Overview
Veeam Data Platform is the commercial suite built around Veeam Backup & Replication, which is also available as a free Community Edition. The company dates its history to 2006 and states that it employs more than 7,000 people[24]. It describes itself as the global leader in data resilience by market share and reports more than 550,000 customers, including 82% of the Fortune 500[3]. In December 2025 Veeam completed the US$1.725 billion acquisition of Securiti AI, a data security posture management vendor, and its chief executive, Anand Eswaran, positioned the combined business as a data resilience, security and governance platform[3].
The platform is sold in Foundation, Advanced and Premium editions; Advanced adds monitoring, analytics and threat insights, and Premium adds orchestrated recovery[1]. Veeam lists protection for virtual, physical, cloud, application and unstructured data, including Microsoft 365, Entra ID, Salesforce, Kubernetes and the three major public clouds, and claims support for more than 95% of hypervisors on the market[1]. A Community Edition is free for up to 10 workloads and includes replication and granular restores, but no technical support[2]. The main limitations are that commercial prices are not published and that the breadth of add-ons makes edition comparisons difficult from the vendor’s own matrix.
Veeam Data Platform features
- Foundation, Advanced and Premium editions
- Instant Recovery and Continuous Data Protection
- Immutable backups and Veeam Vault cloud storage
- VMware, Hyper-V, Proxmox VE and other hypervisors
- Microsoft 365, Entra ID and Salesforce backup
- Kubernetes and AWS, Azure, Google Cloud protection
- Instant Recovery from backup storage
- Continuous data protection
Veeam Data Platform pricing
Prices for Veeam Data Platform are not published; the vendor sells through partners and a universal licence that can be reassigned between workloads. Veeam Backup & Replication Community Edition is free for 10 workloads without support; Veeam Data Platform Essentials is positioned for up to 50 workloads including NAS.
Veeam Data Platform strengths and limitations
Strengths
- Very broad hypervisor and workload coverage
- Free Community Edition for up to 10 workloads
- Large partner and administrator ecosystem
- Choice of storage targets including its own Veeam Vault
- Very broad hypervisor and cloud support
- Same platform covers backup, replication and orchestration
Limitations
- No published commercial prices
- Edition matrix with many add-ons is hard to compare
- Community Edition carries no technical support
- Privately held, so no audited financials are public
- No published prices
- Orchestrated recovery only in the top Premium edition
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Veeam Data Platform alternatives and competitors
Alternatives to Veeam Data Platform: companies ranked in the same lists.
Commvault Cloud
Datto SIRIS
Arcserve UDP
Rubrik
Unitrends- NAKIVO Backup & Replication
N-able Cove Data Protection
Druva
Acronis Cyber Protect
Cohesity (including NetBackup)
Hornetsecurity VM Backup
Bacula Enterprise
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