Veeam CEO discusses future of the company and industry

In this interview Ratmir Timashev, founder and CEO of Veeam Software (www.veeam.com) discusses future of his company, as well as the industry.

....In 2007 we introduced three major commercial products, and at VMworld Europe in February, we’ll introduce a fourth. In addition to those four products, our popular FastSCP freeware has been widely embraced. As of today, it’s been downloaded more than 26,000 times. Obviously, our R&D team is hard at work, and in the past year we’ve also added sales, marketing and distribution channel capacity. Revenue is steadily growing, and we’re moving rapidly to become a strong leader in the virtual server management space.

...we will launch Veeam Backup, which is a major new product for us, and we will add some exciting new functionality to FastSCP. FastSCP and Veeam Backup are integrated, and we think customers will really like what they’ll offer together.

We’ve invested heavily in a very innovative R&D team. We have more than 40 dedicated people focused exclusively on management tools for VMware ESX server. Not a lot of other small companies can afford that kind of investment.... Our R&D strength is a huge differentiator for us. We’re looking ahead at the opportunity, and investing now with the strong belief that it will pay off. Our solutions will be both broad and deep – we’ll keep adding to their functionality in response to our customers’ feedback.

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