Sunbury on Thames, UK - 21 July 2010 - IT infrastructure company Ardenta, the UK's specialists in delivering highly-tuned information systems for the enterprise, has announced its accreditation as a VMware Enterprise Partner.
With VMware forming a foundation stone for many organisations' IT environments - including all Fortune 500 companies - the accreditation is a vital part of Ardenta's technical expertise in providing optimal IT infrastructures
Ardenta has built up its specialisation over several years having gained vast experience of VMware technology for organisations such as The Tote and others.
The accreditation further demonstrates Ardenta's commitment to building its specialisations and technical leadership in this key area, offering the skillsets needed to provide proven virtualisation solutions that significantly reduce IT complexity and fully leverage existing IT infrastructure investments.
Becoming a VMware Enterprise Partner requires a number of accreditations across training for technical, support and sales areas. The Enterprise Partner status means that Ardenta's certified staff are recognised as having market-leading skills in providing installation, configuration, support and maintenance of VMware solutions.
Ardenta's Technical Director, Scott Hanson, said: "As a team of specialists and consultants, we are delighted with this key accreditation, which forms a critical part of Ardenta's wide-ranging technical skillsets. It means we can expand our service offerings. We have invested in VMware technology and expertise so that we can deliver the best advice and solutions to our customers for their virtual infrastructure needs."
The advantages of being a VMware Enterprise Partner include the ability to offer better pricing for customers, along with improved mindshare within VMware, according to Hanson.
"We are proud that we have achieved this status. It is an important milestone for Ardenta in being able to offer the complete set of skills and capabilities to meet the VMware virtualisation requirements of any organisation," Hanson said.
He added: "Through cost-effective implementation of VMware virtualisation technology into their IT infrastructure, Ardenta can ensure that organisations benefit from reduced costs and a less complex IT environment. With VMware Enterprise Partner status - which clearly demonstrates our in-house technical competence - we believe we can achieve this for our customers in the most cost-effective way available today."
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For more information please contact:
Ardenta Limited
Susan Morgan, Marketing
T: +44 (0)1932 724027
E: susan.morgan@ardenta.com
About VMWARE
VMware delivers virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions that enable IT organizations to energize businesses of all sizes. With the industry leading virtualization platform - VMware vSphere™ - customers rely on VMware to reduce capital and operating expenses, improve agility, ensure business continuity, strengthen security and go green. With 2009 revenues of $2 billion, more than 170,000 customers and 25,000 partners, VMware is the leader in virtualization which consistently ranks as a top priority among CIOs. VMware is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the world and can be found online at www.vmware.com
About Ardenta
Ardenta Limited is a UK-based specialist in delivering highly tuned information systems for the enterprise. Ardenta designs, implements, maintains and supports - at optimal levels - mission critical systems for organisations who depend on high performance solutions. Ardenta supports mission critical systems which operate 24 hours a day, 365 days of the year. Head Office is based in Sunbury on Thames, Middlesex with two external data centres based in Heathrow and Slough. The organisation counts BBC, Blue Square, BUPA, Centrebet, Greenpeace, ITV, Ladbrokes, Musgrave Retail Group (GB) Ltd, The Tote, The Royal British Legion, William Hill and many others amongst its customers. Ardenta is an IBM Premier Business Partner, EMC2 Premier Solutions and ASN Partner, Cisco Select Partner, Oracle Business Partner, RedHat, HP and Sun Authorised Resellers and Zeus ReSeller. For further information please visit: www.ardenta.com
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