Avnet Hall-Mark Expands Resellers Storage Portfolio with New EMC CLARiiON AX100.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers TEMPE, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 26, 2004 Avnet Hall-Mark, a value-added distributor of enterprise servers, storage, software and services, today announced the addition of the 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. CLARiiON AX100 networked storage system. Avnet Hall-Mark's storage expertise and suite of value services accelerate resellers' ability to bring these new storage solutions to customers. The EMC CLARiiON AX100 is an entry point for price-sensitive customers interested in easy-to-use storage for consolidation and advanced data protection. Avnet Hall-Mark resellers addressing small-to-medium businesses (SMB (1) (Small to Medium-sized Business) Also called "SME" (small to medium-sized enterprise), it refers to companies that are larger than the small office/home office (SOHO), but not huge. ), departmental locations, and remote offices and branch offices (ROBO) are well suited to leverage this opportunity. "The ease of installation and completeness of the EMC CLARiiON AX100 solution allows our resellers to spend more time solution selling," said Jeff Bawol, senior vice president and general manager of Avnet Hall-Mark's Enterprise Software and Storage Business Unit. "Our resellers' efforts are further complemented through the utilization of our IT DemoCentral value service, which enables them to create a shorter sales cycle and an increased ability to drive revenue." The complete CLARiiON line of products, from the AX100 to the CX700, is available for demonstrations through IT DemoCentral. Avnet Hall-Mark has made considerable investments in value services for storage resellers, including the IT DemoCentral and Networked Storage Advisor services. For example, IT DemoCentral allows resellers to demonstrate full production hardware and software solutions from virtually anywhere with Internet access See how to access the Internet. , reducing traditional time and expenses. "This allows us to bring enterprise functionality to a wider array of customers," said Mike Chapman, vice president of sales and COO, RedBridge Solutions. "Avnet Hall-Mark's comprehensive set of assessment and demonstration tools focused on storage solutions gives RedBridge an additional competitive advantage." "The EMC CLARiiON AX100 represents a new class of storage, offering customers the benefits of consolidation, automation and advanced data protection at entry-level price points," said John Koury, vice president, Global Channel Marketing, EMC Corp. "Integrating the EMC CLARiiON AX100 storage system with Avnet Hall-Mark's channel services creates a true 'win-win' scenario." The new EMC CLARiiON AX100 will be available from Avnet Hall-Mark, via their quote-to-order tool as of June 7, 2004. About Avnet Hall-Mark Headquartered in Tempe, Ariz., Avnet Hall-Mark is an industry-leading, value-added distributor of enterprise servers, storage, software and services, marketing exclusively to the reseller An organization that sells hardware and software to the general public. Resellers purchase products from software publishers and hardware manufacturers. channel. Through operations in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , Mexico and Canada, Avnet Hall-Mark provides solutions from industry-leading manufacturers including EMC, HP, 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) , Microsoft, Network Appliance (1) A specialized device for use on a network. For example, Web servers, cache servers and file servers can be implemented as general-purpose computers with the appropriate software or as network appliances, which are computers dedicated to a single function and cannot do anything , Oracle, StorageTek and VERITAS -- driving growth for partners and manufacturers. Avnet Hall-Mark is a division of the Avnet Technology Solutions operating group of Avnet Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :AVT AVT avian arginine vasotocin. See vasotocin. ). Avnet enables success at the center of the technology industry, providing cost-effective services and solutions vital to a broad base of more than 100,000 customers and 250 suppliers. The company markets, distributes and adds value to semiconductors, interconnect, passive and electromechanical The use of electricity to run moving parts. Disk drives, printers and motors are examples. Electromechanical systems must be designed for the eventual deterioration of moving components that wear over time. The first TVs were electromechanical systems (see video/TV history). components, enterprise computer and network equipment, software, storage and embedded Inserted into. See embedded system. subsystems. Through its premier market position, Avnet brings a breadth and depth of capabilities which help its trading partners accelerate growth and realize cost efficiencies. Avnet generated more than $9 billion of revenue in fiscal 2003 (year ended June 27, 2003) with sales in 68 countries. Visit http://www.avnet.com/. Product and service names mentioned herein are the trademarks of their respective owners. |
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