VEEAM should really give every VMware VCP a full copy of their complete catalog! If I had gotten that I would have made them some money! 2:04 PM Oct 16th via Tweetie for Mac

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This got us thinking, should we do this? I talked to a few people, including Maish Saidel-Keesing who has a popular blog called Technodrone and TechHead Simon Seagrave. They agreed that this would be a great idea for the community.

After discussing the idea internally we got the ball rolling, everyone agreed it was a great idea. Of course it’s taken us some time to get the announcement out there, one of the reasons is that we wanted to wait until we released Veeam Backup & Replication 5.0.1 since it fixed several minor issues. With 5.0.1 released and the Dutch VMUG on the horizon, we decided to go ahead and make this our 2010 Holiday gift.

From our official press release:

Veeam Software, innovative provider of VMware data protection, disaster recovery and VMware management solutions for virtual datacenter environments, today announced that Veeam Backup & Replication™ v5 with vPower™ is now available free to all VMware vExperts, VMware Certified Professionals, and VMware Certified Instructors. Any vExpert, VCP or VCI can receive a free two-socket software license (valued at approximately $1,800) for non-production use, including training, evaluation and development.

Ready for your NFR key? Simply visit this link and register and you’ll be on your way to trying out the best products for managing and protecting VMware infrastructures.

Update: Maish has blogged about the holiday give on his Technodrone blog: http://technodrone.blogspot.com/2010/12/veeam-holiday-present.html

2009 Holiday Giveaway Extravaganza

This year for the holidays we’ve teamed up with Rick Scherer over at VMwaretips.com and his 2009 Holiday Giveaway Extravaganza to give away some Veeam Software to some lucky winners. The contest is only open to US residents and the grand prize is an Iomega StorCenter Pro ix4-100 NAS Server. The contest is open from now until 11:59 PM PST January 3rd so be sure and enter to win.

vCalendars (2010 Edition)

If you didn’t get a vCalendar, written by Jason Boche, from Veeam at either VMworld San Francisco or the Dutch VMUG, have no fear, there are more on the way! While you can still order one from the Printer Owl, Veeam has placed another special order for both the US and Europe to be distributed at various events (VMUG’s, etc). Please read your Veeam newsletters for announcements on when and where we’ll be with more vCalendars!

Veeam Communities!

Veeam is lucky to have great community support for our products. Recently Veeam awarded our top forum members with special recognition as MVP’s. Besides getting a special MVP logo in the forums, we also sent them special edition Veeam t-shirts. Congratulations to our first Veeam Forum MVP’s

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UPDATE – The t-shirt design!

Want to know how else to connect with Veeam? Check out our new Communities page with links to all the ways you can stay connected with all things Veeam!

Happy Holidays From Veeam!