Paris, France, April 24, 2014
Click to Tweet: Veeam Reports 150 percent growth in EMEA enterprise market, fuelled by ProPartners and new VMCE certifications
Veeam Software, innovative provider of solutions that deliver Availability for the Modern Data Center, today announced accelerated company success in the enterprise and midmarket segments in EMEA since the beginning of 2014, proving more enterprises are demanding solutions that enable the always-on business. PricewaterhouseCoopers, GAME, OEDIV Oetker Daten- und Informationsverarbeitung KG, SCOTT Sports, AMBU and REHAU AG + Co are just a few of Veeam‘s new enterprise customers this year.
Veeam closed Q1’14 with 150 percent year-over-year growth of new enterprise customers in EMEA, while growth of midmarket customers grew 82 percent over the same period last year. In addition, year-over-year growth of the number of enterprise deals closed in Q1’2014 compared to Q1’2013 grew 105 percent, while midmarket closed deals increased 72 percent.
“Our partners are experiencing an increase in the demand for the always-on business,” said Daniel Fried, SVP and Managing Director for EMEA at Veeam. “Veeam's capabilities in data center availability combined with virtualization, the cloud, and other enabling technologies, completes the modern data center and ensures that the critical applications of our more than 100,000 customers remain always on from any place, at any time, on any device. If partners aren’t selling Veeam, they are at a competitive disadvantage. So many enterprise and mid-size companies which are highly virtualized are looking for a solution such as Veeam to protect the data in their modern data centers.”
“Our growth in the enterprise and midmarket segments in EMEA is a testament to our recent VMCE certification program,” continued Fried. “It was specifically designed so that our partners are able to meet and exceed these new expectations of their enterprise customers, offering training that will enable the reseller to offer and deliver high quality professional services, further enabling the customer to optimize their investment in Veeam solutions for a much higher ROI and improved SLAs (Service Level Agreements).”
Launched in January 2014, the Veeam Certified Engineer (VMCE) certification programs in EMEA were created to establish a more empowered and enabled channel and end-user ecosystem. The designation of VMCE establishes a level of expertise required to implement and configure Veeam software correctly and most effectively. This new certification program is designed to support the systems engineers of Veeam customers, as well as the pre-sales engineers of Veeam’s network of ProPartners, with high-level technical competencies through delivery of technical courses required to achieve VMCE certification.
“I found the VMCE course to be extremely insightful,” said Craig Braimley, Infrastructure Architect at Mirus IT Solutions, a Veeam Gold ProPartner and Gold Cloud Provider. “What impressed me the most was the many interactive labs which enabled me to test out my new Veeam skills in a range of simulated environments. I would definitely recommend anyone looking to improve their Veeam skills to take the Veeam Backup & Replication v8 course, as I now feel confident that I have the skillset to not only design, but install, configure and troubleshoot any Veeam product.”
Every VMCE class includes both lecture and hands-on elements that allow the students to learn about the technology and its configuration, and then experience the configuration in labs based on real-world customer scenarios. All VMCE candidates must pass a proctored exam as the final step in earning their certification. Veeam expects 1,000 – 2,000 engineers to earn the VMCE distinction within this year.
“I would highly recommend the VMCE course as it provides extensive labs for valuable hands-on experience and a highly trained instructor to walk through the best practices and theory required to configure Veeam to meet different requirements,” said Nicholas Dalby, Technical Consultant at Sofcat Ltd., a Veeam Platinum ProPartner.
“The course represents a good technical deep-dive and provides extensive knowledge of Veeam solutions,” said Andrea Mauro of Assyrus Srl, a Veeam Gold ProPartner. “There is a good balance between the materials and the labs. It’s exactly how a technical course must be”.
About Veeam Software
Veeam enables the always-on business by providing solutions that deliver Availability for the Modern Data Center. Veeam recognizes the challenges in keeping a business up and running at all times and addressees them with solutions that provide high speed recovery, data loss avoidance, verified protection, risk mitigationand complete visibility. Veeam Backup & Replication leverages technologies that enable the modern data center, including VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, NetApp Storage, and HP 3PAR StoreServ and StoreVirtual Storage, to help organizations meet recovery point and recovery time objectives (RPOs and RTOs),, save time, mitigate risks, and dramatically reduce capital and operational costs. Veeam Backup Management Suite provides all the benefits and features of Veeam Backup & Replication along with advanced monitoring, reporting and capacity planning for the backup infrastructure. Veeam Management Pack (MP) extends Microsoft System Center monitoring to enterprise vSphere environments and also offers monitoring, reporting and capacity planning for the Veeam Backup & Replication infrastructure. The Veeam Cloud Provider Program (VCP) offers flexible monthly and perpetual licensing to meet the needs of hosting, managed service and cloud service providers. VCP currently has over 4,000 service provider participants worldwide. Monthly rental is available in more than 70 countries from more than 50 Veeam aggregators.
Founded in 2006, Veeam currently has 23,000 ProPartners and more than 100,000 customers worldwide. Veeam’s global headquarters are located in Baar, Switzerland, and the company has offices throughout the world.