Partnership Between Veeam and Lenovo

Veeam Software, Inc. announced a partnership with Lenovo Enterprise Solutions, Pte Ltd, a Fortune 500 company.

This partnership will enable customers to purchase Veeam Intelligent Data Management solutions with Lenovo Software Defined Infrastructure (SDI) and SAN offerings from Lenovo and its resellers in a single transaction.

Veeam’s integration with Lenovo solutions provides organizations with a range of choice and flexibility to deliver availability, IT simplicity, scalable performance, operational efficiency and accelerated innovation for the Hyper-Available Enterprise.

“Lenovo’s decision to resell Veeam Intelligent Data Management and Availability solutions with their offerings reflects Veeam’s market momentum and leadership,” said Peter McKay, president and co-CEO, Veeam. “It’s a prime example of two technology leaders collaborating to provide the most seamless and efficient sales and deployment process for its partners and customers. Lenovo’s global reach and extensive partner ecosystem, combined with the strong growth of its Data Center Infrastructure (DCI) and Software Defined Infrastructure (SDI) business units, provides Veeam customers with the best purchasing experience.“

The combination of Lenovo SDI and SAN solutions with the Veeam Hyper-Availability Platform provides Lenovo customers and business partners with a one-stop shop for accelerating digital transformation.

This combination of technology simplifies IT, mitigates risk and delivers the data management required to accelerate and grow businesses. As a result, customers can eliminate the costs and complexity of legacy infrastructure, virtualization and data protection management, and provide increased ROI through data management solutions that accelerate application development and deployment, support data analytics, and simplify DR.

Organizations also receive the assurance that the combined solution is validated by both companies and will deliver business benefits.

“Veeam’s strong track record of innovation combined with their focus on creating a great user experience aligns with our customer-first approach. This alliance further enables us to provide an effortless customer experience and relevant solutions to our customers,” said John Majeski, who leads the software and solutions business, Lenovo. “Businesses want solutions that provide IT simplicity while delivering Intelligent Transformation across environments. Veeam Availability Solutions deliver the IT simplicity and Intelligent Data Management needed for Lenovo Spectrum Virtualize SAN solutions, as well as for Lenovo’s SDI portfolio of ThinkAgile offerings with VMware, Microsoft and Nutanix to accelerate digital transformation while mitigating business risk.“

With Veeam, Lenovo customers attain IT simplicity and availability by leveraging Veeam’s architecture, to enhance availability service levels for all applications and data across virtual, physical and cloud workloads.

“The multi-cloud capabilities of Veeam combined with Lenovo’s extensive portfolio of hybrid cloud solutions, provides organizations with the unprecedented choice, flexibility and agility needed to stay competitive in the digital economy,” said Carey Stanton, VP of global alliances, Veeam. “This partnership is yet another example of how Veeam is helping customers ensure availability across all clouds without compromising availability, performance, efficiency or manageability.“

Veeam’s backup and rapid recovery capabilities
deliver the following benefits and capabilities: 

• Simplified IT operational management: Veeam’s direct integration with vSphere, Hyper-V and Nutanix Acropolis helps automate backup and recovery operations to ensure the hyper-availability of critical applications and data;
• Recovery Granularity: Ensures minimal disruption to business operations by providing users with multiple restore options to enhance availability service levels. Options range from recovery of an entire VM or individual files and application items;
• Accelerated Innovation: Veeam DataLabs environments can be created quickly. In addition to improving the ROI on secondary Lenovo storage investments, this capability enables accelerated application development and testing, efficient DR testing to meet corporate data governance and compliance, and data analytics for enhanced business intelligence.

“The availability of Veeam’s intelligent data management software on Lenovo SDI and SAN offerings will offer a great combination for customers. We are seeing more and more organizations looking to integrate their data management with their SDI and SAN solutions, simplifying their data center and core data management at the same time,” said Edwin Yuen, senior analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group. “The new partnership by Lenovo and Veeam is focused at the heart of that market and is part of a growing list of companies that are partnering with Veeam to combine their solutions with Veeam’s leadership in data management.“