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Johannesburg – South Africa- 29 September 2021 – Value-added IT distributor First Distribution announces it now offers Cambium Networks’ wireless fabric portfolio of communications solutions. Enterprises, service providers and government agencies are choosing fixed wireless and Wi-Fi technology that deliver the broadband speed needed without the cost and hassle of trenching fibre. Wireless is provenRead more

First Distribution (FD), the leading pan-African distributor for Cybersecurity, Datacentre, Enterprise, Networking and Cloud solutions, has expanded its Citrix footprint beyond South Africa with its appointment as a Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) distribution partner for Africa. “Organisations around the world are changing the way they do business,” says Chris Richardson, General Manager: Cloud and HostingRead more

There’s a quip in the IT industry: who is driving digital transformation in your company: the CEO, the CIO or Covid? And, of course, the response is generally Covid. While Covid has precipitated organisations along an accelerated digitalisation path, the very speed with which it happened has had some unpleasant and sometimes downright dangerous consequences.Read more

First Distribution, the leading pan-African distributor for Cybersecurity, Datacentre, Cloud, Surveillance and IoT Solutions, has signed an agreement to distribute OpenEye Web Services. OpenEye is a cloud-based video surveillance as a service solution that streamlines operations and reduces the burden on IT, making it easier to manage and maintain video deployments and integrations of allRead more

South Africans have found out the hard way that you never know when or how disaster might strike. And many companies are now discovering that staying in business after a disaster is closely tied to how quickly they can restore their IT operations. Disasters take many forms, points out Gerhard Fourie, Channel Lead for Commvault,Read more

Johannesburg, Gauteng – 29 June 2020 – First Distribution, the leading Pan-African distributor for Cybersecurity, Datacentre, Enterprise, Networking and Cloud solutions, has signed an agreement with Grandstream, as a new distribution partner for South Africa. Grandstream, an American company specializing in providing telecom solutions, delivers an entire communications solution in one powerful and easy toRead more

Johannesburg, Gauteng – June 23, 2021 – First Distribution, the leading Pan-African distributor for Datacentre, Cybersecurity, Enterprise, and Cloud Solutions, has won the Infrastructure Solutions Award for Southern Africa and SADC region at the Dell Technologies MERAT Distribution Summit & Awards Ceremony 2021. First Distribution is recognized for its outstanding performance and commitment in providingRead more

Johannesburg, Gauteng – June 22, 2021 – First Distribution, the leading Pan-African distributor for cybersecurity, data centre, enterprise, and cloud solutions, today announced it has been awarded the Sophos Distributor of the Year, in South Africa. First Distribution is recognized for its outstanding performance and commitment to securing organizations with Sophos’ next generation cybersecurity solutionsRead more

Millions of people around the world trust the certification issued by ICDL, the non-governmental organisation (NGO) that provides training and verification for ICT skills. The organisation, which offers 24 training modules ranging from basic skills to high-level coding and web design, operates in 150 countries around the world. More than 16-million people across the globeRead more

The journey to digital transformation has become more vital than ever before, with the Covid-19 pandemic accelerating the pace of change. Businesses of all types have undergone massive shifts over the past year, as they move squarely into a new, data-driven, era. But digital transformation can be complex and challenging – and managing the vastRead more