NEWS
Demand accelerates for Veeam Backup
for Microsoft Office 365
365 users. From Q2 2017 to Q3 2017, sales for Veeam Backup for
Microsoft Office 365 grew 83%.
In the most recent fiscal quarter, from Q3 2017 to Q4 2017, sales
grew even faster with the release of Veeam Backup for Microsoft
Office 365 v1.5, at 327%, accelerating Veeam’s overall momentum;
and reporting four consecutive quarters of growth.
Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 provides organisations with
additional options to protect their data on top of the automatic
data replication Microsoft provides across its data centres, as well as
native resiliency controls available in Office 365. This combination
lets companies have complete control of their data and ensure
availability to their users.
V
eeam Software, the ‘Availability for the Always-On Enterprise.’
innovator, has announced that it has experienced strong and
accelerating demand for Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365
since the product’s initial release.
Over 25,000 organisations have downloaded the software,
representing in aggregate more than 2.3 million Microsoft Office
As enterprises look to place more critical services in the cloud, there
is a huge opportunity for those able to deliver the data protection
and availability needed in this environment; Veeam is poised to
lead this market.
“It’s a big mistake to think that enterprises no longer need to be
concerned about ensuring availability and protecting their data in the
cloud,” said Paul Mattes, Vice President of Global Cloud Group at Veeam.
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Argility announces acquisition of
mobile company
Argility CEO, Marko Salic, said that Indaba
Mobile leverages social commerce in a way
that enables people to use the platform on
various levels.
“For example, businesses can engage
in chat with their customer base and
deliver digital content while enabling the
distribution of vouchers and coupons to
facilitate transactions. Any organisation,
large enterprise or SME, can use this
platform to connect with customers but
most importantly in a secure, private,
closed loop in which to deliver information
and transact.”
Marko Salic, Argility CEO
A
rgility, an innovator of enterprise
software solutions, has announced its
latest acquisition following on the heels of its
formation of the Argility Technology Group
late last year.
The acquisition of Indaba Mobile from
Capital Eye Investments, concluded at the
www.intelligentcio.com
end of January 2018, brings the number
of companies in the newly formed group
to four, with holding company Argility,
Cquential Solutions and Fleet Domain.
Indaba Mobile is a social mobile commerce
platform which delivers content, chat and
transacting capabilities via a social network.
Salic said that this is the latest step in the
group’s acquisition drive.
“This is part of our drive to position the
Argility group as a leader in disruptive
software technologies such as artificial
intelligence, prescriptive analytics, IoT and
blockchain,” he said.
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