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Veeam Added 5,000 New Customers, Grew Revenue 181 Percent In Q3 2011

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Veeam Software, provider of VMware data protection, disaster recovery and VMware management solutions for virtual datacenter environments, grew total bookings revenue 181 percent in Q3 of 2011 compared to the same period in 2010, with new license bookings revenue increasing 175 percent over that same period.

Veeam also added 5,000 new customers in the quarter.

In the third quarter, the company unveiled the next version of its flagship product, Veeam Backup & Replication v6, which will be available in Q4 and incorporates new functionality.

Veeam has also strengthened its leadership in Canada with the appointment of Dirk Vanderwal as regional sales director. Veeam also promoted Doug Hazelman, long-time Veeam employee and VMware vExpert, to Vice President of Product Strategy and Chief Evangelist.

Veeam Promotes Doug ‘@VMDoug’ Hazelman To VP, Product Strategy And Chief Evangelist

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Veeam Software, provider of VMware data protection, disaster recovery and VMware management solutions for virtual datacenter environments, has promoted Doug Hazelman to Vice President, Product Strategy, and Chief Evangelist.

Hazelman was one of Veeam’s first employees, serving as the company’s original systems engineer. He eventually became Director of the Global Systems Engineering Group.

He will continue to present on behalf of Veeam at industry conferences and consult with customers, partners and industry analysts to ensure Veeam products meet or exceed every market need.

Prior to joining Veeam, Hazelman was an IT infrastructure consultant with Bennett Adelson. Earlier in his career he was the Director of Product Management for Migration Solutions at Quest Software. He was with Aelita Software in various technical and product management roles for more than five years before it was acquired by Quest in 2004.

Veeam’s Backup & Replication To Gain Support For Microsoft Hyper-V

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Veeam Software, provider of VMware data protection, disaster recovery and VMware management solutions for virtual datacenter environments, today announced at Tech·Ed North America that it is adding support for Windows Server Hyper-V and Microsoft Hyper-V Server to Veeam Backup & Replication, its data protection solution for virtual environments.

By extending support to Hyper-V, Veeam is providing:

– 2-in-1 backup and replication for Hyper-V
– Changed block tracking for Hyper-V
– Built-in deduplication and compression

Veeam Backup & Replication for Microsoft Hyper-V will be available to customers in the fourth quarter of 2011.

Veeam Business View 2.0 Provides CMDB Integration, Dynamic Groups

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Veeam recently released Veeam Business View 2.0, one of the key components of Veeam ONE.

Veeam Business View lets companies manage their virtual environments based on business criteria and priorities, such as service-level agreements (SLAs), business units and geographic locations.

By expanding the traditional infrastructure-oriented view of the virtual environment to include flexible business-oriented perspectives, companies can more effectively address the virtualization challenges of capacity planning, chargeback and virtual machine (VM) sprawl.

Veeam Business View 2.0 extends this business context even further with configuration management database (CMDB) integration, expanded categorization capabilities and dynamic groups.

Veeam Business View 2.0 is part of Veeam ONE, which offers a single solution to optimize the performance, configuration and utilization of virtual infrastructures. Veeam ONE provides monitoring, capacity planning, change management, reporting and chargeback, and more. It is free and available in three versions.

Veeam Takes VMware Backup To The Next Level

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Veeam Software, innovative provider of VMware data protection, disaster recovery and VMware management solutions for virtual datacenter environments, is demonstrating its new vPower technology for Virtualization-Powered Data Protection this week at VMworld 2010.

vPower leverages virtualization and Veeam innovation to overcome the limitations of traditional backup and provide fast, flexible and reliable recovery for disasters both large and small.

The new patent-pending vPower technology, previously announced by Veeam in March, includes the ability to run a virtual machine (VM) in production or in an isolated virtual lab directly from a compressed and deduplicated backup file on regular backup storage.

vPower is the force behind the upcoming release of Veeam Backup & Replication v5.

Veeam Backup & Replication v5 also includes new Instant Indexing of Windows guest files, “tape-friendly” synthetic full backups, and enhanced deduplication and faster off-site replication.

Release: Veeam Backup & Replication 4.0

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Veeam Software, provider of systems management tools for VMware virtual datacenter environments, today announced version 4.0 of Veeam Backup & Replication, a backup solution for VMware environments.

With version 4.0, Veeam will be the first to support new VMware vSphere 4 vStorage technology. With this new release, Veeam extends its leadership in the VMware backup market with the most innovative features and the most customer value. Backup & Replication 4.0 will be demonstrated in Veeam’s booth, #1202, at VMworld 2009 in San Francisco next week.

Only Veeam Backup & Replication offers full native support for new VMware vSphere functionality, and version 4.0 takes full advantage of the VMware vStorage API. This includes:

  • Support for thin-provisioned disks, which enables faster full backups and restore of virtual machines
  • The ability to leverage ESX4 changed block tracking for much faster incremental backups
  • Support for virtual applications (vApp), resulting in more flexibility when setting up backup jobs

The vStorage API is a VMware Consolidated Backup (VCB) replacement that enables local area network-free backups directly from storage area network (SAN) storage, without affecting an organization’s production ESX or ESXi hosts.

Veeam Backup & Replication 4.0 also includes a new Enterprise Management Server that enables enterprise customers to manage multiple installations of Veeam Backup & Replication through a single web console. This allows customers to centralize backup and decentralize restore processes according to their administrative, business, geographical, and security requirements and boundaries. Native support for this distributed architecture offers the ability to easily scale VMware backup infrastructure as the virtual environment grows, while also providing centralized management and reporting capabilities.

Additional new features in Veeam Backup & Replication 4.0 include:

  • Near real-time replication leveraging new vSphere ESX4 functionality to provide five-minute increments to achieve better recovery point objectives (RPOs)
  • Hot VM copy capability to mirror production environments to test lab storage, for datacenter migrations or for ad-hoc backups
  • Backup storage space monitoring with alerts for advanced backup storage capacity planning
  • Replica seeding for the initial replication using removable storage to minimize traffic over WAN

Veeam Backup & Replication 4.0 is expected to be generally available in early October. North American pricing for the new version starts at $599 per socket, but the previous version’s price of $499 per socket will be honored on orders placed by Dec. 31, 2009.