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Last week, Avnet Technology Solutions, Americas was recognized by HP at the 2012 Global Partner Conference for its remarkable ability to accelerate the profitable growth of its solution providers in 2011.

Avnet Technology Solutions was recognized for demonstrating the highest year-over-year growth by enabling partners to sell complete data center solutions that include high-value services, software and hardware through its methodologies, practices and resources that help solution providers target high-growth, specialized markets through Avnet’s SolutionsPath ® vertical market practices.

Read the full Avnet press release: Avnet Technology Solutions, Americas Presented with HP Partner in Excellence Award


Jessica Yeck, vice president, solution sales, Avnet Technology Solutions, Americas HP Solutions, receives 2012 HP Partner in Excellence Award from HP’s Randy Seidl, senior vice president and general manager of HP’s Enterprise Servers, Storage and Networking organization in the Americas.

Terri Thomas / Senior Marketing Project Leader / 480-794-2561

HP hosted its annual partner conference last week in Las Vegas and for the first time, HP’s global partners were in attendance. With over 3,000 attendees, Meg Whitman, president and CEO, addressed how HP is returning to its roots and that HP’s focus will be around hardware with supporting functions from its other offerings such as software and services including key announcements surrounding its HP ProLiant Gen8 and HP ServiceONE offerings.

“Project Voyager,” a new server architecture for Proliant Gen8 servers, automates server management and includes three primary pieces: integrated lifecycle formation, workload acceleration, and automated energy optimization. In addition, HP announced that ServiceONE--a program launched last year to expand its service offerings--has now expanded to HP Storage. The new HP ServiceONE Partner Support for HP Storage program enables channel partners to sell AND deliver services under the HP brand or their own partner label. This expanded service offering provides greater flexibility and an opportunity to build even closer (more profitable) relationships with end customers. Lastly, HP provided a sneak peek at a cloud computing partner specialization program for launch in November 2012.

In addition to all the exciting key announcements, Avnet Technology Solutions participated as a Global Diamond Sponsor for the event, showcasing a number of Avnet’s unique offerings such as its Cloud Center of Excellence Demo Center and CapacityNow™. Avnet also co-hosted two breakout sessions: “Accelerate HP Sales in High-growth Markets: An Avnet Roadmap to Industry Specialization", presented by Michael Houghton, vice president, Vertical Market Solutions, and “Capitalize on the Cloud” presented by Mike Mattal, director Cloud Solutions.

Avnet Technology Solutions, Americas was also one of the recipients of this year's HP Partner in Excellence Award for Enterprise Distribution in the Americas. Avnet was recognized for demonstrating the highest year-over-year growth, substantial leadership and outstanding performance. Click here to read the Avnet press release: Avnet Technology Solutions, Americas Presented with 2012 HP Partner in Excellence Award.

Terri Thomas / Senior Marketing Project Leader / 480-794-2561

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Terri Thomas / Senior Marketing Project Leader / 480-794-2561

Who is Virtual Bridges?
Considered the founder of VDI, Virtual Bridges has been helping organizations realize the true promise of desktop virtualization for more than five years. Today Virtual Bridges leads the way with the industry’s only “VDI Gen2” solution. They combine online, offline and remote branch VDI solutions to offer anytime, anywhere access to virtual desktops. With hundreds of millions of professional desktops set to refresh over the next 18-24 months, organizations of all sizes are turning to Virtual Bridges for a cost effective, easy to use approach to provisioning, managing, updating and securing PC environments.

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Opportunities:
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Terri Thomas / Senior Marketing Project Leader / 480-794-2561