Ahead has joined the Vblock partner ecosystem, a community of partners qualified to augment, sell, and deliver Vblock solutions. Vblock Infrastructure Packages were developed by the Virtual Computing Environment (VCE) coalition formed by Cisco, EMC, and VMware. Now, Ahead can help clients accelerate their cloud infrastructure implementation based on industry-leading technology, taking advantage of the critical IT efficiencies this provides.
Vblock Infrastructure Packages are integrated, tested, and validated data center infrastructure offerings that combine best-of-breed virtualization, networking, compute, storage, security, and management technologies with end-to-end vendor accountability. Vblock Infrastructure Packages support a broad range of operating systems and applications that enable clients to rapidly migrate existing applications to Vblock infrastructure to accelerate broad-scale data center virtualization.
“Being part of the Vblock partner ecosystem, combined with our Cisco, EMC, and VMware partnerships, helps Ahead fulfill its mission: to be the trusted advisor to large enterprises on their journey to virtualization and private cloud,” said Tim Frank, Ahead vice president of sales. “It is recognition of our technical excellence and ability to provide solutions to our clients.”
Ahead qualifies for the Vblock partner ecosystem through its investment in technical certifications and partner designations for all of the Cisco, EMC, and VMware products that comprise the Vblock Infrastructure Packages.
Ahead shares the VCE coalition’s vision—not only that the future of enterprise IT infrastructure is private cloud computing, but that delivering the architecture must address people, process, and technology. “What we see in cloud computing is a data center revolution, a complete paradigm shift,” said Dan Adamany, Ahead’s president. “While the benefits can be tremendous, the challenges are as great. Ahead is purpose-built, avoiding the traditional siloed approach, and equipped to guide our clients through the minefields to achieve their business goals through virtualization and cloud computing.”
The VCE coalition represents an unprecedented level of collaboration across development, services, and partner enablement that helps minimize the risks in the infrastructure virtualization journey to private cloud implementation.
For more information on the coalition, visit www.cisco.com/go/vce or www.emc.com/campaign/global/vce/.