Xangati announced a new go-to-market partnership with Progress Distribution, an newly-launched value-added IT solutions provider in the United Arab Emirates and emerging growth markets across the Middle East and North Africa.
The new engagement will introduce Xangati’s entire IT infrastructure performance management software suites to empower the region’s virtualization systems administrators with the one comprehensive, live, real-time analytics tool best suited to solve the most complex and sophisticated storm-contention issues across virtualization and hybrid-cloud environments.
The agreement designates Progress Distribution as the premier in-region distributor of Xangati products in the UAE and other MEA markets, further strengthening Xangati’s commitment to the VAR IT channel, systems integrator and reseller network providing broader market coverage than ever before. The deal will increase Xangati’s reach within the MEA enterprise and public sector segments as well as expand Progress’s infrastructure and performance management and monitoring service assurance capabilities to managed service providers.
“The Xangati solution portfolio offers high potential for growth in the MEA market and adds significant strength to our market relevance. With a strong demand and immediate problem-solving solution for virtualized systems management software, accelerated by hybrid-cloud architecture adoption, customers benefiting from a cross-silo intelligence platform to manage the end-to-end environment is business-critical for most Middle-East enterprise. Xangati uniquely provides our value-added resellers and end-user customers the ability to triage-troubleshoot any degrading issues in real-time without the need for cumbersome agents or probes. We look forward to working with Xangati to further facilitate our customers’ transition to the hybrid cloud,” said Keith Rich, CEO, Progress Distribution.
Progress Distribution is a boutique IT distributor that focuses on emerging technologies within Security, Networking, Infrastructure and Storage. Besides offering resellers with commercial and marketing support, the company also has a dedicated professional services division, which provides consulting, training, deployment and technical support. The Progress Distribution management team is comprised of high-profile and experienced professionals who are veterans of the Middle East IT Distribution industry, with decades of collective experience,
“The Progress Distribution partnership is a great opportunity to extend our regional market presence in the Middle East with a strategic distributor distinguished by its domain expertise in networking and security,” said Atchison Frazer, VP-Marketing, Xangati. “The MEA enterprise market requires targeted optimization in order to accelerate cloud adoption, so Xangati is delighted to partner with Progress to jointly bring to market our best-of-breed software for IT infrastructure optimization.”
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