A 30-year veteran in the storage industry, Russell is Vice President of Enterprise Strategy, responsible for driving strategic product and go-to-market programs, spearheading industry engagement and evangelizing Veeam’s vision for the Cloud Data Management at key events across the globe and working with the Executive Leadership team in accelerating the company’s growth in the enterprise.
Prior to Veeam, Russell held the role of Vice President and Distinguished Analyst at Gartner. His research focus at Gartner was on storage strategies and technologies, with an emphasis on backup/recovery, snapshot and replication, software-defined storage (SDS) and storage management. He was the lead author of the Magic Quadrant for Data Center Backup & Recovery Solutions from 2006 to 2018. Prior to joining Gartner, Russell spent 15 years at IBM in storage product development as a Software Engineer in mainframe backup/recovery and as a manager of product development, architecture and strategy teams for distributed systems backup/recovery and storage solutions.
Veeam is the most trusted provider of Backupthat delivers Cloud Data Management. We’ve been growing rapidly for twelve years,delivering innovative solutions with many industry firsts. 2019 was an amazingyear that saw Veeam continue to take market share from other vendors, and continueour growth in the enterprise, while continuing to serve a large, and expandingnumber of mid-sized organizations.
Veeam now has over 365,000customers, ranging from very small deployments, to an organization thatprotects over 100,000 machines; all with the same Veeam software.Trailing Twelve Month bookings asof May 2019 is over $1B in software-only revenue, placing Veeam in the rarecompany of less than three-dozen software vendors to ever achieve thissignificant milestone.IDC published its software market results for the first half of 2019*, and Veeam ...
Throughout 2019, technology has continued to have a transformative impact on businesses and communities. Let's discuss some of the key technology trends that businesses will look to take advantage of and prepare for in the year ahead.
Gartner has just published the2019 Magic Quadrant for Data Center Backup & Recovery Solutionsand Veeam was named a Leader for the third time.1
External validation like this is very rewarding as we continue to work on delivering even greater capabilities that embody the Veeam design principles of being simple, flexible, and reliable. At the core of Veeam’s portfolio is the Veeam Availability Platform. Veeam has broad support for on-premises and hybrid cloud workloads. We provide cloud mobility for workload portability across various clouds and different platforms to ensure that organizations can maintain easy access to, and control of their data in a hybrid-cloud, multi-cloud environment.
Powerful new features like Cloud Tier for automatically moving aged data to the ...
Today, two former industry analysts (who are now Veeam execs) discuss the trends that are shaping the data protection industry and IT landscape:
Jason Buffington @JBuff, former Principal Analyst for Data Protection at ESG
Dave Russell @BackupDave, former VP and Distinguished Analyst at Gartner, lead analyst for the Backup MQ
This week, we’re talking about why and how to do more with your backed-up data:
You should do more with your backed up data than restore it after bad things happenAn analysts’ view on Veeam DataLabsHow do you “unlock” more business value out of your dataJason and Dave are now both VPs working on various aspects of Veeam’s strategy. If either of them, or Veeam, can help you, please let ...
Today, two former industry analysts (who are now Veeam execs) discuss the trends that are shaping the data protection industry and IT landscape:
Jason Buffington @JBuff, former Principal Analyst for Data Protection at ESG
Dave Russell @BackupDave, former VP and Distinguished Analyst at Gartner, lead analyst for the Backup MQ
This week, we’re talking about an appliance by any other name:
Are we really back in 2005?What is driving the renewed interest in “appliances”Contrasting “Day One” appliance outcomes vs. the “Power of Choice”Jason and Dave are now both VPs working on various aspects of Veeam’s strategy. If either of them, or Veeam, can help you, please let us know.
We’ll see you back here next week – thanks for watching.
Today, two former industry analysts (who are now Veeam execs) discuss the trends that are shaping the data protection industry and IT landscape:
Jason Buffington @JBuff, former Principal Analyst for Data Protection at ESG
Dave Russell @BackupDave, former VP and Distinguished Analyst at Gartner, lead analyst for the Backup MQ
This week, we’re talking about how tape is NOT dead:
A fresh look at the old mediaRegulatory considerations for long-term retentionWhat about the cloud (instead)?Jason and Dave are now both VPs working on various aspects of Veeam’s strategy. If either of them, or Veeam, can help you, please let us know.
We’ll see you back here next week – thanks for watching.
We all know that software and infrastructure don't typically go away in the data center. You very rarely decommission something and bring in all new gear or stop the application to completely transition over to something else. Everyone's in some sort of hybrid state. Some think that they're transitioning, and many hopefully even have a plan for this.
Some of these changes are bigger, take longer, and you almost need to try them and experience them to have success in order to proceed. I've heard people say, "Well, we're going to get around to doing X, Y, and Z.” But they are often lacking a sense of urgency to experiment early.
A major contributor to this type of procrastination is that changes ...
About a month ago, Veeam gathered close to 3,000 attendees in New Orleans, LA for VeeamON 2017, the world’s premier Availability event — a great success for the Veeam family. What puts Veeam in the forefront of innovation and customer satisfaction is our great relationship with our Alliance partners. As the old African proverb says, “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” Veeam’s collaboration with partners is the key ingredient for our global business growth and for our goal to deliver the best Availability solution on the market.
I want to share some key highlights of what our Global Strategic Alliance partners presented at VeeamON 2017 and ...
In the world of business, a lack of speed can be fatal to your ability to compete. Perhaps that is why many organizations are embracing all-flash storage solutions for their data center environments. All-flash solutions help deliver more predictable performance across business workloads to ensure a more seamless digital experience to customers, partners and end-users. But, you need more than just speed to survive in this digital age. You also need Always-On Availability.
Veeam is attending Pure Storage Accelerate in San Francisco in force this week to promote our joint offerings with Pure, celebrate our ongoing success in the enterprise space and make some exciting announcements about taking our partnership to the next level. Today, Pure ...
