ExaGrid Expands Into Middle East Storage Market

ExaGrid Systems, Inc. announced the expansion of its Middle Eastern coverage with the appointment of Rami Nasser as ExaGrid’s regional sales director for the Middle East, India, and Africa.

In addition to its Israeli office, ExaGrid will be adding sales offices in Dubai, Turkey, India, and South Africa. It has simultaneously partnered with distributor VAD Technologies, LLC to strengthen its channel footprint by providing VAD’s resellers with a backup storage product offering to their enterprise customers.

Rami Nasser has been with ExaGrid for a year and a half, and previously held numerous management positions at CA Technologies and Arcserve, LLC over a span of 16 years. His extensive sales management, business development, and enterprise storage management expertise are central to the execution of ExaGrid’s expansion strategy.

He has been pivotal in formalizing ExaGrid’s distributorship with VAD Technologies in the Middle East.

“We are excited to partner with ExaGrid in the Middle East region,” said Mario M. Veljovic, GM, VAD Technologies. “We are constantly looking for disruptive next generation data centre technologies to ensure that our resellers can offer the latest and greatest high performance enterprise solutions to their customers, and ExaGrid complements our mission perfectly! We’re proud to work with such an innovative leader as ExaGrid in the hyper-converged secondary storage market.“

Currently on the ExaGrid MEA team are Mohammed Jaffrey and Francois Eid.

Mohammed Jaffrey has over a decade of experience in the MEA market with particular expertise in storage, backup, archival, and technical workflows having held regional roles Quantum Corporation, Nexsan Corporation, and LaCie (a division of Seagate).

“ExaGrid’s technology for the backup strage market is revolutionary, particularly in addressing urgent customer needs for faster backups and faster ingest rates, restores, and VM boots,” said Jaffrey. “Customers don’t need to worry about forklift upgrades or high TCO with ExaGrid’s efficient scale-out architecture. I am excited to be part of ExaGrid’s journey.“

Francois Eid brings 18 years of experience designing end-to-end solutions in IT infrastructure, storage, data protection/management, and cloud, having worked at Hitachi Ltd, Quantum, Commvault Systems, Inc., and Fujitsu Siemens Computers GmbH.

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