Veeam Software, one of the Data and AI Trust Companies, recently announced the general availability of Veeam Data Platform v13.1, advancing the industryโs standard for data resilience by converging platform innovation with enterprise scale. The release expands customer choice with six new hypervisor platforms, extends malware scanning to NAS and enhances cloud threat detection, and adds deeper enterprise application protection for EPIC EHR, Db2 for Windows and Oracle, helping organizations keep business running when disruption hits and restore from trusted restore points.
Cyber threats aren’t slowing down and resilience must be proven. While 90% of organizations are confident, they can recover from a cyber incident, fewer than one in three ransomware victims actually recovered all their data.ย Veeam Data Platform v13.1 is built to address this challenge by reducing operational fragmentation โ when disconnected tools and siloed teams create manual handoffs and blind spots โ and delivering trusted, recoverable data that supports secure business continuity and AI initiatives. By unifying resilience and security, organizations reduce tool sprawl while strengthening recovery readiness.
“Cyber risk is dramatically escalating with rapid advancement in frontier models and self-driving AI agents,โ said Rehan Jalil, President of Products and Technology at Veeam. “Resilience will act as a backbone of continued operations and recovering from increasing cyber and AI incidents. With Veeam Data Platform v13.1, customers get stronger enterprise application coverage, and expanded security and recovery readiness.”
Veeam Data Platform v13.1 is a pivotal step in Veeamโs evolution toward Data and AI Trust. Veeam is expanding beyond its heritage as an industry-leading resilience solution into a more unified experience further innovating in recovery, security, intelligence, and portability, helping organizations validate restore points, reduce exposure, and simplify compliance across hybrid environments and the infrastructure they already have.
Veeam Data Platform v13.1: Whatโs New
Hypervisor Support Across Six New Platforms:ย Veeam Data Platform expands hypervisor coverage with out-of-the-box support for six new platforms: Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, Sangfor aSV, XCP-ng, Citrix XenServer, VergeIO and Platform9. This brings Veeam to 14 total supported hypervisors, with more coming soon through the Universal Hypervisor API, helping customers protect new platforms on day one and respond quickly to modernization initiatives and VMware pricing pressure.Enterprise Application Protection at Scale, Without Point Tools:ย Veeam Data Platform strengthens enterprise workload protection with purpose-built support for EPIC EHR, Db2 on Windows, and Oracle with incremental merge, alongside the Application Backup Repository for custom applications.
Organizations can consolidate mission-critical workloads under one platform, reducing point-tool sprawl while gaining unified security controls, reporting, and recovery orchestration across healthcare, finance, and other industries. Expanded Threat Detection and Response Across Critical Data Locations:ย Veeam Data Platform v13.1 expands recovery readiness with enhanced security capabilities including malware scanning coverage for NAS, expanded cloud threat detection for Azure, Active Directory Forest Recovery to accelerate identity restoration after cyber incidents, post-quantum cryptography alignment with NIST standards, and hybrid FIPS support. With detection before restore, teams can validate recovery points and recover from trusted, clean data. Smarter Storage and Retention Economics Through NAS Enhancements:ย Veeam Data Platform v13.1 introduces NAS enhancements that improve long-term retention economics directly to AWS S3 Glacier, Azure Archive, and other archive storages helping reduce storage footprint while maintaining compliance and recovery confidence.
Veeam Data Platform v13.1 is available now. Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization plug-in expected later in Q3. Register today for a free webinar: What’s New in Veeam Data Platform v13.1. For more information, visit the Veeam blog and the Veeam official website.
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โVeeam Data Platform v13.1 reflects the evolution of the data protection market from conventional backup and recovery to a strategic focus on data resilience and trust. By expanding support for additional hypervisors, strengthening threat detection capabilities, and extending protection for key enterprise applications, the release responds to typical organizational requirements around diversified infrastructure, preparedness for cyber incidents, and reliable restoration of clean data.โย
Phil Hassey, CEO and founder, CapioIT
“Organizations are looking to modernize their virtualization environments without compromising resilience, recovery, or choice. Together, HPE and Veeam help customers simplify the transition to HPE Morpheus VM Essentials while strengthening data protection and accelerating recovery with HPE Alletra Storage MP X10000. By combining HPE’s platform and infrastructure portfolio with Veeam Data Platform v13.1, organizations can confidently modernize virtualization, improve cyber and operational resilience, and build a stronger foundation for future growth.”ย
Stephen Bacon, VP of Cyber Resilience and Data Protection Solutions, HPE โVeeam Data Platform v13.1 strengthens our shared commitment to delivering simple, resilient data protection for modern hybrid environments. With deeper integrations and joint innovationsโsuch as easy-button migrations to AHVโfast, seamless recovery to AHV has never been easier. Customers gain more powerful management and recovery capabilities, with greater control and confidence across hybrid multicloud environments, whether on-premises or in the public cloud. Weโre proud to deepen this partnership and deliver solutions that provide immediate value to our customers.โ
Ketan Shah, VP Product Management, Nutanix
โOrganizations evaluating hypervisor alternatives need to modernize without introducing new resilience gaps. With Veeam Data Platform v13.1 adding support for Sangfor aSV, CITIC Telecom CPC SmartCLOUD services can help customers protect critical workloads, maintain recovery readiness, and support service continuity throughout their infrastructure transition. Veeam gives customers the freedom to choose the infrastructure that best fits their business without compromising trusted recovery or becoming locked into a single platform.โย Danny Tang, Senior Manager of Cloud Services, Product and Digital Intelligence Development, CITIC Telecom CPC
