First Distribution’s SPLA business has grown significantly
recently, to the point where it is now the largest SPLA distributor in the MEA region with the greatest number of total
partners reporting.
PROFESSIONAL
SERVICE PROVIDER
First Distribution Awarded VMware
VSPP Aggregator of the Year
The company has invested in technical skills from both a
back-office and account management perspective, and
coupled with the fact that it has more than 10 years of experience in dealing with SPLA, the distributor’s understanding
of SPLA and volume licensing is currently of an
exceptional standard.
F
irst Distribution was awarded VMware’s Service Provider Programme (VSPP) Aggregator of the Year for
the southern Africa and WECA region at the end of
last year.
VSPP enables the success of a public, private and hybrid
cloud by providing customers with an OpEx strategy for
investing in VMware infrastructure on a pay-as-you-go,
pay-as-you-grow consumption model.
VSPP is the ideal solution for various types of VMware
partners who offer hosted services to third parties, such as
infrastructure-as-a-service (IAAS) providers, cloud service
providers, application service providers (ASPs), internet
service providers (ISPs) and platform-as-a-service
(PAAS) providers.
“First Distribution has truly shown its dedication and commitment to the VMware brand through consistent success
with customers as well as investment into developing skills,
resources and partners,” said Mark Reynolds, Partner and
General Business Lead at VMware.
“The company’s success around the VSPP portfolio highlights this commitment as it continues to play a big role
in helping our customers move to the cloud, embrace the
software-defined data centre as well as plot their path to the
hybrid cloud.”
IBM Business
Partner Award
2015
Choice Winner
First Distribution Wins 2015 IBM
Choice Award for Growth and
Transformation, MEA
T
he distributor won yet another award in February at
the IBM PartnerWorld Leadership Conference, in
Las Vegas.
IBM’s Choice Awards recognise a select number of IBM
Business Partners which have demonstrated business
excellence in delivering IBM-based solutions resulting in
exceptional client experience and business growth.
The IBM Business Partners which win Choice awards
exhibit IBM values in all client interactions and achieve
common business goals, resulting in superior customer
satisfaction and mutually significant business impact.
The Choice Awards are selected by IBM leadership in each
geography and are given to business partners across a
range of categories, recognising their working relationships
with clients and demonstrated skills in selling IBM solutions.
First Distribution Wins Microsoft
SPLAR Distribution Award for SA,
WECA
irst Distribution’s MSP and Hosting team won the
‘Excellence in Execution’ award, which was bestowed
at the 2014 SPLAR Summit in Istanbul, Turkey in
November 2014.
F
Readiness events, consistent roundtables, licensing expertise, driving business with discipline and integrity, on-time
reporting, and adherence to compliance at all times contributed to the success of First Distribution’s hosting business,
and the winning of the award.
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