Strategic partnership combines Veeam’s expertise in data resilience and Data & AI Trust with Mindware’s regional reach, channel expertise and technical capabilities to help organizations strengthen cyber resilience and ensure business continuity
DUBAI, UAE, September, 2026: Mindware, a leading value-added distributor VAD in the Middle East and Africa, today announced a strategic partnership with Veeam Software, the global leader in Data & AI Trust. Mindware has been appointed as a value-added distributor for Veeam across the Middle East, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Egypt and Libya.
The partnership brings together Veeam’s industry-leading data resilience capabilities with Mindware’s extensive regional channel network, technical expertise, local market presence, partner ecosystem and cloud capabilities. Together, the companies will work to help organizations protect their critical data and applications, recover rapidly from disruption, and maintain business continuity in an increasingly complex threat landscape.
Organizations across the region are facing growing pressure to strengthen data resilience and establish greater trust in the data powering cloud, analytics and AI initiatives. As ransomware and cyberattacks become more sophisticated, cloud and SaaS adoption accelerates, regulatory requirements evolve, and AI adoption scales across critical business processes, organizations need greater visibility, governance, security and recoverability across their data environments.
Against this backdrop, the partnership will enable Mindware’s channel partners to deliver Veeam solutions to customers across a broad range of industries and organization sizes, including enterprises, SMBs, government entities, healthcare organizations, and financial institutions.
As part of the partnership, Mindware will provide its channel ecosystem with comprehensive support across training, certification, sales and technical enablement, marketing, proof-of-concepts, workshops, technical support, and partner incentives. Mindware will also offer additional professional and technical services around Veeam, including implementation and enablement capabilities, helping partners accelerate deployments and deliver greater value to customers.
Mindware’s regional scale, experienced team, and strong financial foundation were key factors in Veeam’s selection of the distributor. The partnership is designed to expand Veeam’s market reach while giving partners the resources, expertise and support required to capitalize on growing demand for data resilience solutions.
Veeam is ranked the number one provider worldwide for data protection software market share by IDC and has been named a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant for Backup & Data Protection Platforms for the tenth consecutive time. Combined with Mindware’s regional reach and ability to translate leading technologies into scalable, market-ready solutions, this leadership provides partners with a strong foundation to address growing customer demand for data resilience and Data & AI Trust.
“Data resilience has moved well beyond being an IT priority; it is now fundamental to business continuity, risk management and digital transformation. Across our markets, organizations are adopting cloud and AI at an unprecedented pace, while many are still working to establish the governance, visibility and resilience needed to trust AI-powered systems at scale. Customers increasingly recognize that AI is only as reliable as the data behind it,” commented Nicholas Argyrides, VP Gulf & East Africa at Mindware.
“Our partnership with Veeam brings together two complementary strengths: Veeam’s proven leadership in data resilience, and Mindware’s ability to translate leading technologies into scalable, market-ready solutions through our regional channel ecosystem. We see a significant opportunity to equip our partners with the expertise, services and resources they need to help customers protect, govern and recover their data, giving them the confidence to innovate, strengthen cyber resilience and accelerate AI initiatives safely and responsibly. This is about making data resilience an integral part of how organizations across the region build and modernize their digital infrastructure,” continued Argyrides.
Over the next 12–24 months, Mindware and Veeam will focus on expanding market coverage, growing the partner ecosystem, driving customer acquisition, increasing cloud adoption, and accelerating revenue growth across the covered territories. The companies are also exploring additional initiatives in Saudi Arabia and across the wider region to further develop the Veeam ecosystem and create new opportunities for partners and customers.
“Organizations across the Middle East are accelerating cloud and AI adoption, and they need confidence that the data behind it is secure, governed and recoverable. Data resilience is the foundation of that trust. Mindware’s regional reach and technical depth extend our ability to put these capabilities in the hands of more partners and customers, so they can recover quickly from disruption and move forward with AI with confidence,” said Charbel Zreiby, Channel Director, EMEA East at Veeam.
The partnership will be showcased at LEAP Saudi Arabia 2026, providing a highly relevant platform to engage technology decision-makers, government organizations, enterprises, investors and channel partners from Saudi Arabia and the wider region. The event reflects the growing importance of data resilience, cloud transformation and secure data management as organizations accelerate their digital transformation strategies.
For organizations operating in today’s digital economy, data resilience is no longer simply an IT requirement. The ability to protect, recover and maintain access to critical data and applications is fundamental to business continuity. Through this partnership, Mindware and Veeam aim to make advanced data resilience and Data & AI Trust capabilities more accessible to organizations throughout the region. By helping customers improve visibility, governance, security and recovery across their data environments, the partnership will support organizations as they modernize infrastructure, strengthen cyber resilience and accelerate AI adoption with greater confidence.
About Mindware:
Mindware, a leading IT distributor in the Middle East and Africa (MEA) region, takes pride in offering top-quality global brands to over 7,500 partners with legal entities in 13 countries. With a rich history dating back to 1991 and headquartered in Dubai, UAE, Mindware’s unwavering commitment spans over three decades, empowering businesses with cutting-edge IT solutions, AI technologies, and fostering digital transformation. Mindware’s comprehensive offering encompasses a selection of leading brands in infrastructure, networking, security, storage, and artificial intelligence solutions. As part of its Value-Added Distribution (VAD) methodology, Mindware goes the extra mile to provide supplementary value-added services to its reselling partners including pre-sales consultancy, implementation services, local technical support, AI enablement, marketing enablement tools, and multiple channel-enabling programs. Supported by strategically positioned logistic centres in key locations, Mindware ensures seamless distribution across all channels, efficiently catering to the needs of its esteemed partners and customers in both traditional IT and emerging AI landscapes.
About Veeam Software:
Veeam®, the Data and AI Trust Company, delivers a unified data and AI trust layer that connects security, governance, compliance, privacy and resilience, powered by shared intelligence across the entire data estate. Veeam helps organizations establish, operationalize and continuously validate trust in their data so it can be used safely to accelerate AI at scale.
In an agentic era, security starts with data. As the market leader in both data resilience and data security, Veeam helps organizations reduce risk and strengthen control across the full data lifecycle by unifying policy-based access and protection controls, governance workflows, privacy safeguards and compliance reporting with resilience built in. Veeam provides deep contextual intelligence across data and identities, automates governance actions and remediation, and enables precision recovery so organizations can rapidly restore operations with clean, trusted data after ransomware, disasters, insider threats, rogue agents or human error.
Headquartered in Seattle with offices in more than 30 countries, Veeam protects over 550,000 customers worldwide, including 80% of the Fortune 500. Learn more at http://www.veeam.com or follow Veeam on LinkedIn @veeam-software and X @veeam.
