Westcon Group NZ Joins Veeam Cloud Provider Program

Westcon Group, Inc., a VAD of category unified communications, network infrastructure, data center and security solutions with a network of resellers, have joined the Veeam cloud Provider program (VCP) in New Zealand to offer Veeam’s software to service providers on a monthly rental basis.

Veeam Software is a provider of solutions that deliver Availability for the Modern Data Center. Veeam is used by more than 111,500 organizations and 5,000 service providers around the world to protect more than 6.5 million VMs. The VCP program offers flexible licensing to meet the needs of hosting, managed service and cloud service providers.

The VCP program enables service providers to deliver offsite backups, standby replica VMs, and warm DR sites, as well as powering a range of service offerings, including Backup-as-a-Service and DR-as-a-Service. Veeam service provider partners have the ability to drive both top-line and bottom-line revenue growth through increased client retention with the peace of mind that comes from Veeam-powered availability solutions.

“We are pleased that Westcon Group NZ has joined the VCP program at such an exciting time,” said Don Williams, APAC VP, Veeam. “We recently announced Veeam Cloud Connect, coming with new Veeam Availability Suite v8 (available in early Q4 2014), that gives service providers a direct pipeline to benefit from the Veeam ecosystem. We are confident that our data center availability solutions combined with Westcon Group’s ecosystem in New Zealand will enable the company to acquire new customers, resulting in additional growth of their overall profitability and value.“

Mark Baker, sales and marketing director, Westcon Group NZ, Ltd, added: “With today’s announcement, we can now extend to NZ service providers a flexible ‘pay-as-they-consume’ option of Veeam products for hosted environments as part of Westcon cloud Solutions. This expands our Veeam offering of traditional ‘on premise’ licensing, and complements other existing service provider models we have.“