Westcon-Comstor and Sonar sign multi-region deal to accelerate partners’ AI adoption with trusted code verification

Agreement provides channel partners across EMEA and APAC opportunity to meet rising demand for secure AI-driven software development

Johannesburg, South Africa – 2 September 2026 – Westcon-Comstor, a global technology distributor specialising in cybersecurity, networking and hybrid cloud solutions, today announced a multi-region distribution agreement with Sonar, a global leader in AI code verification and governance.

The partnership provides high-value growth opportunities for channel partners across Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) and Asia-Pacific (APAC) to help customers securely adopt AI into their software development workflows.

The agreement makes Sonar’s core platform, SonarQube, available to Westcon-Comstor partners, enabling them to extend their DevSecOps offerings with automated code verification that helps development and security teams identify and remediate security vulnerabilities, exposed secrets and other code issues before software reaches production.

According to Sonar research, SonarQube users are 44% less likely to report AI-derived production outages. Additionally, by maintaining code quality with Sonar, users can reduce token usage by 7-8%, with further reductions possible when agents are guided with governed context.

AI-assisted development and governance

As AI agents become more deeply embedded in development workflows, organisations need to maintain the speed benefits of AI without introducing new security risks. Sonar’s Agent Centric Development Cycle (AC/DC) methodology gives partners a clear framework for helping customers do so: guide AI agents with the right context and constraints, verify their output through fast, multi-layered feedback loops, and resolve issues before they become a production risk. Through this Guide-Verify-Solve approach, partners can help customers build security and governance into AI-assisted development from the outset.

Sonar provides automated code analysis that embeds verification directly into AI-driven workflows to reduce outages, improve security, and lower costs and risks associated with AI and agentic coding. This gives security and development teams a shared, actionable view of code risk, while supporting faster remediation and stronger governance as software environments become more complex. The company’s recent acquisition of Gitar expands its offering with AI code review, giving organisations the benefits of AI-native code review and comprehensive code verification for the highest level of assurance no matter the AI tool.

With strong upsell and cross-sell potential, short sales cycles, fast time to revenue and attractive margins, Sonar enables partners to broaden customer relationships and create new recurring revenue streams. Partners will benefit from Westcon-Comstor’s value-added distribution model, which supports market entry and growth through technical enablement, market intelligence and data-driven lead generation, alongside support for customer adoption, expansion and renewals.

“Sonar is a recognised leader in its field, and this collaboration represents both a compelling commercial opportunity and a strategic technology play for the channel,” said Adam Davison, Senior Director, Vendor Acquisition at Westcon-Comstor. “The rapid adoption of AI-assisted software development, combined with the shift-left movement, is creating new openings for partners as software quality, governance and security become board-level priorities. At the same time, many organisations are looking to consolidate fragmented development and security toolsets onto a single platform. By combining Sonar’s market-leading solutions with our enablement capabilities, technical expertise and international reach, we're empowering partners across EMEA and APAC to win new customers, expand existing relationships and drive sustainable revenue growth.”

“Organisations are embracing AI to accelerate software development, but speed only creates value if teams can trust what gets shipped,” said Scott Musson, VP of Worldwide Channel at Sonar. “Westcon-Comstor’s global reach, channel expertise and value-added approach make it an ideal distribution partner for expanding Sonar’s platform to more customers. Together, we can help partners support organisations as they scale AI and agentic coding with stronger verification, clearer governance, and greater confidence in every line of code.”

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About Westcon-Comstor

Westcon-Comstor is a global technology distributor specialising in cybersecurity, networking and hybrid cloud solutions. With a presence spanning more than 50 countries, it drives innovation by connecting technology from the world’s leading IT vendors with a channel of resellers, systems integrators and service providers. By combining data-driven intelligence, technical expertise and strong partnerships, Westcon-Comstor empowers channel partners to seize opportunities and achieve sustainable growth. It goes to market through three lines of business: Westcon, Comstor and Rebura.

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About Sonar

Sonar, a global leader in AI code verification, governance, and efficiency, helps reduce outages, improve security, and lower costs and risks associated with AI and agentic coding. As an independent verification platform, Sonar enables organisations to securely develop at the speed of AI, and with the addition of Gitar's AI-native code review, offers the most comprehensive way to verify code in the agentic era. A Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Technical Debt Management Tools, Sonar is the foundation for high-performance software engineering—analyzing over 750 billion lines of code daily to ensure applications are secure, reliable, and maintainable. Rooted in the open source community, Sonar is trusted by 7M+ developers globally, including teams at Nvidia, ServiceNow, Booking.com, Goldman Sachs, AstraZeneca, and Ford Motor Company.

To learn more about Sonar, please visit: www.sonar.com

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