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Veeam Bolsters UK & Ireland Roster with New Regional and Channel Managers

Alex Ball and Taisha Betz bring proven experience with Blue Coat, Avnet and Microsoft to help push UK & Ireland business

Reading, UK, April 10th, 2013

Veeam Software, innovative provider of backup, replication and virtualisation management solutions for VMware vSphere and Windows Server Hyper-V, today announced two new members of its UK & Ireland team: Alex Ball has been appointed as Veeam’s Regional Manager, UK and Ireland, while Taisha Betz joins Veeam as Channel Manager for the UK and Ireland.  Both have extensive experience in the IT industry, providing the perfect background to support Veeam in consolidating and expanding its growing influence in the UK & Ireland virtual infrastructure market and beyond.

Alex Ball joins Veeam following international roles in technology companies, including Blue Coat, AppSense and Microsoft. As UK & Ireland Regional Manager, Alex will be responsible for building successful sales teams and channels: a task he has successfully performed across the UK, US and EMEA.

Taisha Betz brings channel and software experience from her previous roles at Avnet and Microsoft. Among Taisha’s past achievements are developing the Value Added distribution strategy at Avnet, focusing on Windows Server and Systems Center. In leading Veeam’s UK & Ireland channel alliances program, Taisha will aim to develop further such strategies for Veeam’s partners as well as expand the partner base for Veeam’s Cloud Provider Programme.

Both Alex and Taisha will be part of the Veeam On Tour roadshow, from April 23rd – 25th. Taking place in London, Manchester and Edinburgh the roadshow will allow organisations to learn more about Veeam’s solutions and the benefits of modern data protection. Learn more and register for the roadshow at http://go.veeam.com/event-roadshow-mar2013-en.   

Veeam quotes:

Ian Wells, Director Northern EMEA, Veeam:

"It is a pleasure to welcome Alex and Taisha on board. The channel is the lifeblood of our business: having two individuals with such proven in-depth experience and expertise managing our UK affairs means we can be confident that our relationships across the whole cloud and ProPartner programmes will continue to go from strength to strength.”

Alex Ball, Regional Manager UK & Ireland, Veeam:

“Working with Veeam is both a fantastic opportunity and challenge. I have been deeply excited and impressed by Veeam’s customers, partners and people: together the potential to improve even further on its current position this made the decision to join Veeam very easy indeed. I look forward to helping guide Veeam to the next level of growth in the UK and Ireland.”

Taisha Betz, Channel Manager UK & Ireland, Veeam:

“In my experience, the channel has been behind Veeam 100% and has been highly enthusiastic about the success of the company and its products. As a result, taking the opportunity to become part of this and to help drive these relationships even further is a natural choice to make. As the cloud becomes an increasingly important way of delivering IT services and infrastructure, helping to expand on Veeam’s partner base in this area will be a welcome challenge.”

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Veeam Software develops innovative solutions for virtualisation management and data protection for VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V. Veeam Backup & Replication is the #1 VM backup solution. Veeam ONE is a single solution for real-time monitoring, capacity planning, change tracking, documentation, and management reporting of vSphere environments. Veeam nworks extends enterprise monitoring to VMware through Microsoft System Center and HP Operations Manager. Learn more by visiting www.veeam.com.