Noticias

IBM appoints Workgroup African distributor
2011-03-18
IBM and VAD Workgroup have concluded a strategic distribution agreement which will Workgroup to distribute IBM hardware brands : a new business for the VAD, as it previously focused mainly on software solutions (including IBM Software products). Workgroup will distribute products including partner industry specific solutions, IBM services and training facilitation, throughout sub-saharan Africa. According to Lillian Barnard, Business Partners Executive, IBM Sub-Saharan Africa this announcement is key to supporting the organisations strategic growth focus : IBM has already made significant investments into Africa including new operations in Kenya, Nigeria and Ghana. Angola, Senegal and Tanzania will come on line in the next 6 months, showing the seriousness of IBM about the black continent (source : IT News South Africa).

NetEx signs Workgroup
2011-02-28
South Africa : NetEx, the editor of a software-only WAN optimization solution, has entered into an agreement with software VAD Workgroup to distribute its HyperIP WAN optimization software throughout the country and the Sub-Sahara region to satisfy increased demand for improved data replication and accelerated file transfers within virtualized environments. As the largest focused software distributor in the country, Workgroup provides comprehensive sales and marketing expertise and is well positioned to deliver software products to a diverse customer base. HyperIP enables Workgroup to deliver the industry's top software-only WAN optimizer to customers operating in virtualized environments. HyperIP can be rapidly deployed as a Virtual Server Appliance on commodity hardware and has been validated in independent testing to accelerate VMware VMotion WAN transfers by a factor of 10x and Microsoft Hyper-V Live Migration by up to 16x.

A new owner for Axiz
2010-08-12
South Africa : broadliner Pinnacle Technology is buying its competitor Axiz Technology, in a deal that will create SA's largest channel-focused company. Pinnacle says it will buy out Axiz's shareholders, which include staff and management, for about €17m. This announcement comes about four months after Axiz scuttled rumours of a possible takeover, when it said in April that there was no formal offer on the table. The deal gives both organisations access to different brands that were not in their portfolios, and would result in cost savings. Pinnacle is focused on the top end of the market, while Axiz has been servicing smaller companies, which enables expanded cross-sell opportunities. Pinnacle subsidiary Workgroup will merge with Axiz once the deal is finalised. Workgroup MD Doug Woolley says, by leveraging a common infrastructure, Workgroup will escalate its product offering into new markets, and Axiz will benefit from the increased solutions expertise (source : IT Web South Africa).

Ingram Micro beefs up software portfolio
2010-03-10
South Africa : strengthening its position in the local software distribution sector, broadliner Ingram Micro has signed up CommVault, one of the world's emerging forces in enterprise data management. Ingram Micro is CommVault's second distributor in South Africa alongside Workgroup. Nick Wonfor, country manager at CommVault, says its continued growth in the region now warrants a second distributor (source : IT Online South Africa).

Workgroup partners with Veeam Software
2010-01-28
South Africa : software specialist Workgroup has announced that it is now an official distributor of the Veeam Software range of virtualization solutions (source : Computer Reseller News South Africa).