VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

Avnet has opened a VMware NSX lab within its Innovation Centre located in Mumbai. The Innovation Centre provides partners with access to leading enterprise hardware and software in a live business environment. The new VMware facility will be open for demonstrations and proof of concepts (POCs). VMware NSX is a network virtualization platform for the software-defined data centre (SDDC) that brings the operational model of a virtual machine (VM) into the data centre network. With VMware NSX, customers can quickly and easily add new services and automate complex workflows. This eliminates manual configuration requirements and optimizes capacity utilization, significantly reducing operational costs... Read more

Avnet has roped in Mathias von Bescherer as Vice President, Operations for Avnet Technology Solutions, Asia Pacific. Within this role von Bescherer will lead and provide strategic direction for business operations, as well as drive effective consolidation and optimization in the region. Based in Singapore, von Bescherer will be focused on driving further operational excellence, identifying efficiencies across the business and delivering best in class customer service for the Asia Pacific region. He will also work to enhance and maintain an optimum balance in productivity, service and financial results for the company. “With an excellent track record in sales and operational functions, Mathias will be a great asset to our Asia Pacific team. The ongoing transformation in business, technology and the channel allows Avnet to continue to evolve and create innovative solutions that drive next-generation opportunities. With talented resources such as von Bescherer, Avnet can better eng...

Avnet Technology Solutions has recently celebrated the tenth anniversary of its business alliance with Juniper Networks. For a decade, the companies have collaborated to help educate and enable partners to enhance the connectivity of their customers’ IT infrastructures with security, switching, and routing solutions in seven countries: Australia, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Netherlands, and the U.K. “Big data and analytics, cloud computing and mobility are driving an exponential increase in connectivity and security demands, and these trends are expected to define the technology industry for the next decade,” said Patrick Zammit, President, Avnet Technology Solutions, Global. “As a result, security and networking presents one of the greatest growth opportunities for our partners. Avnet’s 10-year relationship with Juniper Networks has given our partners a solid foundation in this market. With Juniper Networks, we will continue to look for new opportunities to build upon our mutu...

Avnet Technology Solutions has been chosen by EMC as a global distributor. Avnet will provide its channel partners with EMC’s new VSPEX BLUE hyper-converged infrastructure solution. This will allow channel partners to design and deploy new solutions that offer their SMB, mid-market and enterprise customers the cloud and data center benefits of hyper-converged infrastructure, and at the price points and sizes that align with their needs. The EMC VSPEX BLUE hyper-converged infrastructure appliance (HCIA) will be available to customers through Avnet’s highly knowledgeable channel community in Asia-Pacific, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, and North America. William Chu, President, Avnet Technology Solutions, Asia-Pacific, said, “EMC has created a unique hyper-converged infrastructure solution tailored to the specific needs of these customers, giving partners a clear opportunity to address this segment with flexible information infrastructur...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Hitachi Data Systems Corp  and  Avnet Technology Solutions(NYSE:AVT)  have announced a pan-India and South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) distribution partnership. This extension of a successful 13-year relationship between Hitachi Data Systems and Avnet in the U.S. and EMEA regions marks a focus for both companies on empowering the channel to deliver enterprise-class infrastructure solutions to customers across India and SAARC. The agreement allows Avnet to provide the entire portfolio of Hitachi Data Systems’ best-in-class technologies to customers through its strong network of value-added resellers and system integration channel partners. "Businesses of all sizes are facing challenges when it comes to dealing with ever-growing amounts of mission-critical data and demanding compliance and regulatory requirements related to content storage. Customers are looking for storage solutions that all...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE CDC Software has collaborated with Avnet Technology Solutions through the "SolutionsPath ISV (Independent Software Vendor) Acceleration Program", that is expected to help facilitate CDC Software's expansion in the Indian market. Nagaraja Prakasam, Managing Director, CDC Software SSEA, said, "At CDC Software, our approach to partnerships is to create an ecosystem of software solutions, organizations and industry luminaries focussed on a single, unifying desire: driving customer success. We believe that Avnet will help to enhance our reach in the Indian market and advance sales across A and B class cities. We believe that our solutions help deliver benefits to organizations in the form of higher efficiency, improved performance and increased cost savings. With its large network of partners in India, Avnet's SolutionsPath ISV Acceleration Program is expected to provide us with valuable leads that will further facilitate o...