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Cobalt Iron vs Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365 comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 1, 2026

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Cobalt Iron
Ranking in SaaS Backup
35th
Average Rating
10.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Veeam Data Cloud for Micros...
Ranking in SaaS Backup
1st
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
72
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Backup (5th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the SaaS Backup category, the mindshare of Cobalt Iron is 0.9%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365 is 8.8%, down from 15.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
SaaS Backup Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 3658.8%
Cobalt Iron0.9%
Other90.3%
SaaS Backup
 

Featured Reviews

LR
Fresh Operations Manager at Jerónimo Martins
Well integrated, easy to install, stable, scalable and has good support
We use this solution to replicate and backup the databases and the information of our clients' companies. We are system integrators It's a very good solution. It's a very straightforward product that is well integrated with everything. Pricing is an area that can be improved. In the next…
SS
Manager, Information Technology at Greencoast Enterprises LLC
Backup has protected our office data and now restores individual emails while admins configure settings
Although Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365 is a Backup as a Service, it should give slight leverage to the admins to do more of their own configurations. When it comes to Software as a Service, we do need to agree on certain things, as we do not have much control over the software. If Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365 can improve, it would be better. It could be slightly better, but it is acceptable. As long as support is provided in a timely manner, it is good. I cannot tell it is fully bad or fully good. If I were to give a rating of one to five, I might give 3.5 to four. Rather than giving a help database, which is an ocean of information to search through ourselves, we should be able to open a ticket and have them guide us on how to do it. As an end-user, different levels of admins exist—a fresh admin and a more experienced admin. They need to encourage us to open a ticket quickly, and from there they should guide us straightforwardly with the steps to follow to achieve the desired outcome.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"It's a very good solution."
"It's a very straightforward product that is well integrated with everything."
"Technical support in Veeam is good; if you face any issues, the response times are good and the engineers' quality is also good, most of the time."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the replication functionality."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"I would recommend this solution to others who are interested in implementation, as it is a good solution with good email capacity and is easy to use."
"The most valuable feature of Veeam Backup for Office 365 is the backups, we do not want to lose any files. Each one of the files is updated on a regular long-term basis and kept together in the Microsoft cloud-only."
"The solution is stable."
"Veeam is affordable and end-to-end configuration is straightforward, whether you're going from source to destination or vice versa. Retrieval is also easy."
"Once you set it up, it works very well. You do not have to go back to reconfigure it– it is very easy to use"
 

Cons

"In the next release, I would like to see better prices for the licenses."
"Pricing is an area that can be improved. In the next release, I would like to see better prices for the licenses."
"The capacity storage is a challenge everywhere in the backup industry. The general feedback people are coming back to about this is that there is no deduplication based on it."
"Veeam Backup for Office 365 can improve by adding more features with Microsoft teams. We have many files that we are working on with Microsoft teams and there should be more integration and features."
"It would be a great improvement to be able to recover a VM straight to on-prem."
"The customer service and support response time can be improved."
"They should improve the backup and restoration time."
"When you add a new site for backup, it gives you a notice that there is a new site, but the way you select that and configure that could be slightly better. It works, but it is not always very clear. For example, for the URL, you need to hover over the title or the name of the site. You should see it immediately on the screen. It should have a better user interface for selecting what you want to back up so that you get a more clear overview of the sites that are there and the ones that you want to combine in a backup. Its user interface should be more user-friendly. It has a lot of scrolling and doesn't give you a complete overview when needed. That's the main thing why it is not very user-friendly. It should have a better user interface."
"The solution could offer better reporting."
"It requires quite an amount of infrastructure. You have to set up the instance, and you need to know quite a bit about Microsoft 365 authentication. For some customers, it is a challenge."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It's a perpetual license."
"The cost of Veeam Backup is $28 per user for one year."
"Its cost is pretty high. I would rate it a three out of five in terms of pricing."
"We have 2000 users and pay about $10,000. It may be a little bit more per year. We have an education institute and may have fewer expenses."
"I think it's a fair price. It's around $36 per user, so I think it's a fair price for our customers."
"The cost is a bit on the high side."
"For the number of users and amount of storage you receive, it is not expensive."
"I have a per-user license for the number of users and the mailboxes that I have."
"Its price is a little bit high, but it is a fantastic solution. It is more expensive than NetApp."
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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company
10%
Comms Service Provider
9%
Construction Company
8%
Manufacturing Company
7%
 

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Small Business37
Midsize Enterprise22
Large Enterprise16
 

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Veeam Backup for Office 365, Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365, Cirrus Backup
 

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