Veeam Backup & Replication v13 is now available, delivering enterprise-grade resilience with uncompromising security and rapid, reliable recovery. This release introduces major advancements in backup, security, cloud integration and application support—designed to boost performance, scalability, and usability across a wide range of workloads and platforms. Not only that, but in addition to the existing Windows-based installable software, V13 now offers a new software appliance deployment option for significantly reduced operational costs and securing risks.
Key features include:
- Pre-built, pre-hardened, predictable all-in-one appliance with the Veeam Software Appliance
- A Veeam Infrastructure Appliance that can be deployed on any physical, virtual or cloud machine using JeOS
- New web-based user interface that meets Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) to access backup management operations
- Instant Recovery to Microsoft Azure
- Malware detection with Veeam Threat Hunter for Cloud and Linux workloads
- Enhanced Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) with support for custom roles with scoped permissions
- SSO for centralized user access and authentication with SAML 2.0 for accessing both the new web UI and the Windows-based backup console
- Back up directly to S3-compatible object storage for AIX, Solaris and enterprise application plug-ins
- Immutability for Google Cloud Storage
- Nutanix AHV full integration
- Linux OS mount server for File Level Recovery
- Performance and efficiency improvements for object storage
- High Availability for Veeam Software Appliance allowing it to be deployed in active/passive backup server cluster with the second node on standby (requires VSA 13.0.1 and VDP Premium edition)
- Universal CDP of any Windows machine (physical, virtual, or cloud) to VMware Cloud Director with support for additional targets coming later
- Centralized Management for Veeam plug-ins for Microsoft SQL Server allowing the use of Protection Groups to control installation and upgrade of plug-in
- Veeam Plug-in for SAP Max DB allowing backups to be streamed directly to Veeam repositories
- Microsoft Entra ID Intune policies protection support
- RDS SQL Backups to Object Storage
- SLA Policies for AWS Workloads
- Expanded Hypervisor coverage with support for Scale Computing HyperCore
- Microsoft Sentinel integration allowing teams to monitor and investigate Veeam Backup events
- Recon Scanner 3.0 integration built directly into Veeam Data Platform for real-time threat visibility
- Veeam Intelligence Advanced Mode unlocking the usage of new AI agents including the Malware Threat Analysis Agent and the Deep Data Analysis Agent
- Veeam ONE reports integrated into Veeam Backup & Replication Console
- Data Resilience Summary providing an overview of backup operations and risks
The release of Veeam Backup & Replication v13 delivers advanced data protection, AI-driven ransomware resilience and seamless recovery across physical, virtual and cloud environments. The key features listed above are only a fraction of what this release brings, with over 100 improvements made across the platform. For a full list of features and details please visit the What’s New document.
Published Date: 2025-11-19 (YMD)
Build Number: 13.01.180
Release Notes: https://helpcenter.veeam.com/rn/veeam_backup_13_0_1_release_notes.html
What’s New Document: https://www.veeam.com/veeam_backup_13_whats_new__wn.pdf
Veeam Blog: https://www.veeam.com/blog/veeam-data-platform-v13-enterprise-backup-security-ai.html
