Hey all, my company is using Veeam mostly for our medium-sized clients, but some of our smaller clients with only a few VM’s generally are using something else. A couple with old Datto Siris or Alto appliances, quite a few with Barracuda backup appliances, and even an Intronis client. Most of these clients are paying for more of a BaaS service on a monthly or yearly agreement, though I think a couple actually own their the Barracuda appliance that we sold them in the past.
With that said, we’re pretty invested with Datto despite the Kaseya attachment, and they caught the ear of my boss about leasing out Datto Siris 4 appliances to replace all of those non-Veeam clients. That said, I’d rather move them over the the Service Provider side of things and get everything moved into the Veeam house.
Here’s what I was thinking. We historically don’t like hosting customer data, and so somewhat in parallel with my developing a VB365 solution for our clients (as most are using Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud backup and a couple on Datto Backupify) where we would host the server and supply the licensing on our infrastructure but use the likes of Wasabi Object for storage. I was thinking about using our Service Provider Console to manage the backups obviously and using Wasabi and/or 11:11 Systems for the storage. With Datto, they put an appliance on-site which will hold a minimum of 30 days of restore points and keep a copy of everything in the Datto cloud (AWS I believe). The Siris 4 appliances are apparently Supermicro servers and the Siris 5 are Dell Optiplex/Precision Rack/PowerEdge devices depending on sizing.
Keeping in mind that that we’re talking about clients with less than 10 VM’s (I think the most on this list was 6 VM’s, and one client is a single physical server), what are you doing in these sorts of situations? Are you keeping any sort of device on-premise for a local copy, or are you just pushing them across to the wire to your own infrastructure or a cloud repository? Thoughts? Ideas?
Thanks!