Veeam Data Platform Foundation Socket Subscription License
Ensure robust data protection and recovery for your business with the Veeam Data Platform Foundation, offering essential capabilities for up to 1 socket.
- Coverage for Core Data Protection: Access essential backup, recovery, and data management features to safeguard your critical business information.
- Protection against Data Loss: Mitigate risks associated with hardware failures, cyber threats, and accidental deletions with reliable data recovery.
- Entitlement to Foundational Features: Gain access to the core components of Veeam's data protection suite for essential operational resilience.
- Support for Single Socket Environments: Ideal for smaller deployments or specific critical systems requiring dedicated data protection.
Product Overview
Product Overview
The Veeam Data Platform Foundation provides essential data protection capabilities designed for businesses needing reliable backup and recovery solutions. This subscription license includes core features to ensure your critical data is safe and recoverable, supporting up to one socket.
This foundational offering is ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market organizations who manage their own IT infrastructure. It integrates into existing server environments, providing a crucial layer of data resilience without requiring extensive specialized hardware.
- Essential Backup and Recovery: Protect your virtual and physical workloads with reliable backup and granular recovery options.
- Data Resilience: Minimize downtime and data loss risks through automated backup jobs and tested recovery processes.
- Foundation for Growth: Provides the core data protection needed, with options to scale to more advanced Veeam editions as your needs evolve.
- Simplified Management: Offers a straightforward interface for managing backup and recovery tasks, reducing administrative overhead.
- Subscription-Based Licensing: Predictable costs and access to the latest features through a flexible subscription model.
This Veeam Data Platform Foundation license is the right choice for SMB and mid-market teams seeking essential, reliable data protection without enterprise complexity.
What This Enables
Enable Essential Data Backup and Recovery
Enable teams to perform reliable backups of critical business data and applications. Streamline recovery processes to minimize downtime and ensure business continuity.
organizations with on-premises servers, businesses managing virtual environments, teams requiring disaster recovery planning, companies with limited IT staff
Protect Against Ransomware and Data Corruption
Automate the protection of your data against evolving cyber threats like ransomware. Ensure the ability to restore clean, uncorrupted versions of your data from immutable backups.
businesses with sensitive customer data, companies operating in regulated environments, organizations with a remote workforce, teams prioritizing cybersecurity
Simplify Operational Recovery Processes
Streamline the process of recovering individual files, application items, or entire systems quickly and efficiently. Reduce the time and effort required for data restoration tasks.
companies with strict RTO/RPO objectives, businesses experiencing frequent operational changes, IT departments managing diverse workloads, organizations seeking to reduce manual intervention
Key Features
Veeam Backup & Replication Core Technology
Provides reliable backup and granular recovery for virtual, physical, and cloud workloads, ensuring data availability.
Support for 1 Socket
Offers a cost-effective solution for smaller environments or specific critical systems requiring dedicated data protection.
Subscription Licensing
Enables predictable budgeting and access to the latest software updates and features without large upfront capital expenditure.
Data Recovery Options
Allows for quick restoration of files, applications, or entire systems, minimizing business disruption and data loss.
Foundation for Data Resilience
Establishes a core data protection strategy, safeguarding against common threats and operational failures.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
This sector requires stringent data protection and rapid recovery to meet regulatory compliance and maintain customer trust, making robust backup solutions essential.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Protecting sensitive patient data (PHI) and ensuring continuous access to critical systems are paramount, necessitating reliable data backup and disaster recovery capabilities.
Legal & Professional Services
Maintaining client confidentiality and ensuring uninterrupted access to case files and operational data is critical for business continuity and client satisfaction.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Protecting operational data, production schedules, and intellectual property is vital to prevent costly downtime and maintain supply chain integrity.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a 'socket' in this context?
In Veeam licensing, a socket typically refers to a CPU socket on a physical server. This license covers data protection for workloads running on servers with one CPU socket.
What is the difference between Foundation and other Veeam editions?
Veeam Data Platform Foundation offers the essential backup and recovery features. Higher editions like Standard, Enterprise, and Enterprise Plus include more advanced capabilities such as replication, advanced reporting, and more extensive workload support.
Can this license be used for cloud workloads?
While Veeam Data Platform supports cloud workloads, the Foundation edition's socket-based licensing is primarily designed for on-premises physical or virtual server environments. Cloud workload protection may require different licensing models or higher editions.
Deployment & Support
Deployment Complexity
Low — self-service
Fulfillment
Digital Delivery
License keys / portal provisioning
Support Model
Zent Networks Managed
Renewal, add-license, and lifecycle management included
Subscription Terms
Cancellation
Cancel anytime — no charge on next cycle
You may cancel this subscription at any time. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period. You will not be charged for the following billing cycle. Access remains active through the end of the paid term.
Returns
Subscription licenses are non-refundable
Digital software licenses and SaaS subscriptions cannot be returned once activated or provisioned. Contact a Zent Networks account manager if you have questions before purchasing.