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Avnet to Offer Riverbed Solutions in Latin AmericaAvnet, Inc. (NYSE:AVT), a leading global technology distributor, and Riverbed Technology, the application performance company, have expanded their distribution relationship. Avnet will now provide Riverbed (News - Alert) solutions in three Latin American countries, Brazil, Colombia and Mexico. This builds upon Avnet's existing relationship with Riverbed in North America and the United Kingdom. "Avnet's partners are committed to transforming technology into business solutions for their customers, and Riverbed's technology plays a critical role in creating complete cloud, converged and hyper-converged solutions," said Eduardo Barrón, vice president, Avnet Technology Solutions, Latin America and the Caribbean. "Our partners will be able to use Riverbed's technology to optimize bandwidth to improve the service levels of customers' hybrid cloud initiatives, while increasing customers' processing, data centralization, recovery and performance management abilities. Our new relationship with Riverbed aligns to our strategic priorities of geographic and portfolio expansion, and working with Avnet and Riverbed, our partners will optimize customers' IT investments." With Riverbed, partners can help their customers implement strategic initiatives, such as virtualization, consolidation, cloud computing and disaster recovery, and Riverbed's solutions are a critical component in converged and hyper-converged infrastructures. Avnet will now offer partners the Riverbed family of solutions that assist their customers in increasing application performance, strengthening the management of remote and branch office (ROBO) IT, and improving network performance management - all while enhancing the value of their existing IT infrastructure and mission-critical applications. This will accelerate applications, such as file sharing, email, backup, document management systems, IT tools and ERP and CRM solutions. "Avnet's solutions-based distribution approach and their highly knowledgeable partner community provides Riverbed with a significant opportunity to help customers of all sizes improve business performance," said Cecil Perez, vice president, Sales - Latin America at Riverbed. "We expanded our relationship with Avnet into Latin America because of their proven expertise in providing partners ith the critical market knowledge and sales skills to help customers understand how business challenges can be solved through market-leading technologies such as ours." Learn more about Avnet Technology Solutions (News - Alert) in Latin America: Avnet's Latin America Site.
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and @AvnetAdvantage. Click to tweet: .@AvnetLAC will now provide #Riverbed Technology solutions to partners in Brazil, Colombia & Mexico. All brands and trade names are trademarks or registered trademarks, and are the properties of their respective owners. Avnet disclaims any proprietary interest in marks other than its own. About Riverbed Riverbed, at more than $1 billion in annual revenue, is the leader in Application Performance Infrastructure, delivering the most complete platform for the hybrid enterprise to ensure applications perform as expected, data is always available when needed, and performance issues can be proactively detected and resolved before impacting business performance. Riverbed enables hybrid enterprises to transform application performance into a competitive advantage by maximizing employee productivity and leveraging IT to create new forms of operational agility. Riverbed's 27,000+ customers include 97% of the Fortune 100 and 98% of the Forbes Global 100. Learn more at www.riverbed.com. Riverbed and any Riverbed product or service name or logo used herein are trademarks of Riverbed Technology, Inc. All other trademarks used herein belong to their respective owners. About Avnet, Inc. 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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