Avnet Teams with Micro Focus to Expand Its Security and Enterprise Software Offerings in Mexico
December 07 2016 - 11:00AM
Business Wire
Collaboration will enable partners to provide
their customers in the financial and retail industries with
customized solutions
Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT), a leading global technology
distributor, and Micro Focus (LSE: MCRO.L), a global enterprise
software company, are collaborating to provide partners with
security and enterprise software solutions in Mexico. As a result
of this agreement, Avnet partners will have access to the Micro
Focus portfolio, which is founded on more than 40 years of industry
expertise. With Micro Focus and its SUSE product line, partners
will be able to help their customers innovate faster and with less
risk. Partners can use Micro Focus’ products to create solutions
for heterogeneous IT environments, enabling them to meet the
customers’ demands, especially with regard to increasingly complex
and industry-oriented trends such as mobility, cloud and
security.
“The rapid pace of technology innovation today has created not
only an incredible increase in the demand for applications and
access to information, but has also resulted in highly complex IT
infrastructure architecture,” said Eduardo Barron, vice president,
Avnet Technology Solutions, Latin America and the Caribbean. “We
added Micro Focus to our portfolio to provide our partners with a
new way to help them deal with the complexity their customers are
facing. Partners can rely on Avnet’s solutions specialist expertise
to enhance their capabilities to build, operate and secure their
customers’ IT systems.”
The Micro Focus portfolio available to Avnet partners includes
the following:
- Application delivery and testing
- COBOL development and mainframe
solutions
- Collaboration
- Solutions for the data center
- Endpoint devices management
- Network and files services
- Identity and access management
- Security management
- Terminal emulation
- Migration of workloads and disaster
recovery
In addition, Avnet business partners will also have access to
the SUSE portfolio, which includes the following:
- SUSE Linux Enterprise, market-leading
operating system, for x86, POWER and System Z architectures
- Management of environments with Linux
solutions
- Cloud solutions based in OpenStack
- Storage defined by software
- Identity access and security
solutions
- Development and IT operations
management tools
- Host connectivity solutions
- Collaboration and networking
solutions
- A separate SUSE portfolio, including
solutions for Enterprise Linux, OpenStack private cloud,
software-defined storage and other IT infrastructure
management
“Avnet is the ideal partner to help Micro Focus grow our partner
ecosystem and customer base in Mexico,” said Pedro Lopez, pre-sales
manager, Micro Focus, Mexico. “Avnet’s strength in developing
complete value-added solutions focused on customer needs,
consultative technical and market-area expertise, and a solutions
specialist approach will give partners the ability to quickly grow
their security and enterprise software businesses. With Micro Focus
and Avnet, partners can help their customers innovate faster and
with less risk by building, operating and securing applications and
business-critical infrastructure.”
The new relationship with Micro Focus enhances Avnet’s ability
to enable its channel partners to capitalize on the high-growth,
next-generation technologies driven by software that are redefining
the future. Partners will be able to engage Avnet’s dedicated
solutions specialists to develop complete security and enterprise
software solutions. Through its solutions specialist approach,
Avnet also provides the channel with in-depth expertise in
complementary technology market segments, including the cloud,
cognitive computing, data analytics, the data center, the internet
of things (IOT), mobility, and enterprise networking.
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