ANS lays claim to Infrastructure 3.0

Manchester-based reseller ploughs £250,000 into data centre strategy around Cisco, VMware and NetApp

Sweeney: We are unique at the moment and want to steal this market

Reseller ANS has coined the term ‘Infrastructure 3.0’ to help thrust it ahead of other joint Cisco, VMware and NetApp partners.

The three vendors last week unveiled a virtualised datacentre architecture, featuring best-of-breed technology from each.

ANS claims it is the only reseller to hold top datacentre accreditations with all three and to have a Gold star for customer satisfaction from Cisco.

The company has also ploughed £250,000 into developing its accompanying Infrastructure 3.0 strategy, which aims to provide mid-market and public sector firms with a “stateless and fluid” architecture.

ANS managing director Paul Sweeney said: “People have talked about VCE – VMware, Cisco and EMC. We think VCN has more to offer, as NetApp has better technology around de-duplication.

“We are unique at the moment and want to steal this market and be a pioneer.”
Sweeney also said the VAR already boasts a £5m Infrastructure 3.0 pipeline.

Chris Gabriel, solutions director at Logicalis, said: “We sold the first and second [Cisco] unified computing system in the UK, so anyone who suggests they are better positioned than Logicalis is being very ambitious.”