written like an advertisement . please help improve it by removing promotional content and inappropriate external links and by adding encyclopedic content written from a neutral point of view . july 2016 learn how and when to remove this template message veeam software type privately held company industry computer software hardware virtualization founded 2006 founder ratmir timashev andrei baronov headquarters baar switzerland area served worldwide key people william h. largent coo doug hazelman vp peter ruchatz cmo products veeam backup & replication veeam one veeam management pack veeam endpoint backup veeam fastscp for azure services veeam cloud connect revenue us 0474 million 1 2015 number of employees 2000 2 2015 website www.veeam.com veeamon conference hall veeam software is a privately held information technology company that develops backup disaster recovery and virtualization management software for vmware and hyper v virtual environments . 3 4 the company focuses on products that increase the resistance of virtualized workloads reduce downtime and ensure the system availability required by service level agreements . the company s headquarters is based in baar switzerland . 5 the name veeam came from the phonetic pronunciation of the letters vm as in virtual machine . contents 1 history 2 acquisitions 3 awards and honors 4 references history edit ratmir timashev and andrei baronov founded veeam in 2006 . timashev and baronov had sold their previous it management software company aelita software corporation to quest software in 2004 ; 6 7 dell subsequently acquired quest . 8 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 . 9 veeam gained attention in 2007 with its free vm backup copy product fastscp 10 which became a basis for building veeam s data protection software for hardware virtualization . in 2008 with 10 employees the company released veeam backup & replication a tool that provided vmware vsphere vms with incremental backups and image based replication with built in data deduplication and compression . 11 veeam backup & replication started supporting microsoft hyper v in 2012 . 12 in 2014 veeam held its first conference on data protection called veeamon which took place in las vegas nevada . 13 in 2015 veeam extended its product line with a free backup utility for physical endpoints veeam endpoint backup free . this utility supports pcs running 32 and 64 bit versions of microsoft windows os and integrates with veeam backup & replication . 14 in the same year veeam released veeam fastscp for microsoft azure a tool for copying files between on premises and microsoft azure vms . 15 at the end of 2015 veeam had 2 000 employees . the company has a number of international offices including regional headquarters for emea in paris france for the americas in columbus ohio for the middle east in dubai and for the asia pacific region in sydney australia . acquisitions edit in 2008 veeam acquired nworks to further integrate vmware management with microsoft and hewlett packard enterprise system management platforms . 16 this resulted in two new products veeam nworks management pack for vmware allowed users to directly integrate vmware management into microsoft system center operations manager . veeam nworks smart plug in for vmware allowed users to directly integrate vmware management into hp openview . in 2012 both products were renamed to veeam management pack and veeam smart plug in omitting the word nworks . awards and honors edit ratmir timashev was named one of the top 25 innovators of 2013 and 2015 by crn magazine . 17 18 late 2015 veeam won backup and recovery archive product of the year from svc awards . 19 in 2016 veeam was included as one of the leaders in the gartner magic quadrant for data center backup and recovery software . 20 references edit wikimedia commons has media related to veeam software . dave raffo february 5 2016 . veeam availability suite to get physical complement . searchdatabackup . retrieved february 9 2016 . 22 % y y growth for veeam in 2015 . storagenewsletter . january 27 2016 . mellor chris 23 may 2013 . backup bods veeam quietly gobbling up ever greater market share . the register . rogers bruce 7 january 2014 . is veeam the next billion virtualization and cloud software company . forbes . official company registry for veeam software ag in baar zug switzerland . state of zug . sramana mitra august 22 2014 . unicorn in the making veeam ceo ratmir timashev . one million by one million . retrieved november 22 2015 . aelita buyout closes . columbus business first . 18 march 2004 . rusli evelyn m. 2 july 2012 . dell acquires quest . the new york times . release veeam one 1.0 . virtualization.info . september 7 2010 . retrieved november 16 2015 . dubie denise 5 september 2007 . veeam takes on virtual management . network world . release veeam backup 1.0 . virtualization.info . march 3 2008 . retrieved november 16 2015 . sander martijn december 1 2011 . veeam backup & replication v6 released . vmguru . retrieved november 16 2015 . buffington jason 6 october 2014 . could veeamon be the next mms . enterprise strategy group . mellor chris 15 june 2015 . veeam ing all the way to the bank no ipo for these vm replicants . the register . adam armstrong 6 may 2015 . veeam introduces fastscp for azure & management pack v8 for system center . storagereview . dubie denise 24 june 2008 . virtual server management marriage veeam acquires nworks . network world . bent kristin 29 october 2013 . the top 25 innovators of 2013 . crn magazine . kuranda sarah 3 august 2015 . the top 25 innovators of 2015 . crn magazine . svc awards 15 december 2015 . 2015 winners and runners up . svc . dave russell ; 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