Posts by Ratmir Timashev

Our success has been down to our loyal network of partners and customers, and I was delighted to announce this week that we have exceeded $1 billion in annual bookings and surpassed 350,000 global customers. An immense achievement, but that was Veeam’s Act I.

Act II is about acceleration, but it’s also about adaptation. It’s about accelerating our leadership by adapting to the needs of the modern digital business. And by that, I mean Cloud Data Management.

One of the most common questions that people ask each other when meeting for the first time is, “What do you do?” When I’m asked that question, the obvious answer would be to say that I’m in the software business. But, I’ve discovered that people aren’t actually interested in what we do. Whether they realize it or not, people ask that question because they can quickly find out a lot about who we are — our purpose, our values and our passions. If someone says they’re a firefighter, a SCUBA diver or a professional racecar driver, you might make different assumptions about their personality compared to that of an accountant, an architect or business analyst. When someone asks me what ... Read more

It’s no secret that my intense fandom of my Ohio State University Alma Mater is here to stay, so when I had the opportunity to give a speech to a group of students this week, I jumped at the chance. These talks are always personally fulfilling to me because I get the chance to step out of my corporate role and share my personal business story, my strategy for overcoming obstacles, and my business perspective with future business and technology leaders.

My leadership team at Veeam loves to quantify everything we do. Everything, from product development to operational structure and events, has a purpose and a clear, measurable, and direct return on investment. Although my team participates in and strongly supports ... Read more

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Last year was a truly great year for Veeam! We have seen amazing growth in every area of Veeam—from releasing new products like Veeam Backup & Replication v5 with vPower™ and Veeam ONE to doubling our customer base to over 16,000 and opening new offices around the world.