Veeam Announces ProPartner Award Winners for 2021

JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA – 4 April 2022: Veeam Software, the leader in backup, recovery and data management solutions that deliver Modern Data Protection, has announced the winners of the Veeam ProPartner Awards for 2021. The awards are held annually to reward the outstanding success and the commitment of Veeam ProPartner Value-Added Resellers (VAR) and Veeam Cloud & Service Provider (VCSP) partners, who took their customer support with their know-how and experience to the next level to establish Modern Data Protection in increasingly complex IT environments, so that the most diverse workload types, data, and applications are protected cost-effectively while keeping them available for all business purposes at all times.

Lisa Strydom, Senior Manager of Channel & Alliances: Africa at Veeam, explained: “For the past two years, we have been navigating through the pandemic and its challenges and I am proud that, together with our local ProPartner network, we continued building a solid foundation for future success. We have supported our customers and end-users with a combination of technology innovations and individualized services that enabled and optimized local business continuity and information availability plans while also improving the overall IT performance in terms of SLAs, RTOs and RPOs. Many organizations deployed Modern Data Protection strategies and best practices like the 3-2-1-1-0 backup rule that protect all business-critical data, whether it resides in physical, virtual, cloud, SaaS, or Kubernetes environments. Our South Africa ProPartner Award winners have delivered exceptional results in 2021, and I sincerely thank them for their loyalty and the greatly valued, trusting collaboration.”

The following Veeam ProPartners and VCSPs were awarded:

• The Fastest Growth of the Year (ROA): Dataflex Nigeria
  For partners (VARs/VCSPs) who have demonstrated the highest growth in Veeam sales during 2021.
• The Most Significant Project of the Year (ROA): Dataflex Nigeria
  For a partner (VAR/VCSP) who identified, managed, and successfully closed the largest project in 2021.
• The Best SMB Partner of the Year (ROA): Harel Mallac Technologies
  For the SMB partner who demonstrated outstanding revenue in the SMME market.
• The Best Veeam Backup for Office 365 Reselling (ROA): Megabyte
  For partners who closed the most successful Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 deals in 2021.
• The Best Subscription Reselling Partner (ROA): Harel Mallac Technologies
  For partners who closed the greatest number of subscription deals in 2021.
• The Best VCSP Partner of the Year (ROA): Rogers Capital
  For partners who made a great contribution to the popularization of cloud technologies in 2021 and are meeting the following requirements - biggest points consumption growth, certifications, product diversity.
• The Aggregator of the Year Award: First Distribution
  The Aggregator who overachieved their rental revenue and VRA contract target in 2021.
• The Distributor of the Year Award: Axiz
  The Distributor who showed great results in managing their business objectives.
• EMEA VMAEC of the Year Award: MIE
  The Veeam Authorized Education Center that was the best in growing student numbers for both VMCE and VMCA training.

The Veeam ProPartner Network is a global ecosystem of partners that work directly and indirectly with one another to build, market, and sell Veeam-powered services and solutions. ProPartner VAR and VCSP partners have access to customized programs, tools and resources designed to enable them to become more profitable and drive growth according to their business models and objectives. To learn more about the ProPartner Network, please visit https://propartner.veeam.com.

About Veeam Software
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 always available with the most simple, flexible, reliable and powerful platform in the industry. Veeam protects over 400,000 customers worldwide, including 81% of the Fortune 500 and 70% of the Global 2,000. Headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, with offices in more than 30 countries, Veeam’s global ecosystem includes 35,000+ technology partners, resellers and service providers, and alliance partners. To learn more, visit https://www.veeam.com or follow Veeam on LinkedIn @veeam-software and Twitter @veeam.