Cohesity Partners with ZainTECH to Expand AI-Powered Cyber Resilience Across the Middle East

Cohesity,  the leader in AI-powered data security, has extended its Aspire Managed Service Provider (MSP) ecosystem across the Middle East through an agreement with ZainTECH,  the digital solutions arm of Zain Group and a recognized leader in AI professional services across the MENA region. The collaboration will see ZainTECH deliver advanced cyber resilience capabilities to enterprise customers across the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, and Jordan.

The MSP partnership, formalised through the Cohesity Aspire Partner Programme, enables ZainTECH to expand its managed cyber resilience portfolio beyond traditional backup services. Through this collaboration, ZainTECH delivers a fully managed Backup as a Service (BaaS) offering powered by the Cohesity Data Cloud, designed for sovereign-ready, always-on enterprise environments.

From a technical perspective, Cohesity serves as the underlying platform enabling ZainTECH’s BaaS service. The platform provides core data security and cyber resilience capabilities, including immutable backup, ransomware protection, anomaly detection, cyber vaulting and air-gapped recovery via FortKnox, encryption, reporting, and advanced recovery orchestration.

ZainTECH’s BaaS offering extends protection across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, including on-premises infrastructure, ZainTECH Cloud, public cloud platforms, Microsoft 365 and SaaS applications, databases, virtual machines, containers, and file/NAS workloads.

This is delivered as a fully managed service, covering onboarding, backup policy design and configuration, continuous monitoring, reporting, incident response, and restoration support.

“Across the Middle East, organisations are racing to modernise their digital infrastructure, but resilience has not kept pace. Our own research shows that 59% of UAE organisations experienced a material cyberattack in the past year, and with daily attacks on the country’s infrastructure continuing to rise, the question is no longer whether disruption will happen but how fast you can recover from it. This partnership with ZainTECH puts that capability directly in the hands of a trusted regional provider.”

– Gregg Petersen, Regional Director, Middle East, Cohesity

ZainTECH’s integration with Cohesity delivers immutable data protection and a secure, multi-tenant system. Features include AI-powered threat detection, anomaly scanning to identify risks, and scalable management of unstructured data. FortKnox enables on-premises, self-managed, air-gapped cyber vaults, that manage data within the organisation’s environment and jurisdiction. This addresses a key concern for enterprise customers across the region.

Enterprises across the Middle East are increasingly cautious about where their data resides. Some are re-evaluating hyperscaler-hosted environments and increasingly prioritizing regional providers that enable data management within national borders and within critical regulatory frameworks. ZainTECH’s regional managed services infrastructure and sovereign-ready operating model, combined with the on-premises capabilities of Cohesity FortKnox, directly answers that demand.

“Our customers are asking harder questions about where their data lives and what happens to it when things go wrong. Through this partnership with Cohesity, we are strengthening our ability to deliver enterprise-grade cyber resilience services that combine immutable protection, sovereign-ready operations, and recoverability frameworks designed for regulated and always-on enterprise environments.”

– Andrew Hanna, CEO, ZainTECH

ZainTECH has enrolled in the Cohesity Aspire Partner Programme, unlocking access to training, certification, and joint go-to-market support as it scales the Cohesity offering across its customer base.