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Customers spoke, and Veeam was named a gartner(r) Peer Insights(TM) Customers' Choice for Backup and Data Protection Platforms. When you're choosing a backup and data protection platform, you're not just buying software. You're choosing peace of mind knowing your company's data is protected, and you're setting the standard for what happens next: How confidently your team responds when an incident hits, how quickly you can restore, and how smoothly you keep moving afterward. Veeam Software is proud to share that Veeam has been recognized as a Customers' Choice in the 2026 Gartner Peer Insights(TM) Voice of the Customer for Backup and Data Protection Platforms, based on feedback from the individual end users based on their own experiences and who rely on Veeam every day. That matters to Veeam Software because it reflects experience, not promises, and it highlights what customers value most when it's time to recover. What your reviews say about the Veeam experience. Veeam Software believe the Voice of the Customer recognition is about more than having a strong product. In its opinion, it signals that customers are consistently having a strong experience with Veeam, both in what the platform can do and how it performs in real environments. That's what makes this feedback so meaningful. 124 verified reviewers gave Veeam an overall 4.8 out of 5 and a 98% willingness to recommend as on 31st of March 2026. When customers rated specific parts of the experience, the results were just as clear: 4.8/5 for Product Capabilities by 123 verified users, 4.7/5 for Support Experience by 121 verified users, and 4.7/5 for Deployment Experience by 122 verified users. Veeam Software feel the comments behind those scores fill in the why: strong capabilities, smoother implementation, and support that helps teams keep moving when time matters. What Customers' Choice says about Veeam. Veeam Software believe earning Customers' Choice reflects a combination of strong customer experience and adoption signals across the market. Here's what Veeam Software take away from that, and how it maps to what customers tell Veeam Software they value about Veeam: * Trust built on recoverability, not promises. Backups are table stakes. What customers care about is confident recovery across the environments they actually run, including hybrid, multicloud, and SaaS. Gartner defines backup and data protection platforms as technologies that capture point-in-time copies of enterprise data for the purpose of recovering it from multiple data loss scenarios, enhancing data protection initiatives, and expanding data insights and access capabilities. * Consistency across industries, regions, and company sizes. Veeam Software feel Voice of the Customer factors in review coverage across industry, company size, and region. That matters because the right solution has to work whether you're a lean IT team, a global enterprise, or anywhere in between. Veeam Software believe earning Customers' Choice signals that customers around the world are having a strong experience with Veeam, not just one pocket of the market. * A platform people would recommend. Reviews capture not only overall experience, but also Willingness to Recommend. That kind of confidence is earned through day-to-day reliability, responsive support, and a platform that keeps up as environments change. Customers say it best: The most important perspective isn't ours, it's the people using Veeam every day. * "Veeam is one of the best solutions on the market for virtual machine backups. We rely on Veeam globally to safeguard and backup our critical systems." - Manager, It Security And Risk Management * "With many years of proven use, it has consistently demonstrated high reliability, answering with stable performance over time. The solution also stays up to date with the latest features available on the market, allowing it to evolve alongside current industry trends and technological advancements." - IT Associate, Healthcare and Biotech * Veeam provides Veeam Software with the peace of mind for its backup solution. Their support is wonderful and to the point. - Network Administrator, Education Veeam Software is grateful customers take the time to share their experiences, and Veeam Software don't take that feedback lightly. Veeam Software use it to keep improving what's working, and to get better where Veeam Software need to, so Veeam continues to earn your trust in the moments that matter most. What's next: keep raising the bar for resilience. This recognition is based on customers taking time to share detailed experiences. Those reviews help other teams evaluate solutions, set expectations, and make decisions with more confidence. So, if you've left feedback on Gartner Peer Insights, thank you. You didn't just help Veeam, you helped the broader community. Veeam Software'll keep doing the work that earns trust: Making protection and recovery simpler to manage, stronger against modern threats, and flexible across where your data lives. If you're a Veeam customer, share your story about what's working well, what you'd change, and what you want to see next. Your feedback helps shape what Veeam Software build and improve. Gartner, Voice of the Customer for Backup and Data Protection Platforms, Peer Community Contributor, 24 March 2026 Gartner, Peer Insights, and Customers' Choice are trademarks of Gartner, Inc., and/or its affiliates. Gartner Peer Insights content consists of the opinions of individual end users based on their own experiences, and should not be construed as statements of fact, nor do they represent the views of Gartner or its affiliates. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in this content nor makes any warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this content, about its accuracy or completeness, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. Tony Colon Tony Colon is Veeam's Chief Customer Officer leading the Renewals, Customer Success and Technical Support, and Professional Services teams. He oversees the entire customer journey, ensuring every customer interaction delivers a high-value experience. Tony brings 20+ years of experience leading global customer-facing organizations. Prior to Veeam, he helped scale ServiceNow's Customer Success organization from $100M to $1B and drive similar transformations at Cisco and Salesforce. Tony has a master's degree from MIT Sloan School of Management and a bachelor's degree from Illinois Institute of Technology. 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Veeam Data Platform named the winner of the 2026 SC Award for Best Business Continuity, Disaster and Ransomware Recovery Solution at RSAC 2026. 2 Aprile 2026 Annual awards recognize Veeam Data Platform for helping organizations protect, recover, and maintain access to critical data amid cyberattacks, outages and other disruptions SEATTLE-(BUSINESS WIRE)-#AI-Veeam(R) Software, the Data and AI Trust Company, today announced that Veaam Data Platform has won the 2026 SC Award for Best Business Continuity, Disaster and Ransomware Recovery Solution. The SC Awards, now in their 29th year, serve as the benchmark for cybersecurity excellence, spotlighting organizations and technologies that are shaping the future of cyber resilience and information security. CyberRisk Alliance and SC Media announced this honor during an in-person ceremony at RSA Conference 2026 in San Francisco, bringing together cybersecurity leaders, practitioners, and innovators from across the ecosystem. The award recognizes Veeam Data Platform as a unified solution enabling organizations to protect, recover and maintain access to critical data amid cyberattacks, outages, and other disruptions. Veeam Data Platform's advanced ransomware resilience and seamless integration across physical, virtual, and cloud environments have set a new standard for trusted data resilience in an era of sophisticated cyber threats and operational risk. Award-winning innovation and impact Veeam Data Platform's latest release introduced Recon Scanner 3.0, providing real-time operational threat visibility and flagging suspicious activity across endpoints. Its AI-powered malware analysis agent now automatically detects, classifies, and reports malicious activity while guiding organizations through secure remediation. The platform's architecture, built on immutable backups and robust security controls, is trusted by more than 550,000 organizations globally. "The Veeam Data Platform bridges traditional data protection with proactive cybersecurity," said Manoj Yerrasani, vice president of engineering for data and personalization at NBCUniversal and an SC Awards judge. "Its ability to detect adversary behavior early - before backup data is compromised - advances the disaster recovery market." Leadership and vision for the future "We're honored by this recognition from SC Media. It highlights Veeam's role at the forefront of data-centric security innovation," said Anand Eswaran, CEO at Veeam. "Veeam Data Platform is trusted by customers around the world to ensure their data is safe and protected no matter what happens. We are building the trusted data platform for the agentic enterprise, moving organizations beyond simply protecting data to empowering them to activate and unlock its full potential with AI." The 2026 SC Awards drew nearly 500 nominations across 33 categories, with winners selected by a distinguished panel of 39 independent judges. This year's honorees represent a cybersecurity community that is meeting rising expectations with innovation, execution, and measurable business impact. About the SC Awards This year's winners were selected through a multi-stage review led by an independent panel of practitioners and executives from the CyberRisk Collaborative (CRC) community. Entries were evaluated for problem clarity, strength of approach, evidence of effectiveness (including measurable outcomes), repeatability and scalability, and business impact. View the full list of 2026 SC Awards winners here: www.scworld.com/sc-awards. About Veeam Software Veeam(R) Software is the Data and AI Trust Company, specializing in helping organizations ensure their data and AI are fully understood, secured, and resilient to enable the acceleration of safe AI at scale. As the market leader in both data resilience and data security posture management, Veeam is built for the convergence of identity, data, security, and AI risk. Veeam delivers deep contextual intelligence across every data asset, identity, and AI model. The company governs access for both humans and AI agents, automates privacy, compliance, and remediation processes, and protects and recovers organizations from modern threats - including ransomware, disasters, AI errors, and ensuring the restoration of clean, trusted data. Veeam empowers organizations to move beyond simply protecting data, enabling them to activate and unlock its full potential. Headquartered in Seattle with offices in more than 30 countries, Veeam protects over 550,000 customers worldwide, including 82% of the Fortune 500, who trust Veeam to keep their businesses running. Learn more at www.veeam.com or follow Veeam on LinkedIn @veeam-software and X @veeam. 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Veeam releases open-source MCP Server for backup and recovery intelligence. by Lyle Smith on March 31, 2026 Veeam has launched the Veeam Intelligence MCP Server, designed to bring backup, recovery, malware, and compliance information into broader enterprise IT operations. The server is built to give teams a single conversational interface for day-to-day operations, planned infrastructure changes, and incident response, with customer control over deployment, data exposure, and integration with AI clients. Veeam states that the server is designed for environments where operational signals cover backup solutions, monitoring tools, ticketing systems, security platforms, and other systems. Veeam says it is designed to reduce the manual work of checking multiple consoles, correlating alerts across platforms, and moving information between teams during an outage or investigation. Instead of requiring staff to work through separate interfaces, the system is designed to make Veeam Intelligence available within broader operational workflows through the Model Context Protocol, or MCP. Through MCP, the server enables organizations to integrate Veeam's data protection and recovery with information from external systems into a single workflow. That includes the ability to compare Veeam's protection, recovery, malware, and compliance signals with events from IT service management platforms, cloud environments, security products, storage systems, and monitoring tools. The goal is to make it easier for operators to ask natural-language questions, investigate issues that span multiple systems, and get a consolidated operational view without switching between separate products. In its current form, the server focuses on read-only access, cross-system visibility, and investigation workflows. No destructive or configuration-changing actions are enabled by default. Queries are described as authenticated, authorized, and fully auditable, with a separation between present-day intelligence features and any future action-based capabilities. It is deployed locally as a Docker container and is fully operated and governed by the customer or their service provider. Veeam also says customers can choose which MCP-compatible AI clients to use, including local or self-hosted large language models such as ChatGPT and Claude, depending on their own security and data sovereignty requirements. Use cases. Veeam highlights morning health checks, pre-change validation, ransomware triage, and root cause analysis as use cases for the server. These scenarios focus on giving teams a prioritized view of health and recoverability; confirming that backup jobs, repositories, and configuration backups are resilient to upcoming changes; correlating malware events with affected workloads and clean restore points; and consolidating information such as session histories, repository health, and proxy states when jobs fail. It will launch with support for Veeam Backup & Replication, Veeam ONE, and Veeam Service Provider Console. The server is open source and available on GitHub. Engage with StorageReview Lyle Smith. Lyle is a long-time staff writer for StorageReview, covering a broad set of end user and enterprise IT topics.