Avnet Partner Solutions IT Consolidation Seminars Generate New Opportunities for HP Solution Providers.TEMPE, Ariz. -- Based on the ongoing success of its IT consolidation seminars, Avnet Partner Solutions, a leading 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, is bringing the event to 11 additional cities 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. and Canada this fall. The seminars, which bring together solution providers and their customers, focus on the advantages of HP consolidation and virtualization An umbrella term for enhancing a computer's ability to do work. Following are the ways virtualization is used. Hardware Virtualization Partitioning the computer's memory into separate and isolated "virtual machines" simulates multiple machines within one physical computer. solutions. Additional seminars are being held in St. Louis; Minneapolis; Chicago; Dallas; Denver; Seattle; Vancouver, British Columbia British Columbia, province (2001 pop. 3,907,738), 366,255 sq mi (948,600 sq km), including 6,976 sq mi (18,068 sq km) of water surface, W Canada. Geography ; Calgary, Alberta; Toronto; Ottawa; and Montreal. The seminar series has been highly successful in educating IT managers and business executives about issues and opportunities in IT consolidation, while at the same time introducing them to HP solution providers. Participating solution providers are trained on delivering HP consolidation solutions and on a financial return on investment methodology. This helps prepare the solution providers for discussions with business executives during the seminars. The seminar series is focused on: --How to achieve increased business agility and greater data efficiency by consolidating to an HP BladeSystem platform incorporating blade server A server architecture that houses multiple server modules ("blades") in a single chassis. It is widely used in datacenters to save space and improve system management. Either self-standing or rack mounted, the chassis provides the power supply, and each blade has its own CPU, memory and and Storage Area Network (SAN) technologies; --How to leverage virtualization and workload management; and --Industry best practices in financial assessment and financing methodologies. "IT consolidation is one of the hottest market opportunities for our partners right now. It offers the customer an opportunity to upgrade to better and faster technology while cutting their overall costs. This seminar helps our HP partners take full advantage of this trend," said Jim Kleeman, vice president and general manager, Avnet Partner Solutions, HP Business Unit. More than 200 businesses have already attended the seminars and been introduced to HP solution providers who can help them design and implement a consolidation solution. As a direct result of the seminar series, more than 20 server/storage assessments are currently under way with Avnet solution providers as the first step in implementing an IT consolidation solution. "There has been a lot of buzz about IT consolidation, blades and storage," said Mark Darlington, chief operating officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. , Trilogy A company founded in 1979 by Gene Amdahl to commercialize wafer scale integration and build supercomputers. It raised a quarter of a billion dollars, the largest startup funding in history, but could not create its 2.5" superchip. Solutions, LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control . "Avnet has helped us turn this into real opportunities with our current customers and with potential new customers. Partnering with Avnet and HP has made it easy to offer our customers solutions that deliver true value and enable us to grow our top line and bottom line." The seminars are just one part of Avnet's initiative to drive growth for HP solution providers in the consolidation market. The initiative represents Avnet's ongoing commitment to accelerating the success and growth of its partners by providing a variety of services. Avnet's IT server and storage consolidation initiative combines: --Business and market intelligence resources --Technical training and certification --Sales and marketing tools --IT services for pre- and post-sales --Professional implementation services --Compliance consulting services Noun 1. consulting service - service provided by a professional advisor (e.g., a lawyer or doctor or CPA etc.) service - work done by one person or group that benefits another; "budget separately for goods and services" --Pre-configured and validated bundled solutions "Avnet's focus on IT consolidation has helped value-added resellers A value-added reseller (VAR) is a company that adds some feature(s) to an existing product(s), then resells it (usually to end-users) as an integrated product or complete "turn-key" solution. fully leverage the strength of HP's innovative technology," said Tom LaRocca, vice president of partner development and programs at HP. "Plus, the consolidation seminars offer good opportunities for HP solution providers to gain knowledge to help grow their business." For more information on the seminars, please call 888-543-1105. About Avnet Partner Solutions, Americas Avnet Partner Solutions, Americas, is a business unit of the Avnet Technology Solutions operating group of Avnet Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :AVT AVT avian arginine vasotocin. See vasotocin. ). An industry-leading, value-added distributor and provider of enterprise servers, storage, software and services, Avnet Partner Solutions serves value-added resellers, independent software vendors (ISVs) and systems integrators in the United States, Canada and Mexico. Avnet Partner Solutions provides enterprise solutions from industry-leading manufacturers, focusing on driving growth for partners and manufacturers. For more information, please visit: www.aps.avnet.com. Avnet enables success from the center of the technology industry, providing cost-effective services and solutions vital to a broad base of more than 100,000 customers and 300 suppliers. The company markets, distributes and adds value to a wide variety of electronic components, enterprise computer products and embedded Inserted into. See embedded system. subsystems. Through its premier market position, Avnet brings a breadth and depth of capabilities that help its trading partners accelerate growth and realize cost efficiencies. Avnet and the company it acquired in July 2005, Memec Group Holdings Ltd., together generated more than $13 billion in revenue in the past year through sales in 68 countries. Visit www.avnet.com/. Product and service names mentioned herein are the trademarks of their respective owners. |
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