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Agreement Expands CommVault’s Distribution Strategy in EMEA
LONDON, UK — January 29, 2007 — CommVault® (NASDAQ: CVLT), a leading provider of Unified Data Management® solutions, today announced a new distribution agreement with Horizon UK to provide system integrators, resellers and mutual customers in the UK and Ireland with the full suite of CommVault enterprise data management products and services. Available through Horizon’s Data Management Division, the agreement marks the latest move by CommVault to expand the availability of its products in data management channels across Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA).
“Having established a strong local presence in the region, CommVault is committed to building momentum in its EMEA channel through key partnerships,” said Steven Rose, CommVault’s vice president of EMEA. “We’ve invested heavily into our channel programme to ensure we remain competitive, offering our partners innovative and award-winning products that address a wide range of customer needs from data protection to compliance to business continuity. Horizon’s Data Management Division builds on a tradition of sales excellence, technical expertise and strong relationships with systems integrators, specialist storage providers, and corporate partners. This agreement will enable CommVault to expand its channel partnerships and is a ‘win-win’ for both our companies and our mutual partners.”
Effective immediately, Horizon UK will begin selling and promoting CommVault data management software including backup and recovery, replication, email compliance, storage resource management, data archiving and migration solutions. With multiple ongoing business, channel and technology partnerships, Horizon’s existing market footprint and professional services capabilities will help ensure that CommVault remains competitive across all its core markets.
According to Mark Walker, business unit director for Horizon Data Management, “Horizon’s partnership with CommVault provides great opportunity for further growth in our data management products and services portfolio. Adding CommVault clearly demonstrates our commitment to offering a competitive portfolio of products to our customers. With a wide range of award-winning storage, data protection and management solutions that are easy to deploy and manage, CommVault represents an excellent strategic fit with our portfolio, consistent with our strategy of partnering with technology leaders in high-growth IT sectors.”
About Horizon UK
Horizon UK is the UK subsidiary of Horizon Technology Group plc (HOR), a leading system integrator and distributor of information technology products, which is listed on the ISE (Dublin) and London Stock Exchanges.
Horizon UK is a unique 'channel development organisation', specifically focusing on the development and support of organisations operating in the Enterprise sector, typically; outsourcers, System Integrators, Service Providers and larger reselling Technology Integrators.
Operating entirely within the UK as a 'channel only' business which does not sell to end users, Horizon UK provides comprehensive UK coverage both geographically, within defined vertically segmented markets, and via its five divisions which are centers of excellence. Horizon UK has a proven track record in developing markets and delivering incremental revenue growth for its vendors.
Horizon UK develops and supports channel communities for the acknowledged leading infrastructure vendors including: Sun Microsystems, IBM, EMC, Oracle, Symantec, Nortel, Juniper and F5.
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