Redington Value, the value-added distribution division of Redington Gulf, will showcase its latest fully functional solutions centre during its participation at GITEX Technology Week 2016 in Dubai.
Called the Red Vault, the VAD noted that the centre fully integrates more than 40 different solutions from numerous vendors, thereby making it the only such facility in the region with a multi-vendor environment. The new solutions centre will create a platform for existing and new partners and customers to get trained in vendor-authorised training centres.
A soft launch of the solutions centre was held at the company’s headquarters in Dubai in January. The facility is now being expanded to Redington Value’s branches in Saudi Arabia, Kenya and Nigeria.
According to Redington Value, the strategy behind setting up Red Vault is to position it to play a much bigger role in speeding up its partners’ and end customers’ IT transformation journey. “We want to play a critical role in training and facilitating transformation among our partners,” said Ramkumar Balakrishnan, President, Redington Value Distribution.
He explains that Red Vault is an attempt by Redington Value to create a unique facility within the industry, especially in this region, for its partners and customers to get hands-on experience in the functioning of every possible mainstream IT Solutions in a live environment, aided by a giant display.
“Connected to our specialised training centres, the Red Vault shows technology in action and brings it closer than ever,” he says.
The fully functional solutions centre, with one of the largest interactive transparent display in the region, is currently operational at the Redington Value headquarters in Dubai, UAE.
The company’s solutions span across traditional technology domains such as networking, voice, servers, storage, software, security and infrastructure, even as it plans to grow more aggressively, catering to the newer growth potential areas such as Internet of Things (IOT), mobility, cloud and hyper-convergence.
The integrated touch panels of the solutions centre will connect to fully operational control and training rooms running live demos of various solutions such as Oracle’s ZFS Storage, xSeries servers, DB appliance, virtualisation software, enterprise manager and Oracle Cloud; Virtual Computing Group solutions such as Dell EMC’s VxRail and Vx Rack, Vmware’s software-defined data centre, virtual VSAN & NSX; security applications such as Trend Micro Deep Security & Deep Discovery Platform, Malware Bytes, Entrust, Cyberark, Check Point, Barracuda and Fortinet; Enterprise software solutions such as Red Hat covering virtualisation, IaaS (Internet as-a-Service), PaaS (Platform as-a-Service) and JBoss Middleware; Disaster Recovery, Backup, Monitoring and Migration solutions from DoubleTake & Veam; Public Cloud services including Amazon Web Services and Azure; and hardware solutions such as Sonicwall, Fidelis Security, Alcatel Lucent, Fortinet and HPE Converged System and Networking.
Visit them at: Hall 3, Stand C3-1.
