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Today we publicly announced our very successful Q3 when we experienced extraordinary growth. Our total revenue bookings grew 88% in Q3 of this year when compared to Q3 in 2009 and new license revenue bookings increased 73%. Additionally we added 2100 new customers bringing the grand total to more than 15,000 customers worldwide. Veeam also hired 47 new employees, bringing our total number of employees to 301 worldwide.

Four Awards at VMworld 2010 That We Won in Q3

In Q3 we were fortunate to win “Best of Show 2010” award at the VMworld conference in San Francisco and we were the 1st company in history to win 4 “Best of VMworld” awards. We received the Best of Show for Veeam Backup & Replication™ v5 (what we call "v5") which judges called a “cut-and-dried winner.” We also won Gold for New Technology with vPower, the breakthrough technology behind v5. For the 2nd consecutive year, Veeam was a finalist in the Virtualization Management category with Veeam ONE and a finalist in the Business Continuity and Data Protection category with Veeam Backup & Replication.

NEW Products in Q3

Veeam Backup & Replication v5 with vPower - at the end of August we demonstrated our new "v5" and vPower technology at VMworld San Francisco. This technology powers Veeam Backup & Replication 5.0 and overcomes the limitations of traditional data protection and disaster recovery software by running a VM directly from a backup file. vPower also enables these features that are innovative in the industry and which no other companies have in their products:

  • Instant VM Recovery: restores an entire virtual machine from a backup file in minutes and users remain productive while IT troubleshoots the issue.
  • U-AIR (Universal Application-Item Recovery): recovers individual items from any virtualized application, on any OS, without additional backups, agents or software tools. It eliminates the need for expensive special-purpose tools and extends granular recovery to all applications and users.
  • SureBackup Recovery Verification: Automatically verifies the recoverability of every backup and of every virtual machine. This features eliminates uncertainty and sets a new standard in data protection.
  • On-Demand Sandbox: Create test VMs from any point in time to troubleshoot problems or test workarounds, software patches or new application code. Eliminates the need for dedicated test labs and the overhead that extra VMware snapshots place on VMs.
  • Instant File-Level Recovery for any OS or file system: Recover an entire VM or an individual file from the same image-level backup. Extends instant file-level recovery to all VMs.

Our CEO, Ratmir Timashev, was quoted saying that v5 with vPower has taken VMware backup to a new level and it not only provides much better service at a much lower cost, it also offers compelling reasons to virtualize critical enterprise applications, including CRM, ERP and email systems which includes databases such as Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server and email systems such as Microsoft Exchange.

Free Edition of the Veeam Reporter - at the time of our highly anticipated "v5" release, Veeam also announced in August our new free version of the popular Veeam Reporter for VMware. Veeam Reporter allows VMware administrators to perform capacity planning, change management, and enterprise reporting and chargeback.

Veeam ONE - finally, in Q3, the company introduced Veeam ONE which is a comprehensive solution for managing the performance, configuration and utilization of VMware environments. It includes Monitoring, Capacity Planning, Change Management as well as Reporting and Chargeback. It is the only single solution that takes into account varying customer requirements and scenarios. The Veeam nworks Management Pack Plus and the Veeam nworks Smart Plug-in Plus are for companies using Microsoft System Center or the HP Operations Manager, respectively. These Veeam ONE offerings leverage and extend the management frameworks in which customers have already invested. Veeam Monitor Plus is used in other monitoring environments.

For all these achievements and successes in Q3, we are sincerely grateful to our customers, partners and the VMware community!


It has been a whirlwind month for the Veeam Teeam coming off a great showing at VMworld 2010 in San Francisco. While Veeam was collecting more awards for the corporate mantle last week, there was some great knowledge exchange taking place by the Veeam technical team as well.

A good friend of ours, Michael White with VMware let me know about a blog post he had forthcoming following the public announcement of VMware's vCloud Director product general availability. Michael is the Americas Solution Specialist SE for business continuity and disaster recovery for VMware. He contributes to the Uptime (Business Continuity) Blog at vmware.com.

Michael has been doing a good deal of testing with vCloud Director specifically in his domain of expertise. In his latest blog post he describes some of his results. Specifically of interest to me is Michael's testing of Veeam Backup & Replication v4 and the native ability to protect VMs that have been provisioned by vCloud Director.

If you are using agent based backups already in your organization, you can continue to do that. This may not work for you depending on the security that you have enabled in your cloud. If you are using the vStorage API set for the backup it may or may not work for you. Currently, the VMware Data Recovery (vDR) product will not work when backing up vCD provisioned VM's. This should be fixed in the next release of vDR. But generally, your software should work. In my testing I used vDR v1.2 (which didn't work), Backup Exec 2010 R2 13.0 Rev 4164 (agent based and worked) and Veeam 4.1.2.125 (which worked).

So if you want to start testing the new vCloud family of products, know that Veeam Backup & Replication, which is built on a solid architecture using available APIs and best practices, has you covered both today and in future.

A big thank you goes to Michael White for the testing and acknowledgment.

Sep 8th 2010

Veeam and vPower at VMworld US 2010

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To say VMworld was a success for Veeam this year would be an understatement. We had record traffic to our booth, record attendance at our party and to top it all off we took home a record 4 Best of VMworld awards from TechTarget’s SearchServerVirtualization.com, including Best of Show. At the booth we were doing live demos of our upcoming Veeam Backup & Replication v5 as well as our Veeam ONE Solution. Below is a collection of pictures and videos, thanks to everyone who helped make VMworld a huge success for Veeam! Of course we look forward to seeing even more people at VMworld Europe 2010 in Copenhagen.

Be sure to check our FaceBook page for a complete collection of pictures from the show floor as well as the Veeam party.

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Our CEO, Ratmir Timashev, with our Best of Show award
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Sep 21st 2009

Put us in the lab!

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If you're on the Veeam distribution list you'll be getting some of the text below today as part of an ecard. I wanted to go ahead and blog it here as well because I think it's an important message from Veeam. Sorry if this seems to be a bit of a marketing message (but it's important to me):

"We've received numerous questions from our partners and customers on why a competing product won the Gold award in the Business Continuity & Data Protection category. We know that judges are put in a difficult position when they have to choose from almost 200 products in a short period of time. For this award, the judges cannot, and do not, install, test or evaluate the products in a lab. Instead, they mostly rely on vendor statements in their judging process. We encourage all customers to "Put Veeam in the Lab" for a head-to-head comparison with competitive products, and make the right decision for your environment. We are confident you will find out why Veeam Backup & Replication is #1 for VMware backup."

So, if you're interested in seeing why Veeam is #1, fill out the form here and we'll send you some information as well as help you get started on evaluating Veeam Backup & Replication in YOUR environment so you can makeup your own mind on who the winner really is.

Aug 20th 2009

vCalendar – Get yours at VMworld

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Vitualization Tip of the Day

vCalendar

Virtualization virtuoso and Senior Systems Engineer Jason Boche has announced his latest project, vCalendar. Veeam is a proud sponsor of a limited edition of the vCalendar that will be available at the Veeam booth at VMworld. Quantities will be limited and available on a first-come-first-serve basis so if you're looking forward to having a vCalendar on your desk, please stop by our booth.

Veeam would like to thank Jason for reaching out to us and asking us to sponsor this project. Jason wanted to make as many vCalendars available at VMworld as possible but didn't have the means to do it all himself. The version of the vCalendar that Veeam will have at the booth is slightly different than the one available for online ordering but rest assured, Jason's excelent tips are the same.

Visit Veeam at VMworld

Visit Veeam at VMworld

Aug 19th 2009

VMworld Golden Gate Run

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I’m sorry to say that Veeam will not be co-sponsoring the VMworld run across the Golden Gate bridge after all.

As we all know, this event has changed quite a bit since its inception on Twitter among a group of friends. It’s yet another illustration of the power of Twitter to unite the virtualization community – which is great.

I believe it started as a casual discussion that since so many virtual Twitter friends are runners, it would be fun to get together for an early-morning run one morning before VMworld.

That sounded like fun to us, too. The runners among the Veeam team were looking forward to it. Since sponsors were being sought, we were very happy to chip in with some fun commemorative t-shirts. We did a quick design, and were just about ready to send in the order when we learned the event had morphed into something much larger and more formal, a part of the actual conference. Not blaming anyone for this, and we can certainly understand how it happened.

The new organizers did approach us about a sponsorship, but they already had a t-shirt design, and were looking for $2,500 to sponsor shuttle busses to/from the location. Worst of all, the time had changed to Monday evening, directly conflicting with the exhibit hall opening reception. So we can’t even participate --- we’ll be working the booth then.

We’re already a Gold sponsor of VMworld, hosting a partner/customer party (let us know if you haven’t received your invitation!), as well as lots of other side activities and meetings. We’re very happy to help out with the VM Underground Warm-up party on Sunday night. But this run has, unfortunately, turned into something we’re just not able to do. Our budget and resources aren’t infinite.

Please do join Duncan Epping and the others on the run. Hope those of you who run have a great time. Sorry we can’t join you.

Jun 16th 2009

The videos are in (VOTE)

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Just a quick update to let everyone know that the Veeam videos for the VMworld contest are in and have been posted to the forums for voting. I can't endorse any of them here but of course I'm sure we all have favorites. Do you? Well then vote!

We've heard that some people are having issues registering on our forums. We do apologize for that but in an effort to keep out spam we have to dis-allow certain email domains (gmail, hotmail) and we also have a CAPTCHA that has been made a bit more user friendly (black and white instead of color). I didn't realize until just the other day that some color CAPTCHA's are very difficult for people who are color blind.

Anyway, vote for your favorite and be sure to leave a comment. There's a bonus prize of a Flip going to the person with the best comment.

Jun 10th 2009

New Veeam Essentials Bundle

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While there's been a lot of talk this past week on Free ESXi (more on that later) I wanted to take some time and explain the new Veeam Essentials bundle and our reasons behind it. We view our Veeam Essentials bundle as a great entry bundle for the small business just getting into virtualization using VMware vSphere. As you may know, VMware has introduced a very attractively priced vSphere bundle called VMware vSphere Essentials, this gives you vCenter and up to 6 sockets (3 hosts) for just shy of US $1,000. If you think about it, that's a lot of power for not a lot of clams. Think how many physical servers you can virtualize on 3 ESX(i) hosts...way more than 3. For more information, check out VMware vSphere Pricing.

So, for just shy of 1K you get fully licensed vSphere. This is great but it still leaves you without an efficient backup and recovery tool, single pane of glass monitoring or detailed reporting...enter Veeam Essentials bundle...offering Veeam Backup & Replication, Veeam Monitor and Veeam Reporter for around US $2,000 (Americas pricing). The Veeam Essentials bundle is fully functional licensed versions of those 3 products for 6 sockets (3 hosts).

Of course Veeam is placing some limits on this bundle...

  • Must be purchased with VMware vSphere Essentials (or proof of VMware vSphere Essentials must be given)
  • Each bundle will only support 6 sockets. This means that even if you purchase multiple bundles, each Veeam product will only work on 6 sockets, you'll need to install other instances with the other license(s) to manage the other VMware vSphere Essentials vCenters.
  • Each bundle is 6 sockets, no less (sorry folks, you can't get it cheaper for only 4 sockets)

What does all this mean? For just under US $3,000 (hardware not included) you get 6 sockets of VMware vSphere, 6 sockets of Veeam Backup & Replication, 6 sockets of Veeam Monitor and 6 sockets of Veeam Reporter. That's 3 servers with up to 8 cores (2x4) and 256GB RAM each running VMware ESX(i). Couple that with a free iSCSI solution such as Starwind and now you're talking 2 TB of shared data for free (hardware and Windows licensing not included).

I did not include Support and Subscription (SnS) above because for VMware vSphere Essentials it's optional (it's not optional on VMware vSphere Essentials Plus). Veeam's Essentials bundle includes 1 year of support and upgrades in the list price.

Now, let's discuss a few things about the Free Version of ESXi. We've gotten a number of questions on this since we released the "news" and the Essentials bundle on the same day. Below is a simple table explaining what is and isn't supported:

Table of compatibility:

ESX Version

Current Customers As of June 3, 2009

Future Customers
ESX/ESXi 3.x licensed

+

+
ESX/ESXi 4.x licensed

+

+
ESXi 3.5 free

+

-
ESXi 4.0 free

-

-

+ = supported/usable
- = not supported

Now please note that Veeam will not be supporting ESXi Free 4.0 at all. If you're a current customer using Veeam Backup & Replication for ESXi Free 3.x, please contact your Veeam ProPartner or sales person for vSphere options.

While I don't endorse or condone any of the following, I thought I would be doing an injustice if I did not include links to the community's reaction to our announcement regarding dropping ESXi Free support. The list below is just some of the reaction, be sure to read the comments in each as well.

Rick Vanover at Virtualization Review

Rich Brambley at VMETC

Eric Scholten at VMGURU.NL

Gabes Virtual World

Search Server Virtualization's Alex Barrett

Rich Brambley at VMETC again after Alex Barrett's post

Search Server Virtualization's Eric Siebert

Edward L Haletky's The "soon to be launched" Virtualization Practice

The comments to my post on the original announcement

Update: June 12, 2009 - New Links

Bridget Bothelo over at Virtualization Pro

Discussion over at ars technica (I noticed this in my referral stats)

Update: June 15, 2009 - New Links

Search Server Virtualization's weekly Podcast: VMware cuts free ESXi hypervisor support, fuels battle vs. Hyper-V

Update: June 26, 2009 - New Link

Mike Stokes over at eGroup

Update: July 3, 2009 - New Link

Tom Howarth over at PlanetVM

Mike Laverick from RTFM

May 4th 2009

Veeam Video Contest Sample Submission

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I took a little time today to create a sample video for Veeam's "Win a trip to VMworld San Francisco" video contest. I really hope that our actual entries are much more exciting that this.

Apr 15th 2009

Win a trip to VMworld 2009 in San Francisco

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Veeam has just announced that we are giving away a free trip (airfare, hotel, pass) to VMword 2009 in San Francisco. I'm really looking forward to the videos that people submit. For contest details, check here.

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