Johannesburg, 25 Nov 2020
- Grove has been named as the inaugural Darktrace Partner of the Year for 2020.
- The award was given “in light of their fantastic performance across the board,” said Francesca Bowen, Darktrace Global Head of Partnerships.
- “Our strategic partnership with Darktrace has been a phenomenal success since its formation in 2018 and we are delighted to be Partner of the Year 2020,” said James Vintin, CEO at Grove.
- “We look forward to continuing this journey with Darktrace as we look to further our investment and break into new markets,” said Johann de Wet, General Manager at Grove.
- Grove has customers in 46 countries across the globe, with 1.1 million end-users. The business has been running for 15 years.
Grove, a cyber security solutions provider with offices in Cape Town, Johannesburg, London and Nairobi, was recently awarded the inaugural Darktrace Partner of the Year for 2020 award at an online partner summit hosted by Darktrace.
Francesca Bowen, Darktrace Global Head of Partnerships, said she was delighted to announce that Darktrace has selected Grove as Darktrace’s Partner of the Year 2020. “In light of your fantastic performance across the board. Grove has grown with us globally, it’s been incredible to see how your team works alongside ours all over the world. We are truly grateful for your support."
This prestigious award is a reflection of a strong collective effort from the Grove team, led by CEO James Vintin and Darktrace product lead Johann de Wet. Darktrace’s world-leading cyber AI platform has proven to be an invaluable investment for our customers, as we have grown our business across Europe, Africa, the United States and the Caribbean.
Warren Mayer, Darktrace’s Alliances Director for Africa, said in a video interview afterwards (video here) that the relationship between Darktrace and Grove is one that reflects in the feedback received from customers as well. “The feedback we get from our customers has been remarkable with regards to solving their challenges.”
“We are looking forward to this continued partnership with Darktrace and appreciate the recognition shown for the excellent work done by our sales and support staff,” said Vintin. “We have developed the highest levels of technical competence in the configuration, deployment and support of the Darktrace technology, which we are delivering to customers in 14 countries and counting.”
As Vintin explained: “The strength of our collaboration and partnership with Darktrace means Grove and Darktrace teams now combine seamlessly on new customer engagements, and we are proud to work closely with the Darktrace team. Being recognised as Partner of the Year is the culmination of significant investment in aligning Grove’s business and capabilities with Darktrace and we are delighted to receive this accolade.”
“Darktrace's groundbreaking approach to cyber security has disrupted the global marketplace and it's been an exciting journey to be part of the process and enjoy such success,” says Johann de Wet. “Our role as partner is to help our customers maximise their investment in mitigating cyber risk and this is where we have focused on building a rich customer experience to complement Darktrace's powerful technology. Working alongside the Darktrace teams around the world has been fantastic and it has been great to see how the strong collaborative relationships between us have added significant value in ensuring happy customers. We look forward to continuing this journey with Darktrace as we look to further our investment and break into new markets.”
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Grove
Grove unlocks business success through technology. We help you and your business fulfill your potential through the power of leading-edge cybersecurity, custom software development and cloud computing. We love what we do and enjoy working with the 2,500+ happy customers we have deployed to over 1,1 million end users over the past 15 years.
Grove is a solutions provider for leading companies in their field including Blackberry Cylance, Darktrace, Google, Mimecast and Proofpoint. Deloitte has acknowledged us on three occasions as one of the fastest growing technology companies in the United Kingdom, as well as Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA).
Darktrace
Darktrace is the world’s leading cyber AI company and the creator of Autonomous Response technology.
Its self-learning AI is modeled on the human immune system and used by over 4,000 organizations to protect against threats to the cloud, email, IoT, networks and industrial systems. This includes insider threat, industrial espionage, IoT compromises, zero-day malware, data loss, supply chain risk and long-term infrastructure vulnerabilities.
The company has over 1,300 employees, 44 offices and headquarters in San Francisco and Cambridge, UK. Every 3 seconds, Darktrace AI fights back against a cyber-threat, preventing it from causing damage.