55% of global organizations are focused on improving backup reliability and success to meet their internal Recovery Point Objective (RPO), Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Service Level Agreement needs (SLA).
By following these guidelines, Veeam Software has enhanced its ProPartner Network strategy with the launch of the Veeam Competency Program for Veeam Value-Added Resellers (VVARs) and Veeam Cloud & Service Provider (VCSP) partners.
“As a 100% channel-driven organization, Veeam is committed to ensuring our partners have access to the most valuable resources and training to deliver world-class results for customers,” explains Larissa Crandall, Vice President of Global Channel and Alliances at Veeam.
Veeam Competency Program
The new program provides dedicated expertise and resources to support customers and partners using the recently launched Veeam Data Platform, a single platform that offers more advanced data security, recovery and hybrid cloud capabilities with Veeam Backup & Replication (VBR) v12. as base.
The Veeam Competency Program initiative aims to build “ProPartner Competency” through a network of high-value partners around the world. The program is designed in a simple but robust way: the VVARs and VCSP.
Veeam ProPartner by Veeam
VVAR competency categories include:
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Skills in ransomware and disaster recovery. They enable partners to help organizations implement transparent and actionable Backup as a Service and Disaster Recovery as a Service strategies to detect suspicious activity, protect data with immutable backup options, and rapidly recover backup data.
Veeam Introduces NEW Competency Program for Veeam Value-Added Resellers and Veeam Cloud & Service Provider Partners
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Competition in public cloud protection. He draws on a solid understanding of the cloud-native backup solutions market and customer challenges. A qualified VVAR is able to represent the public cloud Backup as a Service capability supported by all Veeam cloud-native backup solutions and deploy the right solution for the customer.
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Protection competency for Microsoft 365. You understand that Microsoft’s responsibility ends at application uptime, leaving the responsibility of preventing data loss to the customer. The trained VVAR supports the customer to protect against the risk of losing access and control over their most critical processes with Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365.
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Competence in container protection. It ensures that a VVAR can implement the protection and mobility of customers’ containerized workloads and help prepare their customers’ cloud-native strategy through insight development with the support of Kasten by Veeam.
VCSP Customer Ready
The VCSP Customer Ready competitions recognize partners who provide Veeam-powered “as-a-service” solutions to customers and include:
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external backup
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Disaster Recovery as a Service
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Backup as a Service (BaaS) for Microsoft 365
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Backup for Managed Service Providers (MSPs) (for resellers only)
Today, Veeam is announcing new VCSP competencies, available to both Customer Ready and Reseller Ready partners:
