Unitrends vs Veeam Data Platform comparison

Unitrends and Veeam Software are both solutions in the Backup and Recovery category. Unitrends is ranked #31 with an average rating of 9.0, while Veeam Software is ranked #1 with an average rating of 8.4. Unitrends holds a 0.5% mindshare in BRS, compared to Veeam Software’s 11.9% mindshare. Additionally, 84% of Unitrends users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 94% of Veeam Software users who would recommend it.

Unitrends

Read 34 Unitrends reviews

950 Views
893 Comparison Views

84% willing to recommend

Veeam Data Platform

Read 429 Veeam Data Platform reviews

32,164 Views
23,801 Comparison Views

94% willing to recommend

Unitrends

Veeam Data Platform

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Download the report

Executive SummaryUpdated on Jul 24, 2025

Unitrends and Veeam Data Platform compete in the backup solutions category. Veeam seems to have the upper hand due to its ease of integration, versatility, and advanced automatic reporting features.

Features: Unitrends offers an appliance-based architecture that facilitates easy migration, reliable disaster recovery, instant recovery, and SLA policy features. It simplifies backup management through an all-in-one appliance model and supports both physical and virtual nodes. Veeam stands out with its versatility, supporting virtual and physical environments, instant VM recovery, replication to cloud services, and granular recovery. Its user-friendly interface and integration with VM environments, combined with automatic reporting, are highly valued.

Room for Improvement: Unitrends needs to enhance its pricing model, interface complexity, and technical support. It lacks support for dual VPN utilization and its appliance stability and data storage integrity need improvement. Veeam's pricing structure and lack of support for older OS and physical servers draw criticism. Smaller companies find licensing costs prohibitive, and cloud platform integration could be enhanced. Expanding support for more applications and operating systems such as Linux is necessary.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Unitrends is known for straightforward on-premises deployment with a pre-configured appliance minimizing setup time. Customer service receives mixed reviews, with inconsistent technical support noted. Veeam offers flexible deployment options for hybrid and public cloud environments along with on-premises setups. Its customer service is well-rated for responsiveness and knowledgeable support, although some users find the complexity of processes time-consuming.

Pricing and ROI: Unitrends provides a competitive upfront cost with an all-in-one appliance but faces criticism for high renewal pricing and support costs. Some users benefit from free hardware replacement on renewal. Veeam offers affordable pricing relative to its capabilities, though users note recent price increases. Its flexible pricing structure with per-socket licensing and reduced backup times lead to reported savings and favorable ROI.

To learn more, read our detailed Unitrends vs. Veeam Data Platform Report (Updated: September 2025).

Buyer's Guide

Unitrends vs. Veeam Data Platform

September 2025

Download the complete report

Helped 867,370 peers since 2012

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

Unitrends

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

31st

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Veeam Data Platform

Ranking in Backup and Recovery

1st

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

429

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Backup (1st), Virtualization Management Tools (3rd), Disaster Recovery (DR) Software (2nd), Cloud Monitoring Software (9th)

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2025, in the Backup and Recovery category, the mindshare of Unitrends is 0.5%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Veeam Data Platform is 11.9%, down from 19.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Backup and Recovery Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Veeam Data Platform	11.9%
Unitrends	0.5%
Other	87.6%

Backup and Recovery

Q&A Highlights

it_user177801

IT consultant at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees

Jul 23, 2023

Software replication to remote sites during disaster recovery?

We have recently implemented Zerto as a disaster recovery solution. Not only does it replicated, it allows you to created boot orders for the VM's. This means you can have your SQL server start and set an automatic delay for the applications servers. It can also be configured to bring a failover test up on an isolated network for DR testing. It can also replicate between different hypervisors. For example, you can replicated from VMware to Hyper-V or AWS. They are adding more hypervisors with newer released.

See all answers

Featured Reviews

Todd Guthrie

Director Of Information Technology at Creation Technologies

The solution can be used to back up servers and Hyper-V cluster nodes, but its support is super expensive

I wouldn't rate Unitrends a ten out of ten because we had some hard drive failures in the appliance. Typically, when you have OneDrive, you can get it replaced. For some particular reason, the situation caused the entire system to crash. We had to reinstall the CentOS operating system on it, and we lost all our backups. They said there was no way to retain it, and it was pretty devastating and concerning that a drive failure would cause the loss of all the data on the appliance. It was extremely disappointing, and we had to start from scratch after three years worth of backup data. I rate Unitrends a nine out of ten for stability.

Read full review

Edward Hore

L3 Infrastructure Engineer at Specsavers

Reliable with good support but needs a better navigation menu

We use Veeam Data to back up our VMware infrastructure Veeam Data Platform is valuable for its stability and the ability to easily contact support for assistance. The support team provides answers whenever we need them. It is also one of the most scalable backup solutions I've worked with. The…

Read full review

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"I am impressed with the tool's reporting and UniView features."

"I like the fact that you can recover the VMs inside the appliance. For example, they're basically running this appliance on a Linux-based distribution, and they're spinning off KVM virtual machines inside."

"What I found most valuable in Unitrends is its simple user interface. It also works reliably."

"It's not easy to scale it."

"They have great support."

"Unitrends has helped us cut down the time that it takes to restore a server to its original configuration."

"When I have had to use tech support, they've been very good."

"It is fairly stable."

More Unitrends pros

"The solution offers the normal benefits of a virtual machine versus a physical, actual machine. It doesn't take up space, for example."

"Storage Snapshot is a good feature and very safe."

"The best feature of Veeam ONE to me is the infrastructure analysis that you can perform before deploying a backup environment. You can put in your backup requirements, for example, repository files and improvements on your VMware side, to ensure that it runs optimally. Pricing for Veeam ONE is also cheaper than VMware vRealize Operations (vROps) which is a direct competitor in the ops space, so this is another advantage of the solution."

"It's relatively easy to use and the ability to recover in a short period of time has been great."

"The user interface is good and it is very easy to use."

"It is a powerful software for communicating with the storage and for redundancy."

"The fast backup and restore feature is the most valuable."

"Before Veeam, we had backup infrastructure sprawl. Veeam was able to reduce our overall backup windows while reducing our dedicated backup infrastructure."

More Veeam Data Platform pros

Cons

"It would be great to have the job throttle/limit the max number of backups on a single ESXi host."

"Network-based storage stability could be improved."

"Unitrends can be challenging to scale."

"Comparing the features and the working pattern, definitely they have to come down on pricing if they want to compete in the market."

"The amount of updates which are being released. Updates should be limited to two or three a year, focusing more on quality instead of a rushed bug release."

"Support is great for small simple issues, but anything more difficult, it is hard to get good resolutions without having to badger them and their management."

"Techs don't see to be well-versed in troubleshooting issues that arise and tickets stay opened for weeks for resolution."

"There are some questions as to how safely they are storing backup data."

More Unitrends cons

"Veeam needs to have more support for non-Windows systems and other databases. For example, I can do SQL with Veeam but not Informix or Oracle. This is unfortunate because we have many partners with Oracle systems and Informix databases, and Veeam does not yet have the agents we need for specific Oracle and UNIX operating systems."

"Add an archive option to support legal obligations."

"The tech support could be better."

"Creating reports is a bit difficult, and you have to spend some time on it."

"The remote SQL server has had multiple sizing issues within the logs and SQL backup space and sharing with other database apps."

"The reporting feature can be improved."

"I think that Veeam could improve some performance issues when the backup itself is restored. I'm also using HPE StoreOnce, which has deduplication, and when I'm trying to test or run backups, it takes a lot of time. I think they could improve the testing for backup copies."

"The documentation and communication could be better in Veeam Backup Replication."

More Veeam Data Platform cons

Pricing and Cost Advice

"We found that the cost of Unitrends was about the same as the Dell DR6300. We liked the fact that the Unitrends appliance was all-in-one."

"Unitrends is an expensive solution."

"No comment."

"Pricing model constantly changes."

"Based on a scale of one to ten, with one being low and ten being high, I would rate the pricing of this solution as a three. Also, there are no additional costs involved in the standard licensing of the solution."

"Their licensing depended on the number of CPUs you had."

"Make sure you do the homework to size the solution properly. Buy the Enterprise Plus licensing if you can afford it."

"When we renew the Unitrends maintenance contract and update it to the latest version, the cost would be $5,000 per year. There are no hidden costs. They've been transparent with the costs."

More Unitrends pricing and cost advice

"The price is a bit high. Licensing type is VMware friendly, so it is easy."

"This is an expensive solution and came at a higher cost than expected."

"The pricing depends on the number of clients. We pay 10,00 USD per year. On a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive, I rate the pricing an eight out of ten."

"We spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on Veeam each year, although it is not expensive for what we get."

"They could work at providing a better price."

"We try to use perpetual licensing, and there are no additional costs. They have recently moved to universal licensing, which is more expensive, and I would like them to go back to host licensing."

"Customers require a perpetual license for the product. However, along with the license, they must also subscribe to the support service for one year or three years under a separate contract."

"The price of Veeam is much lower than the IBM solution."

More Veeam Data Platform pricing and cost advice

See which vendors are best for you

Use our free recommendation engine to learn which Backup and Recovery solutions are best for your needs.

See recommendations

867,370 professionals have used our research since 2012.

Comparison Review

it_user159711

Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Nov 9, 2014

VMware SRM vs. Veeam vs. Zerto

Disaster recovery planning is something that seems challenging for all businesses. Virtualization in addition to its operational flexibility, and cost reduction benefits, has helped companies improve their DR posture. Virtualization has made it easier to move machines from production to…

Read full review

Answers from the Community

it_user177801

IT consultant at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees

Sep 20, 2016

Software replication to remote sites during disaster recovery?

2 out of 16 answers

it_user157908

Tower Architect at Atos

Jan 5, 2015

Hello, Check the VBA module from networker legato software, it might be what you need. Kind Regards, John.

Read full answer

it_user136023

Consultant at EMC

Jan 5, 2015

So does that mean you want to have a Disaster Recovery solution where data is not on site your bunker site? but yet allows for a fast recovery in case your primary site is down? - What virtualization solution do you use? - What is the link between the 2 (?) sites? - What RPO and RTO are you aiming for? - How much data do you need to recover?

Read full answer

See all 16 answers

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Retailer

15%

Manufacturing Company

12%

Educational Organization

10%

Non Profit

Computer Software Company

14%

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	12
Midsize Enterprise	15
Large Enterprise	8

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	216
Midsize Enterprise	99
Large Enterprise	138

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Unitrends?

The most valuable feature of Unitrends for me is the automated feedback

See all answers

What needs improvement with Unitrends?

In terms of improvement, the UI, especially in the recovery section, is unclear about which repository it uses—I had to hover over to find that information. Figuring out the scripting part wasn't s...

See all answers

What is your primary use case for Unitrends?

I use Unitrends to back up my VMware virtual machines and files, ensuring redundancy for both disks and protection against ransomware. I have implemented an air gap strategy by keeping some backups...

See all answers

Major Differences Between These 4 Backup and Disaster Recovery Solutions?

Comparing the features of the four is not the right approach. You need to develop a list of requirements for backup and DR that are specific to your organization and then compare each of the four ...

See all answers

How do the backup solutions of Veeam and Veritas compare?

Technically, Veeam is best for hyper-v & VMWare replications, snapshots, HA failover, also support for file system backups inside VMs., support for tape library & FC too. But Veritas Netbac...

See all answers

How does Nakivo compare with Veeam Backup & Replication?

Nakivo is my favorite backup software. Below are the main benefits of Nakivo compared to Veeam 1. Low cost. 2. Backup storage with global deduplication (this is the main requirement of a backup sol...

See all answers

Comparisons

Commvault Cloud vs Unitrends

Compared 12% of the time

Acronis Cyber Protect vs Unitrends

Compared 12% of the time

Rubrik vs Unitrends

Compared 10% of the time

Veritas Backup Exec vs Unitrends

Compared 9% of the time

Dell PowerProtect DD (Data Domain) vs Unitrends

Compared 9% of the time

More Unitrends Competitors

Commvault Cloud vs Veeam Data Platform

Compared 7% of the time

Rubrik vs Veeam Data Platform

Compared 5% of the time

Acronis Cyber Protect vs Veeam Data Platform

Compared 5% of the time

HPE Zerto Software vs Veeam Data Platform

Compared 3% of the time

Dell PowerProtect Data Manager vs Veeam Data Platform

Compared 3% of the time

More Veeam Data Platform Competitors

Product Reports

Buyer's Guide

Unitrends

August 2025

Download Unitrends product report

Buyer's Guide

Veeam Data Platform

August 2025

Download Veeam Data Platform product report

Also Known As

No data available

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

Overview

Unitrends offers cloud replication, remote management, and instant recovery, making it highly versatile for backup needs across physical and virtual nodes. Its seamless functionality and robust support ensure enhanced operational efficiency.

Unitrends is known for its ability to integrate with physical and virtual environments, ideal for backing up Azure VMs, local systems, and diverse operating systems. Users employ Unitrends for daily backups, disaster recovery, and file recovery tasks, protecting servers, VMware, Hyper-V clusters, and legacy systems. Real-time synchronization and monitoring are key to its efficiency, although some areas like interface and support structure require refinement. Pricing and stability concerns, as well as SQL backup sensitivity, suggest room for improvement. Users often encounter issues with billing, renewals, and dual VPN support, seeking more scalable and affordable options.

What are the key features of Unitrends?

Cloud Replication: Enables seamless backup across cloud environments.
Instant Recovery: Provides immediate access to data during disruptions.
Remote Management: Facilitates easy management of backup tasks remotely.
Global Deduplication: Significantly reduces backup sizes.
Real-time Synchronization: Ensures up-to-date data storage.

What benefits should users expect from Unitrends?

Operational Efficiency: Enhanced through its seamless interface and powerful reporting.
Reliability: Offers robust protection against ransomware.
Versatility: Supports diverse operating systems and environments.
Technical Support: Provides consistent and reliable assistance.

In industries like healthcare, financial services, and education, Unitrends plays a critical role in maintaining data integrity and accessibility. It is implemented to simplify backup processes, minimize downtime, and ensure compliance with data protection regulations, offering a comprehensive security strategy.

Unitrends

Veeam Data Platform is designed for modern data management, providing secure backups, intelligent data insights, and resilience. It ensures data is protected, recoverable, and manageable across complex environments, supporting business continuity effectively.

Veeam Data Platform stands out with its robust capabilities in data protection, orchestrated recovery, and efficient management. It offers a simple interface while ensuring data security and availability, which is critical for businesses. The platform's compatibility with virtual machines, databases, and applications across VMware, Hyper-V, and cloud environments makes it a versatile choice for backup and disaster recovery strategies. Users gain confidence from its performance, from secure backups to facilitating effective infrastructure monitoring.

What are the key features of Veeam Data Platform?

Ease of Use: Simple setup and management interface.
Fast Backup & Restore: Quick backup and immediate recovery options.
Reliable Replication: Secure data replication capabilities.
VM Integration: Seamlessly integrates with virtual environments.
Comprehensive Monitoring: Detailed monitoring and reporting tools.
Ransomware Protection: Advanced data security measures.

What benefits should users consider when evaluating?

Data Security: Ensures data is protected against threats.
Scalability: Grows with organizational demands.
Flexibility: Supports diverse environments and cloud services.
Efficiency: Streamlines data management processes.

Veeam Data Platform is widely implemented by industries needing robust disaster recovery plans and data management solutions. It is particularly valuable in environments utilizing hybrid cloud solutions, protecting mission-critical workloads, and ensuring business continuity. Businesses leverage its capabilities to safeguard data integrity and facilitate long-term retention through efficient infrastructure management.

Veeam Software

Sample Customers

NHL Players Association, Salvation Army, Sligro Food Group, Mason General Hospital, Tec Group, Saldab IT, Baker Tilly, Clinton Savings Bank, Ennit Magna Bank, Manukau Institute of Technology

Business & Legal Resources Inc., Ohio Department of Developmental Disabilities, Alliance Healthcare, Poulin Grain Inc., Linear Technology, Northwestern University, ARKEMA, Sogegross, City of Lynchburg

Buyer's Guide

Unitrends vs. Veeam Data Platform

September 2025

Free Report: Unitrends vs. Veeam Data Platform

Find out what your peers are saying about Unitrends vs. Veeam Data Platform and other solutions. Updated: September 2025.

DOWNLOAD NOW

867,370 professionals have used our research since 2012.

See our Unitrends vs. Veeam Data Platform report.

See our list of best Backup and Recovery vendors.

We monitor all Backup and Recovery reviews to prevent fraudulent reviews and keep review quality high. We do not post reviews by company employees or direct competitors. We validate each review for authenticity via cross-reference with LinkedIn, and personal follow-up with the reviewer when necessary.