Avnet Technology Solutions, Americas Wins Cisco 2014 Americas Distribution Award for Data Center Architecture Distributor of ...
May 20 2015 - 12:00PM
Business Wire
Avnet Technology Solutions, the global IT solutions distribution
leader and an operating group of Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT),
announced today that it is the recipient of the Cisco Americas
Distribution award for Data Center Architecture Distributor of the
Year. Cisco unveiled the nine winners at its Americas Distribution
Auxiliary Meeting in Montreal, Canada.
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Avnet receives the Cisco Americas
Distribution award for Data Center Architecture Distributor of the
Year during Cisco's Americas Distribution Auxiliary Meeting in
Montreal, Canada. (L-R Phillip Privett, Bryan Buckner, Bill Prynn -
Cisco, Molly Sherwood, Ray Paxson, Pete Rzonca, and Udita
Bhattacharya - Cisco)
“Cisco is privileged to partner with industry-leading
distributors, and we’ve seen unprecedented growth in the
distribution channel of Cisco’s business. So I’m delighted to
recognize Avnet as a Cisco 2014 Americas Distribution award
winner,” said Andrew Sage, vice president, Americas Distribution at
Cisco. “The award presented to Avnet recognizes its excellence and
quality execution in 2014 for this category. It also acknowledges
the contribution that Avnet is making to the transformation of our
business as we lead in evolving the industry to solve the
challenges that our customers confront.”
“Receiving the Cisco Data Center Architecture Distributor of the
Year award for the fourth consecutive year underscores the
significance of Avnet and Cisco’s relationship and Avnet’s
continuing commitment to honing our unique assembly and
configuration capabilities for Cisco data center products,” said
Phillip Privett, vice president, Avnet Technology Solutions,
Americas, Cisco Solutions group. “Avnet leads the pack when it
comes to Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure solutions, such as
VSPEX, FlexPod, SAP HANA and VersaStack. Utilizing our logistics
and planning, supply chain, engineering, sales engagement and
operations teams, Avnet provides seamless solutions for our
partners and reduces the complexity of building converged
solutions.”
Cisco 2014 Americas Distribution awards reflect a distributor’s
outstanding performance in execution around a number of technology
categories and business initiatives, including cloud computing,
collaboration, data center and virtualization, enterprise
networking, and security, as well as services, innovation,
enablement, and accelerating the business.
In addition, during the Cisco Partner Summit 2015, held April
27–30 in Montreal, Avnet received Cisco Marketing Velocity’s
“Revenue Marketer of the Year” award. This award recognizes Avnet’s
positive results in executing revenue marketing campaigns,
including successful lead generation, implementation of marketing
automation, and maintaining established metrics showing that
revenue was positively impacted. This was the first time that a
distributor has received a Cisco Marketing Velocity award. Also,
Avnet received the Cisco “Services Distribution Partner of the
Year” award for achieving the highest service attach rate in the
Americas and Avnet’s continued growth in its Cisco Services
business.
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About Avnet Technology Solutions
As a global IT solutions distributor, Avnet Technology Solutions
transforms technology into business solutions for customers around
the world. It collaborates with customers and suppliers to
create and deliver services, software and hardware solutions that
address the changing needs of end-user customers. The group serves
customers and suppliers in North America, Latin America and
Caribbean, Asia Pacific, and Europe, Middle East and Africa. It
generated US $11.0 billion in annual revenue for fiscal year 2014.
Avnet Technology Solutions is an operating group of Avnet, Inc. For
more information, visit ats.avnet.com.
About Avnet, Inc.
Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT), a Fortune 500 company, is one of the
largest distributors of electronic components, computer
products and embedded technology serving customers globally. Avnet
accelerates its partners' success by connecting the world's leading
technology suppliers with a broad base of customers by providing
cost-effective, value-added services and solutions. For the fiscal
year ended June 28, 2014, Avnet generated revenue of $27.5 billion.
For more information, visit www.avnet.com.
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