Introduction
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 cross-platform (VMware® and Microsoft® Hyper-V) data protection.
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. Lanamark Suite enables solution providers to accelerate design and delivery of vendor-neutral desktop virtualisation, server virtualisation and storage solutions. Oracle Virtual Networking Solutions consolidate server connectivity, creating an agile, softwareconfigurable infrastructure for the private cloud.
VIRTUAL NETWORKING
The Pivot3 vSTAC™ product family delivers seamlessly converged, highly available shared storage an d virtual server appliances that are purpose-built for modern virtual server and data workloads. Pivot3 ships preconfigured and tuned vSTAC appliances for different target solutions including virtualisation, video surveillance and virtual desktop infrastructures (VDI). 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 (APIs).
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