Tech Data Teams With BakBone

CLEARWATER, Fla. -- Tech Data Corporation (NASDAQ:TECD)today announced that its Advanced Infrastructure Solutions Division (AIS) will distribute BakBones NetVault®: Backup StoreVault Edition. It enables value-added resellers (VARs) to deliver a versatile, competitively priced data protection, backup and restoration solution for a wide range of midsize businesses and larger enterprises or institutions with critical data storage and availability requirements.

“A comprehensive, reliable data backup and recovery solution is a vital data center component,” said Tech Data Senior Vice President and General Manager, AIS, Pete Peterson. “As businesses of all sizes evaluate their needs for storing, managing and protecting information, they are turning to VARs for the expertise and insight necessary to deploy the appropriate solutions. With BakBone’s NetVault: Backup, VARs can deploy a versatile solution that enables end users to establish a wide range of data backup procedures based on their own unique data consumption and storage needs.”

“Our partnership with Tech Data and the AIS Division affords us the opportunity to engage a greater number of VARs focused on storage and data protection,” said David Schneider, vice president of the strategic partners group at BakBone. “BakBone has developed award-winning Linux data protection capabilities, and through AIS, we’re offering VARs a cost-effective, multi-platform solution end users are demanding.”

Tech Data Corp. (Nasdaq: TECD)

BakBone Software Inc.