Partnerships are the key component in creating superior service and value for our clients. All Ahead relationships and strategic alliances begin with an exhaustive evaluation process. Partners are selected based on their superior technology, financial stability, and vision. Our meticulous on-boarding process ensures that team members understand and are professionally certified in using and integrating technologies to solve your most demanding business issues. The Ahead team remains a thought leader by continuously evaluating and analyzing industry trends and standards, along with the leading-edge firms that define them, to provide you with best-of-breed products and services.
EMC Corporation is the world leader in products, services, and solutions for information management and storage. It is among the 10 most valuable IT product companies in the world. Second only to your people, information is your organization's most important asset. EMC provides the technologies and
tools that can help you release the power of your information.
VMware is the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop to the data center—bringing cloud computing to businesses of all sizes. Clients rely on VMware to reduce capital and operating expenses, ensure business continuity, strengthen security, and go green. With 2008 revenues of $1.9 billion, more than 130,000 customers, and more than 22,000 partners, VMware is one of the fastest growing public software companies.
Cisco Systems, Inc. designs, manufactures, and sells Internet Protocol (IP)-based networking and other products to the communications and IT industry worldwide. It provides storage area networking products that deliver connectivity between servers and storage systems; unified communication products to integrate voice, video, data, and mobile applications on fixed and mobile networks; video systems, including digital set-top boxes and digital media products; and wireless systems. In addition, the company offers optical networking products, cable access, and service provider VoIP services; and Cisco TelePresence systems and exchange services, physical security and video surveillance, digital media systems, and building systems to manage energy efficiency.
Pano Logic was created to address the growing costs and complexity of the PC-based desktop computing paradigm. Pano’s team of engineers and executives had decades of experience working on different approaches to this problem—both from thin-client hardware companies and from virtualization software vendors. They’ve leveraged this expertise and experience to take a fresh look at how desktop consolidation and virtualization can provide the Windows experience that users need, while rescuing IT from the escalating overhead of managing distributed PC desktops.
Data Domain is a leading provider of Enterprise Protection Storage systems for disk backup and network-based disaster recovery. Data Domain’s inline data deduplication and replication technologies offer data reduction rates that enable new efficiencies in enterprise data protection. The company’s products and solutions integrate into customers’ existing infrastructure and are compatible with leading enterprise backup software products.
Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. provides the industry’s leading platforms, solutions, and services for intelligently connecting, managing, and optimizing IT resources in shared storage environments. Today, the world’s foremost companies rely on the Brocade family of storage area network (SAN) solutions as the foundation of their networked storage. In addition, these companies utilize the Brocade family of IT infrastructure solutions to proactively manage and optimize their information resources across the enterprise.
Symantec is a global leader in providing security, storage, and systems management solutions to help its customers—from consumers and small businesses to the largest global organizations—secure and manage their information against more risks at more points, more completely and efficiently than any other company. Symantec’s unique focus is to eliminate risks to information, technology, and processes independent of the device, platform, interaction, or location.
Xsigo Systems has developed a revolutionary new approach to server I/O: the Xsigo I/O Director. This hardware and software solution is optimized from the ground up to dramatically accelerate and simplify routine data center management tasks. With the Xsigo I/O Director, IT managers provision I/O resources on-the-fly without disrupting network and storage configurations, and without physically entering the data center.
RSA, the security division of EMC, is the premier provider of security solutions for business acceleration, helping the world’s leading organizations succeed by solving their most complex and sensitive security challenges. RSA’s information-centric approach to security guards the integrity and confidentiality of information throughout its lifecycle—no matter where it moves, who accesses it, or how it is used.
Quantum is the leading global storage company specializing in backup, recovery, and archive solutions. Customers’ data protection and retention challenges are complex and rapidly evolving, and the need for a category expert is essential to success. Because all of Quantum’s resources are dedicated to backup, recovery, and archive, the company offers the focused expertise, customer-driven innovation, and platform independence that storage generalists, such as system OEMs and primary storage providers, cannot match.
Wyse Technology is the inventor and global leader in cloud client computing, leveraging its industry-leading thin- and zero-client computing-based desktop virtualization software, hardware, and services. Cloud Client Computing is the ultimate client computing solution for our time. It replaces the outdated computing model of the unsecure, unreliable, un-green, and expensive PC.
Veeam Software, a premier-level VMware Technology Alliance partner, develops innovative products for virtual infrastructure management and data protection. Clients can reduce costs, minimize risks, and fully realize the promise of virtualization with Veeam.
Akorri enables IT organizations to increase virtualization ROI through optimization and planning of their virtual and physical infrastructure resources in a continually changing IT data center environment.