The future of data capture and the ability to track assets at anytime and anywhere. 

The Specialist Distribution Group (SDG) is part of Europe’s largest independently owned IT group. With annual turnover in excess of $2.34b and international coverage in 47 territories, SDG is the EMEA Specialist Technology Distributor.

Learn about Symantec's engineering blueprint and how they are addressing the new complexities and challenges in the market in terms of information risks, information growth and information infrastructure.

Mobile is one of the biggest conversation topics at the moment in the industry.  Symantec is building best-practice around managing the risk of mobile as part of an organisations IT Strategy.  Watch to learn more....

What is a good IT Strategy?  Learn about the balance between operation efficiency and reducing risk in delivering an effective IT Strategy.

Learn about Symantec's strategic mega trends starting with how Symantec is helping customers to manage the challenge of ever increasing information growth.

In this video Darren Thomson, Symantec CTO talks about Symantec's Cloud strategy and how they are going to market in three different ways: Building Private Clouds, Software as a Service and Securing your Cloud Infrastructure.

The benefits of consolidating infrastructure through virtualisation and generating cost savings is clear.  In this video you will learn about Symantec's view of balancing risk and reward and that if organisations are not careful, they can introduce unneccessary risk into their IT Strategy.

The threat landscape over the last 5 years has changed and the way organisations and individuals think about security has changed dramatically.  The shift of threat type has moved from targeting individuals to much more organised attacks on large corporate businesses.

Following the recent launch of VMware vSphere 5, Pravin Rampaul, Senior VMware Technical Instructor and Consulant, disucsses the enhancements and developments of the new release. 

Paul Eccleston discusses with Sara Yirrell, Editor of CRN the changing landscape for distribution.

Find out in this short Q&A how SDG is staying ahead of the competition and what Paul believes is the main role of a distributor in the current climate.

SDG will distribute Wyse solutions in the UK, France and North Africa, building on its formidable expertise in the virtualisation market. In the UK, SDG’s Specialist IBM and Lenovo distributor, ISI, will spearhead the relationship with Wyse, building a Centre of Excellence to deliver growth in key segments and helping partners to deliver new, virtualised infrastructure solutions for their customers.

SDG’s partnership spans with Port-P spans across their portfolio.  SDG seamlessly integrate into the Port-P’s team, enabling and supporting the reseller throughout the sales cycle. 

Through the partnership, SDG have extended Port-P’s capabilities as a reseller, adding value to Port-P’s training, demonstration and technical resource. 

Paul Eccleston, EMEA Managing Director, SDG discuss the value of the Business Solution Centre and how SDG can enable partners through this facility to deliver the right technology to deliver the best solution for the end user.

Richard George, Director of Cloud Services at Intel discusses the future of Cloud Computing. 

Alan Wakeman, Desktop Specialist at VMware discusses the partner benefits of the VMware View and Desktop Virtualisation Competency

The new Wyse T50 is a compact affordable and flexible entry level thin client. It delivers the best Web, Citrix, Microsoft and VMware VDI user experience and performance to IT executives needing to equip their task workers with an enterprise standard client on a budget.

Daniel Cartter, EMEA Director for Cloud Solutions & Services discusses the partner benefits of SDG's Business Solution Centre

Matt Warwick, IBM Business Manager, Kelway

The Business Solution Centre (BSC) is a £1m purpose built facility designed specifically for reseller partners and their customers. SDG partners can access a wide range of services through the Business Solution Centre, a proven resource that enables you to demonstrate, educate and evaluate the very latest infrastructure hardware and software solutions from leading technology vendors including: Citrix, HP, IBM, Symantec and VMware.

The Universal Desktop Converter allows you to migrate your existing PC or old thin client hardware into a fully manageable IGEL Universal Desktop thin client-like device. It is capable of delivering Citrix, VMware and Terminal Server desktop applications, utilising the full software functionality of Entry, Standard or Advanced Feature Packs.

VMware Your Cloud

Toshiba's new range of thin and light laptops

All Scale storage clusters are powered by ICOS: An advanced storage operating system combining powerful features with intelligence that makes storage easy-to-manage, even for novices.

Scale Storage Solutions
S Series - Scale Computing's S-series line of storage products is the storage workhorse for the mid-market. It's perfect for the vast majority of SMB uses cases such as archiving, virtualization, virtual desktops, disk-based backup, and even some database loads.

Scale Storage Solutions
M Series - High performance for Exchange and Databases. SAS or SATA drives.

Scale Storage Solutions
N Series - Entry Level SAN/NAS. The N-Series is perfect for: archiving, disk-backup, replication to remote offices, campus settings and small business applications that are not database intensive.

Symantec Specialisations are designed for partners with proven expertise in a particular technology or business area.  Watch this video to find out the latest information. 

The new IGEL UD3 is an affordable, compact, versatile mid-range thin client hardware platform that supports all Feature Packs (Entry, Standard and Advanced).

The Universal Management Suite (UMS) is an easy-to-use yet extremely powerful software that allows you to remotely manage your IGEL thin clients so that support costs are kept to a minimum. It is extremely open and network friendly so that it can fit into your organisation’s existing infrastructure.