Veeam announces its First Quarter Results

Veeam has announced record quarter, fuelled by explosive gains in Enterprise and Cloud revenues. During Q1’17, Veeam recorded a 33-per cent YoY increase in total bookings revenue, while Enterprise new licence bookings grew 17 per cent annually. Cloud revenue enabled by Veeam Cloud and Service Providers (VCSPs) grew 59 per cent YoY, helping enterprises transform their operations to deliver 24.7.365 availability that users demand in today’s digital world. Additionally, as a testimony of India’s market potential, the company’s total bookings revenue for Q1 2017 in India grew by 63% per cent year on year

“It’s no small feat for a company with more than $600 million in annual bookings to deliver 33% growth YoY, and I’m enormously proud of our entire team,” said Peter McKay, President & COO, Veeam. “Looking ahead, we expect continued growth for the remainder of this year, fuelled by new Veeam product releases, joint product offerings with our alliance partners, further share gains in Enterprise, and Veeam-powered cloud solutions.”

“Globally, organizations now recognize they need the 24.7.365 availability that only Veeam provides. We continue to expand our worldwide Enterprise sales teams to meet that demand, especially in North America and EMEA,” said McKay. “These additions will support our customers’ and partners’ strategic digital transformation initiatives.”

Additional highlights from Q1 2017 include:

* DRaaS and BaaS adoption: The Veeam Cloud Business, which provides service providers with ready-made opportunities to offer Disaster Recover-as-a-Service (DRaaS) and Backup-as-a-Service (BaaS), reported 59-per cent YoY revenue growth.

* Enterprise growth and momentum: At the end of Q1 2017, Veeam counted 74 per cent of the Fortune 500 and 56 per cent of the Global 2000 as customers. Enterprise licence bookings grew 17 per cent annually,

* 242,000 customers worldwide: Veeam added close-to 12,000 total paid customers in Q1 2017, keeping pace with the historical new customer acquisition average of approximately 4,000 per month.

* 13.9 million virtual machines (VMs) are protected with Veeam availability solutions. More than 1 million of these VMs are protected via Veeam Cloud Service Providers (VCSPs).

* Partner expansion: Veeam’s 100-per cent commitment to the channel continues to attract new resellers. There are now 47,000 Veeam ProPartners and 15,000 VCSPs globally.

· Expanded executive team: Jeff Giannetti joined Veeam as Vice-President of North American Sales from Cleversafe, where he was Senior Vice-President of Global Sales. Previously, Jeff spent more than 10 years at NetApp where he served as Vice- President of US Commercial Sales.

· Strengthened Alliances: Veeam joined the Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) Complete programme. The program adds Veeam solutions to HPE’s price list so that customers can purchase complete HPE and Veeam solutions directly from HPE and its resellers, providing a one-stop shop for the validated solution. Veeam also launched the only fully integrated Data Protection solution for Cisco HyperFlex, providing the first native snapshot capability for the hyperconverged infrastructure offering.

Registration is now open for VeeamON 2017 Hybrid Cloud Availability Event, which will take place from May 16 – 18, 2017 in New Orleans, LA. The keynote speakers will include Mark Russinovich, Chief Technology Officer for Microsoft Azure, and Sanjay Poonen, COO, Customer Operations, VMware.