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Veeam Backup Solutions

Backup software

Restore a single mailbox item, or the whole server.

Veeam backs up the estate you already run — virtual, physical and Microsoft 365 — and gives you recovery granular enough to pull back one file and fast enough to bring a failed server back while users are still on the phone.

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VMware & Hyper-V Nutanix AHV Microsoft 365 Azure Blob tiering Tape / LTO Replication & failover
What it protects

One platform across the whole estate.

The value of a single backup platform is not the licence — it is having one place to check, one place to restore from, and one retention policy that actually applies to everything.

Virtual infrastructure

Image-based backups taken at the hypervisor, so nothing is missed inside the guest.

  • VMware vSphere
  • Microsoft Hyper-V
  • Nutanix AHV

Physical and end-user

Agents for the machines that never made it into the virtual estate.

  • Windows and Linux servers
  • Desktops and laptops
  • NAS and file shares

Microsoft 365

Retention that is yours, held independently of Microsoft's own recycle windows.

  • Exchange Online mail
  • OneDrive and SharePoint
  • Teams and Entra ID
Recovery, not just backup

How fast, and how precise.

Most incidents are not a burned-down datacentre. They are one deleted folder, one corrupted database, one mailbox emptied by someone who has already left.

Whole server, minutes not hours

A failed VM can be started directly from the backup file while it is still being restored in the background, so the service returns before the data has finished moving.

Single file or folder

Mount a restore point and pull back exactly what was lost, without restoring the machine around it.

Inside the application

Recover an individual mailbox item, SharePoint document or database table rather than rolling the whole application back.

Failover to a replica

For the workloads that genuinely cannot wait, a standby replica is kept warm and can be failed over to, then failed back cleanly afterwards.

Off site and out of reach

Where the second and third copies live.

Veeam does not have to keep everything on the same disk it wrote to. Older restore points move automatically to cheaper, more distant storage on a policy you set once.

Azure Blob storage

Recent restore points stay local for speed; older ones tier out to Azure automatically. A genuinely off-site copy with no second building and nothing extra to rack.

Tape and LTO

Scheduled writes to tape for multi-year retention, audit and regulatory copies. Once the tape leaves the drive it is offline, and nothing on the network can reach it.

Hardened and immutable

Backups written to a hardened repository or to object storage with object-lock cannot be altered or deleted before their retention expires — not by an administrator, and not by ransomware holding those credentials.

Need faster local restores as well? Many customers put an ExaGrid appliance behind Veeam as the on-site target — quick full-server recovery locally, with a retention tier the network cannot see.

Two ways to buy it

Implement it once, or hand us the running of it.

Plenty of customers want the design and deployment done properly and then run it themselves. That is a perfectly good outcome, and it is how a lot of our Veeam work is bought.

One-time project

Implementation

We size it, build it, prove it restores, document it, and hand it over to your team.

  • Sizing against your recovery point and recovery time targets
  • Licence supply and deployment
  • Job, retention and off-site tiering configuration
  • A first restore test, witnessed and documented
  • Runbook and handover to your staff
Afterwards

Yours to operate. We are available for changes and escalations without a retainer.

Optional, ongoing

Managed service

Everything above, and then we keep watching it — because a job that stopped running six weeks ago looks exactly like one that did not.

  • Daily job monitoring, failures raised as tickets
  • Scheduled restore testing, documented
  • Retention and capacity reviewed as data grows
  • Licence lifecycle and renewals
  • Regular reporting in plain language

Already on GigaExtend? Managed backup and DR is part of it — Veeam management, scheduling, alerting and DR runbook testing are already in scope, so this does not need to be bought separately.

Being straight about it

When Veeam is the wrong place to start.

If you have no backup server, buying one in order to run backup software is the wrong order of spending. Below roughly a couple of servers, or where there is no rack and no server room, Acronis cloud backup gets you protected without the hardware — and we will tell you that rather than sell you the bigger platform.

Questions we get asked

Veeam, answered plainly.

We already own Veeam. Can you just manage it?
Yes, and it is a common starting point. We review the existing design against your recovery target first and tell you plainly if the current configuration cannot meet it before taking responsibility. You can also stop at that review and remediation as a one-time piece of work — taking over the day-to-day running is the optional part, delivered under GigaExtend or GigaManaged IT.
Do we need Veeam if we already back up Microsoft 365 somewhere?
It depends what "somewhere" is. Microsoft's retention windows are shorter than most people assume and are not a backup in the recovery sense. If you already have a dedicated M365 backup you may not need to duplicate it — but if the answer is a retention policy in the tenant, that is a gap.
How much storage will we need?
It comes down to how much data you have, how much of it changes daily, and how far back you must be able to go. Our backup storage calculator gives you a usable estimate in a couple of minutes, and we size it properly during design.
Can ransomware delete Veeam backups?
If the repository is an ordinary network share reachable with normal credentials, yes — and it is one of the first things modern ransomware looks for. That is exactly why we deploy a hardened repository, object-lock on object storage, or an ExaGrid retention tier, so at least one copy cannot be deleted within its retention period.
Does it work with Nutanix?
Yes — Nutanix AHV is supported alongside vSphere and Hyper-V, which matters if you are running or moving to Nutanix. We deliver both, so the backup design and the platform design are the same conversation.

Let us test whether your current backups would actually restore.

We will review what you have, attempt a real restore, and show you where the gaps are before recommending anything.

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