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Hughes Systique Corporation Chooses Veeam To Accelerate Business Performance With Availability

· Veeam delivered additional value to HSC business by saving $100,000 annually

Mumbai, India: November 9, 2016 – Veeam® Software, the innovative provider of solutions that deliver Availability for the Always-On Enterprise™, today announced that Hughes Systique Corporation (HSC), a leading software development and consulting company, chooses Veeam to enable availability for accelerating business performance. With this implementation, HSC saves $100,000 each year with Veeam and reduces RTO by 88% and RPO by 50%

Hughes Systique Corporation Chooses Veeam To Accelerate Business Performance With Availability

Part of the EchoStar and HUGHES group of companies, HSC employs 550 people worldwide and specializes in building applications for Fortune 100 companies. HSC’s Infrastructure and Development Centre (IDC) is home to 130 VMware vSphere virtual machines (VMs) which requires improved availability to eliminate expensive downtime. As a leader in software development and IT consulting, HSC needs full visibility in a virtualised environment and optimised capacity planning to help customers develop and take applications to market faster.

Veeam partnered with HSC to accomplish the most critical business goals: to improve business response time with availability and deliver Service Level Agreements (SLAs) to make the internal IT team capable to equip internal users to meet the customer SLAs of on-time project delivery.

“Our legacy system suffered from slow backup and recovery. For instance, one of our engineers spent 100 percent of their time verifying backup jobs are completed successfully every weekend,” said Bhupinder Singh, IT Director at HSC. “We weren’t responding fast enough and this led to missing project deadlines, thereby impacting team morale and reputation.”

HSC’s other goal was to receive real-time monitoring of the virtual environment, to receive notification of issues before they impact business. Additionally, accurate capacity planning was needed to optimise resource utilisation effectively.

“Before we deployed Veeam ONE, we spent approximately $50,000 every six months on more resources for our virtual environment, such as hosts and backup storage,” said Mr. Singh from HSC. “With Veeam’s weekly and monthly usage reports, we allocate resources more effectively. We required no additional resources during our first year with Veeam, saving the business $100,000. In fact, we gained 25 percent more host and backup storage capacity.”

After 22 Months months with Veeam® Backup & Replication™, HSC has backed up 130 VMs (150 TB) to HP EVA storage and provided high-speed recovery to restore VMs, files and individual items in minutes. As a result, the recovery time objective (RTO) decreased by 88 percent (from eight hours to one hour) and the recovery point objective (RPO) decreased by 50 percent (from two business days to one business day).

“Today our IT staff spends 75 percent less time on backup jobs. We can focus more on improving other data center processes relevant for driving business ahead,” Singh continued. “We feel fully equipped to serve the business with Veeam. Veeam is an integral part of our IT infrastructure, giving us the ability to respond to business needs quickly. We can’t imagine life without Veeam.”

“Modern businesses operating in a digital environment need to move beyond traditional backup and derive a strategy to stay Always-On,” said Ashok Acharya, Regional Director, India and SAARC. “By enabling HSC to drastically improve response time and mitigate risk, Veeam has proven capabilities to deliver recovery time and point objectives (RTPO™) of less than 15 minutes for all applications and data that keep organizations business running 24.7.365.”

About Veeam Software

Veeam® recognizes the new challenges companies across the globe face in enabling the Always-On Enterprise™, a business that must operate 24.7.365. To address this, Veeam has pioneered a new market of Availability for the Always-On Enterprise™ by helping organizations meet recovery time and point objectives (RTPO™) of less than 15 minutes for all applications and data, through a fundamentally new kind of solution that delivers high-speed recovery, data loss avoidance, verified recoverability, 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, while always supporting the current and future business goals of Veeam customers.

Founded in 2006, Veeam currently has 43,000 ProPartners and more than 216,500 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.

Veeam Appoints Ashok Acharya as First Regional Director for India and SAARC

Company sharpens focus to accelerate growth in enterprise and strengthen partnership ecosystem

Mumbai, India, September 26, 2016: Veeam® Software, the innovative provider of solutions that delivers Availability for the Always-On Enterprise™, today announced Ashok Acharya as the new Regional Director for India and SAARC region. Ashok Acharya will be responsible for driving overall business strategy, expanding solutions offerings to existing and new customers and further strengthening the strategic channel partnerships to consolidate growth.

Veeam Appoints Ashok Acharya as First Regional Director for India and SAARC

Veeam recently announced record Q2 results globally and as a testimony of India’s market potential, the company’s total bookings revenue for Q2 2016 in India grew by more than 23 percent quarter-over-quarter (QoQ). Acharya will continue to drive strong growth momentum for customers in India who are looking to leverage opportunities in digital transformation. In an already competitive market, Veeam will continue to provide Availability solutions via ProPartners to enterprise and mid-market customers to create new opportunities, and increase profitability.

Acharya will be based in Bangalore and will report to Gregg Petersen, Regional Director, Middle East, Africa and SAARC.

Commenting on his appointment, Gregg Petersen, Regional Director, MEA at Veeam, said, “Ashok’s appointment highlights Veeam’s continued strategy to strengthen the highly experienced leadership team, and showcase our commitment in the market. Earlier this year we had expanded our operations in India by setting up three offices in Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore, and now with Ashok’s knowledge of the market and recognition of the growth drivers for success in India, he will help take Veeam to the next level of growth.

“Veeam is setting new industry benchmarks through its Availability solution for the Always-On business. I am excited to be joining Veeam at a time when India is at the cusp of digital evolution, Indian organizations need Availability solutions more than ever before to embark on their digital transformation journey.” Said Ashok Acharya. “I look forward to further consolidating Veeam’s customers and partner base in India, as well as expanding the company’s operations with new strategic partnerships.”

Acharya brings rich experience spanning more than 18 years in enterprise technology. Prior to joining Veeam, he was most recently associated with Infoblox Inc as Country Manager for India and SAARC region. In this capacity, Acharya played a significant role in driving the entire business strategy and revenue across established and new emerging markets in the region. He was also instrumental in consistently exceeding growth every year through introducing new products, strategically forging new partnerships and driving channel sales. In addition, Achrya has also held various senior leadership positions with technology providers such as like Juniper Networks, EMC and Adobe.

About Veeam Software:

Founded in 2006, Veeam currently has 41,000 ProPartners and more than 205,000 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.

Veeam Unveils Game-Changing Veeam Availability Platform for the Hybrid Cloud

Delivers Next Generation of Availability for virtual, physical, and cloud-based workloads to enable the Always-On Enterprise

Mumbai, India: August 24, 2016

Veeam® Software, the innovative provider of solutions that delivers Availability for the Always-On Enterprise™, today announced the next generation of Availability: Veeam Availability Platform for the Hybrid Cloud.

Veeam Unveils Game-Changing Veeam Availability Platform for the Hybrid Cloud

According to IDC[i], enterprises are engaged in a continuous digital transformation process as they adapt to or drive disruption by leveraging digital competencies. To enable this, we are already at the stage where switching to a cloud-first strategy is a necessity for survival, not a strategy for competitive advantage. By 2019, most organizations around the world will need to complete the shift to a predominantly cloud-based IT environment, and this places a huge pressure on availability tools to deliver a constant experience across multiple environments.

In a game-changing move to address these challenges, Veeam Availability Platform for the Hybrid Cloud provides businesses and enterprises of all sizes with the capabilities to ensure Availability for virtual, physical, and cloud-based workloads in the Hybrid Cloud through the following capabilities:

· Enterprise Continuity: Recovery Service Level Objectives (SLOs) of less than 15 minutes for all applications and data; Disaster Recovery (DR) orchestration

· Workload Mobility: Availability for workloads across any cloud or location, to maximize IT investments and increase flexibility

· Compliance & Visibility: Proactive monitoring, reporting, testing and documentation to ensure business and regulatory requirements are met

“Veeam Availability Platform for the Hybrid Cloud represents an inflection point for Veeam,” said Peter McKay, President and COO at Veeam. “In today’s digital world, we know that nothing less than 24.7.365 access to data and applications is acceptable, and as enterprises embrace new technologies to deliver what their users demand, Veeam has yet again risen to the challenge. More than 200,000 Veeam customers have embraced our availability solutions over the past 10 years, and as we look to the future, Veeam Availability Platform dramatically expands our capabilities and market penetration. It marks a new era in how we address enterprise requirements for a comprehensive Availability solution for virtual, physical, and cloud-based workloads. It strengthens our position as a principal innovator and a leader in enterprise Availability for years to come.”

“Enterprises are engaged in a continuous digital transformation process as they adapt to or drive disruptive changes in their customers and markets. Success in these digital transformation efforts depends upon data and application availability in the hybrid cloud” said Phil Goodwin, Research Director Protection, Availability and Recovery at IDC. “A recent worldwide survey of Veeam customers conducted by IDC revealed solid availability business results, including significant improvements in SLA compliance, downtime, and IT operations management time as compared to other solutions used prior to Veeam.”

Veeam Availability Platform in Detail

Veeam Availability Platform delivers the next generation of Availability for virtual, physical, and cloud-based workloads, providing:

· Private cloud and virtual server workload Availability with Veeam Availability Suite.

· Public cloud and physical server workload Availability with Veeam Agent for Linux and Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows.

· Disaster recovery orchestration with Veeam Availability Orchestrator.

· A cloud-enabled management console for service providers, managed cloud and distributed enterprise environments with Veeam Availability Console.

Veeam Availability Platform solution is comprised of:

Veeam Availability Suite

The Veeam Availability Suite is Veeam’s flagship product, providing Availability for private cloud and virtual workloads via Veeam Backup & Replication and Veeam ONE. Approximately 100 new features and enhancements are being introduced in Veeam Availability Suite 9.5, which is expected to be generally available in October.

NEW Veeam Availability Console

Included in the Veeam Availability Platform is the new Veeam Availability Console, a cloud-enabled platform for service providers and distributed enterprise environments. Leveraging Veeam Cloud Connect, this management console offers enterprises a way to easily manage remote and branch offices (ROBO) and other distributed locations, allows service providers to deliver Veeam-powered Backup-as-a-Service (BaaS) and Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS) services to their customers, and enables partners and resellers to launch a new service provider business.

Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows

Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows provides Availability for public cloud and physical workloads hosted by Windows-based servers on-premises, in branch offices or in the public cloud – as well as Windows-based workstations on-premises, in home offices, or belonging to mobile users.

Veeam Agent for Linux

Veeam Agent for Linux provides Availability for public cloud and physical workloads hosted by Linux-based servers and workstations – either on-premises or running in the public cloud.

Veeam Availability Orchestrator

Veeam Availability Orchestrator provides disaster recovery orchestration for the enterprise, including orchestration of Veeam backups and replicas through a defined DR plan, policy-driven DR testing, and compliance & documentation.

Veeam Cloud Connect

Veeam Cloud Connect streamlines backup and recovery of cloud-based workloads, providing a fully integrated, fast and secure way to back up, replicate, and restore to and from the public, private, and managed cloud.

Customer Endorsements

“Veeam already provides us with a great Availability platform and gives us many different routes for recovery in the event of a disaster,” said Harley Carter, Solutions Architect at Scania (Great Britain) Ltd. “Being able to automate the process to a much higher degree and hence take out some of the more detailed knowledge and specialist support staff that we currently require, will put us in a much safer place should we really need to invoke DR. The ability to automatically generate DR documentation and plans will allow us to much more easily meet our audit requirements around DR and business continuity. As systems and infrastructure is a constantly moving target, keeping manual DR documentation constantly up-to-date is an impossible task, meaning that there are always likely to be small differences between documentation and the real world situation. In a disaster, you obviously do not want to be worrying about documentation and its validity.”

“Having knowledge of what the future will look like, with an understanding of the Veeam product roadmap is key,” said Mario Angers, Manager Systems at University of British Columbia (UBC). “It allows us to develop the roadmap for our community cloud service offering, which we can then communicate to our clients. Our goal is to offer a 100 percent self-service offering within our community cloud. The No. 1 item our clients have been requesting is self-restores of their backups, with the launch of Veeam Availability Suite 9.5, we continue to get closer to that 100 percent self-service goal. By giving more control to our clients, we continue to lower our support costs and can re-invest those dollars back into our community cloud. Also, with 9.5, Veeam moves further into the Enterprise space, which is key for us, giving us the scalability needed to continue growing our community cloud.”

Veeam today also unveiled new capabilities supporting Microsoft Office 365. NEW Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 enables an enterprise to work anywhere and at any time without the need to maintain its own email infrastructure. However, it does not replace the need to have a local backup of email data. With Office 365, the data is owned and controlled by the business so the business is also responsible for protecting it. The new Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 mitigates the risk of losing access to email data and ensures email data Availability to users and the business. With this product, customers can:

• Securely backup Office 365 email data back to their environment.

• Quickly recover individual mailbox items with best-of-breed granularity.

• Efficiently perform eDiscovery of email archives with advanced search capabilities and flexible recovery and export options.

Integrated with Veeam Backup & Replication, this new product also allows users with hybrid environments to easily migrate mailbox data between Office 365 and on-premises Exchange. Expected to launch in Q4 2016, a free one-year subscription of Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 will be available for customers of Veeam Availability Suite and Veeam Backup & Replication of all editions. In addition, customers of Enterprise Plus edition of Veeam Availability Suite and Veeam Backup & Replication will receive a free three-year subscription.[ii]

Also announced today, additional primary storage integration with the IBM Storwize family and IBM SVC platform will be included in Veeam Availability Suite v10. Additional information on v10 will be released during VeeamON 2017, the world’s Premier Data Center Availability Event, taking place May 16 – 18, 2017 in New Orleans, LA. Registration is now open.

For more information, please visit https://www.veeam.com, or visit Veeam at Booth No. 1731 at VMworld US 2016.

About Veeam Software

Veeam Appoints Peter McKay as President and COO; Promotes William Largent to CEO

Supporting its global expansion into Enterprise market segment and goal to surpass $1 billion revenue mark in the next three years, Veeam adds additional depth to its executive lineup with new President/COO and CEO roles

Mumbai – 29 June, 2016: Veeam® Software, the innovative provider of solutions that deliver Availability for the Always-On Enterprise™, today announced that it has appointed Peter C. McKay, most recently Senior Vice President and General Manager, Americas with VMware, as its President and Chief Operating Officer and promoted William H. Largent, currently Executive Vice President, as its new Chief Executive Officer. Veeam co-founders and Directors, Ratmir Timashev and Andrei Baronov, will remain strategic to the company, playing active roles focusing on market strategy and new product development. The appointments will add further depth to an already accomplished executive lineup and come as Veeam continues to enable enterprises to deliver 24.7.365 Availability, expand into Enterprise market segments and continue double-digit revenue growth.

Veeam Appoints Peter McKay as President and COO; Promotes William Largent to CEO

“With the appointments of Peter and Bill, we are adding depth, experience and talent to our already world-class executive team. Peter and Bill are seasoned leaders with complimentary skill-sets; they will be instrumental in helping Veeam to continue on its steep growth trajectory,” said Mr. Timashev. “Peter will also join our Board of Directors and serve along with Andrei, Bill and myself. By attracting executive talent such as Peter, Veeam is sending a clear signal to the market that we are a leader and we’ve only scratched the surface of our potential.”

As President and COO, Mr. McKay will report directly to Mr. Largent and will be responsible for sales, sales operations, marketing, finance and human resources. Prior to Veeam, Mr. McKay held a number of senior leadership roles within VMware's Americas organization. He joined VMware as Vice President Sales, End User Computing, Americas, and from this position, he was promoted to Chief Operating Officer for the Americas, responsible for optimizing the alignment and integration of all go-to-market functions, then to Senior Vice President, Americas Enterprise, and then ultimately to Senior Vice President and General Manager, Americas. Mr. McKay joined VMware through the acquisition of Desktone where he was President and CEO from 2010 to October 2013. Prior to Desktone Mr. McKay was President and CEO of two other successful venture backed companies; Watchfire, a security solutions provider (acquired by IBM in 2007) from 2001 to July 2008 and eCredit (acquired by Internet Capital Group) from 1998 to 2001. Mr. McKay also served as “Executive-in-Residence” at Insight Venture Partners.

“Digital Transformation, cloud, social technologies and users’ insatiable appetite for Always-On access to critical data and applications is changing the way enterprises conduct business,” said Mr. McKay. “We are at the cusp of a major digital revolution and as enterprises look to harness the power of the cloud and keep pace with changing user demands, 24.7.365 Availability is no longer an after-thought; today, it is a strategic priority. That’s why I am here. Veeam has always been a company synonymous with innovation and customer satisfaction. Not many companies are as exciting as Veeam, and I am honored to be joining the team and helping steer it to the next stage of its growth.”

As CEO, Mr. Largent will report directly to Veeam’s Board of Directors and will oversee Veeam’s strategic and financial direction. Mr. Largent has been part of Veeam’s growth since its inception in 2006, and has more than 30 years of operations and leadership experience in growth companies. Prior to joining Veeam, Mr. Largent was CEO of Applied Innovation, Inc., a public company previously traded on the NASDAQ – National Market System. Mr. Largent also worked with other members of the Veeam executive team at Aelita Software where he was Chief Operating and Financial Officer. Prior to Aelita, Mr. Largent was CFO of Plug Power where he managed the company’s initial public offering with Goldman, Sachs & Co. as lead underwriter, raising more than $150 million in equity.

“I have spent my entire career building businesses, but Veeam is special,” commented Mr. Largent. “Since the company started in 2006, we’ve always been at the cutting edge of innovation and have been disrupting status quo thinking. Our first product was free and within a very short period of time, every virtualization admin knew us! We’ve continued in that disruptive, innovative vein and as we look to the future, our focus is on empowering enterprises to deliver 24.7.365 Availability and leverage the potential of today’s digital economy.”

Mr. Largent is in the process of relocating to Veeam’s global headquarters in Switzerland.

For more information please visit www.veeam.com

About Veeam Software

Founded in 2006, Veeam currently has 39,000 ProPartners and more than 193,000 customers worldwide. Veeam's global headquarters are located in Baar, Switzerland, and the company has offices throughout the world

Veeam Positioned in the Leaders Quadrant of the 2016 Magic Quadrant for Data Center Backup and Recovery Software by Gartner

Evaluation based on Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute

Mumbai: June 24, 2016

Veeam® Software, the innovative provider of solutions that deliver Availability for the Always-On Enterprise™, today announced it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the Leaders quadrant of the June 2016 Magic Quadrant for Data Center Backup and Recovery Software.

This 2016 "Magic Quadrant for Data Center Backup and Recovery Software" is a refocus and update to the "Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Backup Software and Integrated Appliances" that was last published in June 2015. The renamed Magic Quadrant and updated market criteria are in response to Gartner client requests to focus more on backup and recovery software for the upper midsize to large enterprises that protect data center workloads managed by data center personnel.

“Ask our 193,000 customers and 39,000 partners, and we feel they will not only agree with Gartner that we are a Leader but that we also have pioneered a new industry that extends beyond legacy backup – enabling enterprises to achieve 24.7.365 availability,” said Ratmir Timashev, CEO of Veeam. “As Gartner states, ‘A fundamental sea change is occurring in the backup and recovery market. For vendors to have long-term success, they must plan to address the legacy requirements of traditional backup and recovery, while looking to expand their integration with and exploitation of emerging applications, hypervisors, snapshot and replication technologies, and public cloud capabilities.’ The upcoming release of Veeam Availability Suite™ v9.5 later this year, Veeam will continue to innovate and provide its end-users and partners with very best availability solution to meet the needs of upper midsize and large data centers so they are not left behind in the current digital transformation.”

Veeam announced a 24 percent year-on-year (YoY) growth in total bookings revenue for Q1 2016, further demonstrating the industry’s growing appetite for Availability. With 75 percent YoY increase in total bookings revenue from large-sized deals, Veeam’s Q1 2016 success clearly demonstrates that enterprises are embracing Veeam’s innovative approach of delivering availability solutions, which enable SLAs (service level agreements) for recovery time and point objectives (RTPO™) of less than 15 minutes for all applications and data.

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About Veeam Software

Veeam® recognizes the new challenges companies across the globe face in enabling the Always-On Enterprise™, a business that must operate 24.7.365. To address this, Veeam has pioneered a new market of Availability for the Always-On Enterprise™ by helping organizations meet recovery time and point objectives (RTPO™) of less than 15 minutes for all applications and data, through a fundamentally new kind of solution that delivers high-speed recovery, data loss avoidance, verified recoverability, 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, while always supporting the current and future business goals of Veeam customers.

Founded in 2006, Veeam currently has 39,000 ProPartners and more than 193,000 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.