Technology Partners

 

At Dimension Data we realise that partnering is an important strategy for delivering the broad range of IP solutions that today’s competitive market requires. Our strategic alliance partnerships allow us to deliver global solutions that yield high returns for our clients. Our partners are industry leaders, dominant software and hardware companies, and premier communications vendors. This enables us to have preferred access to the latest technologies, advanced training opportunities and co-marketing efforts, giving our clients the benefits of our quick-to-market, innovative solutions. Dimension Data is certified to the highest levels with many of the world's leading technology producers.

 

Autonomy

Autonomy is a global leader in infrastructure software for the enterprise. They were founded with the mission to provide software that automates operations on all enterprise information, allowing computers to harness the full richness of human information. Its groundbreaking technology, developed by acknowledged world experts and covered by 170 patents, uses a unique combination of Bayesian Inference and Shannon's Information Theory to form a conceptual and contextual understanding of any piece of electronic data, including unstructured information, be it text, email, voice or video. Autonomy's position as the market leader is widely recognised by leading industry analysts including Gartner, Forrester Research, IDC and Ovum.

 

Blue Coat

Blue Coat secures Web communications and accelerates business applications across the distributed enterprise. Blue Coat’s family of appliances and client-based solutions – deployed in branch offices, Internet gateways, end points, and data centers – provide intelligent points of policy-based control enabling IT organisations to optimise security and accelerate performance for all users and applications.

 

Check Point

Based on innovation in the enterprise firewall, personal firewall/endpoint, data security and VPN markets, Check Point offers security solutions featuring a unified gateway, single endpoint agent and single management architecture. Through its NGX platform, Check Point delivers a unified security architecture to protect business communications and resources, including corporate networks and applications, remote employees, branch offices and partner extranets.

 

Cisco

Cisco Systems, Inc. is the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet. Today, networks are an essential part of business, education, government and home communications, and Cisco Internet Protocol-based (IP) networking solutions are the foundation of these networks. Cisco hardware, software, and service offerings are used to create Internet solutions that allow individuals, companies, and countries to increase productivity, improve customer satisfaction and strengthen competitive advantage.

 

Citrix Systems

Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CTXS) transforms how businesses and IT work and people collaborate in the cloud era. With market-leading cloud, collaboration, networking and virtualization technologies, Citrix powers mobile workstyles and cloud services, making complex enterprise IT simpler and more accessible for 260,000 organizations. Citrix products touch 75 percent of Internet users each day and it partners with more than 10,000 companies in 100 countries. Annual revenue in 2011 was $2.21 billion.

 

EMC

EMC can help design, build, and manage flexible, scalable, and secure information infrastructures. With these infrastructures, companies can efficiently store, protect, and manage their information so that it can be made accessible and searchable. EMC information infrastructure can also be used as the foundation for implementing information lifecycle management strategies, securing critical information assets and leveraging content for competitive advantage.

 

F5

As the leading architectural solution provider, F5 enables IT organisations to take control of their network architecture to achieve their business objectives. Through its open architectural framework, F5 offers new ways to enhance IT agility so organisations can deliver services that generate true business value.

 

Fortinet

Through FortiGate Unified Threat Management (UTM) security systems, Fortinet offers multi-threat security solutions that enable secure business communications. FortiGate integrate firewall, VPN, antivirus, intrusion prevention (IPS), Web filtering, anti-spam and traffic shaping to detect and eliminate content-based threats such as viruses, worms and inappropriate Web content from email and Web traffic.

 

Genesys

Genesys deliver hardware- independent, real-time customer interaction solutions including the leading voice platform to many of the world’s largest companies and many of the most successful medium-sized businesses. Designed to reduce customer frustration and improve service, the Genesys Real-Time Customer Interaction Suite enables sophisticated routing and analysis of customer interactions (traditional voice calls, VoIP calls, e-mail, Web, and others), and workforce management. Genesys delivers solutions for inbound customer service, collections, help desks, order desks, and outbound telemarketing. Today, more than 2,700 companies in 80 countries trust Genesys for call center solutions.

 

HP

HP is a technology solutions provider to consumers, businesses and institutions globally. The company's offerings span IT infrastructure, personal computing and access devices, global services and imaging and printing for consumers, enterprises and small and medium businesses.

 

IBM

IBM is a global technology and innovation company that translates advanced information technologies into business value for clients through our professional solutions, services and consulting businesses. We integrate hardware, software and services to help forward-thinking enterprises, institutions and people everywhere succeed in building a smarter planet. With almost 400,000 employees around the world, plus an extensive network of business partners and suppliers, all underpinned by leading-edge research labs, IBM offers a unique combination of industry insight, high-powered research and technology expertise.

 

Infoblox

Infoblox is the leader in network automation and control. Many businesses rely on its integrated hardened appliance based software for business continuity, availability and compliance. They provide integrated DNS, DHCP, IP Address Management (IPAM) and Network Change & Configuration Management (NCCM) products that ensure network availability, provide better control of the network infrastructure, 'one-click' network compliance reporting and improve staff efficiency with built-in automation.

 

McAfee

Focused on threat prevention and compliance, McAfee offers solutions for anti-spam, anti-spyware, anti-virus, data loss prevention, encryption, host intrusion prevention, mobile security, plus messaging and email security. When it comes to managing risk, their solutions cover automated remediation, policy audit, network access control, risk and compliance analysis, system security management and vulnerability management.

 

Micromuse (now part of IBM)

Micromuse is a global software company that delivers industry-leading business and service assurance solutions to organisations worldwide. During the 14 years since our company's inception, our flagship Netcool® brand has become synonymous with scalable, realtime, end-to-end management of complex IT and telecommunications infrastructures. Our comprehensive range of Netcool solutions enables service providers, equipment providers, corporate enterprises, and government agencies to extract maximum value from their mission-critical applications, systems, and networks.

 

Microsoft

Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT”) is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realise their full potential. Dimension Data has a long history of partnership with Microsoft with Gold-certification in 21 countries around the world.

 

Nuance

Nuance Communications, Inc. is a leading provider of speech and imaging solutions for businesses and consumers around the world. Its technologies, applications and services make the user experience more compelling by transforming the way people interact with information and how they create, share and use documents. Every day, millions of users and thousands of businesses experience Nuance’s proven applications.

 

Polycom

Polycom, Inc. is a global leader in unified communications solutions with industry-leading telepresence, video, voice and infrastructure solutions built on open standards. Polycom powers smarter conversations, transforming lives and businesses worldwide. Together with Microsoft, we deliver a complete standards based, end-to-end UC solution. Polycom's integration efforts with Microsoft, and leading industry UC providers, support Polycom's Open Collaboration Network strategy, providing an open and interoperable collaboration solution that gives customers greater flexibility and investment protection for their UC environment.

 

Riverbed Technology

Riverbed Technology is an IT infrastructure performance company with a family of wide area network (WAN) optimisation solutions that give businesses an order-of-magnitude increase in value and performance of their existing networks, applications and storage. Riverbed products are powered by the Riverbed Optimization System (RiOS) software platform, which is based on patented technologies that address four main solution areas in a variety of simple-to-deploy IT appliances and software products: application acceleration, bandwidth optimisation, IT infrastructure consolidation and backup and replication acceleration.

 

RSA

RSA, the security division of EMC, takes an information-centric approach to security to protect the integrity and confidentiality of information throughout its lifecycle. RSA offers solutions for identity assurance and access control, encryption and key management, compliance and security information management and fraud protection.

 

Symantec

Symantec helps consumers and organisations secure and manage their information-driven world. Symantec provides security, storage and systems management solutions to help customers – from consumers and small businesses to the largest global organisations – secure and manage their information-driven world against risks.

 

TANDBERG (now part of Cisco)

TANDBERG is a leading global provider of telepresence, high-definition video conferencing and mobile video products and services with dual headquarters in New York and Norway. TANDBERG designs, develops and markets systems and software for video, voice and data. The company provides sales, support and value-added services in more than 90 countries worldwide. TANDBERG is publicly traded on the Oslo Stock Exchange under the ticker TAA.OL.

 

Verint Systems

Verint Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: VRNT) is a leading provider of Actionable Intelligence® solutions and services for enterprise workforce optimization and security intelligence. Our solutions help organizations make timely, effective decisions for improving enterprise performance and making the world a safer place.

 

VMware

VMware is the global leader in virtualisation solutions from the desktop to the data centre. Clients rely on VMware to reduce capital and operating expenses, ensure business continuity and strengthen security. VMware is one of the fastest-growing public software companies. Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, VMware is majority-owned by EMC Corporation.