have vehemently said they will never go down that route but it's a feature I need, and badly. Having the ability to use Veeam within all our virtual environments is fantastic but it also means we still have a requirement to use TSM to back up our physical servers via an agent. With the Endpoint Protection feature announced recently I can only hope that this develops into the backup of all physical devices and allow management through the Veeam console.

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Mourad BELKHODJA, Engineer at a tech services company with 100-1000 employees:

With Networker 8.0 I had an issue related to VMware VADP backups.An Image level backup of a RHEL VM finished successfully, but when I tried to restore it the transfer speed was very low, and the restore operation took 20 hours to restore 17 GB which represents 50% of total VM size. I was then obliged to abort the restore operation because there was backup jobs planned and Networker was deployed with only one tape drive in this case (the tape drive can't write backups and perform restores simultaneously). I contacted the support team to analyze this performance issue. They said that this happened because it was a Linux machine backed up with Windows Vcenter Proxy. For me this is not acceptable... I hope this will be resolved in the 8.2 version of Networker, because restore speed is important (RTO)

derek.hennessy, Senior System Engineer at a pharma/biotech company with 1000+ employees:

Recently I've been discussing the capabilities of Endpoint Protection with a Veeam Rep. around the area of enterprise applications. In this instance I'm focused on SQL and Exchange. Despite my protestations we are still using physical exchange servers (and I doubt we're the only enterprise) so being able to get a good backup of those servers is critical to allow replacement of current backup solutions. Right now Veeam are not confident with Exchange backups and would recommend one of the DAGs to be virtual to ensure the backup consistency. For SQL however they are happy with their testing and while not being a released feature it is something that can be backed up via Endpoint Protection. This area of development for Veeam is going to be a critical one for them to truly enter the enterprise backup arena. Michael Jipping, IT Systems Engineer at a healthcare company with 1-100 employees:

Being able to Backup from Cloud Services like Azure Better Logging to assist you in determining root causes of failures Better Traffic Throttle Monitoring Sigurd Blom Rossel, CEO at a tech consulting company with 1-100 employees:

Nothing in particular, Veeam launches like a rocket and delves into the featurelist of VMware, for example, and tie their development close together with the devs coming from VMware or Microsoft.

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Rafael DelCastillo, Senior Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 1-100 employees:

Tape support is there, but needs improvement. Netvault beats in that area. But most of our backups are to disk then to tape; but also copy to disk DR (in development). Reporting is lacking unless you get additional product. Very basic reporting. This would an easy area to improve upon. Chris Childerhose, Infrastructure Architect at a real estate/law firm with 100-1000 employees:

Physical backup is always where room for improvement could be but Veeam has always stated they are not going in that direction, however, with Veeam Endpoint Backup physical server backup is possible. Don Potter, Server Administrator at a religious institution with 100-1000 employees:

Backup compression. It has got better but still could improve somewhat. Yasin AKILLI, Backup & Storage Systems Manager at a university with 100-1000 employees:

"Veeam Vpower Technology" is the area of this product that is open for improvement. Ian Salgado, IT Senior Systems Engineer at a tech vendor with 1-100 employees:

Being able to do both VMware & Hyper-V backups at the same time. At the moment, as far as I know, you can only do one or the other.

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Rizul Khanna, System Administrator-L2 at a tech services company with 1-100 employees:

Licensing cost model/ Faster data transfer rates from SSD Drive Datastores and Faster cancellation of a Job if done, sometimes you need to reboot your veeam server because the job is stuck upon cancelling, this is all I can think of. There were some initial issues with ports communication when used with Microsoft HyperV 2012/2012 R2, but now with this stable release of Veeam software, issues have been eliminated. Mihai Langa, System Administrator - Backup & Storage Specialist at a tech services company with 100-1000 employees:

It still doesn't feel like a fully mature solution because it's not exactly ready for very large scale and complex environments with more than 1000 VMs. Schneider Kumi Larbi, IT System Engineer at a tech services company with 1-100 employees:

Although this product is technically designed for virtual environments, it would be very useful if the same concepts or technology is applied to backup physical servers.  That is what I would love to see Veeam implement or add as a feature to a future product.  SysAdmin679, Systems Administrator at a construction company with 1000+ employees:

Better reporting of replication job details in order to provide better insights when troubleshooting.

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Eric Machabert, Consultant infrastructures at a tech services company with 1000+ employees:

Physical workload protection and item level recovery for Linux-based systems. Ed Motsinger, Acting Manager, Ground Systems Development and Operations Program at a aerospace/defense firm with 1000+ employees:

Archive to tape could be better, but the new version might do this, and generally it’s a great product. The landing disk cliff shares could be improved. I don’t believe that it supports it at this time. If you use the edit job function you can’t sort by VM product. DeanLewis, Senior Infrastructure Engineer at a tech services company with 1-100 employees:

Not sure, but maybe the weakest area is around integration with tape libraries at times. Dennis Schmidt, Information Technology Manager at a financial services firm with 100-1000 employees:

There are some features that are lacking compared to other backup solutions, specifically around the use of tape libraries, and this is the largest area for improvement. As it is a fairly new feature, I do fully expect improvement in the future as they continue to refine the ability to backup servers to tape media. Nichola Van de Voorde, Datacenter Core Infrastructure at a tech services company with 1000+ employees:

Two months ago, I would have said the integration of Veeam Endpoint Backup with Veeam B&R, but this is covered by now with Veeam 8 U2. The feature that a few customers are waiting is SharePoint item restores via redirected SQL, instead of having to install a staging SQL instance on the Veeam B&R backup server.

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Marco Carmo, Systems Engineer / System Administrator at a tech services company with 100-1000 employees:

It would be nice to be able to copy VMs directly to tape drives. Sam Clark, IT Manager at a healthcare company with 1100 employees:

None since the release of endpoint backup management. DataCenterOpMgr806, Data Center Operations Manager at a financial services firm with 1-100 employees:

Virtual Environment Laurent Lonay, Senior System Engineer at a tech services company with 1000+ employees:

Physical servers backup. Faisal Niaz, Information Systems Manager at a energy/utilities company with 100-1000 employees:

Backup of Physical could be improved. Additionally, customer service needs improvement. Reginald Wilson, System Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 1-100 employees:

File recovery could be better.  Ray Todich, System Engineer at a healthcare company with 1-100 employees:

They still don’t have a plugin for use with EMC Data Domain. All else is fantastic.

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Christian Baldigari, Systems Administrator at a tech services company with 1-100 employees:

There is always scope for improvement (in fact with the v8 version there will be improvements in fact!), But already it is great! David Azar, IT Manager at a tech services company with 1-100 employees:

Tape support is still not performing as expected (at least for my opinion) as Veeam relates to tape backup as a repository instead of a long term archive. Schedule options can be improved. RichardG321, IT Infrastructure Manager at a tech services company with 100-1000 employees:

The main area for improvement has come in Version 8, that is native support for tape drives and the ability to archive to tape. Although Veeam B&R v7 allows you to back up your virtual servers to disks. You still need to archive those backups to tapes for long-term storage. Veeam did not provide this facility in earlier versions so we currently use Symantec backup for archiving the "restore points" for long -term storage  Schneider Kumi Larbi, IT System Engineer at a tech services company with 1-100 employees:

Currently VEEAM doesnt back up VMs with physical raw device mappings. Jim Greeley, Server Systems Analyst at a insurance company with 100-1000 employees:

Performance of the replica when booting during an emergency. Only a few critical systems can be booted this way due to the loads on secondary storage appliances. This isn't really a problem, more of a limitation of the hardware devices we used for implementation.

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SrEngineer454, Senior Infrastructure Engineer at a tech services company with 1-100 employees:

Speed and more management. Ashish Malik, vBlock Cloud Specialist at a tech services company with 1000+ employees:

As every application has a scope of improvement so the Veeam, there are many areas they can improve on: the CBT errors, in hot add many times it is found that the Veeam proxy do not release the HDD even after the backup, offsite repository is not very stable. Juan Cruz, Systems Administrator at a transportation company with 1-100 employees:

Retention Policy isn't flexible enough to configure complex retention policy. seniorne160767, Senior Manager of Network at a tech services company with 1-100 employees:

None that I can think of. Mark Horne, Principal Technology Manager at a financial services firm with 1000+ employees:

Standard version is poor - As you need to power Off/On virtual machines when backing up/Restoring where Enterprise edition you don't - If you have a big estate to manage stay away from Standard. Andy Keeney, Director of Information Technology at a religious institution with 1-100 employees:

This product is for virtual environments only. Which means it cannot backup physical servers. Most, but not all, software support VMWare and VMWare environments but on the rare occasion (like with us) when a vendor requires a physical machine to operate, it means we have to have a different backup process.

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Thibaud LENIK, Architect at a tech services company with 1000+ employees:

Integration with Storage Array. Incremental restore. Improve the support of physical servers and bare metal recovery. Rusty Pass, Senior Systems Engineer at a healthcare company with 100-1000 employees:

It needs to be able to backup physical servers. Dipak Avichal, Senior Windows Engineer at a media company with 100-1000 employees:

I think it's fantastic, so none. Jerry Smith, Support Manager at a tech services company with 1-100 employees:

Backing up Exchange could be better, particularly Clustered Exchange. Gil Gross, Technical Consultant at a tech services company with 1-100 employees:

Problems occur using VMware based snapshots.

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Russell Lynch, Systems Specialist at a insurance company with 1-100 employees:

The performance is slow when making changes. I am unable to determine if the cause is slow disk that we use for our storage, of if Veeam is slow. When I delete a VM in Veeam it takes about 20 minutes to delete the backups with 83 restore points. With that being said we are getting the “Speed Boost” upgrade that should improve performance. With this being said, the program performs very quick when navigating around the UI. One issue I have ran into is I have been confused at times and added the same VM to multiple backup jobs. I wish there was a “warning” box that would pop up saying this vm is already protected in another job. Paul F., Network Administrator at a K-12 educational company or school with 1-100 employees:

I do have a need ever so small to have the ability to backup physical servers, this is not something Veeam offers. Güven Yakan, IT Manger at a energy/utilities company with 1-100 employees:

It should support physical servers, and as far as I know, v9 will do this. Tomás Céspedes, Information Technology Bureau Deputy Director at a government with 1000+ employees:

Everyday technology needs updates, patches, replacements. The challenge for us is to have resources up to date so that our skills and technical knowledge are up-to-date. Such is the case with all products, so it is as well with Veeam Backup.

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Didier Van Hoye, Technical Architect at a government with 100-1000 employees:

For now we’re pretty happy, but we’d like the ability to schedule. Also, the configuration and fine tuning of the Fibre Channel based off host proxy where we leverage the SAN hardware VSS provider took some work and effort. Shaun Herridge, IT Manager at a non-profit with 1001000 employees:

I really cannot think of any areas that stand out as needing improvement right now, to be honest.

ITManager866, IT manager at a wholesaler/distributor with 100-1000 employees:

A different kind of scheduling. We would like to do backup twice a day. John Bailey, Network Engineer at a financial services firm with 100-1000 employees:

Direct SAN to SAN replication – it didn’t integrate well with the 3PAR SAN that we had. Richard Haverly, Technical Lead at a tech services company with 1-100 employees:

The amount of disk space required for the long term storage of backups (archiving Weekly / Monthly / yearly backups) can be higher then expected if you have a large daily change rate in your VM. This needs to be planned for when considereing long term arciving of backup files.

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Kevin Finkley, Senior Infrastructure Engineer at a tech services company with 1000+ employees:

Compression rates could be improved for moving thousands of machines at a time. There was a small glitch that was resolved with a call to tech support. Can't perform replication without creating snapshots, which takes up all the space in VM, so I must do so with physical machines. ICTConsultant746, ICT Consultant at a government with 100-1000 employees:

The product has a great value for money and I'm happy to see they're still adding more features. I hope they can keep the setup as simple as possible as this is one of the strengths of the product. Mahdi Mohammadnezhad , Network specialist at a government with 1000+ employees:

It could be so nice and useful if Veeam had a feature to enable backup of physical servers, especially physical Linux servers. This imagebased backup would be an improvement. Harvey Jimenez, Virtualization Specialist at a tech services company with 100-1000 employees:

Tape support - more options for retention Backup for physical servers (Microsoft at least) Sheikh Abdul Farhan, IT Consultant and Engineer at a aerospace/defense firm with 100-1000 employees:

Remote management console Physical server backups

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Abdul Latheef M, System Administrator at a university with 1000+ employees:

Managing snapshots during the backup. Bartosz Kowalski, Systems Engineer at a tech company with 100-1000 employees:

The product works perfectly for us. After they added endpoint backup for physical servers the product is 10/10. Jeremy Steger, Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 1-100 employees:

Support for physical servers. Although we are continuing to virtualize all of our servers; there are, at this time, a few physical servers in our organization. They must be backed up as well. Currently, we have to use another vendor to backup these servers. Daniele Marconi, Systems Administrator at a government with 100-1000 employees:

I think it is a good product but all products could be better. Mojib A. Haleem, President at a tech consulting company with 1-100 employees:

It would be nice to be able to backup data to two locations. Renjith, Senior Systems Administrator at a healthcare company with 1000+ employees:

Better flexibility for scheduling jobs, specifically for the SQL hourly log backup.

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Ian Sanderson, Support Services Manager at a tech services company with 1-100 employees:

I can't think of any. ITconsultant974, Freelance IT Consultant at a tech consulting company with 1-100 employees:

The tape management is not really efficient and some other products are better. I know that backup on tape is not the the main target of Veeam but, it's important. MarktngEngineer33, Technical Marketing Engineer at a tech vendor with 1-100 employees:

There should be additional support for guest base backups. Javier Pérez Iglesias, CTO at a tech services company with 1-100 employees:

More APIs with storage from different vendors. Ravinder S Rana, Consultant at a tech services company with 1000+ employees:

Random CBT errors during backup jobs. Patrick Dorn, Senior Systems Support Analyst at a government with 100-1000 employees:

The ability to back up physical servers from within the same Product and not as a separate module. This would keep Veeam in the front of other competing products that offer both physical and virtual backup solutions.

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Nick Fisher, Systems Analyst at a hospitality company with 100-1000 employees:

Cost. At the time this was one of the most expensive backup software available. Compared to StorageCraft that was more than half the cost for a virtual machine agent. NetworkConsultant162, Network Consultant at a tech services company with 1-100 employees:

Most of the features I wanted was addressed in version 6 and 7 (i.e. backup to tape) allowing my clients to finally get rid of backup Exec to copy backups to tape. I'm not sure if there's a way to back up physical servers with Veeam but that would be a good feature to help customers transition into a fully virtualized environment OR maintain some physical servers in the environment. ITmanager140268, IT ADS Section Manger at a financial services firm with 1000+ employees:

I feel the price is a bit high Lance Hietpas, System Administrator at a recreational facilities and services company with 1000+ employees:

I never run into any stability issues with Veeam. It's almost too good to be true. I setup my jobs, run them, get the e-mail that they are finished and done. Veeam has never failed me. Rui Alves, Account Manager at a tech services company with 100-1000 employees:

I believe none.

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EMC NetWorker Bratislav Petkovic, Senior Associate - System Engineer at a financial services firm with 100-1000 employees:

We are using a single product, with the same licenses, to backup Oracle servers, SQL Servers, Exchange, and our virtual environment. It also allows us to clone the backups to a disaster recovery site. With the integration with Data Domain Boost we are significantly saving backup space. Marcio Shigueki Okubo, Infrastructure Analyst at a engineering company with 1000+ employees:

In our organization, we are working with Networker on other sites, so we can share our knowledge and experience.

Veeam Backup derek.hennessy, Senior System Engineer at a pharma/biotech company with 1000+ employees:

I used to work for a company that provided Backup/DR as a service to its clients we had to look at various backup and recovery tools to quickly and easily bring back customers data. Before Veeam introduced the backup to tape and WAN acceleration features we were using 3 different products across a number of our clients to provide the required services. After those feature releases, we just used one tool through a single console (the infamous single-pane-ofglass) which reduced the complexity and management overheads within our solutions but also provided our customers with a far greater level of service and reliability.

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Mourad BELKHODJA, Engineer at a tech services company with 100-1000 employees:

In a large enterprise DataCenter there is traditionally a lot of applications/databases which are owned by different administrators. Without a centralized backup solution, each application/DB owner has to ensure its backup separately and if a problem occurs, he has to execute recovery tasks. In these conditions, the application rower has to make some extra jobs : backup scripting, verifying backups have finished successfully, recovery jobs... This does impact his efficiency and the global enterprise efficiency. If a centralized backup solution like Networker is deployed, the backup/recovery tasks will be on the responsibility of only one resource which is the backup administrator. This does directly involve that each application/DB owner can spend more time on his real job: optimizing the platform that he owns.

Michael Jipping, IT Systems Engineer at a healthcare company with 1-100 employees:

Before this product we were using something else that was entirely unreliable for our company. Backups need to be counted on. In Feb of 2014 in Columbus, Ohio there was a major Power Failure downtown that was the result of a gas explosion of the corner of our Data Center. Entire Data Center was offline for a week. (Catastrophic Event could be classified as a Disaster). With a proper configuration of this product we were able to restore the Hyper-V Infrastructure to our 2nd Data Center and restore functionality to about 20 Hospitals and Imaging centers around the state of Ohio. (Tier1 systems were restored with in 30 minutes and remaining filtered in). Sigurd Blom Rossel, CEO at a tech consulting company with 1-100 employees:

It's been an overall improvement many places at our client sites where almost everyone runs vm's or Hyper-V. Rafael DelCastillo, Senior Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 1-100 employees:

a. Other than it has saved us from hours of work not having to rebuild servers and the many times it has helped us recover data that was valuable, I don't know how to translate that into money, but it's no small thing. b. This one is HUGE: We moved our entire data center, from one physical location to another, mind you we are 24 hour operation with sites across the state relying on the systems being up, and we never lost one hour of downtime. We used Veeam Backup and Recovery to migrate our entire Vmware Farm from old location to the new. It was awesome.

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Chris Childerhose, Infrastructure Architect at a real estate/law firm with 100-1000 employees:

With moving the Veeam server to a physical server and creating a Proxy server on each of the hosts we are able to leverage SAN based backup which is very fast. Jobs are completed overnight and never run in to the business hours.

Don Potter, Server Administrator at a religious institution with 100-1000 employees:

Restores are faster.  Moving virtual machines from one location to another is easier and is far less time consuming than Tape backups. Setting up jobs replicas or backup jobs is also quick and easy. Yasin AKILLI, Backup & Storage Systems Manager at a university with 100-1000 employees:

One of our managers lost his mail box completely and using my product's explorer for exchange function I installed only that user's mail box without turning back to all exchange back up folder. Ian Salgado, IT Senior Systems Engineer at a tech vendor with 1-100 employees:

Very fast & reliable backup, less management, fast restores William Reigle, Sr. Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 1-100 employees:

Veeam allowed me to eliminate the need for tape backups and replace legacy backup software. The reliability of Veeam is amazing compared to the solution(s) I was using. I am now able to spend 2 minutes a day reviewing backup logs instead of hours troubleshooting errors and calling vendor support. The ability to replicate backups off-site disk to disk also saves a ton of time compared to swapping tapes and manually moving them off-site.

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Mihai Langa, System Administrator - Backup & Storage Specialist at a tech services company with 100-1000 employees:

First of all, it has provided us with much needed HA for our retail sites. Until Veeam, the servers from stores were backed up, and in case of disaster with the production hypervisor, we would have faced a far too long restore time that would seriously impact the business.  Second, it allowed us to replace the older, slower, and much pricier backup solution in our virtual environment. Schneider Kumi Larbi, IT System Engineer at a tech services company with 1-100 employees:

This product has really reduced our recovery time objective considerably because we are able to restore entire virtual machines in under 15 minutes whenever that has come up.  Not just that, though, as we are also able to restore individual objects requested by customers, e.g. deleted messages from an Exchange server. The Veeam product has reduced the time it takes to configure and monitor backups. SysAdmin679, Systems Administrator at a construction company with 1000+ employees:

It has provided a higher level of reliability to core company systems and services.

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Gareth Petersen, Infrastructure Engineer at a local government with 100-1000 employees:

It's afforded our organisation peace of mind knowing that we have reliable, fast and a cost effective backup solution for our virtual environment which also allows us to provide our developers with both test and pre-prod environments in hours rather than days. I am currently running secondary backup jobs (B2Bcopy) for our business critical virtual machines which are located at an offsite repository in addition to replication jobs which are located at our disaster recovery site without any issues. Eric Machabert, Consultant infrastructures at a tech services company with 1000+ employees:

Backups and restoration are 100% successful, plus we have the ability to automate backup recoverability tests. Ed Motsinger, Acting Manager, Ground Systems Development and Operations Program at a aerospace/defense firm with 1000+ employees:

It helps us to restore and backup our data, along with ease of use. DeanLewis, Senior Infrastructure Engineer at a tech services company with 1-100 employees:

I've been an end user and deployer of this software as a consultant. It's easy to implement, and easy to spot any issues and resolve them. It slots in great with other virtualization products. Dennis Schmidt, Information Technology Manager at a financial services firm with 100-1000 employees:

This product has significantly reduced our backup windows as backup times have been significantly reduced, as well as the speed at which we can recover systems if needed.

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Nichola Van de Voorde, Datacenter Core Infrastructure at a tech services company with 1000+ employees:

Veeam B&R software is transparent and easy to use, which improves usability and manageability for the daily operations a backup/system administrator performs. Setting up a backup application/infrastructure is one thing, but to keep it operational without having to deal with big issues is another. I barely encounter situations where Veeam B&R setup disappoints our customers. Marco Carmo, Systems Engineer / System Administrator at a tech services company with 100-1000 employees:

Restores are easier to do. Asif Punjwani, System Engineer at a healthcare company with 100-1000 employees:

Surebackup allows verification of the backup. This provides a higher level of confidence. Sam Clark, IT Manager at a healthcare company with 1100 employees:

We’ve taken the human out of the equation when it comes to our backups. This means backups run when they should, like they should. DataCenterOpMgr806, Data Center Operations Manager at a financial services firm with 1-100 employees:

Versions of backup files helped us to recover files as per users requirement.

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Laurent Lonay, Senior System Engineer at a tech services company with 1000+ employees:

- Reducing backup storage - Reducing backup time Faisal Niaz, Information Systems Manager at a energy/utilities company with 100-1000 employees:

Improved virtual infrastructures backup and recovery. Reginald Wilson, System Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 1-100 employees:

Able to backup virtual servers and setup and DR for critical applications. Ray Todich, System Engineer at a healthcare company with 1-100 employees:

It has given us the ability to restore our systems very, very quickly. The backups run very quickly as well, which helps us free up bandwidth on our network. Christian Baldigari, Systems Administrator at a tech services company with 1-100 employees:

The tool SureBackup allows me to check, once a month in my case, the situation of my backups: I always have the truth about my backups. Regarding the tool Replication, we use it for customers who do not have large financial resources, while allowing us to have the opportunity to restore their ambient edi production in the shortest time possible.

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RichardG321, IT Infrastructure Manager at a tech services company with 100-1000 employees:

We are currently using Veeam B&R to replicate our VMware environment to a disaster recovery site, in the event of a major outage we can failover to our DR site. From a business continuity aspect it has removed the need for arranging warm-start DR arrangements. Schneider Kumi Larbi, IT System Engineer at a tech services company with 1-100 employees:

We used to have many backup solutions for different purposes but Veeam allowed us to use just one backup solution to backup our vms and due to the granularity of the system, it allows us to restore of single objects when the vm is mounted. Jim Greeley, Server Systems Analyst at a insurance company with 100-1000 employees:

During a "zero day" virus outbreak that caused several critical systems to fail, the ability to boot and run a "replica" that hadn't been infected yet kept the business running and productive. SrEngineer454, Senior Infrastructure Engineer at a tech services company with 1-100 employees:

Real and fast restore and if needed a VM Instant Restore(1/2m). Ashish Malik, vBlock Cloud Specialist at a tech services company with 1000+ employees:

Very smooth backup and restore when required.

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Juan Cruz, Systems Administrator at a transportation company with 1-100 employees:

Drastically reduce administrative effort Friendly User Interface Faster backup recovery Disaster Recovery Plan Decrease amount of backup completion Ibrahim Quraishi, User at a comms service provider with 100-1000 employees:

Veeam Backup has given us the power to protect the critical VM's that are core to our business. For example we protect our VMware vCenter Server, vCenter MS Sql Server. Active Directory Domain Controller. This help us recover the Internal management tools like vCenter Server within 30 minutes from Veeam Backup. seniorne160767, Senior Manager of Network at a tech services company with 1-100 employees:

Ability to have disaster recovery site capabilities integrated into our backup solution as well as a backup product that scales along with our needs. Mark Horne, Principal Technology Manager at a financial services firm with 1000+ employees:

Easy to use product, If you have a virtual environment and also are worried about putting in a DR solution - This is an easy product to get to grips with, Plugs into Vcentre and has the same feel as Vcentre. the replication feature is great - Seamless on enterprise version that I use for my DR solutions.

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Andy Keeney, Director of Information Technology at a religious institution with 1-100 employees:

As long as you are good with your grouping of servers, the dedupe process is wonderful. Once installed and configured, it just works. The management dashboard is pretty easy to use and very easy to read. On top of the easy to configure and manage, it is also lightning fast during recovery. It took just 20 minutes to recover a 500GB Windows Server. Since the product connects directly to your vcenter, most of the traffic stays within your virtual switching environment, making backups run that much faster. Thibaud LENIK, Architect at a tech services company with 1000+ employees:

Faster and more reliable backup. SAN Snapshot reduce backup window. Integration of Exchange and SQL granular restore reduce our RTO. Rusty Pass, Senior Systems Engineer at a healthcare company with 100-1000 employees:

With this product we are able to drastically reduce our backup and restore times. We are able to have a true DR site with Veeams replication jobs. Dipak Avichal, Senior Windows Engineer at a media company with 100-1000 employees:

We wanted to replicate a very old database which is running on VM. We were looking for solution long time and finally using this product we are able to do it.

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Jerry Smith, Support Manager at a tech services company with 1-100 employees:

Backups don't fail often which saves time and data. Gil Gross, Technical Consultant at a tech services company with 1-100 employees:

Improved backup and recovery speeds, ease of use. Russell Lynch, Systems Specialist at a insurance company with 1-100 employees:

Veeam has saved us many hours retrieving deleted files as well as testing backups. Our old backup solution was getting to the point where we could not go more than a couple of days without backups failing. With Veeam we have not had any time where backups did not run. We also have been able to run since January 2014 with no “failed” backups. Paul F., Network Administrator at a K-12 educational company or school with 1-100 employees:

To us the ability to restore an entire VM for Development and User Acceptance Testing is invaluable the need to Develop continues to grow and Veeam supplies us the ability to manage this seamlessly. Utilizing the deduplication and compression built into Veeam we are able to keep backup longer and have the ability to perform more frequent backups. Güven Yakan, IT Manger at a energy/utilities company with 1-100 employees:

After we started using Veeam, we transferred all our 30 virtual servers in seven hours to our disaster recovery side.  Also, during our disaster recovery test w,e did not have any issues replicating servers.

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Tomás Céspedes, Information Technology Bureau Deputy Director at a government with 1000+ employees:

For us, it's a simple solution for our complex environment. It has helped us reduce the time to manage backups. Didier Van Hoye, Technical Architect at a government with 100-1000 employees:

Saves IT operations a lot of time and frustration. Also, the ROI for our CFO is tremendous whereas we did not have data deduplication on our previous backup product, unless licensed at a cost higher/GB than buying storage. We can now leverage in-box Windows deduplication with excellent results. We have longer retention times and spaces to spare on our backup targets. Shaun Herridge, IT Manager at a non-profit with 1001000 employees:

Fortunately, we have not had to use the restore functionality (touch wood), but it does give us the reassurance that we can perform a restore if needed, in a real situation as well as performing regular testing in our virtual lab. The other functionality that has really had an impact is being able to granually restore Exchange mailboxes. John Bailey, Network Engineer at a financial services firm with 100-1000 employees:

We were struggling with having software that would give us reliable backup and when we implemented the Veeam solution, it solved the problem for us.

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Richard Haverly, Technical Lead at a tech services company with 1-100 employees:

By using Veeam, backups times for the entire virtual environment have been reduced, and backup windows now have no impact on production VMs. Instant recovery has revolutionised client DR plans, reducing recovery time objectives (RTO) and improving available recovery point objectives (RPO). Also as Veeam "just works" less time is spent troubleshooting backup technologies and failed backups. Kevin Finkley, Senior Infrastructure Engineer at a tech services company with 1000+ employees:

We can now perform replication for migrating data. ICTConsultant746, ICT Consultant at a government with 100-1000 employees:

It really just works, we don't have backup issues anymore. We're now implementing SureBackup so we can check the quality of the backups. Great feature. Mahdi Mohammadnezhad , Network specialist at a government with 1000+ employees:

We looked for the best solution to get backups of our VM without downtime, and I found this was the best solution. We highly recommend it for virtual servers. Harvey Jimenez, Virtualization Specialist at a tech services company with 100-1000 employees:

I am a specialist in Veeam, and my clients optimized their recovery procedure, and it now requires less time to restore services. They love how easy it is to operate.

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Abdul Latheef M, System Administrator at a university with 1000+ employees:

In various ways, we are using an Active Directory OS-aware backup, and I can recover deleted objects to AD. When I need to duplicate a machine for test purposes, it is very easy to restore from a backup. Bartosz Kowalski, Systems Engineer at a tech company with 100-1000 employees:

Fast recovery, backup stored in 3 locations: locally, other location, and in the cloud (iLand). If our primary data center goes down, our VMs are replicated to another data center so we will be up and running in less than 15 minutes. Backup stored in multiple locations. Jeremy Steger, Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 1-100 employees:

We no longer use tapes. The restoration of files, email and entire servers have been reduced to mere minutes instead of hours or days, which it was at times. Daniele Marconi, Systems Administrator at a government with 100-1000 employees:

I have a backup of my infrastructure every night, and have improved the speed of performing restores. Mojib A. Haleem, President at a tech consulting company with 1-100 employees:

The safety and reliability of data loss and retrieval has been amazing ever since we implemented Veeam.

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Renjith, Senior Systems Administrator at a healthcare company with 1000+ employees:

It drastically reduced the backup time window and improved data protection. Ian Sanderson, Support Services Manager at a tech services company with 1-100 employees:

It's improved backup recovery time significantly, and makes backup testing a breeze. ITconsultant974, Freelance IT Consultant at a tech consulting company with 1-100 employees:

It has made the VM infrastructure easier to manage, as well as simplifying the backup and restore process. MarktngEngineer33, Technical Marketing Engineer at a tech vendor with 1-100 employees:

It simplifies the backup process by allowing applications that are virtualized to be treated as virtual machines. Veeam's virtual labs actually takes into account all the required dependencies of testing application servers with ease. Not all solutions have this feature. Javier Pérez Iglesias, CTO at a tech services company with 1-100 employees:

We are able to restore VM very fast, with 0 downtime. Ravinder S Rana, Consultant at a tech services company with 1000+ employees:

It is helpful in BCP in the event of disaster and human errors on VM infrastructure to reduce MTTR and fast recovery.

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Patrick Dorn, Senior Systems Support Analyst at a government with 100-1000 employees:

We have been able to instantly recover VMs from catastrophic failures to point in time and recover files easily without the long wait of searching and restoring from tape. Nick Fisher, Systems Analyst at a hospitality company with 100-1000 employees:

We were able to turn the data recovery process over to technicians instead of allowing only engineers to recover customer data. Another big bonus, is that the data recovery process was fairly simple and fast. NetworkConsultant162, Network Consultant at a tech services company with 1-100 employees:

Allowed simple backup and restore of virtual machines as well as granular restore of files and Exchange databases. ITmanager140268, IT ADS Section Manger at a financial services firm with 1000+ employees:

Very reliable and fast data recovery Lance Hietpas, System Administrator at a recreational facilities and services company with 1000+ employees:

There was a lot of time spent using other backup products in the past, and the best part about Veeam is its ease of use. I am able to spend my time doing other tasks instead of babysitting my backup strategy.

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Kristian Dybmose, IT Consultant at a tech services company with 1-100 employees:

It has given me and my customers ease of mind in regards to virtual backup, furthermore it has given us the opportunity to actually test the backup so that we know we can rely on it. With instant recovery you can recover an entire server in minutes. This means you can test if your server can start from backup, in case of a breakdown.

EMC NETWORKER REVIEW BY A REAL USER Bratislav Petkovic Verified by IT Central Station Senior Associate - System Engineer at a financial services firm with 100-1000 employees

Valuable Features: Support for various operating systems, we use, AIX, Solaris, Linux, VMware, and Windows Excellent deduplication with Data Domain Boost A good user interface, so we can, from a single console, manage the entire backup infrastructure

Improvements to My Organization: We are using a single product, with the same licenses, to backup Oracle servers, SQL Servers, Exchange, and our virtual environment. It also allows us to clone the backups to a disaster recovery site. With the integration with Data Domain Boost we are significantly saving backup space.

Room for Improvement:

WHAT REAL USERS ARE SAYING... "With the integration with Data Domain Boost, we are significantly saving backup space. However, backups of VMs could be improved." "It allows us to share our knowledge and experience with it on other sites in our organization, although it lacks support for Xen and RHEV. " "Backup software solution which supports majority of IT platforms (Windows, UNIX, Oracle, SQL, Lotus, VMware etc.)"

I think, first of all, the part that relates to backup virtual machines. I've seen better and faster solutions, for example: Veeam.

Use of Solution: We've used NetWorker for about ten years. We are primarily using NetWorker to backup our core servers with Solaris. For the last three years, we use Networker to backup the entire infrastructure.

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We're also using the NetWorker Module for Microsoft v8.2.1.8, and the NetWorker VMware Protection v1.1.1.50.

Deployment Issues: No issues encountered.

Stability Issues: We had no problems with stability.

Scalability Issues: We had no problems with scalability. We have two data centers with different infrastructure.

Customer Service: I have worked with local EMC partners, I have had a positive experience.

Technical Support: I did not use technical support for NetWorker, but I have used it for some other EMC products and I think they were a little slow. 7/10.

Initial Setup: Initial setup was straightforward. The documentation is good.

Implementation Team: We did it in-house.

Cost and Licensing Advice: We use NetWorker Capacity Licensing Model. Estimating the backup environment's capacity is, for me, very complex, and I think not even clear.

Other Advice: It is a good product with some problems backing up virtual machines (slow restore). We use NetWorker Capacity Licensing Model. Estimating the backup environment's capacity is, for me, very complex, and I think not even clear.

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EMC NETWORKER REVIEW BY A REAL USER Marcio Shigueki Okubo Verified by IT Central Station Infrastructure Analyst at a engineering company with 1000+ employees

Valuable Features: It's easy to configure and manage.

Improvements to My Organization: In our organization, we are working with Networker on other sites, so we can share our knowledge and experience.

Room for Improvement: We pretend to start image backups from VMware, but we are also working with Xen and RHEV, and this product doesn't support those platforms.

Use of Solution: I´ve worked on it for over 10 years, since v6.

Deployment Issues: No issues encountered.

Stability Issues: Just in version 7.x.x, where they changed all graphical interface and had some stability issues.

Scalability Issues: When I used to work in a consultant office, we had to split one backup server into three to support the amount of clients. This customer had a lot of backup server instability.

Customer Service: It is great; EMC support is one of the best.

Technical Support: It is great, a good level of knowledgement and escalation.

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Previous Solutions: I used to work with TSM as well, but Networker is easier to deploy.

Other Advice: There are some features that other software, like Avamar, does better, and that EMC could incorporate into Networker. Ensure you have good architecture job before implementation. At our organization, we are scheduling all our backups from the same business line to ensure it's all done at the same time, to ensure all backups are scheduled at the same time.

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EMC NETWORKER REVIEW BY A REAL USER Mourad BELKHODJA Verified by IT Central Station Engineer at a tech services company with 100-1000 employees

Valuable Features: Backup jobs can be scheduled and automated Monitoring of backups and configuration tasks are centralized Compatibility of the solution covers large OS/DataBases/Applications

Improvements to My Organization: In a large enterprise DataCenter there is traditionally a lot of applications/databases which are owned by different administrators. Without a centralized backup solution, each application/DB owner has to ensure its backup separately and if a problem occurs, he has to execute recovery tasks. In these conditions, the application rower has to make some extra jobs : backup scripting, verifying backups have finished successfully, recovery jobs... This does impact his efficiency and the global enterprise efficiency. If a centralized backup solution like Networker is deployed, the backup/recovery tasks will be on the responsibility of only one resource which is the backup administrator. This does directly involve that each application/DB owner can spend more time on his real job: optimizing the platform that he owns.

Room for Improvement: With Networker 8.0 I had an issue related to VMware VADP backups. An Image level backup of a RHEL VM finished successfully, but when I tried to restore it the transfer speed was very low, and the restore operation took 20 hours to restore 17 GB which represents 50% of total VM size. I was then obliged to abort the restore operation because there was backup jobs planned and Networker was deployed with only one tape drive in this case (the tape drive can't write backups and perform restores simultaneously). I contacted the support team to analyze this performance issue. They said that this happened because it was a Linux machine backed up with Windows Vcenter Proxy. For me this is not acceptable... I hope this will be resolved in the 8.2 version of Networker, because restore speed is important (RTO)

Use of Solution: 4 years

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Deployment Issues: Deployment tasks are not really hard. Networker is well documented.

Technical Support: 7/10

Initial Setup: Initial setup was complex because I had to integrate Exchange Server and I had no knowledge on how it works.  I asked to the Exchange administrator to assist me on the deployment and together we setup up the Exchange backup job.

Other Solutions Considered: IBM TSM; HP data protector; Symantec Netbackup/Backupexec are main competitor to Networker. I remember a customer asked me to advise him between deploying Networker or TSM. The customer wanted to integrate a Data Domain device to his backup solution. I advised him to use Networker because TSM is not compatible with DDBoost protocol which improves DataDomain performance: Deploying TSM in this case was a limitation! 

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VEEAM BACKUP REVIEW BY A REAL USER Andrea Bonomi Verified by IT Central Station Senior System Integrator at a tech services company with 1-100 employees I have been using this solution since 2008 and find the fast recover and deduplication of this product valuable. An example of how this product has improved the way our organization functions is that it recover Citrix farm in 15 minutes. The exchange and Sharepoint have room for improvement. We encounter no issues with deployment, stability or scalability. We implemented through a vendor team; their level of expertise was high. Initial setup was straightforward. I would rate the level of customer service a 10 and the level of technical support a 9, so both were really excellent. We previously used Backup exec, and evaluated Acronis before we chose this solution. Our ROI on this product is one year. Costs for day-to-day and setup are 1 day cost to deploy, day-to-day depends.

WHAT REAL USERS ARE SAYING... "We previously used Backup exec, and evaluated Acronis before we chose this solution. Our ROI is one year." "Ability to verify backups of critical servers means I can sleep at night. Backup of physical servers could be better. " "With this product we were able to restore the Hyper-V Infrastructure to our 2nd Data Center and 20 Hospitals." "Veeam launches like a rocket and delves into the feature list of VMware. It's been an overall improvement." "We used Netvault, but Veeam is far more flexible." "By moving the Veeam server to a physical server and creating a Proxy server on each of the hosts we are able to leverage SAN based backup which is very fast. "

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VEEAM BACKUP REVIEW BY A REAL USER derek.hennessy Verified by IT Central Station Senior System Engineer at a pharma/biotech company with 1000+ employees

Valuable Features: This is actually quite a hard choice to make when dealing with Veeam Backup & Replication. There are a number of great features such as WAN acceleration, deduplication & compression, replication and the grandfather-father-son backup tree. Not to mention backup to tape which has been a key reason to migrate to Veeam. The primary feature of most value to me is the SureBackup and SureReplica featureset. Having the ability to verify backups and replicas of critical servers in a sandboxed environment means that I can sleep comfortably at night knowing that the data is valid and I can confidently restore data and services if required by the business. Snapshot capabilities within NetApp would also be high on that list.

Improvements to My Organization: I used to work for a company that provided Backup/DR as a service to its clients we had to look at various backup and recovery tools to quickly and easily bring back customers data. Before Veeam introduced the backup to tape and WAN acceleration features we were using 3 different products across a number of our clients to provide the required services. After those feature releases, we just used one tool through a single console (the infamous single-pane-of-glass) which reduced the complexity and management overheads within our solutions but also provided our customers with a far greater level of service and reliability.

Room for Improvement: Backup of physical servers. I know that Veeam have vehemently said they will never go down that route but it's a feature I need, and badly. Having the ability to use Veeam within all our virtual environments is fantastic but it also means we still have a requirement to use TSM to back up our physical servers via an agent. With the Endpoint Protection feature announced recently I can only hope that this develops into the backup of all physical devices and allow management through the Veeam console. Recently I've been discussing the capabilities of Endpoint Protection with a Veeam Rep. around the area of enterprise applications. In this instance I'm focused on SQL and Exchange. Despite my protestations we are still using physical exchange servers (and I doubt we're the only enterprise) so being able to get a good backup of those servers is critical to allow replacement of current backup solutions. Right now Veeam are not confident with Exchange backups and would recommend one of the DAGs to be virtual to ensure the backup consistency. For SQL however they are happy with their testing and while not being a released feature it is something that can be backed up via Endpoint Protection. This area of development for Veeam is going to be a critical one for them to truly enter the enterprise backup arena.

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Use of Solution: Approximately 3 years. This has been at both the end user side and also as a service-provider to a number of our customers. I've used Veeam only within VMware environments so I can't comment on it's performance within Hyper-V.

Deployment Issues: Deployment of Veeam is incredibly easy. I've installed Veeam a number of times and never came across issues with the installation. If anything I've had issues with the design of the backup solution rather than the product itself but as with all solutions they need to be designed correctly to get the best out of the products featureset.

Stability Issues: 99% of the time there are no issues with Veeam. It does exactly what it says on the tin and it really is just as easy as they make it look in their demos and videos. On a few occasions I had issues with VSS failing on a server which came down to being an operating system issue. Another time there was a problem where the backup was not truncating exchange logs. Veeam Support provided a patch within 24 hours which immediately fixed the issue permanently.

Scalability Issues: In early versions of Veeam, before version 6.5, there were issues but since Veeam has utilised backup Proxy servers there's no issue with scalability. You can leverage servers in your environment that have low workloads to be Veeam proxies as well so you get more value from your environment.

Customer Service: Veeam customer service is top notch. Previously I have worked closely with them to request licensing and further information on their products and they have always answered quickly and politely or returned my call quickly. If it was on a scale of 1-5 I'd give it 5.

Technical Support: Technical support is exceptional at Veeam. Any issue I have opened with them has been dealt with quickly and within an hour I've had a support technician contact me. On a handful of occasions where I've had severity 1 calls open with support they have passed off support to their colleagues in Europe and later America to work on the issue with me further out of hours with a smooth handover. Normally with support teams this happens but you have repeat everything all over again but I've not had such an experience with Veeam.

Previous Solutions: Yes. I used to use products such as Symantec Backup Exec and Falconstor but switched to Veeam as it's designed for virtual environments, it's easy to use and lowers the management overhead, it scales easily and provides a stable backup environment. Right now I'm considering using Veeam to replace NetApp SnapProtect within our environment.

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Initial Setup: The initial setup is really straightforward. It really is a next, next, next install and can be done by anyone. Some of the feature selection during the installation should be thought about in advance but it's possible to easily enable these later if you don't enable the up-front. Once the installation is complete you then need to add servers as proxies and point Veeam at a backup repository, add vCenter and create the backup pools and that's it. Ready, set, go!

Implementation Team: I've only ever done in-house implementations of Veeam. I have had discussions on occasions with Veeams technical team before installation of some more complex environments and they have always been insightful and knowledgeable and understood the capabilities of their products at an in-depth level. But normally the implementation was straightforward and didn't require any assistance.

ROI: We were able to recover our investment on Veeam within about 8 months. This was due largely to reduced licensing costs initially but the majority of the savings came from a reduction in the management overheads and the previous baby-sitting we had to do of our backup solution.

Cost and Licensing Advice: The original setup costs were in the region of $45k for a 24 host VMware environment. That was for the full Veeam Availability Suite which Backup and Replication is a part of. The day-to-day (Opex) costs we reduced from one staff member spending 5 hours massaging backups and replications to less that 1 hour a day.

Other Solutions Considered: Before using Veeam I reviewed a number of backup solutions. These included Symantec Backup Exec, NetBackup, Falconstor, Acronis, Commvault and ArcServe.

Other Advice: I would recommend getting your hands on trial version or even just use the free editions from Veeam to become comfortable with the console and see for yourself just how easy it is to manage backups. If you use the free edition you'll quickly want to use a full version so you can schedule backups and take advantage of some of enterprise features. Run a POC on some VMs and verify it's the right tool for you and see that the reviews don't lie.

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I would also recommend reaching out to a Veeam Gold or Platinum Partner if you have a more complex environment and get your design put up on a whiteboard. While getting Veeam into your environment is the end goal a real focus needs to be placed on data migration and integrity. Your previous backup data needs to be accessible and recoverable and this is where the partners should be able to help. This isn't a recommendation just for implementing Veeam but for all backup solution migration. With Veeam however I'm sure it'll be as easy as everything else.

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VEEAM BACKUP REVIEW BY A REAL USER Michael Jipping Verified by IT Central Station IT Systems Engineer at a healthcare company with 1-100 employees

Valuable Features: Continuous Data Backup and Replication features that allow us to have our entire Virtual Infrastructure recoverable in minutes.

Improvements to My Organization: Before this product we were using something else that was entirely unreliable for our company. Backups need to be counted on. In Feb of 2014 in Columbus, Ohio there was a major Power Failure downtown that was the result of a gas explosion of the corner of our Data Center. Entire Data Center was offline for a week. (Catastrophic Event could be classified as a Disaster). With a proper configuration of this product we were able to restore the Hyper-V Infrastructure to our 2nd Data Center and restore functionality to about 20 Hospitals and Imaging centers around the state of Ohio. (Tier1 systems were restored with in 30 minutes and remaining filtered in).

Room for Improvement: Being able to Backup from Cloud Services like Azure Better Logging to assist you in determining root causes of failures Better Traffic Throttle Monitoring

Use of Solution: 18 months.

Deployment Issues: Yes but easily resolved with the support from our Sales/Tech team provided by VEEAM.

Stability Issues: None.

Customer Service: Very Good.

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Technical Support: Very Good.

Previous Solutions: Unreliable /success-failure rates.

Initial Setup: Very Straightforward.

Implementation Team: In-house.

ROI: Hard to say but I would say the company wouldn't be around based on the event described above.

Cost and Licensing Advice: Initial Software costs includes 3 yrs of support = $65000 for 20 HyperV Servers.

Other Solutions Considered: We looked at AppAssure (DELL) and CommVault.

Other Advice: Do your research but by far this is one of the best products out there. Agentless is a very good thing to leverage in a Backup Software.

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VEEAM BACKUP REVIEW BY A REAL USER Sigurd Blom Rossel Verified by IT Central Station CEO at a tech consulting company with 1-100 employees

Valuable Features: The backup and blocklevel incremental backup, where daily full backups are done. Also the hotcopy feature is valuable.

Improvements to My Organization: It's been an overall improvement many places at our client sites where almost everyone runs vm's or Hyper-V.

Room for Improvement: Nothing in particular, Veeam launches like a rocket and delves into the featurelist of VMware, for example, and tie their development close together with the devs coming from VMware or Microsoft.

Use of Solution: Since early 2008 when Veeam entered the scene.

Deployment Issues: Never had any issues that couldn’t be dealt with from an admin pov.

Stability Issues: Its running rock steady, so there isn’t any issues in my/our end.

Scalability Issues: It scales 100% its just a matter of licenses pr cpu, so as long as your compliant it runs like it should.

Customer Service: Rating in level from 1-10 where 10 is the best i would rate it 10.

Technical Support: Rating in level from 1-10 where 10 is the best i would rate it 10.

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Previous Solutions: Yes used many different solutions, but no one were as great as Veeam when talking virtual backups.

Initial Setup: Yes more or less, its been improved over the years and now version 8 is ready and even more potent.

Implementation Team: We are an IT consultancy business doing implemetations ourself, so 100% done by us at N2IT.

ROI: ROI is compared to for example running CommVault returned many times, this is due to the flexibility ion license models etc. And also in terms of space utilization. Veeam does full daily backups with whats called synthetic backup streams of some sort, it takes all block changes and stream those into the latest backup and there create a full backup as well as restore pointers.

Cost and Licensing Advice: Setup cost is a variable, but take the number of cpu´s and multiply that with the license cost as well as a target for backup storage and you have the price.

Other Solutions Considered: Yes evaluated vRanger and PHP backup and also Symantec. No one met the requirements.  We decided on Veeam because we were much more integrated into VMware core and you didn't have to script yourself out of alot of tideous tasks to get things working. Veeam worked out of the box and was a tight close match to what we knew Windows-wise.

Other Advice: Nothing beats Veeam when it comes to Backup in a virtual environment. Just go for it, Veeam won’t let you down.

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SOLUTION

Veeam

Veeam Backup

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

HP Data Protector

Acronis

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Asigra

Asigra

Altaro

Altaro Hyper-V Backup

IBM

IBM Tivoli Storage Manager

Symantec

Symantec Backup Exec

EMC

EMC Avamar

EMC

EMC NetWorker

Microsoft

Microsoft DPM

Symantec

NetBackup

Unitrends

Unitrends

Arcserve

Arcserve UDP

Bacula Systems

Bacula Enterprise

Catalogic

Catalogic DPX

CommVault

CommVault

Rubrik

Rubrik

Acronis

Acronis Backup Advanced

Idera

Idera SQL Safe Backup

NetApp

NetApp V-Series

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BackupAssist

Barracuda Networks

Barracuda Backup

Bocada

Bocada Enterprise

Cohesity

Cohesity

Dell

Dell AppAssure

Dell

Dell BakBone

Delphix

Delphix

Druva

Druva

Evault

Evault

FalconStor

FalconStor Virtual Tape Library

IBM

IBM ProtectTIER

IBM

IBM Tivoli CDP for Files

Infrascale

Infrascale Platform

Iron Mountain

Iron Mountain Connected

Iron Mountain

Iron Mountain LiveVault

NovaStor

NovaStor NovaBACKUP

SolarWinds

SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor

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1. Veeam Backup

6430

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2. Altaro Hyper-V Backup

3702

3. EMC Avamar

1015

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4. Acronis Backup

1622

3082 1 1 A 1 Co 2 Review 756 Follo verage R mpar ws wers s ating isons : 7.2

5. HP Data Protector

1570

8021 2 1 A Com 7 Review 544 Follo verage R ws paris wers s ating ons : 7.8

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5671

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7. Arcserve UDP

8. IBM Tivoli Storage Manager

3679

6043

9. NetBackup

5346

10. Asigra

2987

11. EMC NetWorker

2617

12. Acronis Backup Advanced

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14. Bacula Enterprise

3714

15. Catalogic DPX

382 V

16. Microsoft DPM

4535

17. Infrascale Platform

1096

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21. Dell AppAssure

4019

22. VMware vDPA

3353

23. Barracuda Backup

1820

24. Evault

1614

25. Actifio

1651

26. Druva

1083

27. ASG Atempo

449 V

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28. IBM ProtectTIER

222 V

2763

29. Iron Mountain LiveVault

430 V

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3075 0 1 A 31. FalconStor Virtual Tape 393 Vie Com Reviews 338 Follo verage R ws p w ating a ers r Library isons : 0.0

32. Dell BakBone

267 V

2529

33. Bocada Enterprise

263 V

2478

206 V

2354

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35. NovaStor NovaBACKUP

626 V

4064

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36. Rubrik

1312

37. StorMagic

356 V

2010

254 V

2221

39. Cohesity

746 V

2965

40. Delphix

238 V

1696

88 V

578 C

38. SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor

41. BackupAssist

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TOP 5

TOP 5

Based on Views

Based on Views of Comparisons

64309

Veeam Backup

63037

Veeam Backup

16228

Acronis Backup

30821

Acronis Backup

15701

HP Data Protector

19256

Symantec Backup Exec

10152

EMC Avamar

19133

EMC Avamar

10006

Symantec Backup Exec

15028

CommVault

TOP 5

TOP 5

Based on Followers

Based on Rating

5116

Infrascale Platform

10.0

EMC Avamar

4527

Altaro Hyper-V Backup

10.0

Acronis Backup Advanced

2092

Veeam Backup

9.0

CommVault

2085

NetApp V-Series

9.0

Arcserve UDP

1785

EMC Avamar

9.0

Veeam Backup

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