BOXBOROUGH, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Egenera, a leader in converged infrastructure and cloud management, today announced that DataSolutions, one of Ireland’s leading IT distributors, has selected HP BladeSystem servers, EMC VNX storage and the Egenera Cloud Suite as the platform for its enterprise-class cloud offering. The SilverLine™ cloud service, being built and delivered using EMC’s VSPEX reference architecture, will provide DataSolutions’ partners access to best-in-class cloud infrastructure and management.
Located in Dublin, Ireland, DataSolutions launched its SilverLine cloud service in late 2011. SilverLine, which provides security, infrastructure and backup as a service to DataSolutions’ reseller partners, leveraged the VSPEX™ Proven Infrastructure Solution to increase its scalability and resiliency and to accelerate its time to deployment – getting the expanded cloud offerings into the hands of its reseller partners faster.
In addition to the time-to-value benefits, DataSolutions chose the Egenera VSPEX proven solution for its:
- Openness – allowing the company to have an open converged infrastructure constructed with best-in-class server hardware from Hewlett Packard
- Simplicity – in managing and protecting DataSolutions’ cloud services offerings
- Usability – delivering their resellers an easy-to-use cloud portal that provides intuitive drag and drop functionality
- Manageability – enabling DataSolutions to offer real-time costing and margin management, billing, self-service provisioning and service level agreement integration to its partners
“We see the cloud as the inevitable end game in IT,” said Michael O’Hara, Managing Director, DataSolutions. “As a visionary in the delivery of IT solutions, we need to lead the transition to the cloud and help our partner community profit from the sea change. With the Egenera Cloud Suite, we can provide our channel a best-in-class cloud service to take to their customers.”
“As a technology leader in Ireland, DataSolutions has long been known for its focus on providing bulletproof IT solutions,” said Gerry Murray, SVP and GM of EMEA operations at Egenera. “The EMC VSPEX Proven Infrastructure Solution is the blueprint needed to expand SilverLine enabling partners with a rock solid cloud infrastructure having the right mix of control, customization and simplicity of operations.”
About Egenera
Converge. Unify. Simplify. That’s how Egenera brings confidence to the cloud. The company’s industry leading cloud and data center infrastructure management software, Egenera PAN Cloud Director™ and PAN Manager®, provide a simple yet powerful way to quickly design, deploy and manage IT services while guaranteeing those cloud services automatically meet the security, performance and availability levels required by the business. Headquartered in Boxborough, Mass., Egenera has thousands of production installations globally, including premier enterprise data centers, service providers and government agencies. For more information on the company, please visit egenera.com. Follow Egenera on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.
About DataSolutions
DataSolutions is the leading Irish distributor for solutions in Virtualisation, Security and Unified Communications and has been supporting and serving the IT Channel in Ireland since 1991. DataSolutions find solutions that address real market needs that deliver return on investment and increased efficiency at a lower cost to the end customer. These solutions are taken to the market via a partnership approach that has been developed over a twenty year period. They are trusted by reseller partners to recommend best-of-breed technologies and to represent resellers’ best interests with end-users and are 100% committed to building long-term strong trusting relationships with vendors, resellers and the end user community.
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