5 November 2024, Tue |
5:51 PM
Commvault will unveil regional leadership and latest solutions at GITEX Technology Week 2021. The event will take place from 17 – 21 October 2021 at Dubai World Trade Centre.
Commvault, which is attending GITEX for the fifth year in a row, is emphasising its Metallic Cloud Storage Service during this year’s exhibition.
Commvault has appointed Fady Richmany as Regional Vice President – South Eastern Europe, Middle East, Turkey, and Africa, reiterating its commitment to the region. Fady brings over 30 years of experience in the IT sector, including critical industry insight, long-established relationships within the tech ecosystem, and vast experience from numerous senior general manager leadership roles with global technology organisations, to take responsibility for multiple high-growth national markets ranging from South Eastern Europe to South Africa.
Fady spent 16.5 years at Dell/EMC, where he led the company in emerging markets as General Manager for Emerging Africa, Central Eastern Europe, and most recently the UAE, as well as overseeing the Data Protection Solutions Business Units as Regional Sales Director across the TEEAM area (Turkey, Eastern Europe, Africa, & Middle East).
Marco Fanizzi – Vice President and GM at Commvault EMEA, said “GITEX is a big event for Commvault. It will be great to be there in person again this year- not only to underline our investment in the best solutions to support our local customers in the region, but also that we are investing in the best people. The regions Fady will lead are critical business opportunities for us to extend our partner network and support more customers, and adding his expertise and experience to our team is a key part of this.”
“During the show I look forward to meeting with our key stakeholders, partners and prospective customers.Many conversations will focus on our Metallic solutions, which have been extremely well received by organizations in the UAE. I am delighted to have a platform to extend our reach and directly discuss the capabilities of this solution to stakeholders in the UAE and wider region.”
Commvault will demonstrate Metallic, its pioneering backup-as-a-solution product, at GITEX in response to strong demand for intelligent data management systems from local enterprises. With a single pane of glass management through the Commvault Command Center, the solution offers a fully integrated cloud storage target for Commvault Backup and Recovery software and HyperScale X equipment.
Fady Richmany commented: “I am excited to bring my expertise to Commvault at such a transformative period in the company’s history- let’s call it a golden opportunity – to extend the growth in new markets and geographies across a very dynamic, vibrant, region. Commvault’s strong global and regional leadership teams are driving truly gamechanging SaaS and multicloud solutions into the market at a time when our customers are realizing the needs for security and control of data across increasing dispersed, remote-worker, footprints. We are perfectly positioned to give these organisations confidence their businesses data integrity is secure, through enterprise-grade protection of multi-cloud data environments.”
“GITEX is always an event that brings all the region’s IT Fraternity together and for this year will be especially exciting for me, to bring new offeringswith Metallic and Commvault, to an occasion and audience I know so well.”
Governments and municipalities in the UAE, as well as leading players in the regional telco, finance, government, and education sectors, such as Meeza in Qatar, Saudi Telecom Company (STC) and Jeddah University in Saudi Arabia, Garanti Bank and DenizBank in Turkey, and Blue Label Telecoms in South Africa, are among Commvault’s customers.
