.Virtualisation
First Distribution’s leading vendor virtualisation product
offerings enable users to save up to 70% on overall IT costs
by consolidating resource pools and delivering highly available
machines. By dividing a single physical server into multiple
logical servers, virtualisation creates a more dynamic and
flexible data centre whilst also drastically reducing the total cost
of ownership of IT infrastructure.
VMware: As virtualisation is now a
critical component of an overall IT
strategy, it is important to choose the right vendor. VMware
is the leading business virtualisation infrastructure provider,
offering the most trusted and reliable platform for building
private clouds and federating to public clouds.
IBM: Simplify management with
IBM’s end-to-end virtualisation.
IBM offers a range of virtualisation
solutions designed to help your business be more agile.
Oracle VM: Oracle engineers
hardware and software to work
together for your data centre, from servers and storage, to
database and middleware, through to applications. Oracle
offers an optimised and fully integrated stack of business
hardware and software solutions.
Samsung’s Thin Client Monitors
combine a premium quality monitor
with a built-in thin client, offering cost
savings, simpler maintenance and support.
CommVault’s Simpana software
delivers virtual server data protection
that solves virtualisation challenges,
such as the ability to rapidly scale the protection of virtual
machines, accelerate the recovery of business critical
applications by virtualising fearlessly, unify data protection
of physical and virtual environments and support crossplatform (VMware® and Microsoft® Hyper-V) data
protection.
Vblock™ Systems from VCE
seamlessly integrate best-in-class
compute, network, and storage
technologies from industry leaders
Cisco, EMC, and VMware, and
provide dynamic pools of resources that can be intelligently
provisioned and managed to address changing demands
and fleeting business opportunities.
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Veeam Software develops
innovative products for virtual
infrastructure management and
data protection. Customers can
reduce costs, minimise risks and fully realise the promise of
virtualisation with Veeam.
Huawei offers a range of
virtualisation solutions, including
their powerful FusionSphere
software which provides powerful
virtualisation and resource pool
management functions, cloud service components and
tools, and open application programming interfaces (PIs).
Riverbed Technology is an awardwinning technology company
that specialises in improving the
performance of networks and networked applications. Riverbed
products are designed to solve network bandwidth and
performance problems in the following areas of technology:
application acceleration, bandwidth optimisation, data
centre, branch office & server consolidation, data protection
and disaster recovery, visibility and network performance
management, and cloud server and storage acceleration.
Tintri builds smart storage that sees,
learns and adapts, enabling IT
organisations to focus on virtualised
applications and business services instead of managing
storage infrastructure.
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