Leading IT Solutions Provider to Resell, Distribute, Market and Support Sanovi DR Management™ Suite
Dubai, United Arab Emirates - July 15, 2012: Sanovi Technologies, a leader in disaster recovery management (DRM) software and Gulf Business Machines (GBM) today announced a partnership to resell Sanovi DR Management™ Suite to organizations throughout the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC, excepting Saudi Arabia) and Pakistan. Sanovi DR Management™ Suite is a comprehensive family of enterprise class Disaster Recovery management software solutions designed for validating, monitoring, testing and automating recovery.
Founded in 1990, GBM is a spin-off from IBM and the leading IT solutions provider in the region fulfilling the IT requirements of local, regional and international organizations. This major partnership agreement establishes a long-term strategic relationship between both companies allowing GBM to remarket, distribute, resell and support Sanovi Technologies' products, including Sanovi DR Management™ Suite.
Sanovi Technologies is the leader in the Disaster Recovery Management Solution space and helps organizations pro-actively manage disaster recovery (DR) environments to ensure that applications can be recovered in compliance with service level agreements (SLA). The Company has been positioned by Gartner as sample vendor for "Recovery Exercising" in Gartner Hype Cycle for Business Continuity Management and Disaster Recovery Management in 2011. Designed for organizations that require a comprehensive Disaster Recovery Management Solution, Sanovi DR Management™ Suite enables DR monitoring, reporting, testing and work flow automation of complex IT infrastructure and applications. Sanovi DRM suite offers a unified disaster recovery management class of product that delivers real-time DR readiness validation with clear business and operational advantages.
"In today's volatile business environment, Disaster Recovery Management solutions are imperative for the smooth functioning of business. Sanovi solutions help customers reduce business exposure to IT outages, and increase confidence in their DR plans, while lowering total cost of ownership for DR solutions with its DR Automation platform," said Cesare Cardone, CEO, GBM. "We are excited to partner with Sanovi to bring this value to organizations in our region."
The key business benefits of Sanovi DR Management™ Suite include increased availability of IT systems, reduction of IT DR costs and business risk mitigation through successful DR fail-over and recovery.
"Demand for DR Automation Solutions is growing as customers are looking for ways to reduce production downtimes, and perform successful DR Drills. GBM has significant market reach in the region and provides Sanovi an excellent opportunity to offer its intelligent DRM automation solutions and provide measurable ROI to customers," said Chandra Pulamarasetti, Co-Founder & CEO at Sanovi Technologies.
About Gulf Business Machines (GBM)
Founded in 1990, Gulf Business Machines (GBM) is the leading IT solutions provider in the region fulfilling the IT requirements of local, regional and international organisations in the GCC.
A spin-off from IBM, GBM is the sole distributor for IBM- excluding selected IBM products and services -throughout the GCC, except for Saudi Arabia. GBM's momentum was further enhanced in 1999, when the team secured the Cisco portfolio. Today GBM holds the highest level of recognition in the region from Cisco, Gold Partner status, in addition to the Cisco Borderless Network Architecture Specialized Learning Partner status.
GBM offers an extensive range of IT infrastructure, IT solutions and services ranging from consulting, resource deployment and integration to after-sales support, through 1000 professionals and over 20 solid strategic partnerships forged with internationally-recognised IT solution providers.
The company, which is ISO-9001 certified since 1999, has offices in the UAE (Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Sharjah), Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, and Bahrain. GBM also has established a presence in Pakistan, where the company now operates three offices, one each in Karachi, Islamabad and Lahore as an IBM Premier Business Partner. The Pakistani operation also holds a Silver Partner Status from Cisco.
For more information please visit www.gbm4ibm.com
About Sanovi
Sanovi helps organisations across the globe proactively manage disaster recovery (DR) environments and ensure business managers that applications can be recovered in compliance with service level agreements. Sanovi DR ManagementTM Suite, is a comprehensive family of enterprise-class DR management software solutions for validating, monitoring, testing and automating recovery. Sanovi customers are marquee Fortune 500 clients in the banking, manufacturing & utilities vertical. For more information visit: http://www.sanovi.com
For further information, please contact:
Ilana Zacka,
Corporate Communications Manager
Gulf Business Machines
Tel: +973 17584333, Dir: +973 17584363
Email: ilana@bh.gbm.ihost.com
Lina Al Desouky or Luz Villamil
Weber Shandwick
Tel: +971 4 321 0077
Email: lina.aldesouky@ws-mena.com
luz.villamil@ws-mena.com
Sanovi MEDIA CONTACT:
MelCole Public Relations
Rohit Srivastava
Tel: (+91 11) 29834428, 29833118
Email: rohit_srivastava@melcole.com
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