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Backup and Restore for SharePoint & Microsoft Office 365 vs Veeam Data Platform comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Backup and Restore for Shar...
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
SaaS Backup (32nd)
Veeam Data Platform
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
430
Ranking in other categories
Backup and Recovery (1st), Cloud Backup (1st), Virtualization Management Tools (3rd), Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (2nd), Cloud Monitoring Software (10th)
 

Mindshare comparison

While both are Data Center Backup solutions, they serve different purposes. Backup and Restore for SharePoint & Microsoft Office 365 is designed for SaaS Backup and holds a mindshare of 1.2%, up 0.3% compared to last year.
Veeam Data Platform, on the other hand, focuses on Backup and Recovery, holds 8.5% mindshare, down 17.8% since last year.
SaaS Backup Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Backup and Restore for SharePoint & Microsoft Office 3651.2%
Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 36511.3%
AvePoint Cloud Backup7.2%
Other80.3%
SaaS Backup
Backup and Recovery Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Veeam Data Platform8.5%
Commvault Cloud4.9%
Rubrik4.6%
Other82.0%
Backup and Recovery
 

Featured Reviews

Pramodh Maheshwar - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Systems Engineer - Wintel at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees
A scalable solution for backup and restore that has an easy setup
The solution's updates and rollouts of the patches cause a lot of problems. There's no other way around it. Recently, we have also faced RDS and print server issues. One of our clients experienced some remote desktop service issues. These things keep happening with Microsoft. They have a patch, and then they have some other rollout that fixes it. The solution should be more consistent with its patching updates.
JitendraSadaye - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Technical Specialist at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
Backup operations have become reliable and reporting now simplifies hybrid cloud protection
Veeam Data Platform has Veeam Enterprise Manager as well as Veeam ONE as valuable features, which allow us to generate various kinds of reports that are required for the customer. Instant VM Recovery is a good feature of the high-speed recovery features in Veeam Data Platform, and Continuous Data Protection (CDP) is also a good feature. Ransomware protection is a good feature added in Veeam Data Platform from version 12 onwards, and the ability to create immutable repositories is also a good feature in Veeam. The analytics part of Veeam Data Platform is a good solution because I have worked on various backup technologies such as EMC NetWorker and NetBackup. However, I have not used the analytical parts currently but will check it out. Streamlining processes as well as saving money are benefits that Veeam Data Platform provides for the end user, as it allows for application-aware backups and database backups without the need for various kinds of licenses that other backup software requires. Veeam offers socket-based licenses, instance-based licenses, and capacity-based licenses, which is a great feature.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The most valuable feature includes leaving the stub files behind and integrating that with the recenter feature."
"Backup and Restore for SharePoint & Microsoft Office 365 is easy to use."
"The stability has always been very good."
"The solution has good scalability."
"The user interface is good and it is very easy to use."
"It's relatively easy to use and the ability to recover in a short period of time has been great."
"The most important part is that you actually know you have a backup of the whole virtual server."
"Storage Snapshot is a good feature and very safe."
"It's not complex to replicate and back up the system."
"A quick-working solution that is very user friendly."
"I like how Veeam intuitively integrates with Zerto."
"The interface is very user-friendly."
 

Cons

"The user experience needs a little refreshing touch."
"We need more options for the backup schedule."
"The solution's updates and rollouts of the patches cause a lot of problems."
"I think the solution itself keeps up with everything else. Sometimes it would be nice if they could move a little bit quicker and have faster updates, but in terms of the features, it's absolutely fine and adequate."
"Veeam Backup Replication has agents for Linux, but they are not supporting Cluster Shared Volumes. It would be great to have agents for Linux be cluster-aware, just like the Windows agents. That's the main pain point. In addition, we should be able to handle the automation of Oracle backups from the backup server. We should be able to schedule, control, and deploy them from the backup server rather than relying on scripts and/or the system you are backing up to perform the backup. Currently, we install the plug-in inside Oracle VMs and then use crontabs to handle the task schedule on each machine for scheduling the backups. Veeam Backup Replication should also support the automation of Nutanix backups from the backup server, not from the proxy. The other not so major thing is that they don't support legacy systems because Veeam is a new company. It is not as old as other companies. They don't support physical workloads that are really old, which a major challenge, but they do have a point. Legacy systems should be virtualized, and if they're virtualized, then the backup is not an issue with Veeam, but some customers like the physical setup, and they don't want to have it virtual."
"It is always nice to get products cheaper."
"The product’s stability has certain issues and needs to be improved. The solution’s pricing could be also cheaper."
"Recovery speed is slow. Full recovery on large machines (1TB+) takes too long"
"A backup and replication solution should be able to back up a system and do recovery very fast. Even though Veeam Backup & Replication is able to meet most of our needs, it would be better if they can make it faster for backup and restore."
"Sometimes the solution give reports that are confusing and has errors. So the integration of the full solution with the resolution of resolving the error should be added in the next release.The solution should also provide more customization, automation, better documentation."
"There is a lot of information, so maybe the dashboards could consolidate it."
"The solution could improve by allowing the ability to do monitoring and traffic aggregation in the whole virtual network environment."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution could also be cheaper."
"The solution’s pricing is expensive."
"Regarding CloudArchiver, you purchase per terabyte."
"I rate the pricing a five, depending on the application and environment."
"We pay yearly licensing fees for Veeam in our data centers where we're using disaster recovery and replication between our many solutions, especially cloud solutions. From the beginning, we've done our licensing from a separate channel through our data center team in Seattle."
"I don't pay for the solution, so I can't comment on the cost."
"The product is expensive for small businesses."
"The product is expensive."
"My understanding is that it is a fairly small price point."
"The pricing and licensing is better than the competitors, but it could be better."
"Since our Veeam license is perpetual, we only pay for annual maintenance."
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Comparison Review

it_user159711 - PeerSpot reviewer
Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Nov 9, 2014
VMware SRM vs. Veeam vs. Zerto
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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company
13%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Government
7%
 

Company Size

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Small Business
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Company SizeCount
Small Business217
Midsize Enterprise99
Large Enterprise139
 

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Veeam Backup & Replication, Veeam ONE, Veeam Backup & Replication
 

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Sample Customers

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