VAD StarLink Distributor of Commvault

StarLink, a VAD in the Middle East, Turkey, and Africa (META) region, announced a distribution partnership with Commvault Systems, Inc. for META regions with plans to empower progressive enterprises to rethink data management.

In the wake of the current pandemic, the security landscape has become more challenging and organizations are faced with uncertainties about their data. This includes how data can be managed and recovered in the event of a cyber-attack or breach. This new normal has created the need for a data protection, cloud, and information management solution.

Commvault, in the management of data across cloud and on-premises environments can help businesses move, manage, recover and use an organization’s most critical asset – data – in new ways. The flexible data management platform helps deliver actionable insights from data stored across the IT infrastructure, enabling enterprises to redefine backup and recovery.

The 2 companies will collaborate to distribute Commvault’s enterprise data management and SAAS backup and recovery product suite and, under this agreement, StarLink pledges to deploy its business development, technical and marketing expertise in building stronger brand awareness and to expand Commvault’s market share.

Nidal Othman, co-founder and MD, StarLink commented: “Commvault is very strategic as it complements multiple domains in the company’s solutions portfolio – storage, OSs, hypervisors and cloud solutions. It will enable customers to navigate many of the challenges they face as they undertake this journey towards a software-defined IT infrastructure.“

He added: “With our strong market expertise, value-added service and exceptional customer success, we look forward to confidently deliver Commvault’s comprehensive data management product suite to our partners and their customers in the region.“

Wael Mustafa, area VP for MESAT, Commvault, commented: “We are proud to have entered into this strategic distribution agreement with StarLink, The collaboration will help a wide range of businesses in the region utilize data in a more effective way. There is a continued increase in interest around investments in intelligent data management systems as organizations realize the importance of protecting and managing data during this tough economic climate. We work to build strategic and cost-effective solutions that are enabling some of the largest enterprises in the region realize significant benefits including risk reduction, long-term compliance and DR.“

Commvault announced a new portfolio of products and services to manage data: Backup & Recovery, DR, Complete Data Protection and HyperScale X.