VAD Prodata and Unitrends in Partnership

Johannesburg, South Africa-based technology distributor Prodata Group has partnered with Unitrends, a Kaseya Ltd company, to bring top-tier backup and DR solutions to the African market.

The partnership is Unitrends’ first in South Africa and will build on Prodata’s experience of bringing fast-growing enterprise technology to the African market through its channel partner network.

Unitrends backup appliances and cloud data protection automates manual tasks, eliminates management complexity and delivers tested hardware and software resilience. It provides enterprises with a single solution combining protection for physical, virtual and SaaS environments with ransomware detection, self-healing backups and dark Web monitoring.

Bringing this technology to partners across Africa, with a core focus on sub-Saharan Africa, the two partners are engaging more proactively with existing partners and establishing new partnerships with VARs in this market. The backup and recovery market size is expected to grow from $7.13 billion in 2017 to $11.59 billion by 2022, at a CAGR of 10.2% during the forecast period, with a substantial portion of this being in the emerging African market (Source – Research and Markets).

The partnership will aim to address growing demand for data protection solutions in the region.

“We are constantly looking to deliver the most effective and innovative technology solutions to our network of reseller partners and to enterprises across Africa and have a proven track record of delivery,” said Jay Bradley, MD, Prodata. “Unitrends is known as a leader in the data protection market, and we are looking forward to building on our successful partnership with them.“

“Sub-Saharan Africa is an expanding market with a need for resilient, enterprise-grade data protection solutions,” said Ronan Kirby, president and GM, EMEA, Kaseya. “By partnering with Prodata, Unitrends will be able to leverage Prodata’s extensive market expertise to provide businesses across southern Africa with the cutting-edge technologies needed to keep their data safe, both on-premises and in the cloud.“