Arrow Becomes Authorized Distributor of Lenovo Enterprise Products (Former IBM System X)
06 October 2014 - 11:00PM
Business Wire
Authorization also includes legacy Lenovo servers and
storage
Arrow Electronics, Inc. (NYSE: ARW), today announced it is now
an authorized North American Lenovo distributor System X and
related solutions following the transition of IBM’s System X server
business to Lenovo effective Oct. 1. Additionally, Lenovo’s
ThinkServer rack servers, tower servers and enterprise storage
product lines are available through Arrow. Future offerings from
Lenovo through Arrow will include the low-end storage and
associated networking products to be announced in the coming
weeks.
“As one of the largest System X distributors for IBM globally,
Arrow is pleased to be able to continue offering System X to our
channel community, and to extend the offering to include Lenovo
ThinkServer and Lenovo storage,” said Mark Taylor, vice president
of North American servers, systems, and software within Arrow’s
enterprise computing solutions segment. “We look forward to
supporting Lenovo in this capacity and introducing our solution
provider community to Lenovo solutions and services.”
Working with Lenovo, Arrow will continue to distribute System X,
BladeCenter and Flex System blade servers and switches, System
X-based Flex integrated systems, NeXtScale and iDataPlex servers
and associated software, blade networking and maintenance
operations.
Arrow has been a value-added distributor for IBM for the better
part of the past two decades. Arrow will continue to support IBM
and the solutions, services and programs that are not part of
Lenovo’s acquisition of the System X line, including support for
power systems, storage systems, Power-based Flex servers, and
PureApplication and PureData appliances, as well as IBM training
services.
“We look forward to expanding our relationship with Arrow to
include support across the enterprise IT channel for System X
solutions,” said Sammy Kinlaw, executive director, Channel Sales,
North America, Lenovo. “Lenovo is committed to tier-two
distribution and we look forward to continuing to support solution
providers with selling System X servers through our channel
programs.”
Arrow has been Lenovo’s “partner of choice” for new asset
retirement services offered at the point of sale for Lenovo's
relationship customers.
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.
Arrow ElectronicsJohn Hourigan,
303-824-4586jhourigan@arrow.com
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