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Veeam SA grows 31% in 2016

Paula Gilbert
By Paula Gilbert, ITWeb telecoms editor.
Johannesburg, 20 Jan 2017
Claude Schuck, Veeam regional manager for Africa, says SA is the strongest performer in Africa.
Claude Schuck, Veeam regional manager for Africa, says SA is the strongest performer in Africa.

Backup, disaster recovery and virtualisation management software provider, Veeam Software, has seen 31% year-on-year growth in its South African business for the 2016 financial year.

This as the global business saw record 28% year-on-year growth during the period.

For the Africa south region, Veeam also saw strong growth in its Veeam Cloud & Service Provider (VCSP) programme, which it says will be a key element moving forward. The region's VCSP transactions grew by 54% year-on-year.

"Growth across our commercial and small and medium-sized business sectors saw great year-on-year increases. Our market penetration with partner enablement and growth also contributed towards our scale across the market and hence the growth," Claude Schuck, Veeam regional manager for Africa, told ITWeb.

He says locally, Veeam believes in partner education and enablement in targeted countries to drive success for all parties. Once proven, it takes the blueprint to the next country and repeats it, and this shows in the "incredible growth" it has experienced in Kenya, Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Namibia and Mauritius.

Schuck says on the continent, SA is performing the best. "However, moving forward, other African countries with our detailed focus will catch up.

"Enterprise is a big focus [in 2017] and we see great growth in this area, specifically in the financial, telecommunications and public sectors."

He says Veeam will also target net new customers in the coming year, as well as revisit existing customers.

Global growth

Meanwhile, Veeam's global business saw record fourth quarter and full-year results in the 2016 financial year, with 28% year-on-year growth and $607.4 million (R8.2 billion) in total revenue bookings.

"2016 was a fantastic year for Veeam across the board, driven by users' insatiable appetite for anytime, anywhere access to data, applications and workloads," according to Peter McKay, Veeam president and COO.

"As organisations work to digitally transform every aspect of their business, CIOs are quickly coming to realise these IT investments won't be worth much if they can't guarantee they will be 'always-on'. We've seen incredible growth in demand for the Veeam Availability Suite from all sectors of the market, but especially from the Fortune 500 and Global 2000."

In 2016, the company saw significant enterprise growth and momentum. At the end of 2016, Veeam says it counted 73% of the Fortune 500 and 56% of the Global 2000 as customers. Enterprise new licence bookings grew 57% annually, while the number of new enterprise customers grew 48.6% to 761 over the same period.

The group added close to 50 000 total paid customers worldwide during the year, keeping pace with the historical average of approximately 4 000 new customers every month, bringing its global customer base to 230 000.

Globally, the VCSP programme reported 79% revenue growth compared to the previous financial year. Around 13.3 million virtual machines (VMs) are protected with Veeam Availability solutions, including more than a million VMs under VCSP management.

Founded in 2006, Veeam has 45 000 ProPartners. Veeam's global headquarters are in Baar, Switzerland, and the company has offices throughout the world, including Johannesburg.

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