Cobalt Iron and Tech Data Partner

Cobalt Iron Inc., a provider of enterprise data protection SaaS, and Tech Data Corporation announced a distribution partnership for Cobalt Iron products, including the company’s Adaptive Data Protection (ADP) SaaS enterprise backup solution, throughout the UK.

“As we continue to expand the Cobalt Iron footprint in the U.K. market, Tech Data will be a valuable partner in addressing customer and partner demand for next-generation automated and analytics-driven data protection,” said Mark Ward, COO, Cobalt Iron. “Tech Data has both an impressive reputation and extensive reach in these markets, and we look forward to working together to drive business partners’ awareness of the benefits that smart, secure, automated data protection everywhere brings to the enterprise.“

Tech Data offers a broad portfolio of products, services, and solutions, and also the specialized skills and expertise in next-generation technologies that enable channel partners to bring innovative products and solutions to market.

The partnership between the two companies will make Cobalt Iron products and solutions more visible and accessible to business partners in the UK, enabling them to deliver increased cost savings, simpler operations, and greater flexibility in providing data-protection environments to their end-user customers.

Cobalt Iron ADP enables partners to deliver a cloud-based backup-as-a-service leveraging intelligent analytics and automation. The solution modernizes backup, delivering the features and scale of enterprise data protection along with the flexibility and economics of cloud consumption. ADP also eliminates complexity, reduces management, scales from terabytes to exabytes, and provides the simplicity absent in backup technologies and tools.

Ian Jeffs, business unit director, data center, Tech Data UK, said: “The addition of Cobalt Iron to our next-generation solutions portfolio means we can give resellers an opportunity to address the rapidly evolving backup needs of enterprise customers who are moving to hybrid and highly distributed infrastructures. As a trusted advisor to the channel, Tech Data has a key role to play in enabling partners and MSPs to deliver intelligent, automated solutions and thus increase customer satisfaction and grow their revenues and margin opportunities.“