Virtualisation rates among Middle East enterprises have roughly doubled in the past four years, according to Veeam Software, as the vendor reaches 1,300 regional customers.<\/p>\n
Speaking to Intelligent CIO’s Editorial Consultant, Eliot Beer, Veeam Software’s Regional Sales Director, Gregg Petersen said:\u00a0\u201cBack in 2011 or 2012, customers we saw were about 30% virtualised \u2013 now it\u2019s nearly doubled. I\u2019d say the average customer is now 50-60% virtualised. Certainly the region has caught up significantly in the last five years.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said the firm has seen a massive acceleration in customer acquisitions since 2011, and this year Veeam has had \u201cdouble-digit growth in H1 for number of customers, revenue, channel acquisition\u201d.<\/p>\n
Among its newer customers are Argas in Saudi Arabia, along with a number of government ministries, banks and telcos across the region.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve done really well in all sectors. We\u2019ve targeted all the telcos \u2013 some have bought, some are testing, some will buy. In government, we\u2019ve done really well in all the ministries of interiors, in most central banks. In Saudi Arabia, we\u2019ve done well with the Ministry of Interior,\u201d said Petersen.<\/p>\n
According to him, National Bank of Abu Dhabi, a customer since 2012, has been moving increasingly towards a virtualised environment: \u201cNBAD uses Veeam for all their backup and replication, as well as using all our monitoring tools. They\u2019re moving more and more business-critical applications into a virtual infrastructure \u2013 so in case of failure, they can be up and running within minutes, when previously it would take them hours to do exactly the same thing.\u201d<\/p>\n
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