Promotions, Veeam

Veeam Disaster Recovery Orchestrator Promotion

Effective March 1, 2021, Veeam Disaster Recovery Orchestrator (formerly Veeam Availability Orchestrator) can be purchased at 80% off compared with a Standalone purchase when adding it to a new or previous purchase of either Veeam Availability Suite or Veeam Backup & Replication. This combined packaging option is called DR Pack.

The total number of purchased DR Pack licenses must match the total number of VMware vSphere Virtual Machines (VM) licensed in Veeam Availability Suite or Veeam Backup & Replication.

Veeam Disaster Recovery Orchestrator enables users to reliably ensure the continuity of their IT services at any scale through extensible recovery orchestration from Veeam-powered backups, replicas, Continuous Data Protection (CDP) replicas and storage snapshots. It delivers a reliable, scalable, and easy-to-use orchestration and automation engine that’s built for today’s business continuity/disaster recovery (BC/DR) needs.

For the promotion, please visit: https://www.veeam.com/disaster-recovery-orchestrator-pricing.html?ad=special-offers.

For more information on Veeam Disaster Recovery Orchestrator, please visit: https://www.veeam.com/disaster-recovery-orchestrator.html.

For a FAQ on Veeam Disaster Recovery Orchestrator, please visit: https://www.veeam.com/disaster-recovery-orchestrator-faq.html.

Please contact us for more information or to request a quote.

Promotions, Veeam

Veeam NAS Backup per TB Promotion

Effective March 1, 2021, Veeam network attached storage (NAS) Backup can be purchased at a lowered price for small businesses as a NAS Capacity Pack for Veeam Backup Essentials.

The NAS Capacity Pack for Veeam Backup Essentials is priced per year and per terabyte (TB) and is limited to 50 TB of data. It provides NAS data protection as an add-on for new or existing Veeam Backup Essentials customers with Veeam Universal Licensing subscription contracts.

As exponential growth of NAS continues, so does the need to protect unstructured data from malicious attacks which exploit vulnerabilities in your NAS devices. NAS Backup is a sophisticated solution designed to backup and to recover unstructured data files stored in a Network-Attached Storage or NAS.

For more information on Veeam NAS Backup and the promotion, please visit: https://www.veeam.com/nas-backup-and-recovery-software.html.

Please contact us for more information or to request a quote.

Microsoft PowerApps, Promotions

Microsoft Power Apps Promos

Effective December 1, 2020 to June 30, 2021, promotional pricing is available for Microsoft Power Apps.

The Power Apps per App Promo is available to all customers with an existing or new Enterprise Agreement (EA), Enterprise Subscription Agreement (EAS), or Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) agreement and requires a minimum purchase of 200 licenses.

The Power Apps per User Promo is available to all customers with an existing or new EA or EAS and requires a minimum purchase of 5,000 licenses.

For more information, please see the footnote on the Power Apps pricing page here: https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/.

Please contact us for more details.

Promotions, Veeam

Veeam Renewals Offers

For contracts expiring between November 1, 2020 and June 2021, the Veeam 24/7 for Multi-Year Promo offers the following benefits, when choosing a multi-year renewal:

  • Latest major releases
  • Free production support throughout the whole renewal plan
  • Added savings of up to 13% for a 3-year renewal and up to 25% for a 5-year renewal

Eligible for this promotion are small- and medium-sized businesses, commercial customers and enterprise customers (excluding new business opportunities in 2020) renewing one of the following products with perpetual or subscription contracts: Veeam Backup & Replication (VBR), Veeam Availability Suite (VAS), Veeam Backup Essentials (VBE), Veeam Availability Orchestrator (VAO) or Veeam ONE.

For existing perpetual contracts expired more than 6 months ago, but no more than 1 year ago, the Veeam We Want You Back Program offers customers the choice between two exclusive renewal offers:

  • No backdated maintenance fee – The new support contract will start from the date of the new renewal order, not from the expiration date of the current license.
  • Migrate to Veeam Universal License and avoid future maintenance

Please contact us for more information.

Microsoft Teams, Promotions

Microsoft Teams Audio Conferencing available for free

Available from October 1, 2020 until June 30, 2021, Microsoft Teams Audio Conferencing can be acquired for free for Enterprise Agreement (EA) customers until the end of their enrollment as long as there is at least 20% Microsoft Teams Meetings adoption withing the first six months.

Furthermore, effective October 1, 2020 until June 30, 2021, Microsoft Teams Audio Conferencing is available for free for 12 months through Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) and by Web Direct customers (without Microsoft Teams Meetings adoption requirement).

Audio Conferencing in Microsoft 365 and Office 365 enables users to call in to meetings from their phones. It is especially helpful for participants, who do not have reliable internet access and allows up to 250 phone attendees.

Those offers are available worldwide with exceptions of China and India.

For the announcement and details on the offers, please visit: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2020/09/08/3-deals-meeting-calling-experiences-microsoft-teams/.

For more information on Microsoft Teams Audio Conferencing, please visit: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/audio-conferencing-in-office-365.

Promotions, VMware

VMware Hyperconverged Infrastructure Kit promotion available

Effective August 6, 2020 to July 23, 2021, the promotion for VMware Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) Kit is available. VMware HCI Kits are designed to easily adopt HCI and provide customers with the foundational building blocks of the hybrid cloud: VMware Cloud Foundation. VMware vSAN is the only hyperconverged infrastructure solution that is natively integrated with industry leading virtualization platform, VMware vSphere.
VMware HCI Kits offer a simple way for customers to purchase VMware vSphere and VMware vSAN licenses together while still offering flexibility for independent deployment and upgrades.
The VMware HCI Kit promotion offers a 25% discount off license list prices for select HCI Kits including: HCI Kit Standard, HCI Kit Advanced, HCI Kit Operations Management, HCI Kit ROBO Advanced.

For further information on the VMware HCI Kit promotion, please visit: https://blogs.vmware.com/cloud-foundation/2020/08/06/vcf-express-hci-kit-promotions.
For more information, please visit: https://www.vmware.com/products/hyper-converged-infrastructure.html.