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L
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.
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.
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.
FEATURE: DATA MANAGEMENT
Arabia at the moment. A lot seems to be
happening in those two countries.
In terms of the verticals in
Kuwait what are the most
important ones for Veeam?
We’ve got some really good banking
customers, we are quite prevalent in
government. Government is very strong for
us, as well as telcos and universities. So there
is a big spectrum of the big players that
operate and use our products.
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
Can you tell us about your
operations in Kuwait?
With Veeam experiencing
some impressive growth,
Intelligent CIO talks to
Claude Schuck, Regional
Manager for the Middle
East at Veeam, about
how the company helps
enterprises protect their
data and cope in the event
of a disaster as well as the
exciting potential of self-
learning data.
Kuwait is a big, growing market for us. It’s
a big SMB market. There’s a lot of small
to medium business that operates there.
If I think of how it’s different the pace of
business and the time to make decisions
is a lot longer but we have some very loyal
customers and a really good base of partners
as well as end-customers in the environment.
Is there anything special about
the market in Kuwait?
If you look at the growth rate it’s definitely
outgrowing the UAE. At the moment the
UAE is quite flat. It’s probably our second
biggest growing market in the region so
we have a lot of focus on Kuwait and Saudi
Claude Schuck, Regional Manager for the
Middle East at Veeam
Veeam –
Enabling enterprises in Kuwait to
intelligently manage data
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