GEC NEWS WIREVeeam Software revealed that its solutions to enable any business to deliver the seamless Digital Life experience 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 percent year-over-year 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.
“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” said Peter McKay, Co-CEO and President at Veeam.
Veeam in the Middle East recorded very strong growth. Some of the key performance results include: 41% YoY total bookings revenue growth; Number of customers now stands at over 2,300 with 23% net new customers added YoY. There were enterprise customer wins across a wide variety of verticals; Total number of ProPartners in the region has reached 1,100 with a 32% YoY addition of ProPartners; The Veeam Cloud Service Provider programme has enjoyed great success with a 42% YoY increase in VCSP transactions.
Gregg Petersen, Regional Sales VP, MEA at Veeam says, “Companies that want to succeed in today’s fiercely competitive business environment realize that anything less than 24.7.365 access to data and applications is unacceptable. There is zero tolerance for downtime. CIOs and IT managers are also beginning to understand that legacy backup and recovery solutions no longer suffice as they virtualize their infrastructure and move to the cloud. Availability solutions for the modern data centre is the way forward. This is driving a lot of interest in our solutions, which is reflected in our strong business showing.”
