REGIONAL CHANNELS
DATA SCIENCES CORPORATION
Rui de Oliveira, Business Development, Data Sciences Corporation.
Ben Savage, Head of Channels and Alliances EMEA, Pure Storage.
South Africa’s
data and storage
solutions specialist
By partnering with breakthrough vendors such as Pure Storage, the VAR is bringing latest
infrastructure platform solutions to South African enterprises. By Arun Shankar.
S
outh Africa-based Data Sciences
Corporation is an enterprise value
added reseller, and its core business
is to provide holistic solutions, including
systems infrastructure, data management
and security to customers. Data Sciences’
infrastructure solution stack includes
server, storage, backup, virtualisation,
OpenStack, database solutions, and
consulting and managed services. Within
the solution stack the value added reseller
has partnered with selective vendors to
deliver solutions that address the everyday
challenges of end user customers.
Inside South Africa, Data Sciences
Corporation is focused on the financial,
insurance, retail, telecoms, manufacturing,
mining, entertainment and service
provider market segments. “As part of the
commitment to our partners, we leverage
the best of breed as an integrated solution
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to customers,” says Rui de Oliveira,
Business Development, Data Sciences
Corporation. This includes strategic vendor
partnerships with Pure Storage, NEC
Hydrastor, Fujitsu, Commvault, Loom,
VMware and Stratoscale.
“At Data Sciences, we believe that
harnessing the data and technology that
surrounds us is paramount in driving
innovation, developing knowledge and
stimulating growth in respective markets.
Data Sciences is driven by a passion to
provide leading South African organisations
with truly innovative, next generation
solutions combined with unsurpassed levels
of service,” continues de Oliveira.
As an example, de Oliveira points out
that Pure Storage, one of Data Sciences
Corporation’s strategic vendor partners,
is considered by the market and analysts
alike to be the catalyst of mainstream
adoption of all flash arrays. “Pure Storage
has completely revolutionised the way in
which organisations purchase, manage
and dispose of storage investments and,
as a result, is considered to be the thought
leader in this market. This solution attracts
major benefits to end customers within the
verticals we operate in.”
“Pure Storage sees medium and large
enterprises in South Africa moving towards
more agile solutions, including high
performance, flash based, compute and
storage. Pure Storage’s enterprise value
added reseller partners like Data Sciences
Corporation are instrumental in providing
the latest converged infrastructure
solutions, flash storage and flash arrays, to
South African enterprises as they progress
along their digital transformation journeys,”
adds Ben Savage, Head of Channels and
Alliances EMEA, Pure Storage.
Issue 09
INTELLIGENT TECH CHANNELS