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Why Companies Are Switching from Veeam to Druva for True Cloud-Native Resilience

Mike Taylor, Sr. Content Marketing Manager

Today’s enterprises rely heavily on cloud infrastructure, especially with critical workloads running in multi-cloud environments on AWS and/or Azure. But as cloud adoption accelerates, many IT teams find themselves constrained by traditional, DIY backup solutions like Veeam, which, despite their claims, fall short when it comes to true multi-cloud cyber resilience.

In this blog, we’ll explore the shortcomings of legacy data protection and why customers are making the switch from Veeam to strong, cloud-native solutions like Druva. If your organization is ready to make the change, you’re in luck! Companies switching from Veeam to Druva can get up to 6 months of coverage FREE! Find out how.

The Limitations of DIY Backup Solutions Like Veeam

While Veeam has historically served organizations well in on-premises and hybrid environments, it struggles when enterprises fully embrace AWS and Azure. Here are some key challenges organizations face when relying on Veeam for cloud workloads:

  1. Security Vulnerabilities: Veeam backups reside within the same cloud environments as your production data, exposing backups to the same threats your primary data faces — such as ransomware, insider threats, and compromised credentials. Without proper isolation or air-gapping, your backup data is vulnerable to being compromised simultaneously with your primary data. Explore how Druva and Veeam differ on patching.
  2. Operational Complexity: Veeam deployments typically involve complex architectures, requiring separate tools and configurations for AWS and Azure. This fragmented approach leads to increased administrative overhead, higher risk of misconfiguration, and inconsistent protection across environments. Compare Veeam’s convoluted setup with Druva in this blog.
  3. Hidden Costs and Budget Overruns: Managing Veeam’s cloud infrastructure means unpredictable expenses. Issues like egress fees, duplicated storage due to lack of global deduplication, and operational overhead quickly add up, driving hidden costs and budget overruns that become increasingly unsustainable as cloud environments scale. See how much you’d save by switching from Veeam to Druva — calculate your FREE custom TCO report.

Druva: Built for the Modern Multi-Cloud Environment

Unlike DIY solutions, Druva’s fully managed, cloud-native platform is specifically designed to protect and optimize AWS and Azure workloads. Here’s how Druva closes the gaps left open by Veeam:

1. Robust Security and Air-Gapped Architecture

Druva stores backups securely in an isolated, air-gapped environment outside your primary AWS or Azure accounts. With immutable, zero-trust backups, Druva ensures that even administrative-level breaches or compromised credentials cannot touch your critical data.

2. Unified Management and Simplicity

Druva consolidates protection for AWS and Azure into a single, easy-to-use platform, eliminating the complexity of managing multiple consoles. Administrators gain centralized visibility, streamlined policy enforcement, and simplified compliance, without the overhead of patching or infrastructure maintenance.

3. Predictable and Reduced Costs

With global deduplication, Druva drastically reduces storage requirements, eliminating costly data duplication. Druva also eliminates egress charges and infrastructure costs entirely, offering predictable and flat-rate pricing that reduces ownership cost by up to 40% compared to DIY approaches. Read the white paper to see how Druva delivers cost savings vs. Veeam.

4. Advanced Cyber Resilience

Druva’s cyber-resilience features go beyond basic backup, offering proactive threat detection, automatic quarantine of compromised data, and rapid ransomware recovery. Druva enables organizations to confidently recover clean, uncompromised data quickly and reliably.

Proven Success: Druva in Action

Companies making the switch see immediate benefits. Betenbough Companies, previously reliant on DIY and native backup tools, found themselves vulnerable after a ransomware attack impacted their hybrid workloads. Switching to Druva provided rapid ransomware recovery, allowing full operational restoration within 24 hours. Druva’s cyber resilient platform, including immutable backups, threat detection, and isolation capabilities, was essential to their swift recovery.

Read the customer story eBook to discover the reasons customers chose Druva over Veeam and what results they achieved.

Why Make the Switch Now?

With growing cyber threats targeting cloud backups directly, enterprises can no longer afford to gamble their data protection strategies on DIY solutions that weren't designed with modern threats and multi-cloud complexity in mind. Druva’s fully managed, cloud-native solution offers:

  • Air-gapped, immutable backups for unmatched security.
  • Unified visibility and management across AWS, Azure, and hybrid environments.
  • Lower TCO and predictable budgeting without hidden cloud costs.
  • Robust ransomware defense and accelerated recovery capabilities.

By making the shift from Veeam to Druva, enterprises are positioning themselves for long-term resilience, simplified management, and cost-effective cloud data protection.

Ready to Experience the Druva Advantage?

Don’t wait until your backups are compromised to understand the limitations of DIY solutions like Veeam. Explore Druva today, and see firsthand how cloud-native, cyber-resilient data protection can transform your cloud strategy and secure your business’s future.