VAD Technologies and ExaGrid announce Distribution Partnership to penetrate the Middle East Backup Storage Market with Dedicated Sales Teams

Westborough, August 8, 2018 – ExaGrid®, a leading provider of hyper-converged secondary storage for backup, today 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.  ExaGrid will be adding sales offices in Dubai, Turkey, India, and South Africa. ExaGrid has simultaneously partnered with distributor VAD Technologies to strengthen its channel footprint by providing VAD’s resellers with an exceptional backup storage product offering to their enterprise customers. 

Having previously held numerous management positions at CA and Arcserve over a span of 16 years, Nasser’s extensive sales management, business development, and enterprise storage management expertise are central to the effective execution of ExaGrid’s aggressive expansion strategy. 
Nasser 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, General Manager at 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 Nasser’s team are Mohammed Jaffrey and Francois Eid.  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, Nexsan, and LaCie (a division of Seagate).
“ExaGrid’s technology for the backup storage 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.”
Eid brings 18 years of experience designing end-to-end solutions in IT infrastructure, storage, data protection/management, and cloud, having worked at Hitachi, Quantum, Commvault, and Fujitsu Siemens. 
ExaGrid’s published customer success stories and enterprise stories number over 360, more than all other vendors in the space combined.  These include a two-page narrative and customer quote, demonstrating how satisfied customers are with ExaGrid’s unique architectural approach, differentiated product, and unrivalled customer support. Customers consistently state that not only is the product best-in-class, but ‘it just works.’
 
 
About VAD Technologies
VAD Technologies is an established IT and Technology value added distributor, headquartered in Dubai, UAE. Catering to Enterprise and SME markets through a strong channel footprint across Middle East and North Africa. Delivering world-class technology products and solutions that transform the IT landscape and provide the best Return of Invest (ROI) and lowest Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for its Customers. The Company continuously develops its high-performance enterprise solutions portfolio with special focus on hyper-converged Infrastructures, Enterprise Storage Systems, IT Infrastructure, Physical Security and Cybersecurity. Supporting their Partners with Sales & Marketing, as well as Professional Services, such as Consulting, Training, Deployment and Technical Support, forms a key part of its Go-To-Market Strategy and Vision for the Region. Learn more about VAD at www.vad.ae.
About ExaGrid
ExaGrid provides hyper-converged secondary storage for backup with data deduplication, a unique landing zone, and scale-out architecture. ExaGrid’s landing zone provides for the fastest backups, restores, and instant VM recoveries. Its scale-out architecture includes full appliances in a scale-out system and ensures a fixed-length backup window as data grows, eliminating expensive forklift upgrades. Visit us at www.exagrid.com or on LinkedIn. See what ExaGrid customers have to say about their own ExaGrid experiences and why they now spend significantly less time on backup.
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