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Veeam Cloud Provider Partners

To support company's Cloud Connect

Veeam Software, Inc. announced Veeam Cloud Provider (VCP) partners that will support Veeam Cloud Connect on the same day new Veeam Availability Suite v8 becomes generally available, planned for later this quarter.

Global data center systems spending will reach $140 billion this year, we believe driven by the customer demand for virtualization and cloud. As organizations modernize their infrastructures to deliver the Always-On Business, IT managers are increasingly looking to service providers for help in getting a copy of their data off site. Cloud backup is already a large market, and it’s growing. According to a report from Storage Magazine, 31% of organizations are planning to use cloud services for DR and BC, as part of an overall availability plan.

Veeam Cloud Connect, part of the new Availability Suite v8, gives customers an integrated and secure means to move backups to an offsite backup repository managed by the service provider of their choice, avoiding the upfront capital investment of their own offsite infrastructure. Service providers get a powerful platform to deliver fast and secure backup to the cloud for over 111,500 Veeam customers. In fact, Veeam Cloud Connect is simple to set up and any Veeam ProPartner can become a service provider and offer offsite backup repository services to their customers in less than 10 minutes.

Veeam’s approach to the cloud is to enable VCP partners to provision services that address customers’ needs while also enabling partners to extend their own business offerings. It is not to build our [Veeam’s] own cloud as so many legacy backup vendors have attempted to do,” said Ratmir Timashev, CEO, Veeam. “Our partners are closer to our customers and have built deep relationships as trusted advisors. Veeam’s role is to empower partners to deliver the highest quality off-site backup services, and with the new Veeam Availability Suite v8 and Veeam cloud Connect, they have access to a market-leading portfolio which helps them do just that.

It’s impossible to talk about IT modernization without talking about the cloud, especially when it comes to data protection and DR,” said Jason Buffington, senior analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group. “Increasingly, the cloud is becoming an integral part of enterprise and SMB data protection and DR strategies. It’s imperative that at least one copy of a backup live off site and the cloud fulfills that requirement.

Veeam recommends that IT organizations follow the 3-2-1 rule: three copies of data on two different kinds of media, one of which is off site. Veeam Cloud Connect enables IT to satisfy the offsite requirement without having to invest in offsite infrastructure or management, since cloud resources are available on demand.

Both current VCP partners and new Veeam service providers have the opportunity to leverage Veeam Cloud Connect to grow their customer base and recurring revenue streams. Basic setup is simple and takes less than ten minutes, providing the infrastructure management capabilities a service provider needs to offer an offsite backup repository service to customers. Moreover, a combination of storage and compute makes it possible to store large backups in the cloud. Veeam also gives VCP partners the ability to offer managed D2D2C (disk-to-disk-to-cloud) backup solutions, which backup to local disk first before sending the backup offsite to the cloud. Many of these VCP partners also offer DR planning, testing and recovery services.

The Veeam Cloud Connect platform for service providers is scheduled for availability in Q4, 2014, at the same time as Veeam Availability Suite v8 and Veeam Backup & Replication v8. Pricing is per VM, and in EMEA starts at €4.50 (VAT net) per month per VM. In other regions, the platform is available to service providers at local pricing. Veeam Cloud Connect components that allow customers to connect to offsite backup repositories are included in all editions of Veeam Availability Suite v8 and Veeam Backup & Replication v8 at no additional charge.

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