First Distribution - Helping Our Customers to Help Their Customers

Servers, Storage & Virtualization When you need to grow your business, First Distribution can help you drive forward. By combining IBM advancements in scalability, reliability and performance we can help you create a dynamic, streamlined infrastructure so you can take your business where you want it to go. Working with IBM we can provide you with the technology that will truly help your business to innovate and thrive. We make that possible today and together with IBM they have the vision, recourses and dedication to improving upon it in the future. Innovation helps set you apart from the competition. More affordable IT allows you to take the money that is saved and use it to fuel innovation projects. With explosive growth in data, many organizations are struggling to manage, protect, mitigate risk, and maintain rapidly growing information assets while ensuring compliance with industry regulations. Getting control of service levels and growth rates, while reducing business risk and optimizing storage management costs, requires a sound information infrastructure -- a fundamental aspect of IBM's Dynamic Infrastructure strategy and the backbone to a company's means of storing, protecting, accessing, and extracting new insights from its data and information.

Servers, Storage & Virtualization

When you need to grow your business, First Distribution can help you drive forward. By combining IBM advancements in scalability, reliability and performance we can help you create a dynamic, streamlined infrastructure so you can take your business where you want it to go. Working with IBM we can provide you with the technology that will truly help your business to innovate and thrive. We make that possible today and together with IBM they have the vision, recourses and dedication to improving upon it in the future. Innovation helps set you apart from the competition. More affordable IT allows you to take the money that is saved and use it to fuel innovation projects.

With explosive growth in data, many organizations are struggling to manage, protect, mitigate risk, and maintain rapidly growing information assets while ensuring compliance with industry regulations. Getting control of service levels and growth rates, while reducing business risk and optimizing storage management costs, requires a sound information infrastructure -- a fundamental aspect of IBM's Dynamic Infrastructure strategy and the backbone to a company's means of storing, protecting, accessing, and extracting new insights from its data and information.

Networking Our Networking Division offers you award winning, products, bringing your home office or business environment to life. The broadband Internet is becoming the primary conduit for people to communicate and be entertained. With billions of devices to connect worldwide, everything from computers to phones to Internet cameras are becoming part of the network. Whether stored locally or streamed from the Internet, digital content now needs to be available anywhere in the home on any device at any time. networks allow you to seamlessly talk Online, share files, exchange photos, play games and communicate with other networked devices, all at the same time. Our products are easy to use and reliable, allowing you to stay connected and share what you value most.

Networking

Our Networking Division offers you award winning, products, bringing your home office or business environment to life. The broadband Internet is becoming the primary conduit for people to communicate and be entertained. With billions of devices to connect worldwide, everything from computers to phones to Internet cameras are becoming part of the network.

Whether stored locally or streamed from the Internet, digital content now needs to be available anywhere in the home on any device at any time. networks allow you to seamlessly talk Online, share files, exchange photos, play games and communicate with other networked devices, all at the same time. Our products are easy to use and reliable, allowing you to stay connected and share what you value most.

Retail, Software & Security

With more than 30 years on Point-of-sale (POS) market leadership, IBM POS has a solution to fit retailers of all sizes. Based on recent developments in the market, retailers know they can’t stand still. They must respond to the challenges of a diverse, fragmented and ever tightening market where shoppers are being more discerning in their purchasing and buying anywhere it’s convenient—online, television, direct mail catalogs, mega stores and boutiques. Retailers are seeking an optimum balance between managing costs and delivering high levels of service, all the while pursuing the benefits of “green” operations. IBM answers these challenges with the IBM SurePOS™ Series, the innovative, compact, high-performing POS can transform your store operations, drive down costs and dispatch fast ROI.

* Our innovative POS offered at the lowest price ever , lower cost to own than a PC cash drawer.
* Highly efficient performance and retail systems management help deliver quick ROI
* Our smallest POS solution offers space-saving placement and remarkable versatility
* Earth-friendly technology saves power, lowers heat & reduces noise while increasing reliability.

Lanamark Expands Global Reach to South Africa Through Partnership with First Distribution

Enables Solution Providers in South Africa to Accelerate Delivery of Enterprise-grade Desktop and Server Virtualisation Solutions

TORONTO – December 2, 2009 – Lanamark Inc., a global provider of virtualisation sales and services automation platform to the IT channel, today announced a partnership with First Distribution, IBM's largest distributor in Africa. First Distribution is a true value-added distributor with a focus on data centre and virtulisation solutions. The partnership will enable VARs, system integrators and consultants working with First Distribution to use Lanamark Suite to design and deliver desktop virtualisation, server virtualisation and storage solutions to enterprises in South Africa. To learn more, please visit :

www.lanamark.com/first

Oracle Launches Top Value Added Distributor, First Distribution, to address Technology Distribution in South Africa

In the interests of providing our Technology Focused Partners based in South Africa with continuous service improvement and partner excellence through heightened levels of collaboration and partner intimacy, Oracle Alliance & Channel have been working through a rigorous RFP process over the past 6months and have made a new VAD appointment for South Africa.

"To this effect I’m delighted to confirm that “First Distribution (FD)”; have been appointed as the sole approved Oracle Value Added Distributor (VAD) for South Africa and are operational in the market as of 01 December 2009." - Stefan Diedericks | Senior Channel Manager