VeeamON: Veeam North America Impact Partner Award Winners

Veeam Software, Inc. announced the winners of the 7th its annual Impact Partner Awards for North America during VeeamON 2022 in Las Vegas, NV.

With a 100% channel ecosystem, it recognizes 11 North American ProPartners and Cloud & Service Provider (VCSP) partners who have demonstrated success providing Veeam solutions to their customers, and who have also surpassed expectations in providing support, expert knowledge, and continued product education.

 “Now more than ever, businesses realize the importance of their data on overall business objectives and success, and protecting that data from cyberattacks, ransomware and human errors is paramount,” said Kevin Rooney, VP of Americas channel. “Throughout the challenges of the past year, we’ve collaborated with our partners to ensure their customers’ data was protected across multiple environments, whether cloud, virtual, physical, SaaS or Kubernetes. I applaud our partners for their collaboration and commitment in 2021, and their contribution to our mutual success. I’m especially proud of our 2021 Veeam Impact Partner Award winners and am excited to celebrate their achievements this week as part of VeeamON 2022, the Modern Data Protection event of the year.“

Following Veeam partners received honors for the 2021 Impact Partner Awards:

• Impact Partner of the Year, United States: CDW Corporation
• Impact Partner of the Year, Canada: SoftChoice Canada
• Distributor of the Year, North America: Ingram Micro, Inc.
• Rising Star Partner of the Year, North America: Ahead, Inc.
• Impact Federal Partner of the Year: Insight Direct USA, Inc.
• Growth Partner of the Year, North America: PC Connection, Inc.
• Veeam Value-Added Service Provider Partner of the Year, North America: The Lillis Technology Group, LLC

“The Veeam Data Protection Trends Report 2022 finds that 67% of businesses are turning to cloud-based solutions to protect their data,” said Matt Kalmenson, VP of Americas cloud. “As the demand for cloud is accelerated by remote workforces and security threats, Cloud adoption is rapidly increasing, service providers are evaluating their strategy to remain competitive and provide differentiated cloud solutions and services. The VCSP program not only arms our partners with the most simple, flexible, reliable and powerful solutions to achieve this, but also the latest tools, first-class support, and the most valuable training and education to ensure their profitability and mutual success. I commend our entire partner ecosystem and congratulate our award winners for their dedication, collaboration and desire to deliver the most efficient and trusted data protection products, while providing customers with a seamless experience.“

Following VCSP partners received honors for the 2021 Impact Partner Awards:

• Impact Cloud & Service Provider Partner of the Year, North America: iland Internet Solutions Corporation
• Cloud & Service Provider of the Year, Canada: Storagepipe Solutions Inc.
• Cloud & Service Provider Growth Partner of the Year, North America: Involta, LLC
• VCloud & Service Provider Rising Star Partner of the Year, North America: HostedBizz, Inc.

“IT partners have always been an important link between leading vendors and their customers,” said Kevin Rhone, practice director, channel acceleration, Enterprise Strategy Group, division of TechTarget. “The value of a strong ecosystem is even more important today with backup and recovery acting as the backbone for comprehensive cloud data management. We believe partners will play an increasing and critical role supporting the generational changes in the way customers now must look to leverage data and consume IT. Top IT vendors like Veeam are doubling down on commitment to their partners, and in doing so are breaking away from the pack.“