Veeam Data Platform Socket-Subscription Upgrade
Upgrade your Veeam Data Platform Essentials to the advanced socket subscription, ensuring continuous data protection and rapid recovery for your critical business operations.
- Access to Advanced Features: Gain enhanced data protection capabilities beyond the Essentials tier, including improved recovery options and broader workload support.
- Coverage for Evolving Needs: This upgrade ensures your data protection strategy scales with your business, accommodating growth and new IT infrastructure.
- Protection Against Data Loss: Mitigate the risk of costly downtime and data breaches with a more robust and feature-rich data protection solution.
- Entitlement to Enhanced Support: Benefit from a higher level of support and access to the latest software updates and security patches for your Veeam deployment.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This is an upgrade subscription for the Veeam Data Platform, moving from the Essentials tier to a more advanced socket-based licensing model. It provides enhanced data protection, disaster recovery, and data management capabilities designed for businesses with growing IT environments.
Organizations with existing Veeam Essentials deployments looking to expand their data protection scope or access more sophisticated features will utilize this upgrade. It fits within existing server room or cloud infrastructure, ensuring business continuity and data resilience.
- Enhanced Data Recovery: Faster and more flexible recovery options for virtual, physical, and cloud workloads.
- Scalable Licensing: Socket-based licensing allows for straightforward scaling as your infrastructure grows.
- Improved Security Posture: Access to the latest security features and patches to protect against emerging threats.
- Simplified Management: Centralized management console for all your data protection tasks.
- Disaster Recovery Readiness: Strengthened capabilities to ensure business continuity in the event of an outage or disaster.
This Veeam Data Platform upgrade subscription is the ideal choice for SMB and mid-market teams seeking to elevate their data protection strategy without enterprise-level complexity.
What This Enables
Access to Advanced Recovery Options
Access to enhanced recovery features, including instant VM recovery and granular object recovery, minimizes downtime during critical incidents. This ensures business operations can resume quickly after data loss events.
virtualized environments, cloud-hosted workloads, hybrid IT infrastructure, business continuity planning
Coverage for Growing Workload Demands
Coverage for an expanding number of sockets ensures your data protection solution scales effectively with your IT infrastructure growth. This prevents licensing gaps and maintains consistent protection across all your critical systems.
rapidly expanding businesses, organizations adopting new technologies, environments with increasing server counts
Protection Against Evolving Threats
Protection against sophisticated cyber threats and ransomware through advanced immutability and recovery verification features. This safeguards your data integrity and ensures reliable restoration capabilities.
security-conscious organizations, businesses with compliance requirements, environments with sensitive data
Key Features
Socket-based licensing
Provides a flexible and scalable licensing model that aligns with your infrastructure growth, allowing for easy addition of protected workloads.
Enhanced recovery capabilities
Enables faster and more granular data recovery, minimizing business downtime and ensuring critical operations can resume quickly.
Advanced data protection features
Offers superior protection against data loss and corruption through features like immutability and automated testing.
Centralized management
Simplifies data protection management through a single console, reducing administrative overhead and improving efficiency.
Subscription model
Provides predictable costs and access to the latest software versions and features without large upfront capital expenditure.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
This sector requires stringent data protection and rapid recovery to meet regulatory compliance and maintain customer trust, making advanced Veeam capabilities essential for business continuity.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Protecting sensitive patient data and ensuring continuous access to critical systems is paramount, necessitating robust backup and disaster recovery solutions like Veeam.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Minimizing operational downtime is crucial for production continuity, making efficient and reliable data protection and recovery a high priority for these businesses.
Legal & Professional Services
Maintaining client confidentiality and ensuring uninterrupted access to case files and business data requires strong data protection and disaster recovery capabilities.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a socket in Veeam licensing?
A socket refers to a CPU socket on a physical host server. Veeam socket licensing protects virtual machines (VMs) running on that host, regardless of the number of cores or VMs per socket.
What is the difference between Veeam Data Platform Essentials and the upgraded version?
The upgraded version offers more advanced features, broader workload support, enhanced recovery options, and potentially higher levels of support compared to the Essentials edition.
Can this upgrade be applied to an existing Veeam deployment?
Yes, this is specifically an upgrade path for existing Veeam Data Platform Essentials socket-subscription customers looking to enhance their capabilities.
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.