Puleng Technologies takes EMC's enterprise-level infrastructure to the SME market

With the unrelenting growth of data and the rapid adoption of virtual environments that is taking place across all vertical markets, traditional storage and backup environments are beginning to take strain. As compliance requirements increase and business imperatives change, it is vital that companies' storage needs are able to expand quickly. At the same time, they still need to provide resilience, coupled with ease-of-use.

This may seem obvious for large corporations, but in today's fast-changing IT environment, it is just as crucial for the small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) market, points out Steve James, Business Development Director at Puleng Technologies.

“There are many customers out there that have to deal with the same issues as their larger counterparts, but they need to do this without access to the same level of financial resources. What these organisations need is world-class infrastructure that can assist them to reduce costs and streamline operations. At the same time, they need a partner that has the skills and understanding of their unique business environments to assist them in developing a roadmap that can take them into a virtualised and cloud-dominated future,” he says.

Puleng's approach, James explains, allows for optimisation of storage utilisation and increase in capacity, while delivering higher availability and performance to clients. Couple this with the adoption of virtualisation, companies who work with Puleng are able to drive down costs, increase agility and drive operational efficiency, while protecting one of their most important assets - information.

“Furthermore, Puleng is an accredited EMC Velocity Premier Partner, meaning we can offer EMC's vast technology resources and understanding to the SME market. As global leaders in storage and information life cycle management technologies, EMC offers customers a level of confidence in their infrastructure that few other organisations can match.

“There has always been something of a perception that EMC's solutions are enterprise-centric. This is no longer the case, as Puleng is now able to deliver EMC's enterprise-level robustness and quality to the SME market.

“Puleng Technologies is increasing its focus on service and storage infrastructure automation; creating the architecture, implementing and supporting low-cost, flexible and virtual infrastructure solutions specifically aimed at benefiting the SME market.”

James adds that the value proposition is enormous; the two organisations have a programme that will accelerate virtualisation through the effective utilisation of EMC storage. For more information, go to Accelerate Virtualisation Programme.

“The programme will benefit the customers' bottom line - something that is crucial in the current economic climate.” James indicates that customers will get the best of both worlds, as they will be able to develop a virtualisation roadmap based on EMC's well-developed strategies and Puleng's strong technical expertise.

“When it comes to storage and virtualisation, the SME market is demanding the same levels of quality, robustness, functionality, features and benefits that larger organisations currently receive. EMC and Puleng are therefore able to deliver a fantastic value proposition to these smaller enterprises.”