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Avnet Technology Solutions Recognized as the HP Software Distributor of the Year for North America

June 19th, 2013

Avnet Technology Solutions, the global IT solutions distribution leader and an operating group of Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT), announced today that it was selected as the HP Software Partner of the Year in the distribution category. This honor celebrates Avnet’s overall performance in North American HP software license sales through its solution provider community in 2012. As one of HP’s largest enterprise distributors, Avnet worked closely with its HP solution providers to enable them to solve their customers’ business challenges with complete solutions designed for high-growth market opportunities, such as those related to big data, cloud computing and services.

“Avnet accelerates the success of our HP solution providers by developing unique programs, tools and resources that help them capitalize on software market opportunities,” said Chris Swahn, vice president and general manager, Avnet Technology Solutions, Americas, HP Solutions group. “By providing our HP solution provider community with complete solutions featuring software, services and hardware, they have been able to distinguish themselves as trusted advisors with their customers. We appreciate the strong partnership we have with HP, and I commend my team and our solution providers for their expertise and ability to solve customers’ business challenges with solutions based on HP software.”

Avnet has a number of unique resources designed to help HP solution providers increase their software sales and further hone their expertise in this market. For example, Avnet developed Avnet Practice+ for Analytics™, which equips HP solution providers with a complete set of enablement and go-to-market capabilities coupled with channel-friendly services. With these comprehensive resources, HP solution providers can architect, implement and manage big data-driven IT initiatives based on HP Vertica and HP Converged Infrastructure Platforms. Additionally, Avnet introduced its first big data and analytics solution available through this practice at HP Discover 2013, and this solution includes an integrated, packaged offering of software, services and hardware designed to help solution providers rapidly generate results for their customers’ big data initiatives.

Source:http://www.dailyfinance.com/2013/06/18/avnet-technology-solutions-recognized-as-the-hp-so/

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IT ops software: CA and HP lose ground while VMware gains

May 23rd, 2013

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Four of the top five vendors of software for managing IT operations lost ground last year, while a pursuing group of companies expanded significantly faster than the $17bn market.

Instead of buying expensive tools from the big suppliers, many companies are turning to low-cost commoditised alternatives, often available at a tenth of the price, according to Gartner.

The analyst firm says that change is behind a two or three percent decline in most product segments, apart from workload and IT process automation, which are still maintaining strong double-digit growth.

Two of the leading providers in the sector, IBM and BMC, did show modest year-on-year growth in 2012 of 0.8 percent and 0.9 percent respectively, but CA and HP declined 0.6 percent and 4.3 percent, according to Gartner.

A group of the fastest-growing companies, made up of ServiceNow, SolarWinds, Splunk and VMware, can muster growth rates ranging from 84.4 percent for ServiceNow to 45.5 percent for SolarWinds.

Fastest-growing IT operations management vendors in 2012 by share worldwide, 2011-12. Source: Gartner

The only company among the five market leaders, which together account for 55 percent or $9.9bn of the market, to show substantial growth is Microsoft, with a figure of 16.1 percent year on year.

Gartner believes that virtualisation and cloud technologies are helping push growth in the sector, particularly in configuration, availability and performance management.

Along with the growth in workload and IT process automation tools, spending is also up on software for automating private cloud services. The other factor contributing to growth in the sector, according to Gartner, is the development IT service desk tools through the addition of features for mobility, reporting, collaboration, analytics and visualisation.

North America, western Europe and the developed Asia-Pacific regions buy most operations tools but the highest growth for the software is found in Latin America and the emerging Asia-Pacific.

Source:http://www.zdnet.com/it-ops-software-ca-and-hp-lose-ground-while-vmware-gains-7000015719/

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HP CEO says where enterprise software, storage units need to work harder

May 23rd, 2013

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While she maintained much of the optimistic rhetoric during the quarterly conference call on Wednesday, Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman didn’t mince words when it came to admitting HP needs to continue working harder.

Pointing towards recent news surrounding Project Moonshot and converged infrastructures, Whitman remarked these will form the “backbone of tomorrow’s cloud.”

See also: HP’s Whitman reiterates ‘multi-year journey’ amid Q2 revenue miss

But for the moment, she described that the problem is balancing the “power of the past” with the “power of the future” for every enterprise unit from servers to storage.

According to HP’s second quarter earnings report, its enterprise services (application and business services along with IT outsourcing) revenue declined by eight percent annually while the enterprise group overall was down by 10 percent.

The latter department covers networking, business critical systems, technology services, storage, and industry standard servers revenue.

In regards to these figures, HP’s chief financial officer Cathie Lesjak admitted that the quarter was “not what we expected it to be.”

But the converged infrastructures unit was a bright spot and was up 48 percent up year-over-year.

Whitman described the converged infrastructure market as “highly competitive” with many other tech stalwarts competing for share.

“For me, this all comes down to our willingness to win, and we are committed to winning,” Whitman declared.

Without specifying more details nor a roadmap, Whitman noted that HP leaders are working on “revamping business models” to give its sales teams more tools and agility to adjust pricing.

Whitman hinted we’ll hear more about these particular efforts later this year.

Source:http://www.zdnet.com/hp-ceo-says-where-enterprise-software-storage-units-need-to-work-harder-7000015767/