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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.

ExaGrid Expands Support For Veeam’s Backup & Replication Solution

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ExaGrid Systems, which provides disk-based backup solutions with data deduplication, has announced expanded backup application support for Veeam Backup & Replication.

Customers can now use Veeam Backup’s built-in source-side deduplication in concert with ExaGrid’s disk-based backup system with Zone Deduplication to further shrink backups with optimal performance.

The combination of ExaGrid’s and Veeam’s VMware data protection solutions allows customers to utilize Veeam Backup & Replication in VMware virtual environments on ExaGrid’s disk-based backup system for backups and data storage as well as ExaGrid replication to an offsite location for disaster recovery. W

ith the latest enhancement, ExaGrid now provides full support for Veeam Backup & Replication v5, including its advanced features such as Instant VM Recovery, U-AIR (Universal Application-Item Recovery) and SureBackup Recovery Verification.

Veeam customers can now recover an entire virtual machine (VM), individual application objects and individual files from the same fully tested image-based backup.

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.