Veeam EMEA Partner Awards 2026 winners have been announced during the company’s annual Partner Advisory Council, held in Portugal from June 15 to 18. The event brought together a select group of Veeam’s strategic partners from across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA).

The Partner Advisory Council serves as a platform for partners to share insights, discuss future strategies, and align on customer needs in an evolving data landscape. As organizations continue to embrace AI and data-driven operations, discussions focused on helping customers build resilient, secure, and AI-ready data environments.

Kinda Baydoun, Senior Director, Channel & Alliances for EMEA at Veeam, said the awards recognize partners that are driving growth while investing in capabilities that help customers establish data trust at scale. These capabilities include resilience, recovery, security, governance, and operational readiness for AI.

Moreover, this year’s Council highlighted the expanding role of partners as trusted advisors, service operators, and architects of modern data resilience strategies. Discussions covered regional market trends, cloud adoption, consumption models, public and enterprise sector requirements, and the growing demand for secure and compliant data across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

In addition, participants explored the increasing importance of clean data recovery, ransomware preparedness, and governance controls as organizations seek to build trustworthy AI frameworks.

As part of the event, Veeam recognized partners that demonstrated outstanding performance, innovation, and customer impact across the EMEA region. The company noted that many of these partners are helping customers reduce cyber risk, strengthen operational resilience, and improve confidence in data used for analytics and AI initiatives.

The winners of the 2026 Veeam EMEA Partner Awards are:

• Partner of the Year – SoftwareOne EMEA
• Highest Growth Partner of the Year – Ricoh Europe
• Veeam Data Cloud Partner of the Year – SCC Group
• Enterprise Partner of the Year – SVA Software
• Cloud & Service Provider of the Year – Atea
• Veeam Data Cloud Service Provider of the Year – iteam Systems
• Public Sector Partner of the Year – Bechtle Group
• Highest Growth Service Provider of the Year – Otech
• Distributor of the Year – TD SYNNEX
• Aggregator of the Year – Arrow ECS
• GSI Partner of the Year – Kyndryl
• GSI Growth Partner of the Year – Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)
• Security & AI Governance Partner of the Year – Brinel
• Alliance of the Year – Microsoft

Furthermore, the Council highlighted several key trends shaping the region. Customers are accelerating cloud adoption while placing greater emphasis on resilience, security, and compliance. Enterprise and public sector organizations are increasingly seeking partners capable of delivering trusted outcomes at scale, including the ability to protect, recover, and validate clean and compliant data for business operations and AI projects.

Tim Pfaelzer, General Manager and Senior Vice President for EMEA at Veeam, said partners play a central role in helping customers transform data resilience into data and AI trust. He added that the recognized partners are setting benchmarks for execution, innovation, and customer trust while helping organizations reduce risk, recover faster, and establish stronger foundations for safe AI adoption.

He also noted that insights gathered during the Council will help shape future partner programs, investments, and route-to-market strategies, with collaboration, simplicity, and shared success remaining key priorities.

The Veeam EMEA Partner Awards 2026 underscore the growing importance of data resilience, AI trust, cybersecurity readiness, and strategic partnerships as organizations continue their digital transformation and AI adoption journeys.

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