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First Distribution To Represent Pivot3 in South & Central Africa
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irst Distribution has signed a distribution agreement to represent Pivot3 in South and Central Africa, further entrenching their position as the market leading distributor in Datacentre, Virtualisation and Enterprise computing. The Pivot3 vSTAC™ product family delivers seamlessly converged, highly available shared storage and virtual server appliances that are purpose-built for modern virtual server and data workloads. Pivot3 ships pre-configured and tuned vSTAC appliances for different target solutions including virtualisation, video surveillance and virtual desktop infrastructures (VDI). With a strong background in virtualisation, First Distribution
will exploit the opportunity to drive Pivot3’s unique solution into the South and Central African markets. Pivot3’s vSTAC VDI seamlessly delivers a highly unified, highly available shared storage and virtual server appliance that is optimised to support VMware View based Virtual Desktop Infrastructures (VDI). Pivot3 provides online demonstration facilities to test drive the Pivot3 vSTAC appliance (http://pivot3.com/test-drive/). In addition, First Distribution has purchased demonstration equipment that will be available either for customer use, or within their new Customer Experience Centre in Johannesburg.
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First Distribution Wins IBM Award for Outstanding Achievement and Excellence
partners for choosing First Distribution as their IBM Software VAD, for the support that they have given us in making this award possible, and for the trust that they continue to place in us to look after their businesses. Their support is really appreciated and we look forward to continuing to be of service to them in 2013.”
ast month, First Distribution won the award at the Annual IBM VAD Software University in Rome for Outstanding Achievement and Excellence in Middle East and Africa for 2012. Special mention was made of First Distribution’s business development strategy and that the company was able to achieve 46% year-on-year growth in a market where difficult trading conditions exist. Tony Abrahall, General Manager at First Distribution commented that “I would personally like to thank all of our
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