Veeam Expands Cloud Provider Program with Backup Management Suite

Hosting, managed service and cloud providers working with Veeam now have access to the company’s Backup Management Suite. The vendor announced this as an expansion to its Veeam Cloud Provider program.

Veeam Backup Management Suite 6.5 is a single, integrated solution that combines Veeam Backup & Replication and Veeam ONE with the goal of protecting organization’s investments in virtualization while increasing administrator productivity and the mitigation of daily management risks with real-time monitoring, backup and replication, document and management reporting and other features and functions.

Available now to partners, Veeam Backup Management Suite is available as a per-VM monthly rental or as a perpetual license sold in blocks of 10 virtual machines. According to Veeam, the suite was designed to be a single, integrated data protection and infrastructure management solution for VMware and Hyper-V that not only meets the requirements of organizations, but is also affordable and easy to use.

“Data protection is quickly expanding to the cloud, which provides a convenient and cost-effective platform for offsite backups and disaster recovery,” said Ratmir Timashev, Veeam’s president and CEO, in a prepared statement. “Veeam is relying on—and enabling—service providers to make our modern data protection solution available in the cloud. Our business has always been about creating partnerships, and our latest expansion of the Veeam Cloud Provider program is another example of how we strengthen those relationships by better meeting the needs of our partners.”

It looks as though the preferred method to market for partners is in buying perpetual licenses, as Veeam has thousands of such resellers around the world but only about 50 rental resellers. According to the company, it has been growing by leaps and bounds. Back in February, Veeam executives told Talkin’ Cloud it’s adding 1,000 customers per month. Although the company is mainly VMware and Hyper-V focused, it expanded earlier this year to include public cloud connectivity to the likes of Amazon Web Services, Rackspace and Windows Azure.

Veeam is aiming to capitalize on a cloud archiving and backup market that Gartner expects to be valued at $3.2 billion by 2016.