.Storage
The recent explosion in the amount of data in the workplace
has led to constant innovation in data storage solutions. First
Distribution’s premier brands are leaders in providing the
necessary hardware required to deal with all data including
archiving, data backup & recovery, warehousing,
replication, virtualisation, content management systems and
specialised storage designed to deal with ‘big data’.
IBM’s Disk Storage Systems provide
storage efficiency solutions such as
virtualisation, automated tiering and
thin provisioning. Storage efficiency is more vital than ever.
Your disk utilisation rate may be as low as 20% — while the
amount of data you are required to store is exploding.
IBM Storage can help.
Oracle offers a complete portfolio of
best-of-breed storage products and
business-ready storage solutions that optimise performance,
maximise data protection and reduce the total cost of
ownership. Includes NAS Storage, SAN Storage, Tape
Storage, Flash Storage, Storage Software and
Storage Networking.
EMC: From disk libraries to content
management systems to storage
area networks, EMC’s products
are the ones business and IT
professionals use to efficiently
store, protect and manage their information. EMC’s storage
products include business continuity, data replication, server
flash cache and storage systems.
Huawei Storage: Covering disk
storage, network attached storage,
application storage, cloud storage
and storage area networks,
Huawei’s range of storage is
designed for high performance and adaptability.
IBM Storage Media: IBM’s portfolio
includes tape media for IBM specific
libraries as well as the full range
of LTO offerings. IBM Tape Media
offers quality, performance and reliability.
Riverbed Technology is an awardwinning technology company
that specialises in improving the
performance of networks and networked applications. Riverbed
products are designed to solve network bandwidth and
performance problems in the following areas of technology:
application acceleration, bandwidth optimisation, data
centre, branch office & server consolidation, data protection
and disaster recovery, visibility and network performance
management, and cloud server and storage acceleration.
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.
VCE
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