Veeam Endpoint Backup Free Software

Veeam Software, Inc. announced its Endpoint Backup FREE, a simple and free standalone solution that enables users to backup Windows-based laptops and desktops to an internal or external HDD, a NAS share or a Veeam backup repository.

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Veeam has a history of providing stand-alone free tools to the IT community that will solve real challenges, beginning with FastSCP, its first product, originally released in October 2006. Endpoint Backup FREE joins the company’s portfolio of free tools used by over 500,000 IT professionals, which include: Veeam Backup Free Edition, Veeam ONE Free Edition, and Veeam Task Manager for Hyper-V.
 
“With Veeam Endpoint Backup FREE, IT professionals now have a simple solution for backing up endpoints, which has long been a major data protection headache,” said Ratmir Timashev, CEO, Veeam. “Veeam believes that modern data centers should be fully virtualized, but we also recognize that unlike servers, endpoints will always remain physical, and they need to be backed up as well.  Plus, if the IT organization still has a few physical servers left in their data center, Veeam Endpoint Backup FREE can help fill that gap.“
 
When recovering, IT professionals can perform a bare-metal restore to the same or different hardware, a volume-level restore, or a file-level restore. The tool will be freely available to all, and will not require the use of any additional Veeam products; but will integrate with Veeam Backup & Replication if one is present in the environment. In this case granular or full application recovery capabilities made possible by Veeam Explorers for Exchange, SharePoint, SQP and Active Directory are also available.
 
“Most vendors would charge quite a bit for a tool with this level of functionality, so the fact that it is free could disrupts this segment of the data protection market,” said Dave Simpson, senior analyst, 451 Research. “It’s not a full blown move into the physical data protection space by Veeam, but it does provide a good option for those Veeam customers who have virtualized all but a few servers within their data center.”
 
Endpoint Backup Free edition will become available in early 2015.