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SimpliVity kicks off 'Get Hyperconverged' world tour to help businesses simplify IT

More than 40 cities in 20 countries named - more to come.


Africa, 28 Apr 2015

SimpliVity, the leader in hyperconverged infrastructure for the software-defined data centre, will be in Durban, Cape Town, Johannesburg, Nairobi, Kenya and Windhoek, Namibia for the Africa-leg of its "Get Hyperconverged" World Tour. The tour kicked off in the United States during January and will be in more than 40 cities all over the globe.

What: The events are designed for IT professionals and virtualisation experts who would like to learn how a hyperconverged infrastructure can simplify their virtualised IT environments. The sessions will feature industry experts presenting the state of hyperconvergence, and IT leaders who will share their real-world experience and the benefits they are seeing from hyperconverged infrastructure in their environments.

Who should attend: IT professionals and virtualisation experts who are interested in understanding hyperconvergence and how it can help with the following challenges and opportunities:

* Ongoing performance issues within legacy environments;
* Keeping pace deploying new applications to meet the demands of internal stakeholders;
* Data centre migration or consolidation;
* Improving backup or disaster recovery;
* Managing multiple sites centrally;
* Technology refresh projects;
* Data centre modernisation;
* Private cloud; and
* Improving operational efficiencies or lowering TCO.

Where: with more cities to be named, the following have been included:

* Asia Pacific: Adelaide, Auckland, Brisbane, Canberra, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Manila, Melbourne, Perth, Singapore, Sydney
* Americas: Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Kansas City, Los Angeles, Memphis, Minneapolis, New York, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Francisco, San Jose, Seattle, Tampa, Toronto, Washington DC
* Europe: Amsterdam, Brussels, Dublin, Frankfurt, Helsinki, London, Manchester, Paris, Stockholm, Vienna, Zurich
* Africa: Durban, Cape Town, Johannesburg, Nairobi, Windhoek

When: The Africa events start on 7 May in Nairobi, Kenya and conclude on 2 June in Windhoek, Namibia. To learn more and find an event in a city near you, visit: www.simplivity.com/tour2015

"Hyperconvergence is one of the hottest areas in IT. We've designed these events to demystify the hype and show real life examples of customers all over the globe who have improved their operational efficiency and simplified their IT environments. Hyperconverged infrastructure has been built to support virtual infrastructures and allows organisations to radically simplify their legacy IT stack enabling them to support their top-line business objectives and innovation requirements," said SimpliVity Chief Marketing Officer Marianne Budnik.

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SimpliVity delivers the best of both worlds: cloud economics with enterprise performance, protection and functionality. The company provides software-defined infrastructure packaged on industry-standard x86 systems, providing abstraction, pooling and automation of IT resources and services. By assimilating eight to 12 core data centre functions, including the hypervisor, compute, storage, network switching, backup, replication, cloud gateway, caching, WAN optimisation, real-time deduplication and more, SimpliVity's hyperconverged infrastructure delivers a 3x reduction in TCO. It's also differentiated by global unified management, integrated data protection, and unparalleled efficiency via deduplication, compression and optimisation of data before it hits disk to save IOPS and capacity on primary storage and throughout the workload's lifecycle. Launched in 2013, SimpliVity is in use at hundreds of enterprises and service providers worldwide, including T-Systems; City of Arvada, Colorado; MLB Network; and Wausau Coated. Headquartered in Massachusetts, SimpliVity's business model is 100% indirect, and its solutions and professional services are available through its network of worldwide resellers and distributors.

For more information, contact us on +27 83 445 0120, +1 508-310-1032, info@simplivity.com or www.simplivity.com.

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