27 February 2018

Cloud Distribution Signs HyTrust to Spearhead UK Partner Growth

Enabling Partners to deliver customers secure and trustworthy infrastructures across private and public clouds


Reading, UK – 27th February 2018 – Next generation value-added distributor Cloud Distribution, a specialist in security, networking and storage, today announced a new partnership with HyTrust - a leading workload security provider. This strategic new partnership will be the launch pad for HyTrust to grow their UK business, enabling partners to offer a secure, encrypted infrastructure to its customers.

As both the public sector and the enterprise embrace multi-cloud strategies to accelerate digital transformation, it is imperative for customers to implement a set of cloud security policies that protects sensitive information and data. 

“Cloud Distribution has a mature and well-proven sales and marketing engine that will augment and accelerate our go-to market strategy in the UK at a time of rapid growth in the cloud security market. We look forward to working with Cloud Distribution and their network of exceptional resellers and integrators who design, architect, and secure workloads that span private, hybrid and public clouds, “ said Jason Cowie VP Global Channels at HyTrust.

As more customers embrace the Cloud the opportunity for partners to promote HyTrust’s Multi-Cloud Workload Security is now. With increasing consumption of both virtualisation and cloud services, customers require more Control, security with less risk​​. Partners who promote Hytrust will open the door to substantial professional services business alongside the product sale.

Cloud Distribution have partnered with HyTrust as it offers our partners a unique opportunity to increase their business and customer wallet share by delivering additional technology and services around VMWare security and encryption to aid with areas like GDPR compliance. We are looking forward to meeting the growing demand for cloud security solutions by bringing this new opportunity to the UK market,” said Grant Reddin, Director of Sales for DCI at Cloud Distribution.

According to Forrester, the global cloud security solutions market will grow 28 percent annually over the 2017 to 2021 period, from $1.5 billion in 2017 to $3.5 billion in 2021.

Cloud Distribution is offering a select number of partners to sign up to the HyTrust partner program and will be working closely with these partners to enable them with a number of fast start marketing activities to help develop an accelerated pipeline.


About Cloud Distribution
Cloud Distribution is a value-added distributor of disruptive next generation security, networking and storage solutions that VARs can take to market quickly and easily. It currently distributes, Acronis, Actifio, AccelStor, Aerohive, Arista Networks, BlackBerry, CheckPoint Software, Cloud4Wi, Cyren Security, DataCore, Exinda, Ignitenet, Peplink, Pivot3, Storagecraft, Ucopia and Vectra Networks. Its portfolio of disruptive security and networking solutions helps resellers to differentiate themselves from the competition and create new markets to sell in. The company was founded in 2009 by senior executives with a wealth of experience in the security, networking and optimisation space. Its philosophy is to take innovative, cutting-edge vendors into the UK market by recruiting and working together with skilled, reputable, market making partners. For further information, please visit https://www.cdl-cloud.com/ or follow us on Twitter @cloudtweeters

About HyTrust
HyTrust’s mission is to make private, public and hybrid cloud infrastructure more trustworthy for enterprises, service providers and government agencies. HyTrust provides solutions that automate security controls for software-defined computing, networking and storage workloads to achieve the highest levels of visibility, granular policy control and data protection. HyTrust customers benefit from being able to accelerate cloud and virtualization cost savings while improving their security posture by automating and enforcing security policies in real time, adapting quickly to compliance requirements, and preventing unplanned outages.

Headquartered in Mountain View, CA, HyTrust is backed by the leading providers of strategic IT infrastructure including VMware, Cisco, Intel and Fortinet; by the vanguard of innovative solutions for the intelligence community, In-Q-Tel; and by a world class group of financial investors including AVP Growth, Epic Ventures, Granite Ventures, Sway Ventures, Trident Capital and Vanedge Capital.