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Veeam Announces First Annual Veeam Impact Partner Award Winners

The North America Veeam ProPartner Program recognizes Veeam partners who have demonstrated the highest commitment to providing superior sales and support of Veeam Availability Solutions to mutual customers

Columbus, Ohio – January 20, 2016:  Veeam Software, the innovative provider of solutions that deliver Availability for the Always-On Enterprise, today announced the winners of the 2015 Veeam Impact Partner Awards at Veeam’s 2016 North American sales kickoff in Atlanta, GA. As a 100 percent channel organization, these inaugural awards recognize North American ProPartners who have not only demonstrated success in providing Veeam Availability solutions to their customers, but who have also provided first-class support, expert knowledge, continued product education, and a true Veeam strategy incorporated into their business.

“With 34,500 Veeam ProPartners worldwide, we are excited to recognize and honor these North American partners with our highest achievement awards,” said Jim Tedesco, Senior Vice President of North American Sales at Veeam. “Revenue from our mid-tier partners doubled in the last year, and Veeam’s largest partners are experiencing high double-digit growth. We believe this is not only a result of the demand for Veeam Availability solutions but also the recent redesign of our ProPartner portal, new Veeam Cloud Connect capabilities, and numerous partner investments we’ve made over the past year. “

The following Veeam ProPartners received honors for the 2015 Veeam Impact Awards:

  • Impact Partner of the Year: CompuNet
  • Corporate Reseller of the Year: SHI
  • Rising Star Partner of the Year: cStor
  • Marketing Partner of the Year: Corus360
  • Distributor of the Year: Ingram Micro
  • Service Provider of the Year: iland
  • Strategic Alliance of the Year: Cisco

“Veeam, together with our entire partner ecosystem, continues to enable enterprises to meet the ongoing demands of the 24/7, Always-On Business,” said Ratmir Timashev, CEO of Veeam. “The recent general availability of the Veeam Availability Suite v9 and new cloud capabilities will further extend and strengthen the relationships with our channel partners, cloud and service provider partners, alliances and distributors. This continued collaboration is foundational to our global business growth objectives and market share, as well as the success of our joint customers.”

This latest version of Veeam’s award-winning availability solution, Veeam Availability Suite v9, introduces more than 250 new innovative features and enhancements to help organizations deliver on the needs of the Always-On Enterprise, enabling SLAs (service level agreements) for recovery time and point objectives, or RTPO, of less than 15 minutes for ALL applications and data.

For more information visit https://www.veeam.com/.

About Veeam Software

Veeam recognizes the new challenges enterprises of all sizes across the globe face in enabling the Always-On Business, one that must operate 24/7/365. To address this, Veeam has pioneered a new market of Availability for the Always-On Enterprise. Unlike “Legacy Backup” solutions which provide recovery time (RTO) and recovery point objectives (RPO) of hours or days, Veeam helps enterprises meet recovery time and point objectives (RTPO) of less than 15 minutes for all applications and data.  This is achieved through a fundamentally new kind of holistic solution that delivers high-speed recovery, data loss avoidance, verified protection, leveraged data and complete visibility. Veeam Availability Suite, which includes Veeam Backup & Replication, leverages virtualization, storage, and cloud technologies that enable the modern data center to help organizations save time, mitigate risks, and dramatically reduce capital and operational costs. 

Founded in 2006, Veeam currently has 34,500 ProPartners and more than 168,000 customers worldwide. Veeam’s global headquarters are located in Baar, Switzerland, and the company has offices throughout the world. To learn more, visit https://www.veeam.com.