Avnet Hall-Mark and StorageTek Canada Announce Distribution Relationship.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers TEMPE, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 8, 2002 Avnet Hall-Mark, a value-added distributor of enterprise servers, storage, software and services, and StorageTek(R) Canada Inc., the storage services and solutions expert, today announced a new distribution relationship in Canada. The addition of StorageTek products brings to the Canadian Canadian (kənā`dēən), river, 906 mi (1,458 km) long, rising in NE New Mexico. and flowing E across N Texas and central Oklahoma into the Arkansas River in E Oklahoma. resellers the leading solutions in tape automation, virtual storage and storage management. "StorageTek's tape and disk product lines represent a significant step forward in our Canadian storage strategy," stated Michael Gavarkos, vice president and general manager, Avnet Hall-Mark Canada. "Our partners across Canada Across Canada was an afternoon program that formerly aired on The Weather Network. The segment ran from early 1999 until mid 2002. The show ran from 3:00PM ET until 7:00 PM ET. will now be able to respond to customer demands for a rich storage solution portfolio with high-quality products." Gavin Treanor, national manager, Rand Rand See Witwatersrand. rand 1 n. See Table at currency. [Afrikaans, after(Witwaters)rand. Worldwide, noted, "By working closely with Avnet Hall-Mark and StorageTek, Rand Worldwide has been very successful in delivering flexible storage solutions to our customers in the U.S. We're excited about the opportunities we'll now have with our Canadian customers, and we look forward to being able to offer robust storage and recovery solutions backed by the StorageTek services organization." Jeff Roddick, president of StorageTek Canada, said, "We are impressed im·press 1 tr.v. im·pressed, im·press·ing, im·press·es 1. To affect strongly, often favorably: by Avnet Hall-Mark's enterprise resellers and their focus on storage solutions centered around business problems -- such as disaster recovery and data protection. In addition, Avnet Hall-Mark brings its partners marketing assistance to generate leads for our products and provides the technical backing required for both pre-sales activities and post-sale implementations so that we can expand StorageTek's market share in Canada." For more information, please visit www.hm.avnet.com/storagetek or call 800/409-1483. About Avnet Hall-Mark Headquartered in Tempe, 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. Avnet Hall-Mark is a division of the $2.4 billion Avnet Computer Marketing operating group of Avnet Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :AVT AVT avian arginine vasotocin. See vasotocin. ), a global distributor of electronic components, embedded systems Embedded systems Computer systems that cannot be programmed by the user because they are preprogrammed for a specific task and are buried within the equipment they serve. and computer products and services from industry-leading manufacturers. Avnet's sales for fiscal 2002 (year ended June 30) were $8.9 billion. For more information about Avnet Hall-Mark, visit: www.hallmark hallmark, mark impressed on silverwork or goldwork to signify official approval of the standard of purity of the metal, also called plate mark. The hallmark was introduced by statute in England in 1300 and enforced by the Goldsmiths' Hall, London. .avnet.com. About StorageTek StorageTek Canada Inc. is a subsidiary of Storage Technology Corp. (NYSE:STK), a $2 billion worldwide company with headquarters in Louisville, Colo., which delivers a broad range of storage solutions for digitized data. StorageTek solutions are easy to manage and allow universal access to data across servers, media types and storage networks. StorageTek is the innovator and global leader in virtual storage solutions for tape automation, disk storage systems and storage networking, and is a voting member of the SNIA (Storage Networking Industry Association, San Francisco, CA, www.snia.org) An organization devoted to the advancement of mission critical storage systems. Founded in 1997, its goal is to determine the standards that must be developed to allow hosts and storage systems to interact via . Because of StorageTek, customers can manage and leverage their digital assets as their businesses grow and can maximize IT productivity to ensure enterprise-class business continuity. For more information, see www.storagetek.com, or call 800/786-7835. TRADEMARKS: StorageTek is a registered trademark of Storage Technology Corp. All other products or company names mentioned are used for identification purposes only, and may be trademarks of their respective owners. |
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