Have You Seen Veeam Lately?
Veeam is the #1 global market leader in data resilience. Veeam solutions are purpose-built for powering data resilience by providing data backup, data recovery, data portability, data security, and data intelligence. Veeam, a company with over $1.7 billion in revenue and 5,500 employees globally, has significantly expanded its portfolio beyond its origins as a VMware backup tool. They now offer a comprehensive suite of solutions across on-premises, as-a-service, and hybrid models, protecting over 150 different data types. A key recent development is the Veeam Cyber Secure offering, built on the acquisition of Coveware, which is central to their enhanced data security capabilities. Veeam emphasizes that their current offerings represent a significant evolution from the Veeam many people once knew, extending far beyond virtual machine backup to encompass a vast array of data protection needs, including being the most deployed Microsoft 365 backup solution worldwide.
Veeam’s approach to data security is structured around three core pillars: innovation, ecosystem partnerships, and incident response expertise through Coveware. In terms of innovation, Veeam is integrating new security technologies into its products to accelerate mean time to detection and response, ensuring that critical information is readily available to those responding to security events. Their commitment to a strong security ecosystem is demonstrated by alliances with over 65 different security vendors, including major players like CrowdStrike, Palo Alto, and Splunk, acknowledging that organizations have already invested significantly in diverse cybersecurity solutions. This collaborative approach allows Veeam to complement existing security infrastructures rather than attempting to replace them.
The acquisition of Coveware is a cornerstone of Veeam’s data security strategy, particularly for incident response. Coveware is recognized for its extensive data aggregation related to threat actor decryption keys, which is crucial for recovering from ransomware incidents. Beyond their technological prowess, Coveware brings a team of experienced negotiators and cool-headed professionals who assist organizations in navigating the complexities of ransomware incidents and payment negotiations. This unique blend of technology innovation, strategic partnerships, and specialized human expertise positions Veeam as a comprehensive data resilience provider, focused on keeping “good data safe from bad things” and supporting organizations throughout the entire incident response lifecycle.
Presented by Rick Vanover, VP of Product Strategy, and Emilee Tellez, Field CTO, Strategy and Community. Recorded live at Security Field Day 13 in Santa Clara, CA on May 29, 2025. Watch the entire presentation at https://techfieldday.com/appearance/veeam-presents-at-security-field-day-13/ or visit https://techfieldday.com/event/xfd13/ or https://Veeam.com for more information.
Transcript
I'm Rick Vanover from Veeam. Yes, and I'm Emily Tes from Veeam as well. And uh, as Tom said, I was on at Tech Field day one and I was creeping myself on the Tech Field Day page.
It's been a while, but Veeam's happy to reengage, especially now being part of Futurum Group. And I think it's fitting that it's been a while that we have been here. I'm bringing a segment this first of five that we hope we get through, uh, segments.
The first that we're gonna do today is have you seen Veeam lately? And so that's really the thought that I want to start with. And first of all, who is Veeam?
We are the home of data resilience. Couple of numbers to flash out here from backup standpoint. We've been in market since 2006.
I joined Veeam in 2010. 7 billion of revenue. So these are big dollars.
And when it comes to data protection, you know, we are number one in several market, uh, segment analog, uh, comparatives of providers in the market and still growing over 5,500 employees, super global and truly a, a big company that's going into so many markets. And, and when we go into security and some of the other segments here today, this will resonate with you, uh, very well. And I say data resilience is the story.
Now there are five pillars, uh, Emily and I for all, but about 10 minutes of today are going to be talking about the data security pillar. People come to us for backup to Tom's comment of how, you know, things happen. I'm in the business of protecting bad things, protecting good data from bad things.
You talk to so many people that have been through an incident, they kind of always end that story with thank goodness ahead of good backup. And that's, that's how people come to know us. But data recovery, data portability, you know, if this was, uh, you know, hypervisor, migration field day one, we'd have a great story there too.
If you need an idea, Tom, for another, uh, another type of event, uh, we could have the story there as well. But data security and then data intelligence. In fact, we were already talking to the team about some of the AI capabilities with this incredible data fabric that we have from a backup solution.
So where are we today? A lot of people know, hey, Veeam for virtual, you know, Veeam is a VMware backup tool. And that is indeed how it started.
But where it is now, we have a full portfolio that goes across on-premises as a service. And, and the really tight one in the middle is this Veeam Cyber Secure offering, which is built on an acquisition we did last year of Cove wear by Veeam. Emily's gonna talk about this one a lot in one of our subsequent segments.
So if you're watching online, please stay tuned for some of these segments. We're gonna cover everything, but it's important to note we're much more than just a VMware backup solution. Now, in fact, on this number slide, when we talk about Microsoft 365, for example, we're the most deployed Microsoft 365 backup solution in the world, which is again, more than just a virtual machine backup.
And then if we look at, you know, a slightly bigger version of our portfolio, there's really two important segments that I want to bring to your attention. One is we have this installable software that organizations can have in their data centers run in their own private clouds or go hybrid with. But then on the right, this as a service model, we have the ability to have Veeam products provided directly from Veeam Data Cloud, or we have the ability for managed service providers and there's thousands of them across the world that are able to provide Veeam powered services.
Everything from DR and Microsoft 365 protection, hybrid arrangements, really anything in between. And when we look at this, this menu, you know, Veeam is going to so many new markets and so many new areas with that fundamental data resilience strategy to keep good data safe from bad things. I love saying that the reality is this is not the Veeam that a lot of people have known and we're really confident taking this into tech field day.
And you know, when we look at this portfolio today, you know, we're running outta room. There's, we, we did a little drill before our event last month at VM on, is that last month? Yes.
Yes, it was last month. It feels like forever ago. I think we came up with, uh, was it 150 or 250 different data types we protect.
So that's incredible of where we are. And so all of the logos obviously won't fit on here, but uh, this is not the Veeam you used to know. And as we wrap up this first section, we wanna make sure we get some time for some delegate comments here.
But Emily, as you set up the journey for what we're gonna do, the power of three of this ecosystem really will drive that security story home. Oh, absolutely. So being fundamentally took a stance of where do we see ourselves in this cybersecurity story, specifically when we're working with organizations that have been impacted from different security related events, and where do we fall in that incident response life cycle?
So we looked at security in three different ways. How do we innovate? So how do we include new security, um, technology within our product to help customers get to meantime detection, meantime to response faster, as well as being able to, um, bring any of that information into the hands of anybody that's gonna have to respond to set events.
The next portion of it was looking at it from a security ecosystem and a partnership. All of our organizations have already made significant impacts in investing in different types of cybersecurity vendors and partnerships. So why or who are we to say, you shouldn't use X, Y, Z, you should use us or you should use this.
So we really took that to heart and developed an entire alliance that's working with over 65 different security vendors. Um, so some of the top ones that you'll know, CrowdStrike, Palo, Splunk, and I'll be able to showcase some of those today. And then the last one was with our acquisition of ware.
So co leads the industry when it comes to incident response. Rick says they had the largest data aggregation mm-hmm. Information as far as, uh, keys that we know that threat actors use for decryption, right?
So being able to decrypt anything from a ransomware incident. But then on top of that, they're people, right? They are the negotiators, they're the cool headed people that you wanna have in your corner sitting there and helping you work through an incident.
Um, especially when you're dealing with threat actors and that negotiation around ransomware payment. So those were the three items in which Veeam's really focused in on, and that's what we continue to develop today. Yeah, we will walk through the three of these through the rest of the, uh, session here today, but this is our intro session.
Any comments from the delegates? Maybe, um, is this different than what you may have known, including the online ones? Any, anybody have a comment or question on this overview segment?
Okay. Alright, well, thanks for watching the first segment here from Veeam of Security Field Day 13. I'm Rick Vanover, Emily Tes, And this was the overview of Veeam as part of our session here today.