Veeam

Veeam completely conquered the enterprise backup market over the last decade by being the absolute first company to realize that the world was moving to Virtual Machines (VMware/Hyper-V). While legacy competitors were still trying to back up physical servers using clunky tape drives, Veeam built a hyper-fast, agentless software engine specifically designed to instantly back up and restore virtualized environments. Its signature feature is "Instant VM Recovery." If a critical SQL database server crashes at 2:00 PM, an IT admin using Veeam doesn't have to wait four hours for the data to copy back over the network. Veeam literally mounts the backup file directly as a live disk, booting the crashed server directly from the backup repository in under two minutes, saving the company from millions of dollars in downtime. As the industry evolved, Veeam aggressively expanded. It is now the dominant player in protecting Microsoft 365 environments. Because Microsoft explicitly states they do not guarantee the backup of a user's deleted emails or SharePoint files, Veeam steps in to continuously back up the entire M365 tenant to an immutable cloud bucket, ensuring absolute safety from accidental deletion or malicious insiders.