Veeam put the price up by 15%

[regi]

Hi have been a VBR ent+ customer for many years. My support is coming up for renewal & today my supplier said Veeam put the price up by 15% again (Same happened last year)
Is Veeam wants to move customers to subscription licencing model ? We are a small company & struggling during this Covid-19 pandemic times. Can someone advise pls ? Is there a better cost effective way ?

Cheers

/R

[Gostev]

Hello!

Veeam put the price up by 15% again (Same happened last year)

Perhaps there's some misunderstanding here, as Veeam increased the perpetual socket license price only once in the past 4 years. We most definitely did not have any price increases last year (2019). And I will tell you more: we actually REDUCED the price for your edition the year before (2018) by USD 50, as a part of the global price list alignment effort.

But as far as price increases specifically, there were none in the past 4 years:
• The latest price increase (15%) was on January 1st 2020.
• The previous price increase was on January 1st 2016.

I have the historical price list spreadsheet since 2015 in front of me, and can tell you the exact MSRP for any year.

The reason why the socket price was increased this January is growing VM density per socket. This is industry-standard practice. You may have heard recently from VMware that they have instead doubled the license price for high-density CPUs. Veeam chose to "index" the price gradually instead.

Some suggestions:

1. Consider migrating to the Veeam Universal License. It is licensed per-workload and thus is not a subject to VM density related price revisions. The migration will have no extra costs for you (same as renewing your sockets).

2. Alternatively, consider pre-paying multiple years of maintenance for your socket license to secure the current pricing, not to be impacted by future increases. There's no doubt we will keep indexing Socket pricing in light of CPUs becoming more and more powerful.

Thanks!

[regi]

Thanks order now placed

Cheers

[johannesk]

Somewhere I was told that Veeam raises the prices by 15% every year, and I guess I'm not the only one. Thanks Gostev to straight that out.

Can the customer know if there is a 15% raise of list prices in the next few months or in the beginning of next year?

Regards,
Jóhannes

[Gostev]

Yes, we always announce price increases at least 3 months in advance to the entire customer base, and encourage them to expand or buy additional years of maintenance at the current price before it increases. While it may sound counter-intuitive, it's actually a good thing for the business when customers pre-purchase even if at a lower price.