Africa
Vertiv Signs Channel Distribution Agreement with Tech First Gulf (TFG) Covering East Africa
Vertiv (www.Vertiv.com/en-EMEA) (NYSE: VRT), a global provider of critical digital infrastructure and business continuity solutions, today announced a distribution partnership with Tech First Gulf (TFG), a leading IT infrastructure and security value. dealer added.
With this partnership accelerating presence in the East African market, Vertiv will enhance TFG’s existing portfolio with its robust power and IT infrastructure solutions for data center and edge applications.
Additionally, TFG provides its partners and customers with enhanced logistics support, easy credit and local currency payments and will act as an extended arm of Vertiv by providing end-to-end installation, service and maintenance for customers.
TFG positions itself as a “one stop shop” for the digital infrastructure of its partners and clients. With this partnership, TFG will incorporate Vertiv’s comprehensive portfolio of IT technologies and services, including Liebert® Uninterruptible Power Supplies (UPSs), such as the Liebert® GXT5 UPS a double-conversion online UPS solution that offers protection superior against power outages and continuous feeding. packaged in a compact and flexible tower/rack form factor, and dedicated software for partners and customers.
Also included are Vertiv’s turnkey solutions such as Vertiv™ SmartCabinet™, a pre-configured stand-alone solution that offers the efficiency, economy, interoperability and control needed to implement an exceptional infrastructure strategy. Easy to deploy by maximizing existing infrastructure and giving administrators seamless control, SmartCabinet™ saves time on integration and installation compared to selecting and installing individual rack, cooling, power and monitoring solutions.
Hemant Mali, Managing Director of TFG and Susan W., Country Manager of TFG in Kenya, commented: “We are excited to begin this partnership with Vertiv, which will not only round out our infrastructure portfolio, particularly in the modular data center space , but also opens up the Vertiv Partner Program (VPP) (https://partners.Vertiv.com/) to our resellers, with benefits like training, incentives to grow with Vertiv, and support required to quickly meet customer demands. With Vertiv, we look forward to continuing our journey of innovation and disrupting IT infrastructure growth with Vertiv’s industry-leading infrastructure solutions.”
“In the era of Industry 4.0, with increasing interconnectivity and intelligent automation, this distribution partnership will provide East African customers with cutting-edge data center solutions and expertise to support their digital transformation journey,” he said. Pierre Havenga, General Manager of Vertiv in the Middle East and Africa region.