Avnet Hall-Mark and Collective Technologies Announce Alliance Landmark Alliance.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers TEMPE, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 26, 2001 Leverages Collective's Advanced Technical Services to Provide Avnet Resellers with Service Capabilities that Allow for Expansion into New Markets Avnet Computer Marketing, Hall-Mark Division, a leading worldwide value-added distributor of enterprise computing Refers to information technology in the larger company. See enterprise data and enterprise networking. products, storage, software and services, Tuesday announced a strategic alliance with infrastructure management firm Collective Technologies Inc. Driven by the overwhelming demand for Collective service offerings, Avnet Hall-Mark Professional Services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. will assist Collective in marketing its complete suite of packaged services, addressing a wide range of critical system management requirements. Through the new relationship, Avnet Hall-Mark will unite resellers with Collective Technologies when a service is needed. Utilizing Collective's immediately available source of specialized technical personnel will help Avnet Hall-Mark's value-added resellers (VARs) supply more of a "total solution" to their customers. Collective Technologies will offer implementation services for enterprise storage management, backup and recovery and high-availability solutions to Avnet Hall-Mark's resellers and their clients. These offerings encompass the full suite of Veritas products, including Veritas NetBackup, Veritas Cluster Server Veritas Cluster Server (also known as VCS) is a High-availability cluster software, for Unix, Linux and Microsoft Windows computer systems, created by Veritas Software (now part of Symantec). and Veritas Foundation Suite. Collective Technologies will also offer its site planning Site planning in landscape architecture and architecture refers to the organizational stage of the landscape design process. It involves the organization of land use zoning, access, circulation, privacy, security, shelter, land drainage, and other factors. and installation service packages to address the complex requirements of the HP9000 and 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) RS/6000 families of products. High-availability offerings include HP's MC/ServiceGuard and IBM's HACMP HACMP High Availability Cluster Multi-Processing (IBM) HACMP High Availability Clustered Multi Processing . "Our experience with Collective has been tremendous; the response from our VARs has been very positive too," said Gary Bennett Gary David Bennett (born April 17, 1972 in Waukegan, Illinois) is a back-up catcher for the St. Louis Cardinals, a Major League Baseball team. Bennett made his major league debut in 1995 for the Philadelphia Phillies after the Phillies drafted him in the eleventh round of , vice president, Services, Avnet Hall-Mark. "We've heard nothing but high praise for the professionalism, quality and speed of service that Collective delivers. Collective brings an expanded level of capabilities to our resellers to meet their customer's needs." "Our customers don't just want hardware or software from us -- they want solutions," said Jaime Gmach, president, Evolving Solutions. "Avnet's relationship with Collective gives us a powerful services tool to augment and expand service offerings to our customers." "For the past seven years, we've been helping Fortune 1000 companies manage their networks, systems and databases," said Ed Taylor, president and chief executive officer, Collective Technologies. "We're committed to helping VARs earn the same level of trust and confidence from their clients that we've earned from ours. "Through these extended services, we look to help Avnet provide a complete solution to its VARs." About Avnet Computer Marketing, Hall-Mark Division Headquartered in Tempe, Avnet Computer Marketing, Hall-Mark Division is an industry-leading, value-added distributor of enterprise computing systems, software, storage and services, marketing exclusively to the reseller channel. With locations in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Austria, Australia, Czech Republic Czech Republic, Czech Česká Republika (2005 est. pop. 10,241,000), republic, 29,677 sq mi (78,864 sq km), central Europe. It is bordered by Slovakia on the east, Austria on the south, Germany on the west, and Poland on the north. , France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Mexico, Poland, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, the Hall-Mark Division is a division of the $2.4 billion Avnet Computer Marketing Group of Avnet Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : AVT AVT avian arginine vasotocin. See vasotocin. ), a global distributor of electronic components and computer products and services from leading manufacturers. Avnet is a Fortune 500 company with annual sales exceeding $13 billion. For more information about the Hall-Mark Division, please visit its Web site at: www.hallmark.avnet.com. About Collective Technologies Inc. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Collective Technologies Inc. provides comprehensive infrastructure management services to Global 1000 corporations. Through its service offerings, Collective gives businesses choice in managing their infrastructure, freeing internal IT resources to focus on core business needs. With a nationwide network of systems, network and database administrators, and remote monitoring (protocol) remote monitoring - (RMON) A network management protocol that allows network information to be gathered at a single computer. Whereas SNMP gathers network data from a single type of Management Information Base (MIB), RMON 1 defines nine additional MIBs that provide a abilities, Collective delivers end-to-end infrastructure management services including remote monitoring and repair, on-site problem resolution and high-end engineering services. Founded in 1994, Collective is a privately held subsidiary of 27-year-old Pencom Systems Inc. The company has 23 regional offices, 350 employees and more than 200 clients throughout the United States. Key clients include Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, Sun, IBM, Akamai, Amazon.com, American Express, Motorola, Boeing and Lucent Technologies. For more information, visit http://www.collectivetech.com. |
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