STC Signs Agreement With Commvault At GITEX To Deliver New
Cloud Services To Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
TINTON FALLS, New Jersey and
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, Oct. 17, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- GITEX - Dubai
UAE -- Commvault (NASDAQ: CVLT), a global leader in
enterprise backup, recovery, archive and the cloud, today announced
an agreement with Saudi Telecom Company (STC), to deliver a
Backup-as-a-Service solution, utilizing the STC cloud environment.
A memorandum of understanding (MoU) agreement, was signed today at
GITEX, to collaborate on the new cloud solutions targeting public
sector and enterprises in the Kingdom of
Saudi Arabia.
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GITEX is one of the largest technology events in the world, with
more than 140,000 attendees from across the globe. Taking place in
Dubai in United Arab Emirates, the event is the biggest
gathering of technology organizations, influencers and
professionals in the region.
STC is a leading service provider within the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, with more than 32
million customers in that market. STC has a long history of
industry leadership in embracing the latest technology for
innovative services. This solution continues this tradition,
helping customers to realize the true value of their data, while
minimizing complexity and cost.
"The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is
witnessing tremendous growth, with huge potential for cloud
adoption and backup as a service implementations. Through this
cooperation with Commvault, we will be able to offer the best data
management solutions available in the market to our customers,"
said Dr. Tarig M. Enaya, Senior Vice
President of STC Enterprise Business Unit.
Commvault is recognized as an industry leader by STC and was
named a leader – for the sixth straight year – in the
Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Center Backup and Recovery
Software. This year, Commvault was ranked furthest on the
"completeness of vision" and highest on the "ability to
execute."
"This agreement, with an internationally recognized solutions
leader like STC, represents a huge milestone for Commvault. We
see big opportunities for better data management as-a-service for
hybrid, public and private cloud environments across the region,
and we believe that agreements like this will help further promote
the implementation of these secure and effective solutions," said
Bassam Hemdan, Area Vice President,
Commvault Middle East, South
Africa and Turkey.
About STC
With their headquarters in Riyadh, Saudi Telecom Group is the largest in
the Middle East and North Africa based on its market value as it
generated over 50,836,000,000 billion
riyals (13,556,000,000
dollars) in realizable revenue in 2015 and 9,334,000,000 billion riyals (2,489,000,000 dollars) as net income.
STC was established in 1998 and currently counts about
100,000,000 customers worldwide and to which they provide
high-technology knowledge-based innovative solutions. It focuses on
providing services to customers through a fiber-optic network that
spans 137,000 kilometers across Asia, the Middle
East and Europe.
In Saudi Arabia (the group's
main operation site) STC operates the largest modern mobile network
in the Middle East as it covers
more than 99% of the country's populated areas in addition to
providing 4G mobile broadband to more than 85% of the population
across the Kingdom of Saudi
Arabia.
Besides its main operation in Saudi
Arabia, which it owns 100% of, STC's investments include
100% ownership in Viva Bahrain, 51.8% shares in Viva Kuwait along
with a management contract, 35% shares in Oger Telecom Limited in
UAE and which controls Turk Telecom, Avea in Turkey, Cell-C in South Africa, 25% shares in Binariang GSM
Holding in Malaysia which controls
both Maxis in Malaysia and Aircel
in India. In addition to the
above-mentioned, STC has investments in information technology,
content, distribution, contact centers and real estate, all of
which support its telecom operations across the Middle East.
About the Commvault Data Platform and Solutions
Portfolio
The eleventh version of Commvault solutions portfolio is
uniquely positioned to help customers activate their data by
accelerating the transformation from legacy data management to a
modern data environment to unlock critical business insight and
drive new value from customers' technology investments. The
Commvault solutions portfolio is comprised of an industry-leading
product offering in the areas of data protection and recovery,
cloud, virtualization, archive, and file sync and share that
addresses evolving market trends, growth areas, and customer use
cases. The Commvault Data Platform is open and standards-based,
helping customers better leverage data, improve IT operations, and
enabling 3rd party innovation.
About Commvault
Commvault is a leading provider of data protection and
information management solutions, helping companies worldwide
activate their data to drive more value and business insight and to
transform modern data environments. With solutions and services
delivered directly and through a worldwide network of partners and
service providers, Commvault solutions comprise one of the
industry's leading portfolios in data protection and recovery,
cloud, virtualization, archive, file sync and share. Commvault has
earned accolades from customers and third party influencers for its
technology vision, innovation, and execution as an independent and
trusted expert. Without the distraction of a hardware business or
other business agenda, Commvault's sole focus on data management
has led to adoption by companies of all sizes, in all industries,
and for solutions deployed on premise, across mobile platforms, to
and from the cloud, and provided as-a-service. Commvault employs
more than 2,000 highly skilled individuals across markets
worldwide, is publicly traded on NASDAQ (CVLT), and is
headquartered in Tinton Falls, New
Jersey in the United
States. To learn more about Commvault — and how it can help
make your data work for you — visit commvault.com.
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