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.
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.
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Veeam Software develops
innovative products for virtual
infrastructure management and
data protection. Customers can
reduce costs, minimise risks and fully realise the promise of
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