Veeam Software is a

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US-based

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company owned by

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that develops

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and modern data protection software for virtual, physical and multi-cloud infrastructures. The company's headquarters are in

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and

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. The name "Veeam" came from the phonetic pronunciation of the letters "VM" —

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History

Ratmir Timashev and Andrei Baronov met in the United States while attending Ohio State University and eventually founded Veeam in 2006. Timashev and Baronov had sold their previous IT management software company, Aelita Software Corporation, to

Quest Software Quest Software, also known as Quest, is a privately held software company headquartered in Aliso Viejo, California, United States. Quest provides cloud management, software as a service, security, workforce mobility, and backup & recovery. The c ...

in 2004;

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subsequently acquired Quest Software in 2012. In June 2016, Dell announced the sale of its software division, which included Quest, to

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and

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. The first Veeam products, Veeam Monitor and Veeam Reporter, provided virtual-infrastructure monitoring, reporting, analysis and documentation. Later, in 2010, the company combined both products to form Veeam ONE. Veeam gained attention in 2007 with its free VM backup copy product, FastSCP, which became a basis for building Veeam's data-protection software for

hardware virtualization Hardware virtualization is the virtualization of computers as complete hardware platforms, certain logical abstractions of their componentry, or only the functionality required to run various operating systems. Virtualization hides the physica ...

. In 2014, Veeam held its first conference on data protection and availability called "VeeamON," which took place in

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. In 2016, Veeam appointed Peter C. McKay, prior senior vice president and general manager, Americas with VMware, as president and COO. In 2017, Peter McKay and Andrei Baronov were promoted to the company's co-CEO roles. In late 2018, Andrei Baronov was promoted to CEO. On January 9, 2020,

announced that they would purchase Veeam in a $5 billion deal and move the company to the US. On 22 July 2020, It has been reported that Gartner, Inc. has placed Veeam Software in the 2020 Magic Quadrant for Data Center Backup and Recovery Solutions Leaders. In 2020, Veeam appointed Bill Largent, prior chairman of the board, as CEO and chairman. The company has a number of international offices, including regional headquarters for

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, for the Americas in

, for the

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and for the

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region in

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Software

In 2008, with 10 employees, the company released

Veeam Backup & Replication Veeam Backup & Replication is a proprietary backup app developed by Veeam for virtual environments built on VMware vSphere, Nutanix AHV, and Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisors. The software provides backup, restore and replication functionality for ...

, a tool that provided

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VMs with

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and image-based replication, with built-in

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and

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. Veeam Backup & Replication started supporting Microsoft Hyper-V in 2012. In 2015, the company extended its product line with a free backup utility for physical endpoints — Veeam Endpoint Backup FREE; it supports PCs running 32- and 64-bit versions of

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OS and integrates with Veeam Backup & Replication. In the same year, it released Veeam FastSCP for

Microsoft Azure Microsoft Azure, often referred to as Azure ( , ), is a cloud computing platform operated by Microsoft for application management via around the world-distributed data centers. Microsoft Azure has multiple capabilities such as software as a ...

, a tool for copying files between on-premises and Microsoft Azure VMs. In 2016, it launched Veeam Backup ''for Microsoft Office 365'', for backing up

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Exchange servers, and Veeam Availability Orchestrator, a multi-hypervisor disaster recovery orchestration software with documenting, testing and reporting capabilities. In 2017, it introduced three new products: Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows (successor to Endpoint Backup) and Veeam Agent for Linux — for physical workload data protection with various backup/restore scenarios including cloud, and Veeam Availability Console — a free tool for managing Veeam-powered data protection and disaster recovery in distributed infrastructures and enabling BaaS and DRaaS services delivered through service providers. In 2020, Veeam announced 16 major releases. This includes Veeam Backup & Replication™ v10, Veeam ONE™ v10, Veeam Backup ''for Nutanix AHV'' v2, Veeam Service Provider Console v4, Veeam Backup ''for Microsoft Azure'' v1, Veeam Availability Orchestrator v3, Veeam Backup ''for Microsoft Office 365'' v5 and Veeam Backup ''for AWS'' v3.

Acquisitions

In 2008, the company acquired nworks to further integrate VMware management with

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and

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enterprise system management platforms. This resulted in two new products: * Veeam nworks Management Pack for VMware to directly integrate VMware management into Microsoft

System Center Operations Manager System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) is a cross-platform data center monitoring system for operating systems and hypervisors. It uses a single interface that shows state, health, and performance information of computer systems. It also pro ...

. * Veeam nworks Smart Plug-In for VMware to directly integrate VMware management into

HP OpenView HP OpenView is the former name for a Hewlett-Packard product family that consisted of network and systems management products. In 2007, HP OpenView was rebranded as HP BTO (''Business Technology Optimization'') Software when it became part of the ...

. In 2012, both products were renamed to Veeam Management Pack and Veeam Smart Plug-In, omitting the word "nworks." In 2017, Veeam acquired N2WS, a company providing cloud-native enterprise-grade backup and disaster recovery solutions for Amazon Web Services (AWS). In 2019, Veeam sold N2WS back to its original founders after discussions with the US Government. In 2020, Veeam acquired Kasten, a market leader in backup and disaster recovery solutions for

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References

External links

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