At Veeam, we believe the Modern Datacenter is based on virtualization. While we still see that some companies have a few remaining physical servers left, the majority are virtualized. However, a modern datacenter will still have certain physical devices. Most companies use physical workstations or laptops for their end-users to do their work and those devices have data on it that needs to be protected.

Because of that, we just announced a new product at our VeeamON conference today. Welcome Veeam Endpoint Backup Free!

Veeam Endpoint Backup Free is Veeam’s new backup solution for Windows-based computers (desktops & laptops). It is a standalone product and is not part of Veeam Backup & Replication nor the Veeam Availability Suite.

What is it?

Veeam Endpoint Backup Free is a product that allows you to backup your windows based computers to an internal or external hard-drive, a NAS share or a Veeam Backup Repository. With this solution, you will be able to protect files, volumes or your entire computer based on your own schedule or at logon or logoff.

The possibilities to recover range from simple files (overwrite or keep the originals), volume restore or a bare metal recovery.

Veeam Endpoint Backup free will have great features such as pausing the backup when the system is busy (automatically, with the option Backup I/O control selected), automatic update notifications, auto-recognizing of the external hard drive that has your backups stored, finding and adding installed drivers to the recovery bootable media (and the possibility to add specific drivers yourself) and much more.

When creating recovery bootable media, you will also automatically receive additional tools such as the possibility to check your memory, try and fix startup and administrator password reset.

And all of this, as the name states, for free!

When is it available?

Veeam Endpoint Backup Free will be released in Beta in November and the GA (generally available) date is targeted early 2015.

Does free mean no support?

Veeam Endpoint Backup Free will be supported through Veeam’s free product support policy. This means that Veeam will attempt to provide support for users of Veeam Endpoint Backup Free but does not provide response goals or response guarantees for this service.

Conclusion

Veeam Endpoint Backup Free will solve the IT Pro’s challenges to protect their endpoints at NO cost. And because of this, they will lower down their risk of data loss.