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Securive vs Veeam
Veeam is the default for a reason — the VM backup engine is excellent and the ecosystem is enormous. The question is not whether it works. It's how many products, servers and licences you end up running to cover an estate that isn't only VMs.
The short version
If your estate is VMs and you have staff to run backup infrastructure, Veeam is hard to beat. If you're also protecting Microsoft 365, databases and physical servers — and nobody owns the backup server — the consolidation is worth more than the engine.
Which one
Pick the right one, even if it isn't us.
Choose Securive if…
- You want VMs, Microsoft 365, databases and physical servers under one policy engine and one bill.
- Nobody on the team wants to own, patch and capacity-plan a backup server.
- You want restores tested automatically and reported, rather than scheduled as a quarterly project that slips.
- You're an MSP and per-tenant isolation, white label and per-tenant billing need to exist without you assembling them.
- You want the price published, including the overage rate, without a quote.
Choose Veeam if…
- You need the deepest possible application awareness across a long tail of enterprise systems — the integration list is genuinely longer.
- You have an existing investment in Veeam skills, tooling and repositories that works.
- Air-gapped or fully offline environments where a hosted control plane is not acceptable.
- You want a huge third-party ecosystem and community for edge cases.
Side by side
Where the two models differ
The most widely deployed VM backup product, licensed per workload and usually run on infrastructure you own.
- Deployment
- Veeam: Backup server you install, patch, size and keep available.
- Securive: Hosted control plane. Nothing to install for agentless VM backup.
- Scope
- Veeam: VMs core; Microsoft 365, physical and DR are separate products and licences.
- Securive: One product covering VMs, M365, servers, databases and replication.
- Licensing
- Veeam: Per-workload licences, typically annual, quoted through partners.
- Securive: Published subscription with a published overage rate.
- Restore verification
- Veeam: SureBackup exists and works well — you build and maintain the jobs.
- Securive: On by default, on a schedule, with the measured RTO in a report.
- Protection from deletion
- Veeam: Available via hardened repository or object lock, configured by you.
- Securive: Versioned storage on every tier. The credentials that write backups cannot destroy earlier versions of them.
- Multi-tenancy
- Veeam: Through the Cloud Connect / service provider programme.
- Securive: Native — isolated storage, key and quota per tenant, white label included.
- Time to first backup
- Veeam: Provision a server, install, licence, configure a repository.
- Securive: Connect a hypervisor and set a policy.
Compiled from publicly available material and reviewed August 2026. These products change. If something here is out of date or wrong, tell us and we will correct it — including when the correction doesn't favour us. Veeam is a trademark of its respective owner and is used here for identification only.
Questions
The things people ask before they switch
Yes, and you shouldn't do it any other way. Run both in parallel, take restore points with Securive, prove a real restore, and only then retire the Veeam repository. Migration assistance is included at no cost.
They stay where they are and stay restorable by Veeam for as long as you keep it running. We don't import them — a converted backup you've never tested is not a backup, and pretending otherwise is how people discover gaps during an incident.
For the common path — agentless backup of running machines, changed-block tracking, application-aware quiescing, granular file recovery — yes. Veeam also boots a VM straight from its backup, which we do not, and its list of enterprise application integrations is longer. We'd rather you knew that now.
It can, if what you want from the programme is multi-tenancy, isolation and billing. It doesn't if your customers specifically buy Veeam by name — some do, and that's a real reason to stay.
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