Veeam strengthens grip on Availability market leadership
Peter McKay, Co-CEO of Veeam

Veeam strengthens grip on Availability market leadership

Veeam Software, the Availability for the Always-On Enterprise™ innovator, has announced that its solutions to enable any business to deliver the seamless digital life experience that users expect continues its momentum, with the company overtaking Commvault in marketshare and industry leader recognition.

In Gartner’s Backup & Recovery Marketshare Report 2016, Veeam was ranked No. 4 globally with a 27% year-over-year (YoY) growth, surpassing legacy backup providers who posted flat or single-digit growth. Similarly, within IDC’s Software Tracker, Data Protection 2016, Veeam was positioned in the top four vendors, once again validating Veeam’s vision and ability to execute is being embraced by customers across the globe.

Testament to Veeam’s momentum are its huge gains during Q2’17, including:

• 27% YoY total bookings revenue growth;
• 53% YoY bookings growth on $100K+ deals;
• Reaching a new milestone of 255,000 customers worldwide, maintaining its average of adding more than 4,000 new customers each month;
• Increasing Net Promoter Score (NPS) by 11 points to 73, which is more than twice the industry average;
• Massive customer traction with HPE resell agreements during the first full quarter of the relationship.

“To say that the market is changing would be a mammoth understatement; end users are becoming more and more demanding, ransomware and other security threats are having major impact on businesses and business owners are fighting an uphill battle to constantly innovate and deliver seamless services while remaining competitive,” said Peter McKay, Co-CEO and President at Veeam.

“Veeam’s vision is clear, and over the past few months we have seen huge momentum in not only new customers and year-over-year bookings growth, but also external validation. As enterprises move to the cloud, we are experiencing a groundswell of interest in our Availability solutions… our results tell that story! During the last quarter, we have raised the bar with many innovation and partnership announcements, and we are just scratching the surface of what we can achieve.”

During Q2’17, not only did Veeam enjoy phenomenal financial gains and cement its position with leading industry analysts, but it also reaffirmed its standing as the go-to partner for some of the industry’s leading vendors for delivering Availability across the enterprise:

• Announced at VeeamON 2017, the NEW Extended Veeam ‘Always-On Cloud’ Availability Platform delivers a new Universal Storage API framework adding IBM, Lenovo and INFINIDAT to Veeam’s ever-growing ecosystem of strategic alliance partners which includes HPE, Cisco, NetApp, Dell EMC and Exagrid. These combined solutions enable users to leverage innovative and powerful 1 + 1 = 3 capabilities, dramatically improving ‘Always-On’ Cloud Availability and reducing costs without negatively impacting production;

• Veeam and Pure Storage collaborated on integrating Veeam Backup & Replication with Pure’s storage, and accelerating strategic partnership go-to-market efforts. This integration is planned to be available early next year and will provide businesses with the ability to leverage storage snapshots for significantly improved RPO and reduced infrastructure impact, delivering an even higher return on their IT investments;

• Veeam is the Premier Availability solution provider for Nutanix virtualised environments and will support Nutanix AHV in its flagship Veeam Availability Suite, allowing joint Nutanix and Veeam customers to benefit from an enterprise-class Availability solution. Veeam has also become a Strategic Technology Partner within the Nutanix Elevate Alliance Partner Program, as well as a featured app in the new Nutanix Marketplace;

• The introduction of Veeam for IBM Bluemix provides customers with the ability to backup and protect their workloads running on Bluemix. Veeam Availability Suite for both VMware and Hyper-V allows enterprises to use Veeam to backup their IBM Cloud workloads, but also perform offsite backup and replication to 50+ IBM cloud data centres;

• Through a strategic partnership with N2WS, Veeam Availability for AWS was unveiled; the industry’s first cloud-native, agentless backup and Availability solution designed to protect and recover AWS applications and data, helping enterprises reliably move to and manage a multi-cloud or hybrid cloud environment.

Veeam’s growth in the Africa market:

• South Africa is seeing continued year-on-year growth, but more business is coming from other countries across the continent. The split has previously been 75% business from South Africa and 25% from other countries. Now the split is 60% from South Africa and 40% from other countries.
• In countries such as Tanzania, Angola, Ghana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Namibia, Veeam is growing in excess of 80% year-on-year. This growth can be attributed to Veeam investing in its partner programme in these regions and enabling partners in country.
• Its cloud revenue is growing 140% year-on-year, enabled by Veeam Cloud and Service Providers (VCSPs).
• In South Africa, Veeam had an increase in orders from local government. Similar to a large organisation, the public sector has to have enterprise-class performance and responsiveness across wide geographic areas. This translates to higher levels of uptime and availability to ensure the continuation of services to citizens.
• In addition, Veeam is experiencing 187% year on year growth in enterprise customers locally.

For more information, visit www.veeam.com.

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