Strategic Alliances
These two cloud giants partner closely with Veeam to ensure customers can protect workloads from on-prem to the public cloud — and occasionally argue about who’s more “resilient.”
What are Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS)?
In this 1983 film, a high school student accidentally hacks into a U.S. military supercomputer and nearly starts World War III.
What is WarGames?
This new deployment option in V13 packages the OS and backup software into a pre-hardened, “just enough OS” appliance for simplified, secure deployment.
What is the Veeam Software Appliance (VSA)?
Before joining Veeam, Simon spent nearly a decade at this virtualization giant, helping lead global sales engineering and SaaS transformation.
What is VMware?
This stuntman lived a double life as a Hollywood daredevil and part-time bounty hunter — long before LinkedIn made side hustles cool.
What is The Fall Guy?
This cybersecurity powerhouse and endpoint protection leader team up with Veeam to stop threats before and after they strike — one guards the network, the other hunts the adversary.
What are Palo Alto Networks and CrowdStrike?
This 1999 movie explored simulated reality and spawned a generation of trench-coat-wearing computer enthusiasts.
What is The Matrix?
Replacing pre-defined roles, this new framework allows administrators to create custom access roles with fine-grained permissions for backup and restore operations.
What is Enhanced Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)?
A graduate of MIT Sloan School of Management, Simon holds this type of advanced certificate that focuses on management and leadership.
Executive Certificate in Management and Leadership?
This action series featured a high-tech helicopter, a secret government mission, and more synth music than your local arcade.
What is Airwolf?
In the infrastructure space, these two partners are key to Veeam’s integrations with enterprise-grade storage arrays — and their names sound like a tech superhero duo.
What are HPE and Pure Storage?
In this 1995 cult classic, two teenage hackers battle corporate greed, rollerblade through data centers, and — in real life — the actors who played them got married.
What is Hackers?
This next-generation browser-based interface brings WCAG-compliant accessibility and allows backup management for vSphere and Hyper-V directly from the web.
What is the new Veeam Web UI?
Now VP of Systems Engineering at Veeam, Simon also holds this business degree from the Australian Institute of Business, proving he never stops learning.
What is a Master of Business Administration (MBA)?
Before spies had fancy gadgets and budgets, this show paired an everyday housewife with a government agent for light espionage and heavy shoulder pads.
What is Scarecrow and Mrs. King?
Veeam’s alliances with Red Hat and this hyperconverged platform ensure workloads run smoothly whether virtualized or containerized.
What is Nutanix?
This 1992 movie starring Robert Redford featured a team of security experts who get framed for stealing a mysterious “black box.”
What is Sneakers?
This feature enables Veeam appliances to run in active/passive pairs, continuously replicating configuration data for seamless failover in the event of disaster.
What is High Availability clustering for the Veeam Software Appliance?
When he’s not leading SE transformations, Simon can be found perfecting clean jerks, snatches, and muscle-ups — all part of this high-intensity training regimen he swears by.
What is CrossFit?
In this short-lived cult classic, a mild-mannered teacher gains a superhero suit from aliens — but loses the instruction manual.
What is The Greatest American Hero?
While newer to the ecosystem, this partner’s mission is crystal clear — bringing object storage simplicity and immutability directly into the Veeam stack.
What is Object First?
In this 2015 film directed by Michael Mann, Chris Hemsworth plays a hacker released from prison to help stop a global cyber-attack.
What is Blackhat?
Expanding beyond basic documentation lookup, this AI-powered enhancement introduces agents for threat analysis and deep data reporting, powered by Veeam ONE.
What is Veeam Intelligence Advanced Mode?
In 2022, Simon earned this award from the U.S. Office of the Secretary of Defense, recognizing employers who support Guard and Reserve members.
What is the Patriotic Employer Award?
This dark, neo-noir detective series followed a former thief turned private investigator who worked out of a trailer and somehow made a gold Pontiac Firebird look cool.
What is The Rockford Files?