Contents
UPFRONT
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A word from Debbie Abrahall, Managing Director
First Distribution wins 2015 IBM Choice Award
First Distribution appointed as Lenovo ThinkSever distributor
Cape Town System x roadshow report
News from the server and networking world
Selling cloud: How deep and how wide
Photos from First Distribution’s golfday events in
Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban
SERVERS AND NETWORKING FOCUS
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Infographic: networking statistics
nside the giant: photos from Google’s datacentres
Exploring the datacentres of Facebook, Google and Microsoft
The year ahead for the server and networking world
VENDOR FOCUS
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VMware unveils the industry’s first unified platform for the
hybrid cloud
The VMware story
How one cloud for any application will transform IT
FIRST DISTRIBUTION STACK
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Stack Introduction
Client Computing
Hosted Solutions
Security
Software
Virtualisation
Storage
Servers
Networking
First for Cloud