Veeam has introduced the ‘Veeam Partner Academies’, a series of half day and full day workshops that will be co-hosted along with a distributor. The objective is to develop knowledge within Veeam’s sales and pre-sales partner community so that they have all the tools needed to deliver a compelling message to customers about the criticality of availability solutions for the modern data centre.
Omar Akhtar, Regional Channel Manager – Middle East & SAARC at Veeam Software says, “Veeam is evolving into a ‘non-touch business’ and we rely heavily on our partners to drive our business. Due to the company’s continued commitment to its channel partners across the Middle East, investment in training is key so partners can continually differentiate themselves from competitors that offer traditional legacy back-up. Our partners will be given the knowledge and skills to educate regional CIOs and IT managers about the need to transition from legacy backup solutions to high availability data centre solutions like the Veeam Availability Suite, in order to make the most of their investments in virtualization and become always-on, always-available operations.”
Veeam will co-host the first event in Q1’ 2017 in the UAE with its distributor Aptec – an Ingram Micro Company, and will then extend the concept to other regional distributors.
Gianluca Mazzotta, EMEA Presales Director at Veeam Software says, “At Veeam, we see our channel as an extension of our company, and to this end we want them to be able to add value to end-users as they help them address their virtualization and availability challenges.”
