Avnet Honored as Recipient of 2015 EMC Distributor Partner of the Year Awards for North America and Latin America
May 17 2016 - 11:00AM
Business Wire
Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT), a leading global technology
distributor, today announced that it has received the 2015 EMC
Distributor Partner of the Year Awards for both North America and
Latin America from EMC Corporation. These awards distinguish EMC
partners who have exceeded their joint sales and business goals –
Avnet reached substantial growth in the two regions, driven in
large part by the sales of EMC storage, big data, cloud, backup and
recovery products and solutions. These honors also celebrate
Avnet’s performance in terms of the investments made in these
regions such as new internal resources, executed marketing
campaigns and newly recruited business partners. The award was
presented on May 3 to Avnet at the 2016 EMC® World Global Partner
Summit in Las Vegas, at which Avnet introduced its new
software-defined storage solution, featuring EMC technology, in the
U.S. and Canada.
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Avnet receives the 2015 EMC Distributor
Partner of the Year Award for North America from EMC Corporation.
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“Avnet has been successfully working with EMC for more than 15
years to deliver consistent value to the channel, and this is one
of the key reasons EMC honored us as the North America Distributor
Partner of the Year,” said Eric Barnhart, vice president of Avnet’s
EMC solutions business unit in the Americas. “This award highlights
our team’s dedication to helping our EMC partners succeed, as well
as Avnet’s ability to help EMC blaze the trail in creating
innovative solutions for the channel based on EMC technology. We
provide real-world solutions for our partners through our
cutting-edge marketing programs, services innovation, supply chain
support, engineering capabilities, and sales engagement and
operations.”
“Receiving the Latin America Distributor Partner of the year
from EMC underscores the significance of Avnet and EMC’s
relationship and Avnet’s continuing commitment to hone our unique
capabilities and provide value to our EMC partners,” said Eduardo
Barron, vice president, Avnet Technology Solutions, Latin America
and the Caribbean. “Avnet leads the pack when it comes to bringing
EMC solutions to market, providing seamless success for our
partners and reducing the complexity of building world-class
converged solutions.”
“With a proven track record of excellence and a deep
understanding of information technology’s role in achieving core
business outcomes, Avnet is well deserving of this year’s
Distributor Partner of the Year Awards for North America and Latin
America,” said Scott Millard, vice president, Americas Channel
Sales for EMC Corporation. “We are thrilled to honor this level of
commitment – Avnet has built innovative solutions that help EMC
modernize customers’ data centers and redefine their businesses.
For that reason, I am excited to recognize Avnet as EMC Distributor
Partner of the Year in these two regions.”
As a value-added EMC solutions distributor, Avnet supports EMC
in Asia Pacific, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, and North
America. 2015 marked the 15th anniversary of the Avnet and EMC
partnership. Throughout this long-standing relationship, Avnet has
helped EMC bring innovative solutions to market. For example, Avnet
has enabled EMC partners to adopt their choice of converged and
hyper-converged solutions, which allow 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 at the price points and sizes that
align with their needs.
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presentation of the North America award at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4e5UojfnKUCheck out the video of
the presentation of the Latin America award at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOWExZT4-Ng
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About Avnet, Inc.
From components to cloud and design to disposal, Avnet, Inc.
(NYSE: AVT) accelerates the success of customers who build, sell
and use technology globally by providing them with a comprehensive
portfolio of innovative products, services and solutions. Avnet is
a Fortune 500 company with revenues of $27.9 billion for the fiscal
year 2015. For more information, visit www.avnet.com.
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