The 4 Biggest Partner Stories for January

As the first month of 2020 draws to a close, it is time to reflect on another month of activity within the Wasabi partner ecosystem. In case you missed them, here are the top four partner stories for January!

Two Wasabi Partners Acquired in Deals Totalling Billions

The biggest partner news this month has to be the acquisitions of Wasabi partners Packet and Veeam. The bare metal compute platform provider Packet was purchased by global data center and interconnection provider Equinix, and one of the top providers of data protection technology, Veeam was purchased by New York-based private equity firm Insight Partners. Together, these two acquisitions total more than $5 billion. We are very excited for our partners and look forward to experiencing this new stage of growth with them both.

Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 with Wasabi is Here!

Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 v4 is now available with support for S3 compatible object storage and is validated interoperable with Wasabi. Now you can store your Office 365 backups in Wasabi’s low-cost, high-performance cloud. Learn more about the joint solution in our recent blog post and solution brief.

New Integrations with Altaro, Quest, and QNAP

New to the Wasabi Partner network in January is Altaro VM Backup! Wasabi natively integrates with Altaro VM Backup, providing users with a highly cost-effective addition to this robust multi-tenant data protection solution for Hyper-V and VMWare environments.

Other new additions include Quest QoreStore, a highly flexible backup and data management solution, and QNAP, a hybrid-cloud backup product. More information on these new partners and their integrations with Wasabi can be found in their solution briefs and Knowledge Base articles.

For more information on these solutions read more:

Altaro VM Backup – solution brief and Knowledge Base article

Quest QoreStore – Solution Brief & Knowledge Base article

QNAP – Solution Brief & Knowledge Base article

Wasabi Sponsors Veeam Velocity Events in Atlanta and Prague

To kick off 2020 in partner style, Wasabi was proud to sponsor Veeam’s Velocity Sales Kickoff events this month in both the US and EMEA. The sales kickoff for the new year, held in Atlanta, GA and Prague, Czech Republic each, hosted approximately 1,000 Veeam Sales, Marketing, and Channel & Alliances teams that cover all of the Americas and EMEA regions. During this event the Veeam team presented their 2020 strategy and laid out their goals for the new year and Wasabi was excited to promote disruptively affordable S3 compatible cloud object storage working with Veeam Backup and Replication and Veeam Office365 Backup solutions.