LONDON, U.K, 8th September 2022: Carbonite + Webroot, OpenText Security Solutions, global leaders in data protection and cybersecurity, have today announced a distribution agreement with Kite, a UK-focused, value-added distributor of disruptive security and network technologies.
The partnership will provide end-to-end cyber resilience solutions to MSPs and resellers through Kite’s award-winning distribution engine, helping companies of all sizes to securely capture, govern and exchange information on a global scale. OpenText Security Solutions combines Carbonite’s industry-leading data protection, cloud-to-cloud backup and migration products with Webroot’s endpoint protection, backed by BrightCloud threat intelligence capabilities. The combined power of these solutions ensures data remains secure and accessible, even in the face of sustained and evolving cyberattacks.
With cyber criminals increasingly targeting businesses of all sizes across all industries, organisations need to be able to protect critical business data without suffering from costly downtime. OpenText Security Solutions helps resellers and MSPs ensure their customer environments are fully cyber resilient by providing proactive and instant data security, migrating data between physical, virtual and cloud workloads or providing a solution to recover from disasters in minutes.
Kip Tumber, Director at Kite, said: “We are excited to partner with OpenText Security Solutions and to have the opportunity to bring its cyber resilience platform to our channel partners. The Carbonite and Webroot solutions empower cyber resilient businesses to be fearless in the face of cybercrime and data loss, helping organisations to ensure they remain up and running, no matter what comes their way. This new partnership will allow our reseller and MSP partners to grow their revenues by offering end users an invaluable one stop shop for cyber defence.”
Matt Aldridge, Principal Solutions Consultant at OpenText Security Solutions, said: “With the combined power of our business solutions, our end-to-end cyber resilience offering is unmatched in the industry. This exciting relationship with Kite significantly expands our reach across the channel, allowing more businesses to benefit from total endpoint protection and comprehensive disaster recovery.”
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About Kite
Kite is a UK focused, value-added distributor that specialises in bringing innovative and disruptive technologies to the UK channel. Kite’s management has over 50 years of accumulated channel experience, including launching and building markets for some of the most readily recognisable security & networking brands around today.
Kite aims to provide each of its vendor and reseller partners with a market leading distribution engine for building incremental revenue and capitalising on the opportunity presented by the rapidly changing cybersecurity landscape.
About OpenText
OpenText, The Information Company™, enables organizations to gain insight through market leading information management solutions, powered by OpenText Cloud Editions. For more information about OpenText (NASDAQ: OTEX, TSX: OTEX) visit opentext.com.
Media Contacts:
Julie Dearing, Senior Public Relations Manager – OpenText: publicrelations@opentext.com
