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Can you tell me about the
background of Veeam? Didn’t it
start off as a virtualisation company
in the mid-market?
I think the first couple of years we had just
three products and obviously we become
commercially viable after that. Backup for
VM Ware specific workloads was its key. That
was the horse that the company backed and
it seemed to work at the time. Obviously,
with the growth of the virtualisation industry.
The company has come a long way in terms
of the portfolio of products that we offer
now. In the last three or four years there has
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ast year Veeam added 48,000 new
customers. This is an average of
4,000 new customers each month.
Strong customer momentum and growth
outpacing the industry average underlines
the increasing demand for Veeam
Intelligent Data Management solutions in
businesses of all sizes across the globe. been a big focus around enterprise per se
and looking after their workloads.
With customers looking to manage their
data in a way that unlocks its potential to
drive business transformation, the company
has been empowering enterprises to do
more with their data backups, providing
new ways for organisations to generate
value from their data, while solving other
business opportunities. How does the company look at data
management overall?
With Veeam solidifying its position as
the dominant leader in Intelligent Data
Management and establishing itself as one of
the largest private software companies in the
world, Intelligent CIO spoke to Claude Schuck,
Regional Manager for the Middle East. There are five stages that we’ve defined
around data management.
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Big organisations, i.e. enterprises, have got
legacy workloads that need to be protected
and ensured that they are able to recover
those workloads. We are prevalent across
all industries.
We have a view that data lives everywhere
all the time. We have a firm belief that
every business is a software business and
we need to ensure that we help you protect
your business.
The first one is the backup stage. This is
the early stage of where data lives when
you back it up. There is a requirement
Claude Schuck, Regional Manager for the
Middle East at Veeam
to protect all workloads using backups,
complemented by snapshots and replication
where appropriate, to ensure they are always
recoverable and available in the event of
outages, attack, loss or theft.
The next one is the visibility of that data
so now with the prevalence of cloud and
organisations growing and data growing,
having visibility of where that workload is
sitting is important. It is critical to view the
full breadth of your data, accompanied by
the infrastructure that it passes through
and resides on, so that you can pivot from
reactive to proactive management for better
business decisions
We are a firm believer in stage three: the
activation of the data. How can we help you
utilise that data better? We have something
called Data Labs which will spin the workload
up into a separate environment and give
people access to that data very quickly to
make informed decisions, or recover a single
file or complete application.
Stage four is orchestration. Being able to
understand how your business continuity fits
into your data plan. Helping you automate
that is very important. If you do have a
disaster what method of orchestration are
you going to use? So you can extract and get
up and running very quickly.
And the last step is automation, which I
think is a little bit futuristic is self-learning
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