Virtualization has become the main driving force behind the cloud, followed by the cloud

According to the latest backup software revenue results show that: virtualization is still the main driving force of sales, but the cloud has become an important factor followed only. These mainstream backup trends have helped Veeam Software, a virtual backup specialist, and CommVault, an all-in-one backup company, grow faster than its larger competitors. Unlisted company Veeam announced that overall bookings revenues in the second quarter doubled compared with the same period in 2012, with new bookings revenue up 96%. Among listed companies, CommVault's fastest-growing backup business was boosted by the release of its backup and data management application, Simpana 10, with revenue of $ 134.4 million last quarter and a 21% year-over-year increase. These results contrast with less than 10% growth in backup software revenue released by market leader Symantec this week. Veeam Ratmir Timashev, CEO of Veeam, which hates traditional technology Veeam, said his company's Backup & Replication software coexists with the products of big backup vendors that customers use because Veeam does not protect the data on physical servers. He said Veeam has more than 70,000 customers and "every customer uses something for physical machine backup and they deployed us as soon as they started deploying new virtual machine applications." We did not deploy from traditional backup vendors We take everything away and we're all doing business at the same time as our customers use their physical backups for virtual backup. "Timashev said Veeam's projected revenue for 2013 was booked at $ 266 million, or about 2 Billion in revenue of 13 million U.S. dollars, which is based on a $ 175 million bookings in 2012 and about $ 140 million in revenue. Veeam is working to scale to the enterprise market with Backup & Replication 7, which includes an Enterprise Plus version with built-in WAN acceleration and backup from HP storage snapshots. The vendor is also broadening its Microsoft Hyper-V customer base - VMware users still make up 90% of its business. Veeam also added support for tape backup in the V7 release and added a cloud backup release in February last year. Timashev said the cloud release "is just the first step in supporting a larger cloud," with cloud disaster recovery plans as well. One thing that Veeam does not plan to add is a physical backup. Timashev said: "We do not want to talk about the long-term plan after six months, but in the V8 version, there is a 90% chance that we will not have a physical backup. That market is shrinking; everything turns to virtualization. We use traditional technology for physical backup, and we hate traditional technologies, and we're going to look to the future. "Veeam also said this week that Insight Venture Partners won a minority stake and a seat on Veeam's board of directors. However, Timashev said it is not a risk injection even if Veeam gets funding from a venture capital firm (VC) and relinquishes the company's shares and a board seat. He said Ingisht did not invest in the company, but bought shares from Veeam's founders. He said the VC's primary role is to help Veeam identify partners and acquisition targets. Timashev said: "Veeam is profitable and holds a lot of cash.We need a partner that will help us build a $ 1 billion company in the next four or five years.We need a partner who can help us Identify growth areas in the relevant markets so we can build solutions or acquire other companies within the company. "CommVault CEO: The Exciting Hour for Backup CommVault's CEO, Bob Hammer, said Veeam is still in the low-end market and has not been directly associated with CommVault Competition. He said CommVault's main competitors are still Symantec, IBM and EMC. But he said protecting virtual machines is one of the main reasons people buy backup software. "Virtualization is still a major driving force, especially when you're dealing with a hybrid cloud environment with both local and off-site data. You want to seamlessly manage the data in different repositories. When you back up thousands of servers and With dozens of petabytes of data, virtualization and automation become even more important. "The cloud is another major driver in changing data protection and management, Hammer said. "There is an exciting time in our industry as well," Hammer said. "We're in a fast-changing IT environment." He said that while there are few large customers using public clouds for cost and latency reasons, there are Many companies use private clouds to back up and manage data. "While large customers may consolidate data centers with their own private cloud environments, they still manage their clouds.We do not see a large number of mainstream companies backing up to the public cloud, but they are using public cloud for archiving and infrastructure Infrastructure as a Service. Cloud is becoming more and more commonplace in the enterprise. Over time, we'll see more data back up to the cloud, just not yet. "Hammer said CommVault" about every quarter " Add new capabilities to Simpana 10 to keep up with new backup trends. This week, it added file sharing capabilities to its Simpana Edge modules for laptops and mobile devices. Hammer said these new features will not require the use of online file sharing products like Dropbox or Box. "It's more than just protecting and securing data on mobile devices. We address the overall issue of mobile user access and keep files synced across all devices." Symantec: Best-of-breed NetBackup, Backup Symantec, the publisher of Exec, a provider of backup software, reported that its backup revenue grew in "high-unit figures." With its double-digit growth for its enterprise NetBackup products, integrated devices account for most of the revenue, but sales of Symantec's daunting Backup Exec SMB product continues to decline. At a performance call, Stephen Bennett, the CEO of Symantec, described Backup Exec as one area the company could improve. "We think our path is right," he said, noting that Symantec released the long-awaited patch bundle last week with added support for Windows Server 2012 (via Backup Agent) and VMware vSphere 5.1. He said that another patch package to fix the migration issue is still under development. Bennett said: "Because of customers trying to simplify their expanding backup environment, Symantec's backup growth mainly comes from integrated devices.