Cape Town, 25 Jun 2014
VCE, the leader in converged infrastructure systems, recently announced that Gartner positioned VCE in the Leaders Quadrant of the 16 June 2014 "Magic Quadrant for Integrated Systems".
Gartner defines integrated systems as the combination of server, storage and network infrastructure, sold with management software that facilitates the provisioning and management of the combined unit.
The full report can be downloaded from the VCE Web site: http://www.vce.com/landing/gartner.
"VCE has led the market in demonstrating how Vblock converged infrastructures can help customers accelerate their journey to the cloud by enabling rapid deployment of on-premises and hybrid cloud environments," said Praveen Akkiraju, CEO of VCE.
"We are delighted with VCE's position in the Leaders Quadrant of Gartner's first Magic Quadrant for Integrated Systems, as we view its introduction further validates the tremendous economics, agility and simplicity VCE converged infrastructure delivers to our customers."
VCE Vblock Systems provide seamless integration of compute, storage, network and virtualisation technologies with unified management and end-to-end support.
The past year for VCE has been filled with success:
* VCE surpassed its 2013 goal of $1 billion in annual sales[1] and achieved a $1.8 billion annualised demand run rate[2] for VCE products and services exiting Q4 2013, with growing demand for Vblock Systems at well over 50% year over year in Q1 2014 - the company's fourth consecutive quarter of accelerated year-over-year growth.
* VCE is furthering its enablement of cloud deployments with plans to integrate Cisco's Intercloud Fabric with Vblock Systems, which will provide an on-ramp to Cisco's Intercloud workload migration capabilities to enable customers to rapidly, seamlessly and securely manage their private, hybrid and public cloud environments.
* VCE retained the number one market share position for integrated infrastructure systems for the second year in a row, according to Gartner.[3]
* VCE released several new products, including the Vblock System 340, new Vblock Specialized Systems and VCE Vision Intelligent Operations 2.5 software.
* VCE introduced the VCE Certified Professional Program, a comprehensive training programme that delivers transformative converged infrastructure training to IT professionals across the entire data centre.
* VCE expanded its partnering efforts through the Cloud Infrastructure Solutions Accelerator with Cisco and EMC as well as expanded relationships with VMware and Citrix for delivering virtual desktop solutions.
Sources:
[1] Sales figure is based on 2013 VCE bookings.
[2] Demand run rate is an annualised calculation of orders received in the applicable period by VCE, VMware, EMC and Cisco for the sale of VCE Vblock products and related services.
[3] Gartner, Market Share Analysis: Data Center Hardware Integrated Systems, December 12, 2013
First Distribution is the sole distributor of VCE in South Africa and the greater SADC region.
For more information on VCE's integrated systems, please contact Rohan on (011) 540 2640 or e-mail vce@firstdistribution.co.za.
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