Email & file archiving
Enterprise Vault design, upgrades, health checks and large-scale migrations, including SourceOne to EV.
Dubai · Data protection & AI architect · Founder of Virtech
I keep the Gulf's most regulated data safe, recoverable and compliant.
Architect and advisor on enterprise backup, archiving and data governance for banks, government and healthcare across the GCC. Specialist in Enterprise Vault, InfoScale and Cohesity, and now helping the same organisations put AI to work on the data they trust.
Certified · Arctera
Enterprise Vault · eDiscovery Platform · InfoScale
Certified · Cohesity
NetBackup · DataProtect · Gaia
Certified instructor, Veritas portfolio
Enterprise Vault, eDiscovery Platform, InfoScale, NetBackup, NetBackup Appliances and Flex
Where I spend my time
Four areas, one goal: when an auditor, a regulator or a ransomware incident arrives, the data is there and provably intact.
Backup & recovery
NetBackup and Cohesity platforms: multi-site architecture, refreshes and recovery you can actually test.
High availability
InfoScale and VCS clustering for archive and storage services that cannot go down.
Governance & sovereignty
Retention, eDiscovery and compliance for UAE PDPL, CBUAE, SAMA and QCB, keeping data in-country.
Applied AI
AI is only as good as the data beneath it. I've spent my career protecting that data.
Now I help enterprises turn it into an advantage: AI that runs on their own archives and backups, stays in-country, and is governed from day one. I don't do demos that never reach production.
- AI readiness: find, classify and clean the data before it reaches a model
- Sovereign AI: private, in-region deployments for regulated industries
- AI on your archives: search, insight and eDiscovery with Cohesity Gaia and beyond
Selected work
The work I do, week in, week out
These aren't one-offs. Engagements like these are my everyday work across the Gulf and beyond. Clients are anonymised by sector and region.
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Banking · GCC
SourceOne to Enterprise Vault migration
A new Enterprise Vault platform and a full email archive migration for a major bank, with metadata, retention and legal holds intact.
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Healthcare · GCC
Enterprise Vault expansion for a specialist hospital
Scaling the archive platform as clinical and corporate data volumes and retention demands grow.
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Ports & logistics · North Africa
Three-site backup platform design
A resilient Cohesity backup architecture across three locations, with recovery designed to be tested, not assumed.
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Financial services · GCC
Cohesity platform health check & blueprint
An independent review of production clusters, delivered as a prioritised roadmap the team can act on.
Notes from the field
All articles →Before you add AI, get your data house in order
Ownership, access, retention, archive quality and recovery: what to review before any AI workflow touches your data.Enterprise Vault: should you stay, modernise or migrate?
A clear way to weigh the three options against architecture, data volume, cost and risk.Could you rebuild your backup server from scratch?
The configuration, catalogues, keys and procedures you need to protect, and to test, before the day you need them.About
Engineer first, founder second.
I founded Virtech in Dubai and still spend most of my week hands-on: designing clusters, leading migrations and sitting with customers when something breaks. Virtech is the GCC's leading Enterprise Vault partner and the only certified EV trainer in the region.
What drives me is simple: building solutions to the problems that keep CIOs up at night, and seeing them hold up in production years later.
Away from work, I'm a husband and the father of two girls. You'll usually find us travelling somewhere new.
Facing a renewal, a migration or an audit?
Thirty minutes, no slides. Tell me what you're dealing with.