MERLION becomes the official distributor of CommVault Russia

MERLION, the largest broadline distributor on the Russian market and one of the leading players in the VAD-distribution market, and CommVault, one of the leaders in the market of software for information management and data protection, signed a distribution agreement.

As the official distributor, MERLION starts sales of the entire CommVault software product line in Russia. MERLION will offer its partners (about 3,000 system integrators) the unified platform CommVault Simpana® for the protection, management and access to all enterprise information. Simpana is the solution based on a unified architecture and providing the benefits of a truly global approach to data management.

The flexibility and scalability of the Simpana platform allows businesses to reduce risks, improve operational efficiency, cut costs and increase the value of business information. Simpana has a modular architecture and is comprised of individually licensed modules to analyse, replicate, protect, archive and search data. The software features, tightly integrated within the platform and designed for physical and virtual environment, help protect and recover data, manage costs and complexity and gain better insight into corporate information. Simpana easily adapts to the unique needs of any corporate customer.

Sales of all CommVault solutions in the Russian market will include support provided by highly skilled professionals of the MERLION Engineering Technical Center. In addition to working with servers and DSS, their range of services includes virtualization and data migration, installation, testing, pre-sale and after-sale service.

"MERLION, being one of the leaders of the Russian VAD-distribution market, is constantly increasing its product portfolio adding advanced developments from leading global IT-corporations. Our advantages are not limited to the breadth of our product lines – MERLION also provides its partners and their customers with comprehensive support in the implementation of projects of any complexity. Capabilities of our Technical Center allow testing the compatibility of different software and hardware platforms and the effectiveness of IT-products to solve specific business problems. We have no doubt that an effective and mutually beneficial cooperation with CommVault will bring the projects implemented by our partners, system integrators, to a new level of efficiency," said Yuliya Pechnikova, Director of department for VAD business development at MERLION.

"One of CommVault priorities is the expanding of distribution channels in Russia. After careful study of the Russian market we selected MERLION as the second distributor for CommVault, which is able to provide additional value to our products through the implementation and support of data management and protection projects. We plan to launch several initiatives in cooperation with MERLION, aimed at attracting new customers and partners," said Ryszard Regucki, Channel Sales Director EAST Europe at CommVault.