What we work with
A service says what we do for you. A solution is the product we do it with. The vendor owns the names, and occasionally changes them.
VMware Pinnacle Partner 23 products
VMware
VMware by Broadcom
Working with VMware since the turn of the century, and more deeply involved in professional services since the Broadcom acquisition than before it.
Cloud Foundation VCF
PlatformCompute, storage, network and operations as one product on one lifecycle, instead of four products with four maintenance windows.
vSphere Foundation VVF
PlatformThe smaller of the two Broadcom bundles: vSphere with operations tooling, without the full private cloud platform on top.
VCF Networking
formerly NSX
VCF
Networking and firewalling in software, at the virtual port. The route to segmentation that does not depend on rack topology.
VCF Automation
formerly Aria Automation
VCF
Self-service and lifecycle for virtual machines, networks and Kubernetes namespaces. The catalogue with the platform behind it.
VCF Fleet Management
VMware VCF Operations fleet management
VCF
Lifecycle across several VCF instances: inventory, version state and updates from one console rather than one at a time.
VCF Operations
formerly Aria Operations
VVFVCF
Capacity, cost and health of the platform in one place. Since VCF 9 it is part of the platform rather than an optional add-on.
VCF Ops for Networks
formerly Aria Operations for Networks
VMware VCF Operations for Networks
VCF
Visibility into the traffic between workloads: who talks to whom, over which path, and what the firewall rule has to say about it.
vSphere Kubernetes Service VKS
formerly vSphere with Tanzu
VVFVCF
Kubernetes inside the vSphere stack. If you can run vSphere, you can run a container platform on it.
VCF Storage
formerly vSAN
VVFVCF
The local disks in your ESXi hosts become one shared datastore. Storage managed in the vSphere client instead of in a second console.
Cloud Service Provider
Under 3500 cores, a service provider now has to attach to a Premier or Pinnacle CSP. We do not host anything ourselves, so we are not a competitor.
SASE
VMware Secure Access Service Edge
WAN and security as one architecture. Access depends on identity and context rather than on a tunnel into the company network.
- Advanced Cyber Compliance Add-on VCF EdgeVCF Security Virtualization
- Advanced Security Add-on VCF EdgeVCF Security Network
- Application Services Add-on VCF EdgeVCF Automation Containers
- Load Balancing (Avi) Add-on VVFVCF EdgeVCF Network Virtualization
- Business Operations Add-on VCF EdgeVCF Monitoring Automation
- Data Services Add-on VCF EdgeVCF Data Management Automation
- Identity Security Add-on VCF EdgeVCF Security Modern Workplace
- Live Recovery Cloud Add-on VVFVCF EdgeVCF Backup and Recovery Cloud
- Network Observability Add-on VCF EdgeVCF Monitoring Network
- Site Recovery Manager Add-on VVFVCF EdgeVCF Backup and Recovery Virtualization
- vSAN extra capacity Add-on VVFVCF EdgeVCF Storage Virtualization
- vSphere with Tanzu Containers Virtualization
HPE Gold Partner 7 products
HPE
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Datacentre infrastructure from server to storage, bought outright or drawn by consumption through GreenLake.
HPE Data Management
File, object and compliant archiving, usually built as software-defined storage on HPE servers with third-party software.
HPE dHCI
HPE disaggregated Hyperconverged Infrastructure
Scale separately like three tiers, manage like HCI. The update story is the real gain.
GreenLake
HPE GreenLake
Hardware in your own datacentre, billed by what you use. The cloud model without the move to the cloud.
HPE Private Cloud AI
A preconfigured AI platform from HPE and NVIDIA, in your own datacentre. Public-cloud ways of working without the data leaving the building.
HPE Private Cloud
dHCI managed from the GreenLake portal, with the Alletra MP B10000 behind it. Close relative of dHCI, different operating model.
HPE Server
HPE ProLiant
ProLiant covers the same range from file server to AI workload. The difference in operation is lifecycle management, not the metal.
HPE Storage
HPE Alletra
Primary storage for virtualized estates. The choice is settled by availability and recovery time, not by capacity.
Omnissa Platinum Partner 6 products
Omnissa
Desktop virtualization was our subject before the spin-out. Since 2024 the vendor has a different name; the people here are the same.
Citrix Takeout
Citrix on vSphere got considerably more expensive with Broadcom's licensing change. Moving to Horizon is the sum worth doing now.
Horizon
Omnissa Horizon
Virtual desktops and published applications. Under its own name and its own roadmap since the spin-out from VMware.
Environment Manager
Omnissa Dynamic Environment Manager
Profile management that does not load the whole profile. It captures the settings somebody chose, and that shortens the login.
Workspace ONE Access
Omnissa Access
Identity and access management for applications. Sign in once, and access then depends on the state of the device rather than only on the password.
Workspace ONE
Omnissa Workspace ONE
Device management and access for laptops, phones and tablets. A device is managed because it reaches data, not because the company bought it.
- App Volumes Modern Workplace Virtualization
Microsoft 4 products
Microsoft
From planning a Microsoft 365 estate through rollout to running it. The demanding part is rarely the technology, it is the identity.
EasyLife 365
Governance for Microsoft 365. It clears up what appears without rules: teams, groups, mailboxes and guest accounts nobody has an overview of.
Microsoft 365
Mail, collaboration, storage and identity on subscription. The part most often underestimated is the identity.
Azure
Microsoft Azure
Microsoft's public cloud, with regions in Switzerland. Seldom a replacement for the datacentre, often the second half of one.
Microsoft Teams
Collaboration and telephony in one tool. The landline number lands in Teams, and being reachable stops depending on where someone is sitting.
Endpoint Security Pinnacle Partner 2 products
Endpoint Security
Devices left the company network faster than they were secured. Two products cover this, and choosing between them is rarely the hard part.
Microsoft Defender
Endpoint detection and response from the Microsoft stack. If you already have M365 E5, you have usually already licensed it.
Carbon Black
Endpoint detection and response. Watches what a system actually does, rather than comparing files against a list of signatures.
IBM 1 products
- IBM Virtualization Architecture
IGEL OS vendor
IGEL OS
A read-only Linux as the endpoint operating system. Turns existing hardware into a managed access point and extends how long it stays useful.
Morpheus Platinum Partner vendor
Morpheus
A self-service layer across several platforms. Development teams order, operations keeps hold of policy and cost.
Veeam vendor
- Veeam Backup and Recovery Data Management
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