www.networksunlimited.africa

Mission Statement

Networks Unlimited aspire to be the No.1 Value-Add Distributor of Cybersecurity, Cloud & Datacentre, Networking and Enterprise Systems Management solutions for Africa

Vision

Empowering Africa through innovative IT solutions

Company values

WISDOM The pursuit of knowledge and using our values to build afoundation for every decision.

INTEGRITY Acting with honesty and honour without compromisingthe truth.

EMPOWERMENT Encouraging employees to take initiative and give theirbest. Adopting an error-embracing environment toempower employees to lead and make decisions.

ACCOUNTABILITY Acknowledging and assuming responsibility for actions,products, decisions, and policies.

VISION Creating a climate for growth based on a picture of apreferred future.

COMMUNITY Contributing to society and demonstrating corporatesocial responsibility.

The company

Since Networks Unlimitedformation in 1994, we evolvedto become one of the very few true,value-added distribution companiesin Africa. NU has continuouslyadapted to today’s increasinglycompetitive environment to provideproduct solutions that offer bestand latest solutions for companiesacross Africa, through our extensivepartner network covering over 38countries in Africa.

Our product portfolio provides cutting edge solutions from the network edge to the

data centre, and addresses keyareas such as cybersecurity in theIT/OT space, Hybrid cloud, datacentreand infrastructure, networking andintegration, SD-WAN solutions,network performance managementand application performancemanagement, application deliverynetworking and load balancing,dataOps management and data management, and backup and recovery solutions.Most of our solutions are highly regarded by Gartner and will be found on their respective magic quadrants.

Empowering AfricaThrough InnovativeIT Solutions

Empowering Africa ThroughInnovative IT Solutions

Networks Unlimited challenges theIT distributor status quo. Our passionfor innovation, technology, peopleand business drives our belief thatas early adopters of new technologyand bringing these disruptive andcutting edge solutions to you, wecreate and provide the opportunityto better serve your customers andimplement better solutions that lowertheir operating costs but improveperformance.

As an African value-added distributor,it is Networks Unlimited unwaveringmission to operate as a thoughtleader in the market. Providingpartners and customers the optionof doing things differently andbetter. This model enables us toalways stand at the forefront of newtechnology and, importantly, lead theway to igniting impending technologydevelopments that enhance ourcustomers’ businesses.

Our Products

Attivo Networks applies deception technology tooutmaneuver and reveal in-network threats. TheAttivo Networks ThreatDefend platform uniquelyprovides visibility throughout the attack lifecycle,detects activity overlooked by traditional securitycontrols, and accelerates incident response withautomated attack analysis and incident handling

Carbon Black is the leader in next-generationendpoint security, combining unfiltered datacollection, predictive analytics, and cloud-baseddelivery to provide superior endpoint protection.Carbon Black NGAV is designed to replacetraditional AV, stopping the full spectrum ofmodern cyberattacks and providing the detectionand response capabilities needed to addressevery threat.

Cofense’s Phishing Defense solutions providecomprehensive phishing defense from the inboxto the SOC, conditioning users to recognize andreport phishing attacks while eliminating phishingrelated breaches by speeding the collection andresponse of phishing threats in real time

F5 Networks specialises in application deliverynetworking (ADN) technology that optimises thedelivery of network-based applications and thesecurity, performance availability of servers, datastorage devices, and other network resources.

Altaro is a fast-growing developer of easy-to-use backup solutions for managed service providers (MSPs), IT resellers and IT departments. It specializes in backup for virtualized and cloud environments, providing affordable enterprise-class functionality while avoiding unnecessary features that add cost and undue complexity. Altaro also provides an annual subscription solution to back up and restore Office 365 mailboxes, Altaro Office 365 Backup. Both are also available as monthly subscription programs for MSPs.

Fortinet is the market leader in unified threatmanagement, delivering purpose-built solutionsthat improve performance, increase protection,and reduce costs. It secures customers’ networksworldwide, including the majority of the FortuneGlobal 500 companies.

Our Products

Arbor Networks provides network security andnetwork monitoring products, its products areused to protect networks from denial-of-serviceattacks, botnets, computer worms and attacksthat are aimed at disabling network routers.NETSCOUT’s Adaptive Service Intelligence(ASI)delivers a single view into the performanceof all your services across your network anddatacenter so you can quickly pinpoint andresolve problems.

Mellanox is the ideal datacentre switch, deliveringthe highest throughput and lowest latency inthe industry, at a fraction of the price you wouldnormally pay.

Indegy, a leader in industrial cyber security, protects industrial control system (ICS) networks from cyber threats, malicious insiders and human error. The Indegy Industrial Cyber Security Suite arms security and operations teams with full visibility, security and control of ICS activity and threats by combining hybrid, policy-based monitoring and network anomaly detection with unique device integrity checks. Indegy solutions are installed in manufacturing, pharmaceutical, energy, water and other industrial organizations around the world.

Hitachi Vantara elevates your innovation advantage by merging operational and informational experience to offer you a data partner with unprecedented range and depth in data management rolled into one great solution provider. Hitachi Vantara helps data-driven leaders find and use the value in their data to innovate intelligently and reach outcomes that matter for business and society – what they call a double bottom line. Hitachi Vantara helps enterprises store, enrich, activate and monetize their data to improve their customers' experiences, develop new revenue streams and lower their business costs.

ProLabs is the leading global independentprovider of optical network infrastructureproducts. The company offers and extensiverange of high-quality products including opticaland copper transceivers, cabling and media

converters, as well as OTDR testing..

RSA offers intelligence driven security solutionsthat give customers the ability to detect,investigate, and respond to advanced threats;confirm and manage identities; and ultimatelyprevent IP theft, fraud, and cybercrime.

Rubrik provides the industry’s first ConvergedData Management appliance, deliveringautomated backup, instant recovery, unlimitedreplication, and data archival at infinite scale.Rubrik is built by key engineers behind Google,Facebook, VMware, and Data Domain.

Silver Peak Unity EdgeConnect SD-WANsolutions enable enterprises to dramaticallyreduce the cost and complexity of building aWAN by leveraging broadband to connect usersto applications.

Our Products

SevOne provides the world’s largest CSPs, MSPsand Enterprises with the most comprehensivetechnology portfolio to collect, analyze andvisualize network & infrastructure performancedata to deliver actionable insights to competeand win in the connected world..

TINTRI Builds smart storage that sees, learnsand adapts enabling IT organisations to focuson Virtual applications and business services,instead of managing their storage infrastructure.

Uplogix is the most evolved out-of-band solutionon the market. For Uplogix, evolving out-of-bandmeans monitoring devices and taking actionsdirectly over the console port, like an onsite

technician plugging in a laptop.

Our Products

Gartner expects we’ll see over

20 billion connecteddevices by 2020

– promising to fundamentally change

the way we live and work.

Networks Unlimited Key Areasand Value-Added Services

We are different from your normal distributor forthe following reasons:

We have a strong product focus on selected products in our suite, which havevery little overlap i.e. we focus on products that sit in the Gartner quadrantthat have been identified proven as recommended technology and leaders intheir field.

We offer a strong product team focus behind each product set available.

Our certified engineers provide assistance with partner enablement, POC’sand professional services.

We are an Authorised training Centre for many of our products and providecertified training and boot camps (technical and sales readiness) on each ofour products.

We have a strong reputation for delivering new and cutting-edge solutionsto the marketplace, creating new business opportunities and replacing oldtechnology or ways of doing things.

We have proven marketing alignment between the vendor and our partners.

Our internal sales team help to drive new opportunities and build pipeline.

We have established logistics capabilities across Africa based on over 25years of experience working with various vendors, partners and customersacross Africa on simple and large scale projects.

B-BBEE status and yourprocurement

In addition to the benefits offered by our Value-Added Distribution model,a key point lies in the support that Networks Unlimited Africa offers in thesphere of community upliftment.

Our association with The Love Trust means that when you procure productsthrough Networks Unlimited Africa, you are also assisting us in contributingto the development of local communities and education where this support ismost needed.

We therefore ask you to recognise the kind of impact that this contributionhas in the broader scheme for the development of our children and the futureof our country.

Our business proposition facilitates a partnership in which business assistswith the upliftment of society’s most vulnerable members, in a way thatprovides real individual assistance as well as they key, strategic ability toachieve general economic changes over the longer term.www.literacyforlife.co.za

How we contribute to your procurement points andyour own BEE rating:

As a level “3“ BEE contributor, 110% of your spend will be recognised butwhat is more important than the BEE level will be your procurement pointsdue to the following structure.