Veeam With Office in Beijing, China

Veeam Software, Inc. announced the expansion of its international operations to include an office in China.

Located and headquartered in Beijing, this new branch will provide a gateway to existing and future business partnerships in China.

According to International Data Corporation, China is the second largest country in the AsiaPac (excluding Japan) region for data protection and recovery software which saw growth of over 8% year-on-year in 2014. The China market is expected to be worth about $120 million by 2018.

To lead Veeam’s expansion into Northern Asia, Joy Lu has been announced as the country manager for China. In this role, she is responsible for establishing and growing Veeam’s business in the region. She will report into Julian Quinn, Veeam’s VP for Asia and Japan. She brings with her more than 20 years’ executive experience within the technology sector. She has spearheaded the introduction of international organizations’ within the China market. Prior to joining Veeam, she was the GM for North China at CommVault, where she was one of the first employees in China hired by CommVault to set up the company’s business operations and channel program. Before CommVault, Joy held senior executive roles within Symantec/Veritas, HP and NeuSoft Group Ltd. Joy holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the Shenyang University of Technology.

“China presents a huge opportunity for Veeam and Joy’s extensive experience in representing a brand providing disruptive technology in this market along with her knowledge of cloud technologies, meant she was a natural choice for the position. We welcome Joy to Veeam and look forward to substantial growth,” said Quinn.

“Businesses are facing new demands from customers, in terms of data needs. Data is growing exponentially and customers expect and demand access to their data and applications 24/7, with zero patience for downtime or data loss. This is the era of the Always-On Business,” said Lu. “The pressure to deliver the requirements of being an Always-On Business will drive IT leaders to re-think their availability models. Network agility and reliability will come under the spotlight as cloud adoption continues to gather momentum, but Availability will become a strategic concern to business leaders.”

“I believe that Veeam is at the forefront of helping businesses address their Availability issues and am excited to be part of a company that is delivering true business value and look forward to successful years ahead with Veeam,” added Lu.

To mark the expansion into China, Veeam hosted its first ever VeeamON Tour Asia in Beijing and Shanghai; a half day event providing an avenue for Veeam to demonstrate to key and new partners how to build a profitable and compelling offer to address customers’ needs for the ‘Always-On Business’. At the event, the years’ top performers in China were recognized for their sales excellence and contribution to Veeam’s growth in the region.

The award winners are:

Veeam ProPartner of the Year:

• Com&Lan System Tech. Co. Ltd 北京昆仑联通科技发展有限公司
• ChangingIT System Co. Ltd 上海群蚁信息科技有限公司
  

Veeam Rising Star of the Year:

• TOAST Technology Co., Ltd 北京拓实科技有限公司
• Suzhou Flow-ever Infor Tech Co,.Ltd 江苏川流信息技术有限公司
• Eden Information Service Limited 广州伊登软件科技有限公司
  

Introduced for the first time this year, VeeamON Tour China is designed to inform and update Veeam’s channel partners on product innovations and Veeam’s growth plans for the next 12 months. The conference empowers ProPartners with technology and go-to market strategies and, the ProPartner Awards celebrates and recognises the contributions, innovations and success in the implementation of solutions to enable the ‘Always-On Business’.