Veeam has launched a fresh update to its Data Platform, offering an abundance of hypervisor integrations that look to entice disgruntled VMware users by looking beyond the Broadcom-owned vSphere.

Version 13 of its revamped flagship platform sees Veeam add support to a host of names, including CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks, Splunk, and ServiceNow.

Also receiving support is Citrix’s XenServer, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)’s Morpheus VM Essentials, with additional brands being added in 2026, including Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization.

Also coming to Data Platform next year is what the vendor described as “Universal Hypervisor Integration API” – an integration framework that would let any hypervisor vendor integrate natively with Veeam’s backup and recovery capabilities using a standardized API. In what the vendor described as a “first-of-its-kind,” the offering aims to “future-proof customer environments as new virtualization technologies emerge.”

“Veeam Data Platform v13 expands Veeam’s commitment to simplicity, openness, and cost efficiency, delivering high availability, modern management, and deployment flexibility without proprietary hardware appliances or restricted architectures,” the vendor said upon release.

In addition to hypervisor integrations, V13 of Veeam’s Data Platform saw the vendor add spruced-up security and ransomware protection tools. Included in those additions is an AI agent offering that’s capable of automatically detecting potential signs of malware.

Veeam’s Malware Analysis AI Agent monitors user environments for suspicious activity, creating classifications for human users on potential issues to help guide them through recovery remediation.

Also added was Recon Scanner 3.0 – another threat detection solution built directly into Veeam’s Data Platform to flag suspected adversary behavior across endpoints. Security teams can sort through identified issues via a unified inbox to rank them based on severity.

Recon Scanner also boasts an integration with Sentinel, Microsoft’s cloud native security information and event management (SIEM) solution, to further improve detection and response capabilities.

“We’re giving organizations the intelligence, automation, and flexibility they need to outsmart cyberattacks, eliminate lock-in, and innovate without fear,” Anand Eswaran, Veeam’s CEO, said. “V13 is a defining moment for the future of data and cyber resilience, and it also lays the technical foundation for Veeam’s next chapter: a unified data and AI command platform that brings protection, security, governance, and AI trust together in one intelligent experience.”

Veeam’s own offerings are sprinkled among other vendors also looking to take advantage of VMware’s recent slide.

Its backup integration is available via the open-source substitute OpenNebula as well as IBM, though the latter vendor is not looking to add new VMware environments in favor of leaning more heavily on its own Red Hat offering.