Comztek to distribute Virtual Iron

Issued by Text 100 for Westcon-Comstor
Johannesburg, 28 Aug 2007

In a move to provide its resellers with best-of-breed virtualisation technology, Comztek has announced the addition of the Virtual Iron suite of products to its software infrastructure product range.

Virtual Iron software enables organisations to transform their physical server, storage and network resources into a centrally managed pool, for creating and managing virtual infrastructure in the data centre.

Virtual Iron is focused on advanced virtualisation and management capabilities that take full advantage of industry standards and open source economics. These solutions dramatically reduce the cost and complexity of service delivery.

"There is a growing need for virtualisation solutions as it becomes increasingly difficult for companies to manage cost in their data centres," says Mark Dorfling, Comztek Software Infrastructure Business Unit Director.

"Comztek has added Virtual Iron to its range of products and solutions to address this demand. Virtual Iron provides our resellers with cost-effective virtualisation solutions to tackle many data centre shortcomings."

Marc Pratt, Sales Manager, SYSDBA and African Representative for Virtual Iron, says: "The adoption of virtualisation has been slow in Africa. Other proprietary technologies come in at a significant price point, in some cases more expensive than the hardware it runs on. With Virtual Iron, customers are able to leverage cost-effective virtualisation solutions for both server and desktop environments."

"We are excited to welcome Comztek as partner of choice in this exciting and growing market segment," adds Pratt.

The Virtual Iron product suite will join Comztek's software infrastructure portfolio alongside Adobe, Attachmate, Citrix, Microsoft and Novell. Covering operating systems and networking software, server console and terminal emulation, as well as graphics and e-paper software, Comztek's Software Infrastructure business unit caters for the needs of business users looking to derive the most benefit from their networking and business infrastructure while at the same time reducing overheads.

Comztek

Comztek is regarded as South Africa's leading information technology systems and communications partner. The company is committed to delivering bottom-line benefits to resellers through its four business units - networks; software infrastructure; security & storage; and consumer electronics.

The networks business unit, the cornerstone of the company's growth over recent years, is well placed to deliver 3Com, Cisco, Dialogic, D-Link, Envox, Legrand, Linksys, MGE, Netshield, Nortel and Packeteer products, solutions and support for all networks. The Software Infrastructure business unit offers Adobe, Attachmate, Citrix, Microsoft and Novell.

The Security & Storage business unit enables resellers to provide their customers with enhanced skills and more flexible product implementations for Fujitsu Siemens Computers, Marshal, McAfee and Symantec. The Consumer Electronics business unit bundles products from Creative, Fujitsu Siemens Computers, Imation, Microsoft and Symantec, designed to meet the rapidly expanding needs of the home and small business end-user.

A member of the Mustek Group, Comztek's head office is based in Midrand, with branches in the Cape, KwaZulu-Natal, Namibia, Zambia and East Africa.

Virtual Iron

Virtual Iron provides software solutions for server virtualisation and virtual infrastructure management. The company's solutions enable IT organisations to dramatically reduce the cost and complexity of managing and operating their enterprise data centre infrastructure. Virtual Iron delivers advanced virtualisation capabilities that fully leverage industry standards, open source economics and processors with built-in, hardware assisted virtualisation. Organisations use Virtual Iron's software for server consolidation, rapid provisioning, business continuity, capacity management and policy-based automation and gain dramatic improvements in utilisation, manageability and agility.

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