Avnet Enterprise Solutions Opens Hands-On State-of-the-Art SAN Center.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers TEMPE, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 9, 2002 IT infrastructure architect Avnet Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT) is a technology B2B distributor headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona. The company states on their website that:
Customers get hands-on hands-on adj. Involving active participation; applied, as opposed to theoretical: "We're involved in hands-on operations, pulling levers, pushing buttons" Arthur R. Taylor. experience and can "drive" the storage infrastructure to become familiar with setting up SAN zones, LUNs and raid levels, and how to expand storage pools and volumes. Since opening in May, representatives from more than 15 companies have visited the SAN Center, which continues to be a gathering place for customers who are interested in seeing the basic benefits of networked attached storage, centralized cen·tral·ize v. cen·tral·ized, cen·tral·iz·ing, cen·tral·iz·es v.tr. 1. To draw into or toward a center; consolidate. 2. backup and restore infrastructure. Furthermore, customers can learn how to increase the amount of storage managed or administered by more than 15 times through the use of a centralized pool of virtual storage. As an IT infrastructure architect, Avnet Enterprise Solutions boasts 25 years of comprehensive experience with complex, enterprise-scale IT solutions with expertise focused on enterprise server, storage and network solutions with dedicated professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. . Hewlett-Packard See HP. Hewlett-Packard - (HP) Hewlett-Packard designs, manufactures and services electronic products and systems for measurement, computation and communications. The company's products and services are used in industry, business, engineering, science, medicine and recently named Avnet Enterprise Solutions its West Region Storage Business Partner of the Year. "We are proud to achieve this recognition," said Carol Kinney, vice president, Western Region Server & Storage Sales, Avnet Enterprise Solutions. "In 2001, Avnet Enterprise Solutions' Western Region designed and implemented over 35 SANs for customers, totaling over 400TB of raw storage, and was the leading provider of HP's SAN Implementation Services, S.I.S., a service that leads a customer through the complete architecting, design, and implementation process." "Avnet Enterprise Solutions investments in technical expertise enables it to provide customers with comprehensive services for SAN and StorageWorks environments with a wide range of innovative solutions that can be tailored to specific requirements," said Mark Gonzalez, vice president, Network Storage Solutions, Hewlett-Packard. "The West Region Storage Business Partner of the Year award is an award that clearly demonstrates that Avnet Enterprise Solutions is delivering greater business value and customer satisfaction to enterprise and network storage customers in the market that they serve." Here is a summary of the equipment and software that is currently on display: -- Compaq Enterprise Virtual Array, 2 HSV110 arrays controllers, 6 shelves -- 24 - 36GB disk drives, 2gb/sec, 10K rpm, (864GB total) -- 2 Compaq DL380 servers, 933MHz, 1GB memory, Win2000 -- Alpha DS10 server (OVMS & Tru64 Unix) -- Compaq SAN Management Appliance -- Compaq MSL 5052, 3 drive SDLT tape library -- Compaq Network Storage Router - 2 SCSI ports -- Brocade 3800, 2gb 16 port fabric switch -- Compaq TaskSmart 2400 NAS appliance -- Compaq 2gb 8 port fabric switch -- Cisco 5420 & 5428 IP Storage router with iSCSI -- McData Director Core Switch -- HP SANworks Secure Path software -- HP SANworks Snapshot software -- HP SANworks Enterprise Volume Manager software -- HP SANworks Network View software -- HP SANworks Storage Resource Manager software -- VERITAS Netbackup software -- NSI Double Take Replication software -- Commvault Galaxy Backup Software -- HP Openview Suite -- Linux server connected to a DSL line for remote demonstration capabilities About Avnet Enterprise Solutions Avnet Enterprise Solutions is an IT infrastructure architect specializing in enterprise server, storage and network solutions that power leading business applications. The company leverages its unique suite of technical and financial professional services to minimize risk, maximize flexibility and optimize optimize - optimisation IT investment. Avnet Enterprise Solutions integrates hardware, software and services from industry leaders including BMC Software BMC Software, Inc. NYSE: BMC, is an American enterprise management software provider, focusing on IT infrastructure applications. BMC was founded in 1980 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas. , Cisco Systems “Cisco” redirects here. For other uses, see Cisco (disambiguation). Cisco System,Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO, HKSE: 4333 ) is an American multinational corporation with 54,000 employees and annual revenue of US $28.48 billion as of 2006. , Computer Associates, Hewlett-Packard, 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) , Oracle, Tivoli and VERITAS. Headquartered in Tempe, Avnet Enterprise Solutions (www.es.avnet.com) is a division of $2.4 billion Avnet Computer Marketing, an operating group of Avnet Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : AVT AVT avian arginine vasotocin. See vasotocin. ). Avnet Inc. is ranked 161 on the Fortune 500 list and is a global technology marketing and services company with fiscal 2002 sales of $8.9 billion. |
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