"Avnet Integrated Solution's hardware experts guided us to the perfect hardware solution, enabling fast growth in our target markets"
Sangfor Technologies is a leading enterprise security and virtualization solution provider focusing on software innovation in the IT infrastructure sector.
Software defined IT infrastructure is becoming more popular due to its numerous, intelligent and automated features. It is proven to offer savings on capital expenditure investment, but more importantly, reduces operational cost dramatically, through the integration of different technologies into one unified solution.
When Sangfor was searching for a fast way to expand into the European market, Avnet Integrated Solutions was the logical choice. Avnet's unparalleled server integration facilities around the world, meant Sangfor could deliver hardware directly to customers, pre-loaded with Sangfor’s software, and ready to work, out of the box. Avnet Integrated’s unique customer-facing ordering platform, Direct Connect, allows Sangfor's customers to order directly through a portal, further eliminating unnecessary cost and complexity.
By leveraging Direct Connect, software innovators like Sangfor can use Avnet's global technology campuses, in-house hardware design expertise and leading partnerships, with the best computing hardware manufacturers, to market their solutions to customers in any region without needing to invest in hardware components, in-house hardware teams or expensive warehouses
Sangfor HCI (Hyper Converged Infrastructure)
Sangfor HCI (Hyper Converged Infrastructure) and multi-tenant solution provide the ultimate transformation for customers hoping to shift to a software-defined IT infrastructure, with access from anywhere, at any time.
Sangfor HCI delivers a scalable, secure and reliable software defined infrastructure by converging compute, storage, networking and security into a unified software stack, while simultaneously reducing the data center footprint and greatly simplifying operation and management with a “what you draw is what you get” visualized network topology. Sangfor HCI can also be smoothly evolved to a private/managed cloud platform, with cloud-native applications built on containers and managed by Kubernetes, supported by Sangfor PaaS KubeManager.
Sangfor HCI is the optimal infrastructure building block for customers to build a future-proof IT that reduces TCO and accelerates innovation.
The advantages of Avnet Direct Connect
Today, software companies are forced to choose between achieving higher profit margins and making it easy and efficient for their customers to get their applications. With Avnet Direct Connect, software companies can experience the best of both worlds through an optimized plug and play solution in a model that allows them to invest more into their intellectual property (IP) while Avnet handles the hardware.
Sangfor wants to stay focused on developing ground breaking applications that reach maximum potential in user experience. Offering their application as a turnkey solution means both performance benefits for their customers, and reduced support costs for their businesses.
For companies looking for the user experience benefits of a hardware-enabled solution, while maintaining the financial advantages of a software-only model, Avnet Direct Connect can help strike that balance.
Bringing software and hardware together
Avnet Integrated collaborated with its technology partner Lenovo to create three unique server 'bundles' that would work perfectly with Sangfor's software, as well as meeting the most common hardware requirements of Sangfor's customers.
The bundles are integrated by Avnet Integrated at its technology campus in Germany, positioned perfectly to deliver hardware to Sangfor's new customers all over Europe.
The bundles Avnet Integrated developed for Sangfor are built on Lenovo's world-class ThinkSystem rack servers, chosen for their versatility and high levels of reliability. The servers use Intel's Xeon server-level processors and combine large SSD-based caches with high-speed HDD to provide the perfect combination of speed and capacity.
"Avnet Integrated's hardware experts guided us to the perfect hardware solution, enabling fast growth in our target markets," said Giuseppe Coppola, Country Manager, Sangfor. "Furthermore, Avnet's Direct Connect platform means customers can order Sangfor solutions through a Sangfor-branded portal hosted by Avnet, simplifying our route to market."
About Sangfor Technologies
Sangfor Technologies is a leading global vendor of IT infrastructure solutions, specializing in Cloud Computing & Network Security with a wide range of products & services including: Hyper-Converged Infrastructure, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, Next Generation Firewall, Internet Access Management, Endpoint Protection, Ransomware Protection, Managed Detection and Response, WAN Optimization, and SD-WAN.
Established in 2000, Sangfor currently has 6,000+ employees with more than 60 branch offices globally in exciting locations like Hong Kong, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore, Philippines, Vietnam, Myanmar, Pakistan, UAE, Italy and the USA.
| ENTRY LEVEL BUNDLE | PERFORMANCE BUNDLE | MID-RANGE BUNDLE |
|---|---|---|
| 2 x Lenovo SR350 Servers | 2 Servers Lenovo SR650 | 2 Servers Lenovo SR650 |
| 20 core (Intel® Xeon®) | 40 core (Intel® Xeon®) | 64 core (Intel® Xeon®) |
| 128 GB DDR4 RAM | 256GB DDR4 RAM | 512GB DDR4 RAM |
| 1.92TB SSD cache | 1.92TB SSD cache | 3.84TB SSD cache |
| 8TB Virtual Storage (S-ATA) | 10.8TB Virtual Storage (10KRPM SAS) | 14.4TB Virtual Storage (10KRPM SAS) |
KEY POINTS
- Sangfor appointed Avnet Integrated to provide end-to-end hardware solutions, from customer orders through fulfilment, and after-market services.
- Appliances are delivered to customers certified and fully optimized, with a short time to market.
- Collaborative research and development allows faster product development and constant improvement.
- Avnet's global technology campuses allow Sangfor to deliver solutions to customers without having to pay for in-region real estate and other prohibitive costs.
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