Veeam launches Data Platform v13, redefining the standard for cyber resilience and advanced data protection.

Redazione RHC : 20 November 2025 16:21

With new capabilities to stay ahead of threats and accelerate recovery with next-generation security, forensic insights and intelligent automation, Veeam also launches the Universal Hypervisor Integration API, a flexible integration platform for hypervisors .

Seattle, WA – November 19, 2025 – Veeam® Software , the #1 global leader in data resilience, today launched Veeam Data Platform v13 – a breakthrough release that redefines the standard for cyber resilience, intelligent data protection, and data freedom in the AI era. This release represents a fundamental evolution of the industry’s most trusted data platform. Designed for a world of relentless ransomware, rapid infrastructure transformation, and AI innovations, Veeam Data Platform v13 delivers unprecedented resilience, unmatched flexibility, and the intelligence needed for an AI-driven future.

Trusted by more than 550,000 customers, Veeam Data Platform is a unified solution that delivers advanced data protection, AI-powered ransomware resilience, and seamless recovery across physical, virtual, and cloud environments, ensuring organizations’ data is always safe, available, and reliable. With a modern platform architecture, AI-powered intelligence, a broad hypervisor integration model, and new industry-leading security features, Veeam Data Platform v13 represents a revolutionary leap forward—helping organizations stay ahead of threats, eliminate lock-in, and keep data always available, recoverable, and ready for future workloads.

Veeam Data Platform v13 introduces the industry’s most advanced intelligent security and ransomware protection. Key innovations include:

Recon Scanner 3.0 – Transformative Security, Unmatched Forensics : Powered by Coveware by Veeam, Recon Scanner 3.0 is now directly integrated into Veeam Data Platform, redefining real-time visibility into operational threats for organizations.
Reports suspicious adversary behavior on monitored endpoints, including brute force attacks, suspicious file activity, and unexpected network connections.
Consolidated Triage Inbox allows organizations to view, sort, and manage all suspicious activity in one place, with severity ratings and behavioral insights.
Seamless integration with Veeam ONE Threat Center provides real-time analysis and threat visualization directly on security dashboards.
Suppression rules and contextualized results help teams triage faster and reduce alert overload.
Integration with Microsoft Sentinel correlates Recon Scanner information with broader threat signals for unified detection, investigation, and response.
Collect forensic data from Veeam environments and map the findings to the MITRE ATT&CK framework, providing unprecedented threat context.
AI Agent for Veeam Intelligence-Driven Malware Analysis : Advanced AI-driven analysis automatically detects, classifies and reports malware and suspicious activity, providing actionable insights and remediation guidance, ensuring recoveries are reliable and contaminated.
Superior security, identity, and access controls : Least-privileged access and centralized authentication via SAML-based SSO reduce exposure and simplify secure access.
Immutable by Default : Backups are immutable by default, in line with ransomware protection best practices, protecting restore points from unauthorized changes.
Industry-leading integrations for security and ITSM : Deep integrations with leading security and IT operations platforms – including CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks, Splunk, and ServiceNow – enable unified detection, investigation, and response.

Veeam Data Platform v13 strengthens Veeam’s foundation, delivering expanded workload coverage and fast, flexible, and reliable workload mobility—essential for cloud adoption, cyber recovery, and AI-driven modernization. Key innovations include:

Instant Recovery to Microsoft Azure : True instant recovery of critical workloads directly to Azure, enabling rapid recovery in a secure “cleanroom” environment to validate recoverability and minimize downtime.
Expanded hypervisor coverage : Support for Scale Computing HyperCore™ is available now, with additional platforms coming soon, including HPE Morpheus VM Essentials, Citrix XenServer, XCP-ng, and more.
Further new features are planned for 2026, including:
- OpenShift Virtualization Support – Native host-based VM backup and recovery for Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, expanding existing support through Veeam Kasten.
- Universal Hypervisor Integration API – An unprecedented integration framework that enables any hypervisor vendor to natively integrate with Veeam backup and recovery capabilities via a standardized API, ensuring customer environments are future-proofed for new virtualization technologies.

Veeam Data Platform v13 extends Veeam’s commitment to simplicity, openness, and cost efficiency—delivering high availability, modern management, and deployment flexibility without proprietary hardware appliances or constraining architectures. Key innovations include:

Veeam Software Appliance with High Availability – A pre-configured, secure, out-of-the-box Linux appliance that installs in minutes, updates automatically, eliminates the burden of operating system management, and now supports high availability for continuous operations – all without hardware constraints, offering significant savings over competing traditional appliances.
Modern Web Console – A new, customer-hosted, browser-based user interface that simplifies setup, reduces infrastructure requirements, and makes day-to-day management more efficient, delivering a modern and intuitive experience.

“At Veeam, protecting our customers’ data isn’t just a promise—it’s our mission,” said Anand Eswaran, CEO of Veeam Software. “With Veeam Data Platform v13, we’re redefining the standard for data resilience. We’re giving organizations the intelligence, automation, and flexibility they need to stay ahead of cyberattacks, eliminate lock-in, and innovate without fear. v13 represents a pivotal moment for the future of data and cyber resilience, while also laying the technological foundation for Veeam’s next chapter: a unified data and AI platform that integrates AI protection, security, governance, and trust into a single, intelligent experience.”

Availability

Veeam Data Platform v13 is available immediately through Veeam’s global network of authorized partners, resellers and distributors. Veeam Recon Scanner 3.0 is now included in Veeam Data Platform Premium and will soon be available to Veeam Cloud & Service Provider (VCSP) partners. For more information, visit www.veeam.com .

VeeamON Global Launch Virtual Event

Don’t miss the VeeamON Global Launch Virtual Event on November 19, where Veeam Data Platform v13 and the new Veeam Recon Scanner will be demonstrated in action. Engage with Veeam leaders, connect with industry experts, and learn how organizations can achieve new levels of data resiliency and security. Register for free at www.veeam.com/veeamon-global-launch .

Statements and supporting resources

“Veeam Data Platform v13, with the integration of Recon Scanner 3.0, fundamentally transforms security and resilience for customers, delivering advanced detection and forensic intelligence to stay ahead of cyber threats. This powerful combination enables organizations to accelerate recovery with clean backups and AI-driven automation, ensuring business continuity and compliance. For partners, this new offering represents a significant opportunity, providing a market-leading, high-value solution that simplifies deployment and gives customers the confidence and security needed in the digital age.” – Ron Westfall, Vice President, Infrastructure and Networking, HyperFRAME Research

“Veeam Data Platform v13 has allowed us to simplify and centralize everything. It’s ready to use right out of the box, which made installation incredibly simple and made our environment much easier to manage. When it comes to cyber defense, we need to be 100% flawless because attackers only need to succeed once. Veeam’s new deployment model helps us achieve robust yet seamless security.” – Joe Moffitt, Principle Technical Architect, Darktrace

“The partnership between Scale Computing and Veeam represents more than just integration—it’s helping solve the problem of downtime. As organizations move away from legacy hypervisors, they demand simpler, more autonomous infrastructures that don’t compromise resilience. Together with Veeam, Scale Computing offers a modern alternative that combines Scale Computing’s self-healing virtualization platform with the industry’s most robust data protection, enabling IT teams to regain control over complexity, costs, and lock-in.” – Craig Theriac, Vice President of Product Management, Scale Computing

About Veeam Software

Veeam®, the number one global leader in data resilience, believes every business should be able to quickly recover from a disruption, with the confidence and control of always having access to all their data, anywhere, anytime. Veeam calls this concept radical resilience, and we are constantly committed to creating innovative solutions to help our customers achieve it.

Veeam solutions are purpose-built to ensure data resilience, offering backup, recovery, portability, security, and data intelligence. With Veeam, IT and security managers can rest easy knowing their applications and data are protected and always available, across cloud, virtual, physical, SaaS, and Kubernetes environments.

Headquartered in Seattle with offices in over 30 countries, Veeam protects more than 550,000 customers worldwide, including 67% of the Global 2000, who rely on Veeam to keep their businesses running. Radical resilience starts with Veeam. Learn more at www.veeam.com or follow Veeam on LinkedIn @veeam-software and X @veeam .

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