International Partners to provide Integrated Solutions
Hitachi Storage Solutions
Hitachi Data Systems is the most trusted vendor in delivering complete storage solutions to the most demanding companies - large and small. HDS’ hardware and software products are the foundation for it’s Application Optimized Storage solutions, providing dynamic tiered storage, common management, data protection, and archiving — enabling organizations to align their storage infrastructure with their unique business requirements.
In today's data-rich economy, an organization's success depends on the uninterrupted and ever-increasing flow of information. HDS carries a complete portfolio of storage arrays,and storage software for you to optimally consolidate your storage infrastructure and provide best in class availability and performance to meet your business needs.
Hitachi Servers
Two powerful systems -- backed by one powerhouse company
BladeSymphony 1000 with Virtage is the first true enterprise-class blade server. Use this 10U system to consolidate mission-critical applications at the database tier, the application tier, the network edge - or all three. And take advantage of the industry's first embedded virtualization solution, HSV (Hitachi Server Virtualisation). HSV is built right in, so it just works right out of the box. It's faster and more reliable than other virtualization solutions. And it won't slow your applications down like emulation software can.
Blade Symphony 320 is pushing consolidation to the edge. It is the ideal consolidation platform for the edge tier or the application tier of the enterprise data center. This 6U system packs up to 560 cores into a standard 42U rack - a space savings of 60% compared to rack servers. Consolidation just doesn't get any simpler - or more efficient.
Brocade Enterprise
With Brocade’s acquisition of McData, it has positioned itself as the world leader in building highly available interoperable and scalable storage networking infrastructures. Brocade’s award-winning SAN directors, switches and Routers gives you models ranging from entry-level 8-port fabric switches to 384-port directors with multiple blade options. The Brocade SAN family addresses the needs of small departments and global enterprises alike.
Fujitsu – Enterprise Servers
Fujitsu is a leading supplier of information technology solutions. This leading IT Infrastructure Provider has a strategic focus on next-generation Mobility and Dynamic Data Centre products, services and solutions. See our Fujitsu page to find an enterprise server for your business.
Data Domain
The capacity optimised storage technology offered by Data Domain, with its significant data de-duplication techniques, reduces backup data by 20x on average, making it a cost effective and very reliable alternative to tape, for long term data retention. It also provides the capability to replace data to a DR site over the existing WAN in a bandwidth efficient manner. Browse through theData Domain rangethat Shoden has to offer and see how it can optimise your data storage.
OnStor – Nas for the Enterprise
Shoden has been providing South Africa’s leading companies with cutting edge technology that meets all the high availability requirements of business critical applications. ONStor Scalable NAS systems deliver the simplest, most readily scaled, cost effective solution for consolidating information to a single, easily managed storage environment.
CITRIX WANScaler WAN Optimisation
Citrix WANScaler’s unique technology, offering WAN optimisation without complexity while retaining complete network transparency, can be used to provide LAN-like performance for WAN-based applications. This technology offers a compelling solution to address WAN constraints and high bandwidth costs at a lower Total Cost of Ownership.
TMS (Texas Memory Systems)
Most storage products are optimised to store data; Texas Memory Systems designed the Tera-RamSan to move data. An unprecedented combination of RAM and fast Fibre Channel controllers enables the Tera-RamSan to move data faster than other storage.
Virtualisation - Virtuozzo
Parallels Virtuozzo Containers is the world's leading OS virtualization solution. Parallels Virtuozzo creates isolated containers on a single physical server and OS instance. Compared to other virtualization technologies, Parallels Virtuozzo offers the highest levels of density, performance and manageability.
Luminex – Mainframe Virtual Tape Solutions
Luminex provides mainframe storage and connectivity solutions for all segments of the Mainframe Storage World. Luminex’s Channel Gateways integrate with best of breed data management solutions to provide highly reliable, innovative and cost-effective solutions for virtually every mainframe need.
Symantec – Enterprise Availability Solutions
Symantec offers products for backup and recovery of data and systems, optimizing storage resource utilization, simplifying administration of heterogeneous environments, and providing continuous availability of mission-critical applications and data.
CommVault
CommVault Solutions offer customers the opportunity to improve the operational efficiency of their IT environments. Firstly, the Singular Information Data Management approach offers customers a powerful tool for managing a diverse enterprise.
The Data Protection, Replication, Archive and Resource Management modules are designed to work together from the ground up, sharing a single code and common function set.
Bytemobile
Bytemobile was created to solve a real problem – high-bandwidth data applications on low-bandwidth wireless networks – and to fulfil a real promise: the perpetual value of optimizing the user experience. Today, their value proposition reaches all the way from the data path in the heart of your network to the mobile device in your subscriber’s hand.
VMWare®
VMware® has established itself as a leader in Virtual Infrastructure Technology. With a portfolio of innovative software, VMware® delivers comprehensive virtualization solutions where management, resource optimization, system availability and ease of operational flexibility are key factors in today’s business challenges.
VMware® was founded in 1998, since then customers have realized significant benefits, including lower total cost of ownership, higher return on investment when deploying VMware solutions in their Datacenters.
Vizioncore
Founded in 2002, Vizioncore Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Quest Software, provided the most comprehensive and innovative set of software solutions that extend and enhance the capabilities of virtulized infrastructures. Headquartered in Chicago, IL, Vizioncore is a leader in the virtualization industry with a sales channel that encompasses more than 2,200 partners worldwide and over 17,000 end users accross its entire software portfolio.
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