Veeam Software, the leader in Intelligent Data Management for the Hyper-Available Enterprise, will share its vision on how to address the challenges enterprises face with the hyper-criticality of data, hyper-growth of data and hyper-sprawl of data during VeeamON 2018, Veeam's fourth annual user and partner conference, which will take place May 14 - 16 at McCormick Place Convention Center in Chicago, IL.

Nearly 2,000 customers, partners, and influencers will hear from industry experts about the need for Hyper-Availability in a data-driven world, and why Veeam is the most trusted provider of Intelligent Data Management solutions to meet the demands of the Hyper-Available Enterprise. Premier event sponsors include Cisco, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, IBM, Microsoft, NetApp, and VMware; an additional 50+ sponsors are supporting the event, including platinum sponsors CDW, Exagrid, iland, Ingram Promark, Nutanix, phoenixNAP and Pure Storage.

"Hyper-Availability is the new expectation for data in today's enterprises, which enables faster reaction times to any business need, multi-fold improvements in efficiencies and greater agility to shifts in customer demand," said Peter McKay, President and Co-CEO of Veeam. "At VeeamON, we will discuss the journey our customers are taking to become Hyper-Available Enterprises, so they can harness the power of AI and machine learning for intelligent data management in a world where IoT and blockchain technologies are creating a massive explosion of data. We have a stellar line-up of industry experts, customers and partners speaking on main stage to discuss this year's theme of how to Activate your Hyper-Available Enterprise."

Kenneth Cukier will keynote VeeamON 2018. Cukier is senior editor, digital products and data analytics at The Economist where he oversees and manages their new digital product development. Prior to this, he was data editor following a decade at the paper covering business and technology.

This year's presenters also include:

• Peter McKay, President and Co-CEO of Veeam
• Danny Allan, Vice President of Product Strategy at Veeam
• Dave Russell, Vice President of Enterprise Strategy at Veeam
• Bill Philbin, Senior Vice President, Global CTO Hybrid IT at Hewlett Packard Enterprise
• Cynthia Johnson, Vice President Global Data Center Sales at Cisco
• John Steinmetz, CTO at SEI Global Services
• Rear Admiral (ret.) David Simpson, currently leader of Pelorus Consulting Services, specializing in public safety, telecommunications and cybersecurity, and formerly Chief of the Federal Communications Commission's Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau
• Duncan Epping, chief technologist at VMware in the Office of CTO of the Storage and Availability business unit

At VeeamON 2018, Veeam will also celebrate some of the most innovative things being done with the Veeam Hyper-Availability Platform by customers and partners. Nominated winners will be recognized during the VeeamON main stage keynote.

Registration is open for VeeamON 2018.