RIYADH — Commvault, a global leader in enterprise backup, recovery, archive, and the cloud, recently hosted its first ever Connections Live event in Riyadh. The event including customers and partners highlights some of the key trends in data protection and digital transformation impacting industries in Saudi Arabia and the wider region.

A recent forecast by Gartner stated IT spending in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) is projected to total $973 billion in 2019, an increase of 2 percent from the estimated spending of $954 billion in 2018. Saudi Arabia is leading the regional spending with an expected 4.2 percent rise in 2019, much of which is expected to be driven by spend on cloud and data storage services.

Christian Lang, vice president, EMEA for Commvault, commented: “We are proud to be hosting our first Commvault Connections Live event in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and this marks our commitment to supporting businesses here in the country. We are working with customers and partners to deliver world-class data protection, storage and backup solutions and this event will provide us with an opportunity to showcase the latest developments and the benefits they bring to organizations in the region.”

Wael Mustafa, area vice president for the Middle East at Commvault added: “KSA continues to be a key market for growth in our industry with tremendous opportunities available for unlocking value in data for businesses and government. Commvault is working with a variety of organizations to deliver better data management as-a-service for hybrid, public and private cloud environments. This event will allow us to understand better, the future trends in this region and showcase success stories of customers and partners in KSA.”

The Connections Live event showcased how Commvault’s HyperScale solution is ‘changing the game’ for customers, and include a panel session on digital transformation with partners, HPE, Fujitsu and Huawei, showcasing the increasing opportunities presented by digital technologies to improve business efficiency, while also environmental sustainability.

In KSA, Commvault has been working with the Saudi Telecom Company (STC), to deliver Backup-as-a-Service solution and, utilizing the STC cloud environment.