IT leaders are being asked to do something that can feel near impossible: keep the business always-on, scale fast, and move to multicloud without losing control (all while trying to cut costs). Agentic AI is rapidly reshaping every single one of those priorities. The stakes are too high to be unprepared.
Today, organizations are expected to recover quickly and cleanly, prove readiness, and not miss a beat when disruption hits. The bar keeps rising, and the cost of falling short has never been higher.
Veeam’s mission is to help companies redefine resilience by making data protection more secure, predictable, and easier to manage across every environment. Veeam Data Platform v13.1 continues that commitment, delivering stronger business outcomes by moving to a platform that combines ironclad security, faster data recovery, and the freedom to control where your data lives.
As the #1 leader in data resilience, Veeam sets the standard for secure, reliable recovery. Here’s what sets us apart:
Unified resilience and security: go beyond backup
Attackers stopped going after your data years ago; they go after your ability to recover it. With 89% of organizations having their backup repositories targeted in an attack, your backup environment is the primary target.
Veeam’s answer starts with how we’re building the platform itself. The new DataAI Resilience Module represents a strategic shift to a hybrid SaaS model, blending cloud-based management with on-premises, or customer-controlled, environments. The result is greater flexibility, security, and a single pane of glass across the entire environment. Teams get centralized control, better visibility, and the ability to make faster, more informed decisions across even the most complex infrastructures.
- Hybrid SaaS unified management: Centralized control with a hybrid SaaS console that improves visibility and search across environments, reducing operational overhead without sacrificing the control your teams need.
Built on that foundation, Veeam Data Platform v13.1 delivers best-in-market, AI-powered threat detection that catches threats at every stage. From inline scanning that inspects data as it’s being backed up, to Recon, which proactively maps suspicious activity against thousands of known attack patterns, to Indicators of Compromise (IOC) detection that recognizes the digital breadcrumbs attackers leave behind.
Security is built in, not bolted on. For example, Veeam Software Appliance delivers a turnkey, hardened environment that eliminates the attack surface of a traditional OS, so there’s nothing for an attacker to exploit. Veeam Intelligence takes it further, bringing an AI agent into the backup environment itself, turning cryptic failures into plain-English root cause analysis and forecasting capacity issues before they become incidents. Operational confidence, every day, without the dreaded 2 a.m. call.
With the broadest security integrations on the market, your existing tools become stronger, not sidelined. And assured compliance capabilities, including automated testing, dynamic documentation, and flexible retention, mean you’re always audit-ready, without the scramble.
Freedom to choose: control without compromise
Multicloud is now the norm. 76% of organizations have already adopted multicloud strategies. The risk isn’t adoption. It’s the lock-in that too often comes with it: vendor constraints that limit flexibility, inflate migration costs, and put a ceiling on where your business can grow.
Veeam Data Platform eliminates that risk by design. A software-defined architecture means Veeam runs anywhere: on-prem, multicloud, SaaS, and dark site environments, without proprietary hardware requirements or hidden costs. Veeam Universal Licensing (VUL) flexes across workloads and platforms, so you always have the decision to switch hypervisors depending on what best fits your business.
Unmatched platform support gives your teams the freedom to protect and recover across Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, XenServer, XCP-ng, Sangfor, VMware, Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV, AWS, Azure, and more. Portable, self-describing backups mean recovery can happen to many systems, clouds, and platforms, keeping your organization fully sovereign over its own data. No vendor restrictions. No forced architecture. Your data moves when you need it to, where you need it to go. This is what it means to truly own your data strategy.
Clean and fast recovery: no guesswork, no gaps
Recovery is where complete resilience either gets proven or the issues are exposed in an untimely and costly fashion. The data shows that organizations have a recovery plan, but they don’t rehearse it. The plan exists, but it hasn’t been tested against the environment it’s supposed to save. The numbers right now are sobering: only 57% of compromised data is recovered after a ransomware attack. What should be a business continuity exercise is business crisis for many who aren’t prepared.
Most organizations are running untested, fragmented recovery runbooks that were never built for the environments they’re protecting today. When a real incident hits, recovery can be slow, unpredictable, and costly. Customer trust erodes. Leadership asks questions no one wants to answer.
Veeam changes the equation backed by agentic analysis, automates the complex sequencing of restoring the right data in the right order, so teams aren’t improvising under pressure. Immutable-by-design architecture, spanning hardened repositories, a turnkey software appliance, and logically air-gapped storage via Veeam Data Cloud Vault, ensure recovery points are protected even if attackers do reach the backups. Instant Recovery restores workloads in minutes directly from clean backups, and minimizing downtime. This results in fast, effective disaster recovery. Automated recovery testing validates and documents backup and recovery plans before disaster ever strikes, so when the moment comes, your teams already know the outcome.
Customers have proven this works. Global Manufacturer, EPL Limited, reported reduced recovery times by 99%, turning multi-hour VM restores into near-instant recovery. Another restored full operations in hours with zero data loss after a live ransomware attack.
You don’t just want fast recovery. You want recovery that’s clean, compliant, and completely on your terms. That’s what Veeam Data Platform delivers.
Built for what’s next
The pressure on IT leaders isn’t going away. Threats are more sophisticated. Environments are more complex. Expectations from boards, regulators, and customers are only climbing higher.
Veeam Data Platform v13.1 is built for what’s next: secure by design, portable by default, and proven to recover clean, fast, and anywhere. More than 550,000 customers worldwide, including 82% of the Fortune 500, already trust Veeam with their most critical data.
Ranked #1 in data resilience by the analysts who measure it, Veeam sets the standard, and this release raises it. Explore what’s new in Veeam Data Platform v13.1
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