It’s all change at Veeam as the company confirmed its acquisition of backup firm Object First, while a second executive departs in a week for the backup and recovery vendor.

A community post, first spotted by Blocks & Files, confirmed the acquisition, with the company picking up the only backup appliance provider specifically designed for Veeam.

Object First was founded back in 2022 by Veeam co-founders Ratmir Timashev and Andrei Baronov, with its solution touted as a means to help businesses ransomware-proof their backup data.

The firm’s Ootbi appliance – which stands for out-of-the-box immutability – is a zero-trust offering that scales from sizes suitable for smaller firms all the way up to 7PB (petabytes) for large enterprises.

Following the acquisition, Object First will now see deeper integration with the Veeam platform, with its new parent touting the benefit of offering unified support, reducing the need for juggling multiple vendors.

Alongside the Object First acquisition was the news that Veeam CPO Anton Gostev has departed the firm.

In a lengthy LinkedIn post confirming the move, Gostev departs the firm after a near two decade stint, citing “personal reasons.”

“While this was a very difficult decision, the irony is that there will probably never be a better moment for me to step away as I truly believe Veeam has never been more prepared and better positioned for continued success than it is at this very moment,” Gostev wrote.

Since joining the firm way back in 2008, the exec has gone on to oversee a multitude of wins for the firm, including leading Veeam’s R&D team, as well as its international team of product managers and software analysts, as it grew from a startup to a $15 billion valued business.

“I will always remember this time with warmth and keep an unwavering emotional attachment to the company and to all current and former employees,” the departing executive wrote.

Gostev is the second C-suite departure at Veeam in a week. CTO Niraj Tolia stepped down earlier this month, though remains in some capacity as a strategic advisor

The exec exits came as Veeam made moves to take advantage of disgruntlement at VMware with an array of rival hypervisor integrations in a December 2025 update to its Data Platform.

There was also an integration with HPE Morpheus VM Essentials for its Data Platform to provide hypervisor-based image-level backup and prompt recovery for virtual machines across private cloud environments.