Avnet Introduces New Offerings to Accelerate Partner Opportunities in DevOps and Agile Development Environments

HPE Discover 2016 – Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT), a leading global technology distributor, announced today that it is one of the first Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) distributors to offer a comprehensive services portfolio to accelerate the success of partners in selling and implementing Composable Infrastructure. Based on Avnet’s unique domain expertise in DevOps and Agile development, it will now offer resources, tools and services to support its U.S. and Canada partners’ sales efforts to customers operating in DevOps and Agile development environments. These offerings will help partners accelerate the sales of HPE Synergy for Composable Infrastructure, and future-proof investments with open-source automation and DevOps tools.

With HPE Synergy, partners will be able to support their customers’ DevOps strategies by leveraging a more intelligent infrastructure for provisioning agile development with the ability to deploy continuous releases of new apps at cloud-like speed, while supporting traditional, mission-critical IT workloads. Partners will be able to tap Avnet’s technical experts and new open source development tools and software platforms to automate HPE Synergy. This will enable partners to offer compelling new services that help their customers increase employee productivity and improve operating efficiencies.

“HPE Synergy for Composable Infrastructure is a great fit for partners that have customers who are moving to DevOps environments with Agile development. Avnet’s new related offerings will differentiate our HPE partners by enabling them to provide and support this advanced IT methodology,” said Greg Peterson, vice president of Avnet’s HPE solutions business in the Americas. “Avnet will provide our partners with the expertise to automate and orchestrate the workloads that run on Synergy, which will help them shorten the sales cycle and create profitable new revenue streams. Avnet has years of experience orchestrating IT workflows and automating HPE deployments in complex environments. This will prove invaluable as partners adopt this new approach to software development.”

The exclusive resources, tools and services offered by Avnet in hybrid cloud automation, data center migration, technical support, and technical training uniquely position Avnet to help partners advance in the fast-growing DevOps market. Additionally, Avnet supports partners with the largest library of connectors for HPE Operations Orchestration and HPE Cloud Service Automation and can build connectors quickly for custom code. Avnet also offers assessment services, pre-sales support and post-sales implementation on its partners’ behalf.

“Fast, agile software development is becoming a critical success factor in virtually every industry today as companies look for new ways to engage customers and employees, increase productivity and provide timely access to important information,” said Greg Popham II, director, Americas Channel Hybrid IT, Hewlett Packard Enterprise. “Avnet provides critical training, enablement and support that facilitates sales growth around Synergy, which is particularly useful for customers engaging in Agile development for rapid and continuous deployment. Using Synergy, IT teams can deploy new infrastructure for development environments in seconds, with a single line of code and automatically scale it up and down as needed.”

“In our long partnership with Avnet, they have worked with us to embrace new ways to help our customers transform their organizations to be faster and more adaptive – with the ability to adjust quickly to market changes and take advantage of market opportunities,” said Chuck Farrow, vice president, Strategic Alliances at Logicalis, an IT solutions and managed services provider and Avnet partner. “HPE Synergy for Composable Infrastructure is a major breakthrough in our ability to deliver real-world value to our customers that complements our solutions expertise, and Avnet has helped us navigate the ramp-up and training process with true professionalism and exceptional service.”

For partners interested in learning more about Avnet’s HPE offerings, please visit the Avnet HPE webpage or contact your Avnet account representative to explore these opportunities with you.

Avnet at HPE Discover 2016

At booth #610, Avnet featured demonstrations and information on some of its most popular solutions and services to support its partner ecosystem, including the Avnet Cloud Marketplace, technical training, technical support, and more.

On Wednesday, June 8, Avnet sponsored the session “iSpeak Cloud – Embracing Digital Transformation” (DF9942) at 11:30 a.m. PDT in the Transformation Zone Area – Discussion Forum 08. In addition, from 12:30 – 2:00 p.m. PDT, Avnet hosted a book-signing at its booth by Jeanne Morain, author of “iSpeak Cloud: Crossing the Cloud Chasm,” “Visible Ops Private Cloud” and “Client4Cloud.”

Avnet is a Bronze-level sponsor of HPE Discover 2016, which is being held at The Venetian and The Palazzo in Las Vegas, June 7 – 9, 2016.

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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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