TECHx Media caught up with Fady Richmany, Corporate Vice President and General Manager: Emerging Markets at Commvault, during GITEX Global 2025 to discuss the latest innovations, regional expansion, and the company’s focus on cyber resilience in an AI-driven world.

TECHx: What is the most exciting thing happening for Commvault at GITEX this year?

Fady Richmany: The excitement is around the MOUs and partnerships we have signed and are about to sign. Globally, we’ve extended collaborations with BeyondTrust and have a strategic partnership with CrowdStrike for Horus Split integration. We’ve also partnered with Pure on ransomware solutions and signed an MOU with Spet for awareness initiatives. Additionally, our Sovereign Cloud 442 will be announced next week.

GITEX provides a fantastic platform to connect with our customers, demonstrate capabilities, and showcase innovations such as clean room recovery as a service, cloud design solutions, and the latest addition to our Hyperscale X architecture – Hyperscale Flex. This appliance, developed in partnership with Vast State, allows customers to build isolated recovery environments.

Another highlight is our acquisition of Satori, enhancing our ability to secure AI and protect large language models (LLMs) and datasets.

TECHx: What is Commvault’s core focus in cybersecurity, particularly around cyber resilience?

Fady Richmany: Cyber resilience begins when cybersecurity alone cannot prevent an attack. Our role is to ensure that if a breach occurs – whether a ransomware attack or otherwise – our clients can recover effectively. Being proactive is key: isolating digital assets, protecting Active Directory, and testing clean copies regularly.

Technologies like Cloud Rewind allow organizations to rebuild application stacks rapidly, reducing recovery times from weeks to hours. AI is central to this approach; sophisticated attacks require AI-driven recovery strategies. Over the past two years, we have shifted from traditional business continuity to continuous business, emphasizing continuous security, readiness, and recovery. The focus now is on survival time objectives – ensuring organizations can withstand attacks in an AI-dominated landscape.

TECHx: Can you share Commvault’s regional expansion plans?

Fady Richmany: I cover over 100 countries, including the CIS, Southeast Europe, the Baltics, Ukraine, Turkey, Africa, and the Middle East. We prioritize large economies such as Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Egypt, Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, Turkey, Greece, and Romania, alongside smaller markets across North and East Africa, and the Gulf region.

Our partner ecosystem is critical. We collaborate with distributors, GSIs like Kyndryl, Accenture, HCL, Infosys, and Tata, ensuring that our customers receive support wherever they operate.

TECHx: Can you tell us about your career journey and how it has evolved?

Fady Richmany: This is my fifth GITEX and my fourth anniversary with Commvault. Before joining, I spent 17 years with Dell Technologies and 13 years in networking and security roles at Cisco, Juniper, and Nortel Networks. My career has evolved from networking and security to storage with EMC, then software with Dell, and now cyber resilience and AI-driven solutions with Commvault.

Commvault continues to position itself as a trusted partner in cybersecurity, helping organizations stay resilient in an era of increasingly sophisticated, AI-driven attacks. GITEX 2025 has provided the perfect stage to showcase these innovations and expand regional partnerships.

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