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Veeam just released the third major version of its popular file manager for VMware ESX hosts: FastSCP.

Version 3.0.2 introduces support for Microsoft Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.

Interestingly, the company reports that FastSCP now has a user base of over 120,000 virtualization professionals.
This audience was conquered after a little more than three years: FastSCP 1.0 was released in October 2006 while version 2.0 arrived in February 2007.

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Yesterday Veeam released version 4.1 of its disaster recovery solution Backup & Replication.

The major new feature is that the product can now replicate the paid/licensed version of VMware ESXi leveraging the VMware vStorage APIs (so far it could only backup it).
The replication of free version of ESXi is not available, according to what VMware required in June.

Backup & Replication 4.1 also introduces SNMP notifications (reporting the status per-job and per-VM) and a brand new, stand-alone utility, available for Windows and Linux, called Extract that customers can store on tapes with saved data, to accelerate the restore process.

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In the last few weeks Veeam released a couple of updates for its products.

The most important is the nworks Management Pack 5.0 for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) 2007.
Veeam acquired nworks in June 2008 for an undisclosed sum.
Under the new control the nworks management suite received a major update (4.0) in December 2008 and now we have this new one.

This 5.0 release introduces two key things:

• support for VMware vSphere 4.0
  (the product comes preconfigured to monitor VMware DPM, the Host Profiles, the vApps and VMware FT)
• a new web management console to configure the nworks Collectors
• Collectors high-availability (if a Collector doesn’t emit the heartbeat the product automatically redistributes the monitoring activity of the faulty agent to the others available in the network)

Veeam also released a minor update (3.1.1) for its Backup & Replicator product.

This new version, which comes just two months after the 3.1 release, is primary for bug fixing but it also introduces a new feature: the product now supports replication over slow and unreliable links.

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Earlier this month Veeam announced the decision to remove support for the free version of VMware ESXi from its Backup & Replicator (formerly Backup). The company CEO revealed that VMware specifically asked to do so:

…Recently, VMware requested that Veeam discontinue support for ESXi Free in Veeam Backup and Replication in order to comply with VMware’s updated licensing policy.

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In light of VMware's request, and our close technical partnership, Veeam Backup and Replication will no longer support ESXi Free. We will still continue to offer support for ESXi Free to existing Veeam customers who purchased Backup & Replication prior to version 3.1…

After the controversial decision to limit the competitors at the upcoming VMworld, with this move VMware took a further step to compromise its image of beloved innovator as the community reactions demonstrate here, here and here.

The official VMware answer on this topic was given to SearchServerVirtualization:

…We provide certain APIs [application programming interfaces] and methods particular to the virtualization environment,” said Patrick Lin, the vice president of product management for VMware’s server business unit. By offering access to the hypervisor via a preferred set of APIs, “our intent is to provide a level playing field in the basis of backup,” he said.

But Veeam did not use VMware-approved methods to develop its product, said Parag Patel, VMware’s vice president of alliances. “We’re not exactly sure what they did, but it didn’t seem sound,” Patel said. “For us it’s a question of what’s built and how it’s built. … To be perfectly honest, we didn’t want to be associated with it because it wasn’t satisfactory…

Unfortunately it doesn’t matter what is the real reason behind this move. The effect is that any company that is working with VMware or aspires to do so will perceive the partnership with the virtualization vendor as a mined field. And not just because VMware is about to place a product in every possible market segment.
If VMware continues with this trend the ecosystem that is slowly growing around Microsoft Hyper-V and Citrix XenServer will receive an unexpected boost.

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In the last two weeks Veeam updated two key products of its portfolio: Monitor and Backup & Replicator (formerly Backup).

Both releases introduce support for VMware vSphere 4.0. On top of that Veeam included the following new features in Monitor 4.0:

• Storage monitoring
• Hardware monitoring (it uses the CIM/SMASH APIs provided by VMware)
• Process monitoring (both Windows and Linux guest operating systems)
• Scheduled reporting

Veeam offers a free version of Monitor 4,0, that doesn’t have the storage and process monitoring capabilities, the performance history, the capacity planning data in scheduled reports, and the unlimited alarms.

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Despite its low profile (which is maintained on purpose) Veeam is getting bigger and bigger.

In 2008 virtualization.info already reported on its healthy growth in US and its expansion in Europe, all without venture capital money.

Now Veeam just hired a CFO, William H. Largent, who comes from Applied Innvation, a public company that he led as CEO.

This may mean nothing in particular but may also mean that Veeam is getting ready to make some large acquisitions or to get acquired for a big amount of money.

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In October 2008 Veeam extended the capabilities of its Reporter tool by launching a new Enterprise edition.
The main difference between the standard edition and this one is that the latter has a specific focus on reporting the changes happening in large-scale virtual infrastructures.

This week Veeam releases the version 3.5 of this new Enterprise edition and introduces a couple of most-wanted capabilities:

• Support for Microsoft PowerShell
  a new Veeam PowerShell Extension allows to run custom queries against Virtual Infrastructure data gathered by Reporter Enterprise 3.5 and get details about the current state or earlier points in time.
• Support for custom reports
  Custom templates for your Raw Data Analysis reports can be created by including any custom branding or even custom reports to meet your daily reporting requirements.

The new 3.5 version also extends the number of predefined reports and collects additional data about the networking layer.

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A big part of the Veeam success depends on its winning early-days strategy, when the company became popular thanks to several free, efficient tools solving daily administration duties.

Veeam is no more a startup but continues to give away quality tools for free.

Today the company announces the third version of its FastSCP, the free file management tool that released as second product in October 2006.

FastSCP 3.0 introduce support for ESXi (both commercial and free edition) and can perform ESXi-to-ESXi copies.

Available for free here.

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After less than seven months since the launch of Backup 2.0, Veeam is ready to fire out a new major release.

Despite the company entered this segment very in late (March 2008) compared to some well-known competitors like Vizioncore, it worked really fast to fill any technology gap and establish itself as a market leader.

To demonstrate it, today Backup 3.0 introduces some remarkable new features (the first three of them are industry first):

• the capability to backup ESX and ESXi (including the free edition) hypervisors without the need of VMware Consolidated Backup (VCB)
• the capability to offer file-level restore from Linux/Unix/BSD/Mac OS virtual machines backup images
• the support for Windows Server 2008 Volume Shadow Service
• The capability to backup virtual machine templates

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Veeam is definitively getting aggressive in driving away customers from Vizioncore.
For this holiday season the company releases a free version of its new Monitor 3.0 that works with VMware ESX and ESXi.

This edition has a remarkable number of features (for a free product), including support for multiple vCenters.
The full version of Veeam Monitor instead features additional capabilities including access to performance history, trend analysis and capacity planning, unlimited alarms and alarm modeling, and drill-down into a VM.

The strategy of Veeam is, in first instance, to attract all the VMware customers that are adopting the free ESXi. Then, exactly like VMware does for ESXi, suggest the upgrade to the full version.
While the second step may never happen, a large number of SMBs will happily adopt Monitor while evaluating competing solution.

Download it here.

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In June Veeam completed its first acquisition: NWorks, a company focused on management plug-ins for enterprise management systems like HP OpenView and Microsoft System Center Operation Manager (SCOM).

After six months the company is ready to release the first rebranded version of NWorks technology under the new name of Veeam Management Pack for VMware 4.0 for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager.

Beside the fact that maybe Veeam has to work a bit on the name, the new release is interesting because it gives to SCOM a much detailed visibility of the VMware Infrastructure 3 environment.

The biggest change is that now the product allows ESX 3.5 and ESXi 3.5 host hardware monitoring through VMware Virtual Infrastructure SDK.

It’s clear that Veeam is now more than serious competition with Vizioncore and their vFoglight (formerly esxCharter and then vCharter).
It wouldn’t surprise if the nWorks technology would be integrated in Veeam Monitor and Veeam Reporter next year.

The two companies already compete in the virtual machine backup/restore area, and its clear that Veeam wants a bigger piece of the competitor’s market share.

The virtualization.info Virtualization Industry Roadmap has been updated accordingly.

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Exactly one year after the last update, Veeam finally revamps Configurator, its product for configuration and change management.

In this new major release the company re-engineered the engine, which now automatically discovers VMware ESX and ESXi configurations, saving them in so called host profile templates. 
The administrator can apply those saved profiles to multiple new VMware hosts at the same time.

Then Configurator 2.0 can scan the hosts on recurring basis and allow the administrator to reapply the correct profile.

As some readers may remember the upcoming VMware Infrastructure 4.0 will introduce a similar feature with a similar name: host profiles.
Veeam doesn’t see this as a problem but instead looks forward to build innovation on top of that capability. Meanwhile VMware administrators can enjoy the feature today with Configuration 2.0.

Download a trial here.

The virtualization.info Virtualization Industry Roadmap has been updated accordingly.

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Today Veeam releases the new Enterprise edition of its Reporter 3.0.

As the name suggests this edition has features specifically designed for large-scale deployments management.

The new capability to report about configuration change is specially interesting: Veeam is slowly entering the Change Management segment by tracking what happens to virtual machines settings over time, who’s their owner and when they were added to the infrastructure (useful to keep track of the VM sprawl).

The new edition is available as trial here.

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Veeam entered the market over two years ago with Monitor, a performance analysis tool for VMware ESX.

The company is one of the few in the virtualization market that never received venture capital funding. Despite that, its product portfolio includes seven products (three of them are free of charge), its size surpasses 100 employees worldwide, and it even completed an acquisition (nWorks in June 2008).

With a R&D department in Russia and the other corporate offices in US, the company is ready to enter the European market, announcing the opening of its UK headquarter.

Thanks to its early product strategy, focused on releasing useful tools for daily maintenance of VMware infrastructures, Veeam is widely popular and its healthy status makes it a very interesting acquisition for bigger vendors.

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After a short beta program, Veeam publishes today the third version of its performance monitoring tool: Monitor 3.0.

The final release doesn’t introduce new features compared with the beta, but what’s available is more than enough:

• Data aggregation from multiple VMware VirtualCenters
• Alarm simulation (test the effect of your new alarm filter against the events history)
• Trend analyzer (forecast the virtual center growth and the most-consumed resources per host to simplify the capacity planning)
• Data correlation between registered events and virtual machines performance
• Analysis of the historical data available inside VirtualCenter

Download a trial here.

The virtualization.info Virtualization Industry Roadmap has been updated accordingly.

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Veeam just released a couple of minor updates for two product: FastSCP and Backup.

FastSCP 2.0.1 introduces the mail reporting capability while Backup 2.0.1 introduces support for VMware Consolidated Backup (VCB) 1.6 and VMware ESX 3.5 Update 2.

Download FastSCP trial here, Backup trial here.

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Veeam just published an interesting paper describing how its product, Veeam Backup, uses the Microsoft Volume Shadow Service (VSS) feature to perform a live backup and restore of Windows guest operating systems.

The paper also compare the Veeam implementation of VSS with the ones from Vizioncore and VMware (both the new VSS-friendly snapshot and the Consolidated Backup approach).

Of course this is not an independent comparison so it should be carefully verified before accepting the matrix above, but it’s an interesting aspect to evaluate and discuss with your pre-sales representatives.

Update: Veeam promptly answered forwarding the video testimonial that supports this paper. It’s available at their corporate blog here.

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Veeam is preparing to roll out the third generation of its products.
Last week the startup launched the beta program of Reporter 3.0 and now it does the same with Monitor 3.0.

The new version will introduce some really interesting features, including:

• Data aggregation from multiple VMware VirtualCenters
• Alarm simulation (test the effect of your new alarm filter against the events history)
• Trend analyzer (forecast the virtual center growth and the most-consumed resources per host to simplify the capacity planning)
• Data correlation between registered events and virtual machines performance
• Analysis of the historical data available inside VirtualCenter

Some of these features are killer independently of the current level of implementation.
For example the data correlation is critical to finally see the virtual infrastructure as a complex, tightly connected entity rather than as a bunch of isolated guest operating systems.

Enroll for the beta program here.

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The startup Veeam continues to release software at an impressive pace.
Less than five months after the first release, Veeam Backup already hits version 2.0.

The new edition includes some interesting features like:

• Real-time statistics and reports
• Support for VMware ESXi (now free of charge)
• Support for Microsoft Volume Shadow Service (VSS) in Windows guest OSes backup
• Support for 3rd party tape backup devices

Additionally, Veeam improved the product engine so that the product now completes backups and restores up to 5 times faster than version 1.0.

A demo of the product in Flash is available here (12MB).
The trial is available  here.

The virtualization.info Virtualization Industry Roadmap has been update accordingly.

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After launching the beta of a new version of Reporter for enterprise scenarios, last week Veeam also opened the beta program Reporter 3.0.

This third major release will have the capability to track virtual machines snapshots and custom attributes, DRS/HA configuration, but most of all it will not require Office anymore for data collection.

Enroll for the beta program here.

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After a quite start, the US firm Veeam continues to expand its presence on virtualization industry becoming more aggressive: in March it announced its first major product, Backup, and now it proceed to the first acquisition.

NWorks is a 14-years old company focused on management plug-ins for major enterprise management platforms like HP OpenView and Microsoft System Center Opeation Manager (SCOM).

The company offers plug-ins to handle VMware infrastructures on these platforms since 2005 and Veeam probably plans to integrate them in its products Monitor and Reporter.

NWorks was acquired for an undisclosed sum.

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After launching its first backup product, Veeam is working to further extend its enterprise offering with an Enterprise Edition of its popular Reporter solution.

Compared with the standard version of Reporter, this new edition will introduces several major features like:

• A web console
• A multi-tier architecture (supporting Microsoft SQL Server as back-end database)
• Scheduled data collection

The product still support VMware ESX only.

Enroll for the beta program here.

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To celebrate over 30,000 downloads for its free GUI management solution for VMware ESX, FastSCP, Veeam is releasing a new version today.

This update brings in some interesting features:

• Disk space pre-allocation for vmdk files
  when copying virtual machines, FastSCP will preallocate space for vmdk files to prevent fragmentation.
• Ability to edit file attributes
  FastSCP shows the properties for a file or folder, allowing users to set owner, group and permissions (the most common CHMOD commands) in a Windows GUI.
• Scheduled copying
  set file copies to occur at regular intervals or during off-peak hours.
• Support for Linux systems
  now users can manage all files in mixed Windows/Linux enterprises.

Download it free of charge here.

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Just one month after the 1.0 version launch, Veeam provides the first minor update for its new product: Veeam Backup.

This new build is mainly for bug fixing but it also introduces support for VMware Consolidated Backup (VCB) 1.1.

Download a trial here.

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After getting popularity with a series of useful tools for ESX Server administrators, the US/russian startup Veeam seems ready for prime time and launches Veeam Backup.

The new product performs both (incremental) backups and replication for VMware Infrastructure 3.5 virtual machines, allowing file-level restore. Additionally, it supports VMware Consolidated Backup (VCB).

The interface of Veeam Backup has been merged into a popular free utility that Veeam offers since early days: FastSCP. So customers can download the free tool and unlock the backup features inside it just inserting a license file.

Get a trial here.

With this release Veeam basically declares war to Vizioncore, which has been one of the very few players in town since a while to offer disaster recovery solutions for the VMware platform.

The virtualization.info Virtualization Industry Roadmap has been updated accordingly.

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Four months after releasing the first version, Veeam is ready to jump to Monitor 2.1.

The new build introduces support for VMware Infrastructure 3.5 and improves the metrics query timing.

Download a trial here.

The virtualization.info Virtualization Industry Roadmap has been updated accordingly.

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Quoting from the Veeam official announcement:

Veeam Software, innovative provider of systems management tools for VMware ESX Server environments, today announced the Veeam Management Suite for VMware, a comprehensive suite designed to address many of the common challenges faced by ESX administrators.

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Capabilities offered by the Veeam suite include:

• Veeam Reporter automatically discovers and collects information about the VMware Infrastructure 3 environment, its components and configuration settings, including virtual machines, network, storage and VMotion...
• Veeam Monitor is an agentless solution that supports the monitoring of multiple ESX Servers and multiple VirtualCenters...
• Veeam Configurator allows administrators to manage advanced settings and subsystems of multiple VMware ESX Servers easily without accessing the command line, writing scripts or manually editing configuration files...

The price for this new bundle is set to $270 per socket.

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Just before the end of the year Veeam releases a minor update for its Reporter.

The new 2.5.1 version doesn't introduce any new feature but some improvements in setup and diagrams layout.

Download a trial here.

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Veeam releases today a new version of its unique reporting tool for VMware infrastructures: Reporter 2.5.

This build introduces a new major feature called Storage Capacity Report, which creates Microsoft Excel 2007 pivot tables to provide informations about datastores utilization by VMs, disk space allocation and logical disk status.

Download a trial here.

The virtualization.info Virtualization Industry Roadmap has been updated accordingly.

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After getting a lot of attention at VMworld, the russian startup Veeam is back with an updated version of its Configurator.

This new version includes capability to create user accounts on multiple VMware ESX Server at the same time, and a show a detailed diagnostic report on service console.

Download a trial here.

The virtualization.info Virtualization Industry Roadmap has been updated accordingly.

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The virtualization startup Veeam finally released first version of its Monitor for VMware Infrastructure 3.

This new product brings all features already seen in Monitor for VMware Server and Workstation, with some important differences in architecture: it's a multi-tier solution, supports multiple ESX Servers monitoring, doesn't require an agent, and doesn't even require VirtualCenter, which makes it suitable even for SMBs.

Download a trial version here.

The virtualization.info Virtualization Industry Roadmap has been updated accordingly.

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Quoting from the Veeam official announcement:

...the company announced that it has joined VMware’s Technology Alliance Partner (TAP) program. This relationship will give Veeam access to VMware content and communities through VMware Partner Central, training, support and software licenses, as well as joint marketing opportunities...

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Quoting from Enterprise IT Planet:

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The founders of Veeam, Timashev and his partner, CTO and co-founder Andrei Baronov, are betting that's leaving them room to replicate the success they both had with the previous company they founded, Aelita Software. Aelita provided Windows NT and Microsoft infrastructure systems management tools, managing about 5 million Windows NT to Active Directory users before it was sold to Quest Software for $150 million in 2004. As it did with Microsoft, Veeam says it is working with VMware as a partner rather than a competitor.

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It's planning to also shortly release a product designed for backing up virtual environments. After server consolidation, back up ranks high on organizations' reasons for going virtual, but, says Timashev, it has to get much better for people to start using virtualization for the purposes of high availability and quick recovery...

Read the whole article at source.

Like other vendors Veeam may have problems marketing such solution, now that VMware leaked is working on its own disaster recovery solution.

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Quoting from the Veeam official announcement:

Veeam Software, an innovative provider of software for managing virtual servers, has added Carrie Reber to its executive team as vice president, worldwide marketing.

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Most recently, she was director of product public relations and analyst relations for Quest Software. Reber joined Quest through its 2004 acquisition of Aelita Software. During her tenure at Aelita, the company was ranked in the top 100 of the Inc. 500 list, won numerous awards, and became well known for Windows Server management solutions. Earlier, she gained targeted visibility for companies including NetMap Analytics, Macola Software, Optimum Technology, Legent Corp. and CompuServe. Reber's experience also includes work for the technology division of a Dallas-based advertising and public relations agency...

Ms. Reber is not the first executive leaving Quest for Veeam: before her George Sidoris, which was appointed as Vice President of Sales.

Even before Andrei Baronow, which co-founded Veeam with Ratmir Timashev.

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Veeam released a couple of minor updates for its flagship product, Reporter, and its newest one, Configurator.

Veem Reporter 2.1 introduces capability to report raw LUN mapping, while Configurator 1.0.1 is a bugfixes only version.

Download both trials here.

The virtualization.info Virtualization Industry Roadmap has been updated accordingly.

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Quoting from the Veeam official announcement:

Veeam Software, an innovative provider of software for managing virtual servers, has named Rick Hoffman worldwide vice president of channels and alliances. Hoffman will apply more than 20 years’ experience in information technology sales management to build a strong channel and alliance network for the company, fueling its drive toward leadership of the virtualization management market.

Hoffman, based in the Dallas, Texas area, comes to Veeam from Quest Software, where he was director of global alliances. In that capacity, he managed Quest’s relationships with Accenture, Avanade, IBM, Dell, Computer Sciences Corp., EDS, HP and other international systems integrators. He came to Quest through its 2004 acquisition of Aelita Software, where he held a similar position.

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He was co-founder and executive vice president of National DataGuard Technologies, acquired by Legent Corporation in 1993. Past employers included Sequent Computer Systems and startups Panorama Software, InCert Software and Peritus Software Services...

Hoffman is not the first one leaving Quest to embrace Veeam. Before him others moved from Aelita Software after its acquisition.

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Quest entered the virtualization market with popular Vizioncore, continuing with Invirtus acquisition, never confirmed so far (but recently indentified by virtualization.info).

Now, after a deeper research, virtualization.info found a new connection between Quest and a third company called Veeam, based in Russia.

Most recent Veeam news announcement mentions a link with Quest which starts in 2004, after Aelita Software acquisition.

Aelita CTO, Andrei Baronov, also worked as R&D Director at Quest and as CTO at Amust Software, which became, as he wrotes on his personal blog, Veeam Software:

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Because customers are different for consumer tools (something Amust Software is doing from the very beginning) and Virtual Infrastructure Management tools, we decided to have a new brand for the new direction. The name we settled on is Veeam Software. It is not a separate Company yet, but we might do a spin off in the future...

So far Quest decided to keep its name away from virtualization market, but the more we go the more connections we see.

The virtualization.info Virtualization Industry Radar has been updated accordingly.

Update: Veeam contacted virtualization.info and denied any relationship with Quest.

Veeam was founded as separate company after Aelita Software acquisition by Quest. After that, several former Aelita employees left Quest for Veeam.

So far Quest has no investments in Veeam.

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Quoting from the Veeam official announcement:

Veeam Software, an innovative provider of software for managing virtual servers, has appointed industry veteran George Sidoris as worldwide vice president of sales.

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Most recently, Sidoris led direct sales and systems integrator programs for the Federal Government sales team at Quest Software. He came to Quest through its 2004 acquisition of Aelita Software, where he worked with both private- and public-sector accounts. During his tenure at Aelita, Sidoris more than doubled revenue, created and led the public sector sales organization, and was personally instrumental in securing multi-million-dollar transactions. Earlier, Sidoris built and led sales teams at a number of small technology organizations, as well as at Computer Associates International (CA). He began his career in information systems operations management with several Cleveland-area companies...

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Beside launch of its new commercial solution, Veeam Configurator, russian startup Veeam also launches a free tool called EsxDiag.

It's a script able to perform some post-installation checks on any VMware ESX Server host, like verifying network parameters or NTP configuration analysis, and services with failed startup.

Download it here.

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Russian startup Veeam continues its endless effort in providing utility solutions for VMware customers, launching a new tool: Veeam Configurator 1.0

This new product is a Microsoft Windows GUI able to interact with VMware VirtualCenter and provide access to ESX Server command line tools, without having to handle with their syntax. At the same time Veeam Configurator allows to issue same command line operation on several ESX Servers at the same time.

Last but not least it simplifies execution of most used commands with pre-configured executions.

Veeam Configurator 1.0 is available immediately, with North American pricing starting at $120 USD per CPU.

Download a trial here.

The virtualization.info Virtualization Industry Roadmap has been updated accordingly.

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Russian startup Veeam continues to release at lightspeed updates for its unique Reporter solution, able to map a VMware virtual infrastructure on a Microsoft Visio diagram.

In this new major release Veeam introduces capability to generate reports also in Word, Excel and PDF format, providing optimal arrangement for each document type.

Download a trial here.

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The russian startup Veeam continues to release updates for its new Reporter tool at very fast pace.

After just a couple of weeks it already reached version 1.6, introducing:

• Support for HTTP proxy
• Details for VNICs (including Service Console and VMKernel ones)

Check for a sample report here (Internet Explorer only) or download the Veeam Reporter 1.6 trial here.

The virtualization.info Virtualization Industry Roadmap has been updated accordingly.

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After less than a month, the russian startup Veeam already updated its Reporter.

The new 1.5 version extends support to VMware Infrastructrure 3.0.

The pricing starts at $120 per CPU including the first year maintenance plan.

Check a sample report here. Download a trial here.

The virtualization.info Virtualization Industry Roadmap has been updated accordingly.

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The russian startup Veeam continues to release utility tools for VMware ecosystem, focusing on simplifying virtualized datacenters management.

The new Veeam Reporter aims to cover the almost empty segment of reporting solutions from a unique point of view: once discovered VMware Infrastructure 3 tiers (hosts, virtual machiens, virtual switches, etc.) and their relationships, it generates a Microsoft Visio diagram with data-rich shapes.

Download a trial of Veeam Reporter here.

The virtualization.info Virtualization Industry Roadmap has been updated accordingly.

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The russian startup Veeam releases second generation of its free graphical file manager for VMware ESX Server: FastSCP 2.0.

This new release introduces:

• Multiple ESX management from a single console
• ESX to ESX direct copy
• Complete File Management & Windows Integration

Download it here.

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The russian startup Veeam continues to release free tools to simplify VMware power users' life.

After Veeam Monitor (which is free when used with VMware Workstation) and Veeam FastSCP, the company launches Veeam RootAccess:

By default ESX Server 3 does not allow remote shell access (ssh) for the root account. Veeam RootAccess Wizard helps you to enable or disable remote root access, or create a regular non-root user account. The newly created non-root user will belong to the default ‘users’ group and will be automatically granted remote ssh access. Su or sudo commands can then be used to elevate to the root account for privileged operations.

Download it here.

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Veeam Software, a new russian startup, just launched a tool to centrally monitor performances and resource usage of multiple VMware virtual machines, both in Server and Workstation in Windows environments.

The tool reports live graphs 5 resources:

• CPU
• Memory
• Hard Disk
• Paging
• Internal \ External networking

Note that some of these values (virtual memory, disk and network) can be tracked with Windows Performance Monitor, even if Veeam Monitor simplify counters setup and recognition of virtual machines.

The price of Veeam Monitor for VMware Server is $200 and Veeam Monitor for VMware Workstation is $30.

Veeam also offers a free version for personal use only with VMware Workstation.

Download it here.

The virtualization.info Virtualization Industry Roadmap has been updated accordingly.

Veeam has been included in the virtualization.info Virtualization Industry Radar.

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