Posts by Mark Polin

Mark Polin

Mark Polin is a Senior Solutions Architect in Product Management – Alliances at Veeam, where he serves as the technical lead for the Pure Storage alliance partnership. With nearly 20 years of experience in enterprise data protection, Mark specializes in developing storage and security alliance integrations and solutions built on the Veeam Data Platform. His work ensures that Veeam’s technology partnerships deliver seamless performance, scalability, and resilience for customers across hybrid environments.

Mark is a frequent speaker at major industry events, including Pure Accelerate (2021–2025), Cisco Live (2022, 2023), and Cisco Live EMEA (2023), where he shares technical insights on storage integration, data protection, and cloud‑connected solutions. His sessions focus on helping organizations strengthen data resilience and simplify IT operations through Veeam’s modern data platform.

Before his current role, Mark built a distinguished career spanning multiple technical and leadership positions, including Enterprise Systems Engineer at Veeam Software, Principal Systems Engineer at ExaGrid Systems, Technical Product Manager at Symantec, Senior Systems Engineer at Sun Microsystems, and Senior Systems Engineer at Sybase. This deep background in enterprise systems and data protection architecture continues to shape his approach to alliance innovation and technical enablement.

Mark’s areas of expertise include storage and security alliance integrations, enterprise data protection solutions, and technical product management within the Veeam ecosystem. His passion for collaboration and customer success drives his ongoing efforts to connect Veeam’s technology with partner platforms to deliver best‑in‑class data protection experiences.

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Notable Publications:

Establishing Zero Trust Data Resiliency With Pure Storage and Veeam

Storage Snapshot Integration with Hitachi Vantara VSP/VSP One Block and Veeam Data Platform

Pure Storage Community

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Veeam & Hitachi Vantara Cyber Resilience

Veeam & Hitachi Vantara Zero Trust Data Resilience

Hitachi Vantara & Veeam Storage Snapshot Integration Youtube Demonstrations

Notable Videos:

Veeam + Hitachi Vantara: How to perform a snapshot orchestration job from VSP

Veeam + Hitachi Vantara: How to perform a file-level recovery from VSP storage snapshot

Veeam + Hitachi Vantara: How to perform an instant recovery from VSP storage snapshot

Veeam + Hitachi Vantara: How to perform a backup from storage snapshot from the secondary VSP

Establishing Zero Trust Data Resilience with Pure Storage and Veeam

End to end Immutability with Veeam and Pure Storage

Business | June 29, 2021 (Updated October 7, 2021) 4 min to read

Cisco Validated Design (CVD) for FlashStack Data Protection with Veeam

Cisco chose Veeam for this CVD because Veeam has deep storage snapshot integration with the storage in the FlashStack, which is the Pure Storage FlashArray//X. The story would not be complete without including backup storage options, so three backup storage options were tested and documented: Cisco UCS S3260 storage server, Cisco UCS C240 All-Flash rack server, and Pure Storage FlashArray//C with Cisco UCS C220 rack server. Read more

Cisco Pure Storage Technology and Storage Partners

Mark Polin

Senior Solutions Architect

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