12 INTERVIEW // VEEAM
Backing it up Claude Schuck, Regional Director, Middle East at Veeam, tells Reseller ME how partners and customers can look forward to a rewarding and technologically unparalleled relationship of trust with the company.
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ow is the data protection landscape changing now and where does Modern Data Protection come in? The landscape is changing because businesses were forced to change when the pandemic hit. If we picture the traditional data centre with brick and mortar and four walls around it - overnight those four walls were removed as the sudden shift of employees to home offices happened. This brings us to the centralised vs. decentralised aspect. If something is centralised, I feel it, put my hands around it and have a greater sense of control. In that sense, I can see it and protect what’s within the four walls. This is how it was preCOVID. All of a sudden, companies that weren’t used to remote working or a more decentralised IT architecture, found themselves scrambling at the edges, trying to manage it all when they were forced to. That’s where Cloud Data Management comes into play: if you look at where cloud data came from, we see that organizations called it shared IT, where staff used to find additional capacity outside of data centres to work because
www.tahawultech.com // Reseller Middle East // JUNE 2021
