FD Insights Issue 12 | Page 63

.Servers As a distributor of some of the world’s foremost brands, First Distribution offers a complete portfolio of mission-critical servers that are engineered to deliver record-breaking performance, simplified management, and cost-saving efficiencies. First Distribution’s renowned datacentre and enterprise solutions ensure greater automation and responsiveness in the delivery of business services. Vendor systems are also designed to run leading operating and virtualisation platforms with greater performance and efficiency and serve as basic building blocks for the implementation of cloud infrastructure. Utilising best-of-thebreed hardware ensures resilience, interoperability and integration with leading cloud software providers. Lenovo’s ThinkServer offering is a value based server range designed to aggressively compete with HP, Dell and White Box servers in the volume space. ThinkServer complements Lenovo’s High End System x range, providing First Distribution’s business partners with a complete offering of low to high-end servers. 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. Oracle’s complete portfolio of mission-critical servers are engineered to deliver record-breaking performance, simplified management, and cost-saving efficiencies, and includes their world-renowned Sun servers, Blades, SPARC Servers and x86 Systems. Huawei Servers feature independent design, high performance, and adaptability to enterprise business development. VCE FIRST DISTRIBUTION 61 | www.firstdistribution.co.za