Arrow ECS Cloud Computing

As Cloud Computing moves from theory to reality, Arrow ECS has recognised the need for effective Cloud Service delivery and partnered with the World’s leading vendors to enable partners to deliver end-to-end Cloud Computing solutions.

Not even the sky can limit what we offer... as no other distributor can deliver the full spectrum of:

	Cloud Services		Virtualisation
	Network Security		Servers
	Storage		Unified Communications
	Software		Wired and Wireless Infrastructure

Click on the vendor logos below to view their Cloud offerings.

All the power of Blue Coat security now in a cloud-based service

On-demand web security

The Web Security Module for the Blue Coat Cloud Service is a scalable, Internet-delivered service that gives IT administrators all the benefits of real-time security without the need to update appliances, servers or user desktops. This security service leverages Blue Coat’s proven security technology and WebPulse collaborative defence of over 75 million users to provide comprehensive protection against web-based threats for all users regardless of location.  For further details on how Blue Coat is using WebPulse, please click here.

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Powerful Support for the Cloud

CA ARCserve r16 introduces a common cloud connection layer across all data protection components— including traditional file backup, disk imaging, replication and high availability. This provides integrated access to hybrid cloud storage, enabling customers to more readily take advantage of public and private cloud services such as Amazon Web Services®, Microsoft Windows Azure™ and Eucalyptus, for purposes such as remote, off-site data protection, archiving and failover.  For further details on CA’s cloud offerings please click here.
 

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Citrix Cloud

Citrix delivers IT services from your private enterprise cloud and seamlessly extends capacity using the public cloud infrastructure. Citrix NetScaler Cloud Gateway and Citrix NetScaler Cloud Bridge are two powerful cloud networking products designed to seamlessly connect enterprises to external clouds. Cloud Gateway sits at the “front door” of corporate datacenters and gives IT an easy, unified way to orchestrate the delivery of any mix of SaaS, web and Windows apps to end users. Cloud Bridge sits at the “back door” of corporate datacenters and gives IT unlimited capacity by seamlessly and securely extending any datacenter to any external cloud service.

To find out more on Citrix’s cloud offerings click here.
 

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Removing the obstacles to cloud computing

Arrow ECS has announced the launch of its EMC Cloud Solutions, a new consolidated solution providing customers with everything they need to ensure their virtual infrastructure platform is ready for cloud computing.

For further details on EMC and their cloud offering, please click here.
 

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Cloud Computing – Get the complete picture with Fujitsu

Cloud computing principles can be applied across the entire IT estate, from dedicated infrastructure to applications and services. If you or your customers are looking to adopt cloud computing, you will find yourself presented with an array of potential solutions from IT providers large and small. To achieve the true benefits of cloud, you need to draw all the options together to create a complete picture.
 
Fujitsu is already helping organisations deliver these benefits, through the most complete range of cloud-based services.

The Fujitsu picture of cloud is based on the unique combination of:

• The ability to deliver a full range of cloud-based consultancy and solutions today
• Extensive and proven IT experience
• A collaborative approach, ensuring we help you deliver the specific outcomes you and your customers need from a cloud based computing model.

For further details on Fujitsu cloud-based services, please click here.
 

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Cloud computing resources for IBM Business Partners

According to IBM's recent Business Partner Profitability Study, more than half of Business Partners rated cloud as the leading driver of profitability over the next two years. And, the same percentage ranked consulting services as their top cloud opportunity. That means there is plenty of opportunity here for IBM Business Partners looking to grow their business. Solution providers can provide hosted architectures for private cloud environments, provide security for cloud systems and develop consulting services around cloud computing to name just a few possibilities.  For more details on IBM’s cloud offerings click here.

IBM SmartCloud services gives you control of the cloud - Harness the power of cloud to rethink IT and reinvent business

Cloud is the hottest topic in the industry. IBM announce the latest set of capabilities that can help unlock the deeper potential of cloud computing for their clients and IBM Business Partners.
 

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Exploit the cloud without exposing your data

McAfee Cloud Security helps you safely and confidently leverage cloud computing services and solutions. Rather than adopting the unique — and sometimes unknown — security practices and policies of each cloud vendor. Cloud Security allows you to extend and apply your own access and security procedures and policies into the cloud by securing your databases and all the data traffic moving between your enterprise and the cloud. For further details on McAfee Cloud Security click here.
 

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NetApp Cloud

Whether building a private cloud or buying cloud services, NetApp can help. Click here to find details of white papers, blogs and videos as well as learning about the private cloud and cloud services available from NetApp.

Click here to refer to NetApp’s quick reference guide for cloud.

For an overview of Cloud for the Enterprise, a Cloud Customers Strategic Presentation please click here.
 

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Broad, enterprise, flexible cloud for your business applicatons

Oracle’s strategy is to offer a broad portfolio of software and hardware products and services to enable public, private and hybrid clouds, enabling customers to choose the right approach for them. Unlike competitors with narrow views of the cloud, Oracle provides the broadest, most complete, and integrated cloud offerings in the industry. Click here to read more on Oracle's Cloud offering.
 

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Leverage Cloud Services to Reduce Costs and Improve Business Processes

If customers want to build a private cloud or leverage public cloud offerings, Riverbed solutions can help them realise all the promised benefits and avoid all the performance pitfalls.  They can migrate quickly to their dream of cloud servers and storage, and simplify their service delivery around the world.

Riverbed Cloud Solutions:

• Accelerates access to private and public cloud infrastructure
• Accelerates the movement of virtualised machines and data to cloud data centers
• Reduces the bandwidth needed to support branch offices and data centers
• Improves visibility into network utilisation, application performance, and SLAs
• Removes WAN performance barriers, enabling the effective use of cloud services
• Integrates market-leading WAN optimisation technology with hardware appliances, software, and virtualised platforms
• Offers cloud archive, cloud backup, cloud storage, and cloud data protection as part of your improved disaster recovery strategy

For more information on Riverbed Cloud Services click here.
 

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ProCloud, AntiCloudiness

Cloud-deployment offers an array of significant benefits to enterprise ranging from improved IT resource management to more effective strategic and operational initiatives. However, without the ability to safeguard virtually-deployed data assets these benefits become security liabilities.

SafeNet Trusted Cloud Fabric is a comprehensive set of security solutions built to enable enterprise to fully harness the benefits of the cloud while still maintaining trust and control in virtual environments. This practical solutions blueprint offers a data-centric approach, allowing the extension of existing data protection strategies into the cloud. The end result: a seamless and secure cloud-deployment. SafeNet Trusted Cloud Fabric: Secure it. Control it. Trust it.

Click here to find out more about SafeNet and Cloud.

Let's do it in the Cloud

"Let's Do it in the Cloud” is a series of short webinars to help software vendors combat the challenges associated with delivering software applications as a service in the cloud. Click here for full details.
 

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Symantec.cloud - Now Available on ArrowSphere

Utilise the power of cloud computing and provide your customers with essential protection while virtually eliminating the need to manage hardware and software on site. By signing up to ArrowSphere, the leading cloud service aggregation platform, you gain easy access to a webstore that is branded in your name and enables you to resell multiple cloud services from leading providers, such as the Symantec.cloud service portfolio.

Symantec.cloud is a management platform that helps businesses administer, monitor, and protect enterprise information resources more effectively. Our hosted services assist IT leaders in their effort to:

• Provide a secure computing environment
• Enforce acceptable use and regulatory policies
• Deliver ongoing access to critical applications
• Drive cost efficiencies into their organisations

Click here to view the benefits of reselling Symantec.cloud services in your own webstore.

For more information about ArrowSphere please contact Mark Owen, Cloud Leader, on mark.owen@arrowecs.co.uk or call 07538 292 686.
 
To learn about the range of Symantec Cloud Solutions click here.

• Secure your Cloud- Data Loss Prevention, Critical Systems Prevention, Endpoint Protection, VeriSign Authentication Services
• Build Resilient Private Clouds
• Server Management Suite, NetBackup, Cluster Server, ApplicationHA
• Backup and Archive to Private Clouds
• NetBackup, Backup Exec, Enterprise Vault
• Deliver Storage-as-a-Service
• Storage Foundation, Operations Manager, Data Insight for Storage, NetBackup, File Store, Virtual Store

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Securing your Journey to the Cloud

So you’re looking to the cloud for greater flexibility and less cost. Welcome. You’re joining progressive companies everywhere. But your journey to the cloud will be unique to your business. You might start by evolving your data center, with steps such as consolidating physical servers, virtualising servers, and determining what type of cloud implementation best suits your business objectives—private, public, or hybrid. Or you might take the route of embracing consumerisation in your workplace—consolidating physical endpoint security, virtualising your desktops, and deploying cloud-based applications and security to enable your mobile devices to have safe and consistent access to your business data.

For further details on Securing your Journey to the Cloud click here.

Trend Cloud Security Blog

The Trend Cloud Security Blog is dedicated to the discussion of cloud computing security issues.  Enterprises are aggressively pursuing virtualisation and cloud computing because of the benefits it affords:  reduction of IT costs, increased flexibility, greater scalability, etc.  Equally important, however, is IT security.  In this blog we strive to address the challenges presented to infrastructure security and provide a framework for evaluating cloud security – both security for the cloud and cloud-based security.

To view the Trend Micro Cloud Security Blog, click here.

Real -Time Security from the Cloud - It’s cloud security made smarter.

The Trend Micro Smart Protection Network uses a global network of threat intelligence sensors to continually update email, web, and file reputation databases in the cloud, identifying and blocking threats in real time before they reach you. Click here for more information.
 

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