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First Distribution and Smart Optics bringing cost affective, high bandwidth connectivity across Africa. Oslo, Norway – 23 January 2024 – Smartoptics, a leading provider of optical networking solutions, today announced that First Distribution, Africa’s leading value-added distributor for Datacentre, Cloud, Networking and Security products and services, will distribute Smartoptics products across Africa. The products willRead more

Join the revolution with First Distribution and Huawei Earlier this year, we proudly unveiled a dynamic partnership between HUAWEI and First Distribution at the eco-connect event. Beyond the renowned HUAWEI cloud offering, our Datacentre and Networking Business Units are thrilled to present the EBG and HUAWEI SME portfolios, marking a significant expansion in our techRead more

First Distribution voted Best Cloud and Cybersecurity Distributor by ChannelWatch We are proud to announce that we have recently been voted Best Cloud and Best Cybersecurity Distributor for 2023 by CONTEXT ChannelWatch. This is a massive achievement, one which we are very proud of. This is one of the largest online reseller surveys conducted acrossRead more

By Natasha Bezuidenhout, Business Executive: Microsoft at First Distribution. First, we had the ‘new normal’ with people working from home during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic; that was later modified to a hybrid working model where employees juggled between home and office working; and now, today, we are seeing a growing move by employersRead more

First Distribution (FD) has signed up as a value-added Huawei Cloud partner.   FD reseller partners will now be able to offer their customers a range of Huawei Cloud services, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS), including storage, compute, network, database, container, big data andRead more

FDOnline launches with Dell CSG portfolio Leading value-added distributor First Distribution is making it easier for its Dell reseller partners to get quotes, check inventory, and order products with the launch of the FDOnline platform. “With everyone moving to buying online, FD has decided to join the trend and build our own online platform,” saysRead more

First Distribution Adds AvePoint Digital Collaboration Security and Management Solutions To power modern work and enhance security, First Distribution now offers AvePoint to the Partner Ecosystem. Johannesburg, 26/09/2022 – Today, First Distribution, announces its partnership with AvePoint (NASDAQ: AVPT), the most advanced SaaS and Data Management platform provider, to offer its collaboration security solutions toRead more

Johannesburg, 07 September 2022 – The major disruptions of the last two and a half years are behind us, but they have left a lasting legacy in the way businesses and individuals connect, collaborate, and communicate. During the months and years of lockdown, people become accustomed to online meetings and classes, and the new waysRead more

14 June 2022 – Leading value-added distributor First Distribution has been appointed as the African distributor for Morpheus. Morpheus is a hybrid multi-cloud management platform. It is a unified and composable platform that allows companies to modernise apps and manage hybrid cloud ecosystems. The agnostic application automation platform supports self-service provisioning into an unpredictable mixRead more

First Distribution to distribute Nozomi Networks solutions as its preferred provider for OT and IoT cybersecurity and anomaly detection in sub-Saharan Africa Johannesburg, Gauteng, 27 May 2022 — First Distribution, the leading pan-African distributor for Cybersecurity, Datacentre, Cloud, Surveillance, and IoT Solutions, has been appointed as a preferred provider and distributor by Nozomi Networks Inc,Read more