Silicon Sky Named 2019 Veeam Cloud & Service Provider Partner

Silicon Sky Consulting Proprietary Limited, an IT infrastructure services company, has been selected as the 2019 best VCSP Partner of the year in Africa by Veeam Software, Inc.

These annual awards recognise African Veeam ProPartners and VCSP partners that have demonstrated success in providing Veeam availability solutions to their customers, and also provided support, expert knowledge, continued product education and accelerated Veeam’s Act II, the evolution into the hybrid cloud.

Silicon Sky was recognised as the VCSP of the year for Africa for the VCSP partner that made a contribution to the popularisation of cloud technologies in 2019.

“We are excited to recognise and honour Silicon Sky as the VCSP of the year,” said Tre Odgers, cloud and hosting manager, Veeam. “Silicon Sky is a best-in-class example of our partner to win mantra. Their commitment to helping businesses of all sizes ensure that their data is always available and protected across any cloud workload, while partnering with customers to deliver Veeam Cloud Data Management solutions, has made a significant impact.“

Odgers adds: “Silicon Sky managed to grow their business by more than double the average and is now protecting thousands of workloads, on-premises at the customer, in co-located DCs and public cloud complementing the solutions with Cloud Connect to deliver a multi-tenant, scalable solution to their customers. Silicon Sky recently released an Object Lock Storage solution, which complements many customers’ compliance requirements and has continued to maintain their Gold Reseller and Platinum VCSP Partner status, which is a great achievement.“

“We are honoured to have received this award from Veeam. Veeam’s service provider friendly licensing model has allowed us to provide flexible data management solutions to customers. The continued innovation of Veeam software and Veeam’s support for heterogeneous and hybrid cloud environments has allowed us to expand our service offerings to new markets,” said Brenton Halsted, MD, Silicon Sky.

About Silicon Sky
Founded in 2009, it’s an IT infrastructure services company. Services offered include IaaS, managed services and professional services. It has a range of IaaS offering’s specialising in compute, network, storage, security, backup and DR. It has enterprise managed cloud platforms co-located in multiple carrier natural data centres. Ity also designs, builds and manages on premise and hosted infrastructure solutions for customers across South Africa, Africa, USA and UK. It supplies IT infrastructure hardware, software and services to organisations of all sizes, by partnering with vendors to deliver the best solutions to customers. These partners include Veeam, VMware, Dell EMC and Infinidat.