Lower price point allows resellers to address wider section of the data centre and cloud-based computing market

BRACKNELL, UK – Magirus, a leading European IT solutions provider, has today launched across Europe its vBundle unified data centre offers, aimed specifically at the Small and Medium Enterprise (SMEs) data centre market. The competitively-priced vBundles comprise a series of industry-leading computing, network, storage and data management technologies from VMware, Cisco and EMC, all integrated and pre-configured for resellers.

vBundles enable European resellers for the first time to offer a fully-functional unified data centre capability built upon proven VMware, Cisco and EMC technologies, priced specifically for the SME market.

The new offers will enable resellers to realise new revenue opportunities by addressing the relatively untapped, low-end market for data centre and cloud-based computing. At the same time, SMEs will benefit from technologies hitherto only affordable to larger enterprises. These benefits include lower capital outlays; simplified management; increased energy efficiency; and reduced operating costs.

vBundles are available to resellers in six variations* for entry and midrange level organisations.

Magirus’ vBundles have been architected from a pricing point of view and designed with different European requirements in mind. Denise Bryant UK managing director at Magirus explains, “For the first time we have levelled the playing field for SMEs. We have effectively taken a proven framework and shrunk down the specification into more affordable data centre solutions for SMEs. Now, vBundles enable smaller organisations to have access to the benefits of technologies that were previously only affordable by larger enterprises.

“Variations of vBundles have been designed to address different European market requirements. For example, the UK market is interested in bundles with a fairly high configuration, with fault tolerance and redundancy built-in, whereas Spain and Italy require smaller bundles at lower prices.”

The scope of every vBundle configuration can be complemented by further bespoke software and hardware components from the whole Magirus portfolio.

The low-end vBundles come in three different sizes. The entry level vBundle offer is designed for smaller businesses with up to 25 virtual machines. The mid-range vBundle caters for environments of up to 50 virtual machines and the high-end vBundle for up to 100 virtual machines. Both the midrange and high-end offers include an integrated storage management and virtual server infrastructure.

In future Magirus is looking to offer variations of vBundles, for example, a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) bundle, for specific market requirements.