Performance Optimisation Technology Partners
Dimension Data is a Global Strategic Partner of Cisco Systems across our Performance Optimisation and Operations Management solution areas. We also have global partnerships with Blue Coat for Performance Optimisation solutions; as well as EMC Ionix and NetScout for Operations Management solutions.
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 centres – provide intelligent points of policy-based control enabling IT organisations to optimise security and accelerate performance for all users and applications.

CA
CA Technologies is an IT management software and solutions company with expertise across all IT environments—from mainframe and physical to virtual and cloud. CA Technologies manages and secures IT environments, enabling clients to deliver more flexible IT services. Its solutions also help clients to gain a level of deep insight into and exceptional control over complex, mixed IT environments. It’s that level of insight and control that enables IT organisations to power business agility.

F5 Networks
F5 Networks is the global leader in Application Delivery Networking (ADN), focused on ensuring the secure, reliable, and fast delivery of applications. F5's unified application and data delivery offers customers multiple options when deploying ADN solutions. It redefines the management of application, server, storage, and network resources, streamlining application delivery and reducing costs. Global enterprise organizations, service and cloud providers, and Web 2.0 content providers use F5 to ensure efficient and robust application delivery.

NetScout
NetScout provides integrated network and application performance management solutions for organisations worldwide. Through the combination of Sniffer® and nGenius® technologies, NetScout enables customers to maximise the performance and efficiency of applications and content delivered across globally distributed networks.

Riverbed
Riverbed Technology is the IT performance company for networks, applications, and storage. It provides comprehensive WAN optimisation solutions to a host of problems that prevent enterprises from sharing applications and data across wide-area networks anywhere in the world.
Their solutions give businesses an order-of-magnitude increase in the performance and value of their existing IT infrastructure and mission-critical applications. The applications include file sharing, email, backup, document management systems, IT tools, and ERP and CRM solutions.
Steelhead® appliances from Riverbed and Steelhead Mobile increase network throughput and application performance by up to 100 times. Riverbed Cascade® provides enterprise-wide network and application visibility and analysis for both enterprise customers and service providers.
Thousands of widely distributed businesses — in virtually every country and vertical market — use Riverbed to make their IT infrastructures faster, less expensive, and more responsive.
