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Veeam is the leader in backup, recovery and data management solutions that deliver Modern Data Protection. The company provides a single platform for cloud, virtual, physical, SaaS and Kubernetes environments. Veeam customers are confident their apps and data are protected from ransomware, disaster and harmful actors and are always available with the most simple, flexible, reliable, and powerful platform in the industry.
Veeam Backup and Replication: Released as the most advanced data protection solution for cloud, virtual, physical, SaaS and Kubernetes workloads, Veeam Backup and Replication v11 has been downloaded by more than 850,000 users.
The company has continued innovation and expansion of its expansive feature set with V12 by further hardening the capabilities customers need in today’s ever-changing IT ecosystem. The new version, planned for general availa
bility in the next few months, expands the ability to reduce business risk through improved data and systems security recoverability at scale.
Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365: As the Microsoft 365 backup market leader, with over 11 Million users under paid contract, the new version V7 promises enterprise-grade monitoring and reporting capabilities as a result of integration with Veeam ONE, helping to keep systems and infrastructure running smoothly thanks to built-in intelligence.
Over 88% of organisations in the UAE and 84% in Saudi Arabia fell prey to ransomware attacks in 2021
Veeam Backup for Salesforce: Following the success of its Microsoft 365 product, the company will provide a demo of Veeam Backup for Salesforce, a much sought-after addition to Veeam’s SaaS portfolio. With the ability to back up in the cloud and on-premises, the new offering eliminates the risk of losing Salesforce data and metadata.
Kasten K10: It is the most complete enterprise data management solution to date purpose-built for Kubernetes. The latest release V5.0 is focused on delivering a comprehensive risk management strategy, streamlined CI and CD pipelines and new ecosystem advancement details that optimise and de-risk Kubernetes investments. These advancements all aim to help the expanding Kubernetes community work more efficiently and securely in cloud-native applications.
Against the backdrop of the pandemic, the company witnessed an acceleration of digital transformation initiatives and cloud adoption across enterprises. According to the Veeam Data Protection Trends Report 2022, organisations aim to have 52% of their workloads in the cloud by 2024. This has brought with it a multitude of challenges and complexities relating to multi- and hybrid-cloud architectures and Kubernetes adoption.
The incidence of ransomware is also on the rise. Within the region, 88% of organisations in the UAE and 84% in Saudi Arabia fell prey to ransomware attacks in 2021.
Veeam platform is the leading data protection platform for all workloads. It ensures bulletproof ransomware protection, accelerates migration to the hybrid cloud, helps meet recovery time and point objectives while reducing cost and complexity and protects workloads whether physical, virtual, NAS, IaaS, SaaS, or Kubernetes.
TOP EXECUTIVE
Rizk has a strong technical sales background and 14 years of experience in the industry. He had an illustrious career helping regional enterprises with their digital transformation journeys through the rollout of technologies, primarily virtualisation, storage and data management, and protection.
He joined Veeam as a Pre-sales Consultant in 2013 based in Saudi Arabia and moved up to his last role of Senior Director, Technical Sales for the Middle East, Russia, and CIS where he was instrumental in the planning and execution of several large-scale projects that helped drive Veeam’s reputation as an industry leader in the modern data protection domain. He is based in Dubai since 2017.
Before joining Veeam, Rizk was Solution Architect at Nesma Advanced Technology, leading the digital transformation projects for the largest organisations in Saudi Arabia. As a professional, he has covered and worked with multiple regions including the US. He holds a master’s degree in Computer Science from Lebanese American University where he also worked as a teaching and research assistant and co-authored multiple scientific publications.
DREAM ROLE
Rizk supports the company’s continued investment and strong presence in the region and looks forward to growing the Veeam market share and revenues through the planning and execution of sales and channel strategies.
