Networking & Security Virtualisation:
Our partners

As a Blue Coat Authorised Partner Computacenter can deliver and support network security platforms which enhance the performance of virtualised environments.

Virtualisation is often used to deliver business benefits by centralising IT services (servers, applications, security-services etc.) and sharing those resources across the wide area network to distributed users. Virtualised systems, therefore, often impose higher demands on the WAN links and can result in slower performance for users due to the latency increases resulting from the distance between the services and the users. 

Blue Coat’s application delivery networking appliances and software help accelerate and optimise the deployment of virtualised applications and virtualised servers resulting in improved employee productivity for remote users and network cost savings.  The combination of WAN optimisation and web security technologies can deliver faster data transfer, lower WAN bandwidth usage and ensure security for remote and travelling users.  

In one study, users could access applications three times faster with ProxySG appliances, and bandwidth utilisation was reduced by over 99%. 

Blue Coat is a partner with VMWare and Microsoft for their App-V virtualisation.

Discover more about Bluecoat at www.bluecoat.com

As a Gold Partner, Computacenter have the broadest range of expertise by achieving all of the following Advanced Specialisations: ATP – data centre, Unified Computing, Datacenter Networking Infrastructure , Advanced Datacenter Storage Networking as well as Unified Communications, Routing & Switching, Security, and Wireless LAN.

Cisco Data Centre 3.0 comprises a comprehensive portfolio of virtualisation technologies and services that bring network, compute, storage and virtualisation closer together to provide unparalleled flexibility, visibility and policy enforcement within virtualised datacenters.

Cisco has a long history of innovation, delivering integrated systems for improved business results based on the network as the central unifying ‘platform’.

Recent examples include Unified Computing, IP telephony, LAN switching, Unified Communications and Unified I/O.  Cisco began the virtualised computing phase of its Data Centre 3.0 strategy several years ago by assembling an experienced team to augment its own networking and storage access expertise.  As a result, Cisco delivered foundational technologies, including the Cisco Nexus™ Family, supporting unified fabric and server virtualisation.

The Cisco Unified Computing System completes this phase, delivering innovation in architecture, technology, partnerships and services to support stateless’ or ‘cloud’ computing services.  Cisco is uniquely positioned to deliver this innovation by taking a broad approach to virtualisation that unifies network intelligence and scalability with innovative ASICs, integrated management and standard computing components.

Discover more about Cisco at: www.cisco.com/go/virtualization

Computacenter is an F5 Gold Advantage Partner and has access to the tools, training and services necessary to provide the best possible support to its customers

Virtualisation can be a powerful tool to help you cut costs and improve availability and management efficiency, but its impact on surrounding IT resources can cause unexpected problems. Whether you're just starting a storage or server virtualisation project or you're looking to realise the full benefits of a complete virtual data centre, F5 can help you build a dynamic, virtualisation-ready infrastructure that will help you achieve your current and future business goals.

F5 is a Technology Alliance Partner of VMware whose  solutions can improve:

• Cost efficiency
• Architecture availability
• Business continuity
• Security
• User experience
• Automated storage tiering

The partnership between VMware and F5 is designed to ensure that your network is ready to support advanced capabilities like VMotion, DRS and SRM and enables F5 to leverage VMware APIs and SDKs to integrate the two lines of products.

Discover more about F5’s virtualisation solutions

Computacenter is the UK’s largest HP Gold preferred partner with Procurve Networking specialisation aligned to server, virtualisation and Datacenter skills. This ensures Computacenter is a sound choice to deliver consulting and implementation services for HP server and storage solutions underpinned by Procurve networking technologies.

The fundamental nature of data centre computing is rapidly changing. The traditional model of separately provisioned and maintained server, storage, and network resources are constraining data centre agility and pushing budgets to the limit.

One response has been the adoption of virtualisation and blade technologies, which enable a more flexible and highly utilised infrastructure. These scalable technologies can be provisioned to meet continuously evolving requirements.

Network teams are faced with a race to build out data centre network capacity and to effectively provision connectivity at an increasing speed. To keep pace, IT organisations need a network architecture that is flexible and agile. They don’t want to give up the high availability and security offered by the best-in-class compute and storage networks currently installed in their data centres.

HP is creating a new balance by combining the new standards-based technologies with a modular architecture that fully optimises virtualised resources, for low total cost of ownership, faster time-to-service, and critical requirements for reliability, IT governance, and compliance.

Discover more about HP’s converged infrastructure: www.hp.com/go/convergedinfrastructure

As a Juniper Elite Enterprise Solutions Partner Computacenter has the credentials and experience to deliver and support the EX range of networking products.

By definition virtualisation removes a direct relationship between the logical entity and the hardware. This is as true for the user as it is for the server as not only do we have to deal with virtual machines in servers but increasingly virtual desktops. The effect on the network is that we need to think about functions like security as services rather than devices or individual applications. This changes the way that we provision both the network and security.

Juniper Networks is focused on making the deployment of virtualisation as simple as possible by building hardware that can scale to support 1000s of virtual sessions and software that allows the network to match the business rather than the other way round. Juniper Networks EX-series Ethernet switches and SRX Dynamic Services Gateways both run the Junos operating system which provides proven performance and consistency to remove the complexity of building secure networks so reducing the cost of ownership.

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As an RSA Signature Level Partner, Computacenter can provide and support the full range of RSA’s technology, business and industry solutions.

RSA offers industry-leading solutions in authentication and access control, data loss prevention, encryption and key management, compliance and security information management, and fraud prevention.

By deploying the right access and data controls, organisations can unlock the value of their investment and leverage the full capabilities of operating a virtual environment and effectively manage their compliance requirements.

By leveraging RSA security controls within virtual sessions, end points and other data repositories, organisations will be better prepared to manage both emerging security threats and new compliance mandates.

RSA SecurBook for VMware View is an easy to follow solution guide that gets to the root of security issues within the hosted virtual desktop environment and offers tips on how to establish flexible controls that will enable dynamic and persistent hosted virtual desktop security as deployment grows.

Discover more about RSA’s solutions: http://www.rsa.com/