Tech Data, a TD SYNNEX company, has announced a new partnership with Yugabyte. This partnership in the Asia Pacific and Japan region is the first for Yugabyte across TD SYNNEX and Tech Data globally. It supports Tech Data's strategy on driving digital transformation built on data for business partners by accelerating capabilities in cloud native architectures, especially for born-in-the-cloud partner ecosystems.

With growing interest around transformative trends such as mission-critical microservices due to its promise of improved scalability when compared to monolithic systems, born-in-the-cloud apps, edge and IOT applications are driving shifts in today's database market. IDC Futurescape predicts that "by 2024, nearly 60% of organizations' new custom-developed applications will be built and managed using microservices as foundations for stronger and higher-performing automation.” These shifts necessitate the need for modern databases to support these modern applications.

"We have observed a trend of end customers looking to move apps to both hybrid and multicloud, as well as new startups building applications in the cloud. With a distributed SQL database built to power global-scale cloud native applications, Yugabyte is well positioned to value-add and support their needs as their operations scale," said Bennett Wong, vice president for advanced solutions, modern data center & analytics, Tech Data Asia Pacific & Japan.

"As more organizations and ISV's in Asia embrace digital transformation and app modernization, the need for a cloud-native database is rising," said Danny Zaidifard, vice president of business development and partners, Yugabyte. "YugabyteDB is built to simplify data geodistribution, as well as to enable speed, scale, resiliency, security and portability — all critical for modern workloads. Our partnership with Tech Data will help accelerate the adoption of YugabyteDB to support partners in modernizing the data layer for their customers. Tech Data's alignment to open source technologies and presence across the APJ market will allow us to quickly connect and engage with the partner ecosystem effectively."

The benefits of this new partnership include:

• Expanded capabilities in cloud native architectures for born in the cloud partner ecosystems, allowing enterprises to focus on business growth instead of complex data infrastructure management.
• Full alignment with Tech Data's go-to-market (GTM) strategy for next-generation data centers in infrastructure modernization, data center automation, application modernization, cloud operating model and workload wegmentations, toward supporting digital transformation. 
• Being the cornerstone of Tech Data's Analytics GTM strategy for data modernization, data fabric and hybrid motion to support modern applications, where microservices need a cloud-native relational database that is resilient, scalable and geodistributed to complement our customers' data maturity journey.

"We are excited to collaborate with Yugabyte to support the enormous growth of independent software vendors and startups across the Asia Pacific and Japan region, particularly in markets like India where Tech Data has deep roots in the enterprise partner ecosystem," Wong said. "This new partnership supports our goal of being a leader in data life cycle and also enables us to expand into application and database modernization."