New Horizons Joins Arrow’s Global Training Alliance for IBM Global Training
June 26 2014 - 6:45PM
Business Wire
Arrow Electronics, Inc. (NYSE:ARW), today announced that New
Horizons Worldwide, Inc. (formerly PINK: NWRZ), recently joined
Arrow’s global training alliance, a unique global learning
ecosystem that makes IBM training available around the world,
delivered in a consistent manner and based on local requirements.
New Horizons operates more than 300 training centers in 70
countries and offers a wide range of technology, applications, and
business skills training from basic application and desktop
productivity tools to complex and integrated business systems.
“Education is a key element of our value-added services,
enabling the market and the channel to support technology suppliers
with product and solution readiness,” said Laurent Sadoun,
president of the Europe, Middle East and Africa region and global
services for Arrow’s enterprise computing solutions segment. “We
look forward to our strategic cooperation with New Horizons, an
authorized supporter of several leading technology providers and a
pioneer in IT training with more than three decades of experience.
Arrow and its global training alliance companies will soon
complement the portfolio with a solution approach addressing
critical business areas such as Big Data, mobility, security and
cloud computing, leveraging its strategic IBM relationship in
product businesses, combined with Arrow’s unique network of
complementary vendors in security, virtualization and
mobility.”
“The addition of authorized IBM training to our suite of
offerings will allow New Horizons to provide even more training
solutions to our customers,” said Earle Pratt, President and CEO of
New Horizons. “We are excited to work with Arrow given it uniquely
combines high-end technology distribution and value-added services
with IT training capabilities. The collaboration will allow New
Horizons and Arrow to provide a very comprehensive offering of
training and product to our mutual customers.”
Arrow’s global training alliance is being extended and adapted
to local customer requirements on an ongoing basis. Arrow's
dedicated IBM Global Training website, http://edu.arrow.com/ibm, is
subject to continuous update regarding the latest regions and
trainings added. Arrow and the members of Arrow’s global training
alliance are in the process of implementing IBM Global Training in
130 countries.
The scope of available training includes:
- IBM Systems training (i.e., IBM Power
Systems, IBM PureSystems, IBM System Storage and Storage
Networking);
- IBM System x and BladeCenter;
- IBM System z;
- Cloud Computing;
- and IBM Software Trainings (i.e.,
Business Analytics, Information Management, Collaboration, Product
Lifecycle Management, Rational, Tivoli and WebSphere).
About Arrow Electronics
Arrow Electronics (www.arrow.com) is a global provider of
products, services and solutions to industrial and commercial users
of electronic components and enterprise computing solutions. Arrow
serves as a supply channel partner for more than 100,000 original
equipment manufacturers, contract manufacturers and commercial
customers through a global network of more than 460 locations in 58
countries.
IBM, BladeCenter, Collaboration, Power Systems and PureSystems,
Rational, System x, System z, Tivoli and WebSphere are trademarks
or registered trademarks of International Business Machines
Corporation in the United States or other countries or both. A full
list of U.S. trademarks owned by IBM may be found at
ibm.com/legal/copytrade.shtml.
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