Assured Data Protection Enters Strategic Partnership with AVANT to Offer Leading Edge Cyber Resiliency Managed Services

Rubrik Security Cloud and Nutanix Disaster Recovery Now Available to AVANT Customers As-a-Service

HERNDON, Va. and LEEDS, England, July 15, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Assured Data Protection (Assured), the prominent IT managed services provider (MSP) for cloud data protection solutions, today announces a strategic partnership with AVANT, the premier Technology Services Distributor (TSD). The partnership will see AVANT offer Assured's managed data backup and disaster recovery (DR) and cyber resiliency services, creating new growth opportunities for both companies.

For Assured, the strategic partnership offers access to untapped markets through the TSD model, providing Rubrik and Nutanix technologies as-a-service. For AVANT, the agreement expands the technology choices it can offer customers, through its Trusted Advisor network. It will mean that AVANT can offer Rubrik's backup and DR technology to customers for the first time with Nutanix technology also being available, depending on needs.

Drew Lydecker, Co-founder and President of AVANT, commented: "Partnering with Assured to help our end customers become more cyber resilient through leading-edge technologies delivered as a managed service enhances our global capabilities significantly. In effect, it helps us become an extension of clients' IT teams. It also aligns with the mission of our Trusted Advisors, who educate customers on world class technologies that can meet their requirements."

AVANT differentiates itself in the IT services and technology distribution marketplace through its Trusted Advisor ecosystem and through its Pathfinder platform. AVANT Trusted Advisors act as impartial consultants, utilizing the company's extensive resources to help clients make informed decisions across various technology domains. They focus on solving business problems rather than promoting specific products, building long-term, trust-based relationships with their clients.

Trusted Advisors are aided by AVANT's Pathfinder platform – a proprietary tool that facilitates knowledge enhancement, helping them to expertly guide clients through the complexities of next-gen enterprise technology. Pathfinder dramatically speeds up the research and proposal process while enhancing transparency and credibility in client engagements.

Delivering leading-edge data backup and DR technologies as a managed service

Through the partnership, AVANT's customers can take advantage of two leading-edge cyber resiliency technologies:

• Rubrik Security Cloud as-a-service: a fully managed Rubrik service from design and implementation through to recovery and daily proactive support, delivered by Assured and based on Rubrik's Zero Trust Data Security™. This helps organizations achieve business resilience against cyberattacks, malicious insiders, and operational disruptions. Assured is Rubrik's largest MSP and an award-winning company that focuses on providing innovative data management, backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity solutions.
  
  
• Nutanix Disaster Recovery as-a-service: a first-of-its-kind backup and DR solution delivered by Assured that requires no investment in facilities or hardware and operationalizes Nutanix disaster recovery solutions. providing protection to customers in over 70 countries worldwide. By combining Nutanix replication with traditional data protection offerings, customers can prioritize their workloads, matching recovery speed to the most critical applications while leveraging lower-cost solutions for those workloads that can support longer recovery time and point capabilities.

Vincent Gatti, Channel Chief of Americas, Assured Data Protection, commented: "AVANT is an outstanding TSD that is going from strength to strength through innovation and its Trusted Advisor model. I'm excited they have entered this strategic partnership with Assured, which will add an expansive opportunity for both companies to add a world class solution to AVANT's clients. Strategic partnerships are an important component of Assured's growth plans in the Americas and I look forward to seeing the results of this one."

About Assured Data Protection 

Assured Data Protection is a global data backup, disaster recovery, business continuity, and extended detection and response managed service provider. With more than 200 years of combined industry experience, Assured Data Protection delivers scalable solutions and gained the distinction of being selected by Solutions Review Magazine as a Top 20 Vendor for data disaster recovery and CIO Review as a Top 20 Vendor for data backup. For more information, visit www.assured-dp.com 

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