The Sky is the limit

NEWS
Veeam reports 49 percent
year-over-year growth in
enterprise deals
Veeam named leader
in Data Availability
and Protection for the
Cloud Era
Veeam® Software, has announced a 31
percent year-over-year (YoY) growth in total
bookings revenue for Q3 2016.
With 71 percent of Fortune 500 and 51
percent of the Global 2000 now Veeam
customers, the company reported a
49 percent YoY increase in new license
bookings from large enterprise deals,
solidifying the increasing demand for
24.7.365 Availability as enterprises embrace
digital transformation.
Exponential growth in applications and
data, and advances in cloud and mobile
technologies are all propelling enterprises
to transform from organizations that simply
use digital technology, to full-fledged digital
organizations.
IDC has predicted that digital
transformation initiatives will more than
double by 2020, and will act as a primary
driver for IT spending worldwide.
“Digital transformation isn’t just a trend.
It’s a do-or-die business reality to transform
the customer experience and unlock new
levels of enterprise productivity which is
now at the top of the agenda for CIOs and
IT decision-makers,” said Peter McKay,
President and COO at Veeam. “Veeam is
playing a key role in this transformation, as
our strong Q3 results demonstrate. Without
24.7.365 Availability, all the advantages
received by digital transformation are
lost. Enterprises are rapidly embracing our
Availability solutions and abandoning legacy
technologies that cannot provide an alwayson
environment.”
Veeam has also appointed Paul Mattes,
most recently General Manager of Cloud
and Enterprise Sales, Americas with
Microsoft, as its Vice President of Global
Cloud Group. Enterprise adoption of cloud
technologies continues to accelerate as
businesses capitalize on the costs savings,
flexibilty and scale that it offers. To further
meet the demands of customers, Veeam
recently introduced the next generation
of comprehensive Availability: Veeam
Peter McKay
Availability Platform for the Hybrid Cloud.
This solution enables businesses and
enterprises of all sizes to ensure Availability
for virtual, physical, and cloud-based
workloads in the Hybrid Cloud. Mattes will
further develop Veeam’s rapidly growing
presence in the Cloud market and support
its position as the leading vendor of Backup
as a Service (BaaS) and Disaster Recovery
as a Service (DRaaS) solutions for Cloud and
Service Providers.
“A hybrid cloud infrastructure offers
organizations the best of both on-premises
and cloud, enabling IT to choose the best
platform to meet the needs of
each workload,” Mattes said. “Veeam
recognizes, however, that these
advantages are of little use if the hybrid
cloud infrastructure is not Always-On.
In today’s fast-paced environment,
nothing less than 24.7.365 access to data
is acceptable, and Veeam is enabling
organizations to meet that challenge.
Our goal is to define the BaaS and DRaaS
markets by offering the best solutions our
customers are requesting.
With a 100 percent channel focused
strategy, we’ll provide Veeam Cloud and
Service Providers (VCSPs) and our channel
partners with the technology platform to
build and deliver those services to our joint
customers.”
Veeam® Software has announced
industry analyst Ovum’s latest report
ranks Veeam the top provider for
Cloud era availability and protection
technology.
The Ovum Decision Matrix: Data
Availability and Protection Solution
for the Cloud Era, 2016-17 is a highly
respected evaluation of future-looking
business challenges and the technology
solutions that underpin today’s 24.7.365
enterprises. The report focuses on how
non-stop access to data and applications
is central to the digital enterprise
transformation made possible by the
wide adoption of cloud-based computing
strategies.
The criteria for inclusion in the latest
Ovum Decision Matrix is based on a
number of factors: global footprint;
ability to offer data availability and
protection capabilities that enable
management of data across all different
types of media; having more than 500
customers (a mixture of mid-sized
enterprises and large enterprises).
Based on this, Veeam is the market
leader in terms of market impact and
technology innovation, with a mean
score of 8/10, out-scoring all others in
this area. Ovum recognized Veeam’s
specific strength in operational
management, security, backup and
recovery, performance and scalability,
and reporting and integration, and called
this out in the report.
“One of the most significant
developments made by Veeam is how
it is supporting organizations with
their digital transformation,” said Roy
Illsley, Analyst at Ovum. “In expanding
its portfolio to include agent-based
technologies for Windows and Linux
server instances, either in the cloud or
on-premises, Veeam perfectly rounds out
their solution to cover virtual, physical
and cloud-based workloads.”
46 November 2016