Partners will benefit from Avnet’s proven technology and federal government expertise to help them capitalize on IT spending opportunities in the U.S. public sector
Avnet,
Inc. (NYSE: AVT),
a leading global technology distributor, today announced that Avnet
Government Solutions, LLC, its wholly owned subsidiary focused on
the U.S. public sector, has expanded its General Services Administration
(GSA) schedule to include Catalogic
Software technology products and solutions. Catalogic Software helps
organizations worldwide manage and orchestrate the use of data in
support of mission-critical operations. This will allow Avnet Government
Solutions to better serve its government (federal and state, local and
education) partners, and broaden their offerings for the public sector.
The addition of Catalogic to Avnet Government Solutions’ GSA schedule
gives partners access to the federal government’s largest
Government-Wide Acquisition Contract (GWAC), which agencies use to
purchase innovative solutions for their IT needs, without making the
investments to hold their own contract.
“This is yet another important step in Avnet Government Solutions’
commitment to building a complete portfolio of value-added offerings for
U.S. government customers,” said Pete Rzonca, vice president of Avnet
Government Solutions. “We created Avnet Government Solutions to provide
our partners with a single source for all the resources they need to
succeed in pursuing government IT business. The addition of Catalogic
solutions will further enable Avnet Government Solutions to help our
partners profitably increase their government business.”
Launched
in May 2014 as a new business to help independent software vendor
(ISV), systems integrator (SI), managed service provider (MSP) and
value-added reseller (VAR) partners capture IT market share with the
U.S. government, Avnet Government Solutions focuses on the federal and
state, local and education markets via its holistic approach to pursuing
these market opportunities – combining business development, capture and
compliance assistance with Avnet’s more than 90 years of technology
distribution expertise.
“IT organizations in federal agencies recognize that advanced data
management is at the heart of their mission-critical IT functions,
including disaster recovery, test and development, data protection, and
analytics,” said Tom Grave, vice president of marketing at Catalogic
Software. “Catalogic Software is excited to partner with Avnet
Government Solutions to deliver a holistic approach to copy data
management to public sector customers, empowering them to reduce costs
while improving their ability to deliver the required data access to
their internal customers, and to taxpayers at large.”
“Avnet Government Solutions has demonstrated that they have the
capabilities to help us take our government business to a new level, and
their addition of Catalogic will help us in our commitment to providing
our customers with better managed and protected data,” said Bob Kerr,
vice president, SwishData, a group of highly skilled cybersecurity and
data center architects focused on ensuring federal agencies meet their
mission and an Avnet partner. “As a veteran firm that provides
enterprise IT architecture for federal agencies and the U.S. military,
SwishData places paramount importance on the security, insight and
control of our customers’ data infrastructures, and Catalogic’s
offerings will help to safeguard and manage them.”
Avnet Government Solutions offers services to partners specifically
designed to provide a comprehensive approach to pursuing federal, state,
local and education contracts, including capture assistance, compliance
and process management. Partners are also able to access additional
resources to help further accelerate their capabilities in the
government market. For example, they will be able to participate in Avnet
GovPath®, which provides education and enablement to hone
their expertise on the U.S. government market using Avnet’s SolutionsPath®
methodology. Partners can also access other SolutionsPath practices,
including those focused on the healthcare and financial markets, to
expand their expertise in key vertical market opportunities within the
public sector.
Additionally, partners can leverage Avnet’s IT services to create more
complete offerings for contract vehicles and increase the types of
government contracts they are able to pursue. Avnet’s services
experts can help partners expand their capabilities to include
services and service delivery models. Avnet’s IT services offerings
include: hybrid cloud services; orchestration and automation of
software-defined data centers; business intelligence and analytics;
security; engineering and integration; education and training; field
installation and maintenance; asset repair, recycling and disposal; and
enterprise and digital solutions.
For more information on GSA schedule contracts, please check out this
entry on seven things you need to know at the Avnet Advantage
blog.
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About Avnet Government Solutions
Avnet Government Solutions is a wholly owned subsidiary of Avnet, Inc.,
focusing on the U.S. public sector. Specializing in the federal, state,
local and education markets, it helps independent software vendor,
systems integrator and value-added reseller partners capture IT market
share with the U.S. government. Avnet Government Solutions has industry
experience, strong supplier relationships, and government IT insight
providing an advantage partners and suppliers can leverage to transform
technology into solutions that achieve meaningful results for the public
sector. For more information, visit www.gov.avnet.com.
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.
Brodeur Partners, for Avnet, Inc.
Marcia Chapman, 480-308-0284
mchapman@brodeur.com