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SimpliVity secures footprint in Africa


Johannesburg, 02 Sep 2014

SimpliVity Corporation has expanded its market to Africa with the opening of an office in South Africa; and will host its first roundtable events in South Africa in Cape Town and Johannesburg during the first week of September.

The CEO and Chairman, Doron Kempel who is based in Boston, US, and newly appointed Regional Director Christo Briedenhann, will address the guests. The key objective of these events will be to introduce SimpliVity and inform top executives from different companies how SimpliVity helps organisations simplify their infrastructure.

"SimpliVity was established with the mission of simplifying IT infrastructure by delivering a new data structure and platform architecture designed to deliver the functionality that the virtualised and cloud-enabled IT environment demands," says Briedenhann.

"SimpliVity's OmniCube converges server and storage functionality, along with significant advanced functionality that today is delivered by numerous disparate appliances - all at a fraction of cost and with extreme reduction in complexity. OmniCube goes beyond basic infrastructure convergence to enable a global network of systems for managing and protecting the virtual machines and their data. OmniCube systems are deployed in a network of two or more, creating an OmniCube Global Federation, which provides efficient data movement, resource sharing and scalability."

SimpliVity OmniCube stands out in rapidly growing integrated systems market with its unique vm-centric architecture that dramatically simplifies IT and delivers 300% TCO savings.

SimpliVity's solutions and professional services are available through its reseller and partner channels along with sales, service and customer support located worldwide.

Doron Kempel has been named to the prestigious 2014 CRN Top 100 Executives list. As part of this list, CRN looked at the top 25 key executives that shook up the industry. Kempel was ranked seventh in the list of Top 25 Disrupters. CRN's annual Top 100 list salutes the key players who continue to shape the way the channel does business. With this reward Kempel represent the top influencers, sales leaders, innovators and disruptors in the IT channel.

SimpliVity has already won numerous awards, despite the fact that they have only been in the market less than two years.

To name a few:

* It has been positioned by Gartner. in the Visionaries quadrant in the first edition of the Magic Quadrant for Integrated Systems, published on 16 June 2014.
* It has been awarded the CRN 5-Star Partner rating in recognition of both its attractive solution set and its commitment to its channel partners' success.
* Network Products Guide has named OmniCube a Gold winner of the 8th Annual 2013 Best Products Awards in the Data Center category. The award was granted to SimpliVity in recognition of OmniCube's significant technological differentiation, its value to end-users, and its rapid market adoption.

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Christo Briedenhann
Simplivity
(+27) 83 445 0120