Veeam Introduced Accredited Service Partner Program

Veeam Software, Inc. announced its Accredited Service Partner (VASP), a program that highlights a select list of partners, distributors, system integrators and freelance IT consultants that possess the necessary technical skills to deliver valuable and reliable professional services for Veeam product portfolio implementations.

As deployments get more sophisticated, the company recognizes the increasing demand from customers and prospective clients to identify specialists that can partner with their businesses. VASP members will deliver high-quality services related to its solutions and help an organization realize increased reliability, along with greater value and ROI of their IT investments.

As previously announced, VASP will feature in the respected Veeam ProPartner Program, with now over 45,000 members, with a staggered launch beginning in earnest. A focus on including quality members of VASP over a high quantity ensures a level of exclusivity for those looking to achieve the recommendation, and an opportunity to differentiate.

New program offers member benefits, including:

• Greater visibility: Veeam will publicly recognize and promote VASPs as the top of technical excellence when it comes to delivering quality professional services around availability solutions, and aid lookup of VASPs for end-users on the Veeam website
• Increased technical services: Access to best-practice guidance and documentation in the Veeam service catalog and technical library, along with dedicated senior pre-sales advisors
• Demonstration and training aids: Regardless of partner level ahead of joining VASP, certified Not-For-Resale (NFR) licenses will be available to demonstrate Availability Suite in product demos and training sessions
• Co-branding and marketing: VASPs will have documentation to answer RFPs, logos and banners for promotions and online marketing too.

Scrutiny of VASPs technical capabilities is high, with partners featured proving themselves able to meet the high mandatory standards required by Veeam. Specific criteria for each of the four types of VASP members has been developed and includes Veeam Certified Engineer (VMCE) and Veeam Certified Architect accreditation, along with demonstrable delivery on multiple platforms of related services, and dedicated professional services staff.

“The relationship between a customer and its IT vendors is evolving. With more customers looking for vendors to recommend experienced professional service partners that can help the internal team maximize ROI and create bespoke solutions for ever-more sophisticated IT estates,” said Gilles Pommier, VP of EMEA channel sales, Veeam. “The benefit of us launching VASP is two-fold: it helps answer customer’s needs, while providing our partners with new revenue opportunities. With the launch of VASP today, we’re offering partners extra support from senior Veeam resources, NFR licenses and intellectual property that will enable them to differentiate and add significant value to customers, while helping partners become more profitable from Veeam solutions.“

“We are delighted that we were chosen to become one of the first VASPs and feel this is great recognition in both our technical skills and company-wide investment in the Veeam technology over the past seven years,” said Chris Moss, marketing director, System Professional Ltd. “Veeam are a key technology partner for us, since we not only provide Veeam data availability and DR solutions to our customers, but also use their technologies extensively in our data center cloud platform.“

“Our collaboration with Veeam has always been successful and we are honored now to become one of the first Veeam Accredited Service partners,” said Børge Wilhelmsen, partner manager, Atea Norge AS. “Delivering high quality services to customers is our main priority, and we appreciate that Veeam acknowledges that is driving us to do more of this too. With VASP, Veeam is providing extra support to its partners that are helping make that happen. In the current highly competitive partner landscape it is important to differentiate yourself from rivals, and this new Veeam program helps us to do that, but also enjoy the added benefits too.“

To join the VASP program a partner should submit application through related online form.