First Distribution

First Distribution is an ICT distributor in South Africa. It buys products from major technology vendors and sells them on through a network of resellers, who in turn serve enterprise and small business customers.

What First Distribution offers

• Datacentre products — servers, storage, virtualisation and converged systems.
• Cloud services — through its own cloud brokerage, First for Cloud.
• Security and networking — cyber security and network infrastructure.
• Software — database, middleware and data analytics products.
• Client computing — devices and peripherals.

Who it works with

Resellers, who are treated as business partners. Vendors it distributes for include IBM, Oracle, Microsoft, AWS, Lenovo, Samsung, Veeam and Hitachi Data Systems.

Key facts

• Based in: South Africa
• Cloud arm: First for Cloud