Arrow Electronics Announces Web-Based Access Now Available for Universal Enterprise Storage Lab.Business Editors MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 14, 2002 WebEx Meeting Center Gives Resellers Convenient Solution for Remote Training, Testing and Configuration Enterprise computing distributor Arrow Electronics, Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :ARW ARW Air Refueling Wing ARW Advanced Research Workshop ARW Associated Resume Writers ARW Army Ranger Wing (Irish Special Forces) ARW American Revolutionary War ARW Angle Random Walk ARW Aeroelastic Research Wing ), today announced that Arrow enterprise resellers now can access Arrow's Universal Enterprise Storage Lab in Minneapolis remotely through the Internet. "Providing remote access is the next step in evolving the labs to support our enterprise resellers," said Lance Sedlak, director of marketing, Enterprise Storage, Arrow Electronics. "We now provide Arrow resellers with a secure web-based tool to conduct training, testing and demonstrations of storage networking solutions from any location they choose." In another move to demonstrate support for resellers in the promotion and sale of storage networking solutions, Arrow has installed WebEx Meeting Center, the leading real-time communications infrastructure for business meetings on the Web. WebEx Meeting Center allows resellers to participate in enterprise storage training, demonstrations, and testing remotely by integrating voice, video and data. "This initiative by Arrow will reduce travel and provide convenient access to their Enterprise Storage Lab, reducing costs to Forsythe and to our customers," said Jerry Cavanagh, director, HP Solutions, Forsythe Solutions Group. Arrow's two Universal Enterprise Storage Labs are hands-on, multi-vendor facilities that are dedicated to helping resellers capitalize on new storage opportunities through the replication of realistic end-user storage environments. About the North American Computer Products group of Arrow Electronics The North American Computer Products group of Arrow Electronics, Inc. (NYSE: ARW) is a leading distributor of enterprise and embedded computing systems to reseller and OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and customers in North America. Based in Englewood, CO, the group is comprised of four divisions that make up Enterprise Computing Solutions (Support Net, SBM SBM - Solution Based Modelling , MOCA MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art MOCA Multimedia over Coax MoCA Museum of Chinese in the Americas MOCA Minnesota Ovarian Cancer Alliance MOCA Montezuma Castle National Monument (US National Park Service) , Enterprise Storage Solutions) and the Arrow/Wyle Division, which serves industrial OEM customers. Visit us at www.arrownacp.com. Arrow Electronics is one of the world's largest distributors of electronic components and computer products and a leading provider of services to the electronics industry. About Enterprise Storage Solutions Enterprise Storage Solutions, a division of the North American Computer Products group of Arrow Electronics, provides a full range of storage networks and services to enterprise computing reseller communities in cooperation with Arrow's other enterprise divisions: Support Net, SBM, and MOCA. The OEMs who will work with Arrow to deliver new storage services to the reseller community through Enterprise Storage Solutions are Adaptec, APC (1) (American Power Conversion Corporation, West Kingston, RI, www.apcc.com) The leading manufacturer of UPS systems and surge suppressors, founded in 1981 by Rodger Dowdell, Neil Rasmussen and Emanual Landsman, three electronic power engineers who had worked at MIT. , Compaq, Crossroads, EMC (1) (EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA, www.emc.com) The leading supplier of storage products for midrange computers and mainframes. Founded in 1979 by Richard J. Egan and Roger Marino, EMC has developed advanced storage and retrieval technologies for the world's largest companies. , Exabyte, Gadzoox, HP, HP OpenView, Hitachi Data Systems See HDS. , IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Infinity I/O, JNI, Legato Systems, McData, Nortel Networks, QLogic, Quantum, IBM Tivoli and Veritas Software. |
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