By By David Ramel09/03/2025
Publication Date: 2025-09-03 00:00:00
Data Resilience Skills Lacking? Veeam Launches First Software Appliance
Veeam launched its first fully pre-built, pre-hardened software appliance for enterprise backup and recovery, delivered as a bootable ISO or virtual appliance on a Veeam-managed Linux base and designed to run on physical, virtual, or cloud infrastructure
The Veeam Software Appliance
The new offering is a software-only, hardware-agnostic deployment that adds secure-by-default settings such as built-in immutability, zero trust access controls, and automated patching across the stack. Veeam highlights Instant Recovery to Azure and a modern web UI with RBAC and SAML SSO. Veeam describes this as its “first ever software appliance” and says it offers “instant secure data protection without hardware lockin.”
One potential use case for the appliance, a rep told Virtualization & Cloud Review, is addressing the industry-wide skills gap: “This launch comes at a critical time when IT teams and partners are taxed, and the skills gap in the market is widening. By delivering a fully managed, ready-to-deploy appliance, Veeam is removing complexity, giving partners and customers the ability to protect data quickly without the…
