Avnet Technology Solutions Expands Cloud Solutions Portfolio with CenturyLink Cloud

Avnet partners can address their customers’ cloud IT challenges and grow their businesses in the U.S. and Canada as CenturyLink Cloud value-added resellers

PHOENIX--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Avnet Technology Solutions, the global IT solutions distribution leader and an operating group of Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT), today announced that CenturyLink Cloud, CenturyLink’s public cloud platform, is available through its U.S. and Canada value-added reseller (VAR) partners through Avnet Cloud Solutions.

“The addition of CenturyLink Cloud to Avnet Cloud Solutions’ portfolio further strengthens the ability of Avnet partners to deliver essential cloud IT services that help customers enhance business agility and improve time to market,” said Tim FitzGerald, vice president of Cloud Solutions, Avnet Technology Solutions, Americas. “CenturyLink Cloud is an all-in-one cloud platform that delivers high-performance, secure, reliable and scalable cloud solutions for all workloads. It complements Avnet’s approach to solving today’s business-to-business cloud computing challenges.”

Avnet Cloud Solutions helps partners go to market with cost-effective, flexible and reliable solutions that meet their customers’ expectations for high-performance cloud infrastructure and highly differentiated cloud management. Partners will receive access to the Avnet Cloud Toolset (ACT) to help them efficiently manage, govern, consolidate and track their customers’ cloud accounts across multiple cloud providers. ACT features cloud usage tracking and consumption-based invoicing for workloads running on CenturyLink Cloud coupled with subscription-based workloads.

Avnet will help its CenturyLink Cloud value-added reseller partners succeed with a streamlined onboarding process and support in building recurring revenue streams. Partners can also become members of the CenturyLink Cloud Reseller Program, which benefits them by providing technical resources, account provisioning support and high-visibility monthly reports. In addition, Avnet’s partners will own customer billing and relationships and have the option to do so under their respective brands with the CenturyLink Cloud Reseller Program.

“We’re excited about the opportunity for CenturyLink Cloud together with Avnet’s value-added reseller partner community to serve a wider range of customers,” said Blake Wetzel, vice president, CenturyLink Channel Alliance. “We look forward to helping Avnet’s partners use CenturyLink Cloud to support their customers in reducing their total cost of ownership for cloud solutions while enjoying enterprise-class cloud security, performance, automation and orchestration features.”

Partners can learn more about cloud-environment solutions from Avnet and CenturyLink Cloud at the Avnet Cloud Solutions website, www.avnetcloudready.com, or from an Avnet cloud account development manager.

Avnet partners can also benefit from Avnet CloudReady™, Avnet’s approach to helping the channel community move their customers’ businesses to the cloud, as well as the extensive experience and knowledge base of the Avnet Cloud Solutions and Avnet Services teams. Avnet has proven technical expertise to assess and deliver optimal public, private or hybrid cloud solutions that best suit partners’ and their customers' needs.

Learn more about Avnet’s cloud solutions through the Avnet Cloud Solutions Blog.

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About Avnet Technology Solutions

As a global IT solutions distributor, Avnet Technology Solutions transforms technology into business solutions for customers around the world. It collaborates with customers and suppliers to create and deliver services, software and hardware solutions that address the changing needs of end-user customers. The group serves customers and suppliers in North America, Latin America and Caribbean, Asia Pacific, and Europe, Middle East and Africa. It generated US $11.0 billion in annual revenue for fiscal year 2014. Avnet Technology Solutions is an operating group of Avnet, Inc. For more information, visit ats.avnet.com.

About Avnet, Inc.

Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT), a Fortune 500 company, is one of the largest distributors of electronic components, computer products and embedded technology serving customers globally. Avnet accelerates its partners' success by connecting the world's leading technology suppliers with a broad base of customers by providing cost-effective, value-added services and solutions. For the fiscal year ended June 28, 2014, Avnet generated revenue of $27.5 billion. For more information, visit www.avnet.com.

Brodeur Partners, for Avnet Technology Solutions
Marcia Chapman, 480-308-0284
[email protected]

Source: Avnet Technology Solutions

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