Arrow Electronics Hosts 12th Annual Net@Work Partner Conference; Conference Keynotes Include Sun Microsystems and Symantec Senior Executives.

SANTA ANA PUEBLO, N.M. -- The MOCA Division of Arrow Electronics, Inc. (NYSE:ARW), a leading Sun Microsystems, Inc. channel development provider, will host the 12th annual Net@Work Partner Forum for nearly 400 reseller partners and supplier representatives October 2nd through October 5th in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

The event, themed "Driving Success, Accelerating Growth," is being held at the Hyatt Regency Tamaya Resort and Spa in Santa Ana Pueblo, New Mexico, and is designed for the MOCA Division's partner community to network with key supplier executives and to enhance their understanding of new and existing revenue opportunities in the channel.

This year's keynotes feature Rich Severa, president of the MOCA Division of Arrow Electronics, speaking on "Economic ecosystems: Why Partners Always Prosper with Them." Other keynotes from Sun Microsystems include Rich Napolitano, president, U.S. GEM, and Tim Lieto, vice president of Customer Sales, USA GEM., James Whitemore, storage director, Greg Stroud, VP Partner and Alliance Sales, U.S. GEM, and Denis Vilfort, Senior Storage Business Development Manager.

The conference will also include a general session with Julie Parrish, vice president Enterprise, Midmarket & Worldwide Channel Marketing for Symantec. A number of other vendors, such as McAfee, Hitachi, AMD and Brocade will also lead informational breakout sessions during the event.

For the first time in the conference history, MOCA has devoted several tracks to the Canadian marketplace for its Canadian-based partners. Session topics will cover Canadian maintenance programs, working effectively in the Sun Canadian channel and storage virtualization. Two additional tracks of interest this year include one for both government and software security. For the government track, executives from INPUT Services will deliver an overview of trends ahead in the Federal, State & Local Government and share market intelligence to help partners increase business and stay competitive. The security track, led by Chris Prosise, Senior Vice President of Foundstone, a division of McAfee, Inc., will provide an overview of the state of the network security industry and demonstrate how partners can help end customers to manage this evolution.

"We are thrilled to be celebrating 12 years of MOCA's Net@work conference as we continue to watch our reseller partners evolve, becoming the most vital link between our vendors and the enterprise and mid-market end users we all service," said Rich Severa, president, MOCA Division. "We look forward to continuing to provide a forum to recognize our partners' remarkable commitments to the channel and to foster growing relationships within Arrow's partner community."

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 resellers and OEM customers in North America. Based in Englewood, Colo., the group is comprised of four divisions that make up Enterprise Computing Solutions (Support Net, SBM, MOCA, Enterprise Storage Solutions) and OEM Computing Solutions, which serves industrial OEMs and intellectual property-based companies. Visit all of our divisions at www.arrownacp.com.

Arrow Electronics is one of the world's largest providers of products, services and solutions to the electronic components and computer products industries.