Veeam Data Platform Foundation Socket Subscription License
Veeam Data Platform Foundation provides essential data protection and disaster recovery capabilities for businesses seeking to safeguard their operations against data loss and downtime.
- Data Protection: Access to core backup and recovery features to protect your critical business data.
- Disaster Recovery: Coverage for essential disaster recovery planning and execution to minimize business interruption.
- Operational Continuity: Protection against data loss events, ensuring your business can continue operations.
- Licensing Simplicity: Entitlement to a socket-based subscription license for straightforward management and scaling.
Product Overview
Product Overview
The Veeam Data Platform Foundation is a subscription-based software license designed to provide foundational data protection and disaster recovery capabilities for businesses. It includes core features for backup, recovery, and ensuring operational continuity, all managed through a simple socket-based licensing model.
This solution is ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals within SMB and mid-market organizations who need reliable data protection without the complexity of enterprise-level solutions. It integrates into existing IT environments, supporting virtual, physical, and cloud workloads.
- Core Backup and Recovery: Safeguard your critical business data with robust backup and fast recovery options.
- Disaster Recovery Readiness: Ensure your business can quickly resume operations in the event of a disaster.
- Socket-Based Licensing: Simplify license management and scaling with a flexible socket subscription model.
- Platform Foundation: Provides the essential building blocks for a comprehensive data protection strategy.
- Subscription Model: Benefit from predictable costs and access to the latest features through an ongoing subscription.
Veeam Data Platform Foundation offers SMB and mid-market teams the essential data protection and disaster recovery tools needed to maintain business continuity and protect against data loss.
What This Enables
Enable Core Data Backup and Recovery
Enable teams to perform regular backups of critical business data across virtual and physical environments. Streamline the recovery process to restore lost files, applications, or entire systems quickly and efficiently.
server virtualization, physical server protection, application data backup, rapid data restoration
Ensure Disaster Recovery Readiness
Streamline disaster recovery planning by establishing reliable backup copies that can be used for failover. Automate the testing of recovery processes to ensure readiness and minimize potential business interruption during an actual disaster.
business continuity planning, disaster recovery testing, multi-site data protection, regulatory compliance
Protect Against Ransomware and Data Corruption
Protect against data corruption and ransomware attacks by maintaining immutable or air-gapped backup copies. Enable rapid recovery to a pre-attack state, significantly reducing the impact of security incidents.
cybersecurity incident response, data integrity assurance, operational resilience, threat mitigation
Key Features
Socket-based subscription licensing
Provides a flexible and scalable licensing model that aligns costs with the number of protected sockets in your environment.
Core backup and recovery capabilities
Ensures critical business data is protected and can be rapidly restored, minimizing downtime and data loss.
Disaster recovery features
Enables businesses to plan for and execute disaster recovery, maintaining operational continuity during unforeseen events.
Support for virtual, physical, and cloud workloads
Offers broad compatibility to protect diverse IT environments from a single platform.
Subscription model
Allows for predictable budgeting and continuous access to the latest Veeam Data Platform features and updates.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require robust data protection and disaster recovery to meet strict regulatory compliance mandates like SOX and FINRA, ensuring data availability and integrity.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare providers must adhere to HIPAA regulations, demanding secure and reliable data backup and rapid recovery to protect sensitive patient information and maintain continuous care.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Manufacturing operations rely on consistent uptime for production lines and supply chain management, making data protection critical to prevent costly downtime and operational disruptions.
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional services organizations handle highly sensitive client data and must ensure its confidentiality and availability to meet client obligations and industry standards.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a socket in Veeam licensing?
A socket refers to a CPU socket on a physical host server. Veeam's socket-based licensing protects virtual machines (VMs) running on that host. This model is designed for environments with a high density of VMs per socket.
What is the difference between Veeam Data Platform Foundation and other editions?
Foundation is the entry-level edition, providing essential backup, recovery, and DR capabilities. Higher editions offer advanced features like data analytics, automated testing, and broader platform support.
Can this license protect cloud-based workloads?
Yes, the Veeam Data Platform supports protection for various cloud-based workloads, including VMs in public clouds and cloud-native services, depending on the specific configuration and edition.
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.