Avnet
Embedded, a division of Avnet
Electronics Marketing Americas, a business region of Avnet,
Inc. (NYSE: AVT),
today announced the launch of its Open Compute Project (OCP) Innovation
Labs. These OCP Innovation Labs will serve as both technology showcases
and development labs for users, developers and partners to design,
deliver and integrate cost-effective, power-efficient compute, storage
and networking solutions. The lab will provide the OCP community with
local and remote access to resources offering “hands-on” enablement of
platform and configuration testing, hardware and software validation,
performance tuning and community innovation. Avnet brings together the
hardware, connectivity and technical support resources to assist
developers with application creation.
The initial lab will be located in Eden Prairie, Minn., with additional
sites planned for Arizona, California, Massachusetts, New York, Beijing,
Shanghai and Hong Kong during the balance of 2013. Avnet Embedded, a
certified member of the OCP community, provides OCP-compliant compute,
storage and networking solutions through its Rorke Data business unit.
The Open Compute community is a rapidly growing community of engineers
around the world whose mission is to design and enable the delivery of
the most efficient server, storage and data center hardware designs for
scalable computing.
“Avnet Embedded is committed to helping our partners with the creation
and implementation of open source compute, storage and networking
solutions. These state-of-the-art labs provide our customers the
advantage of direct access to a global development and delivery
partner,” said Chuck Kostalnick, senior vice president, Avnet Embedded.
“We believe the OCP/datacenter initiative is important not just for
today – but for the future and we’ve invested in this future to help
customers who share the same vision.”
"We're thrilled to see Avnet making such a significant investment in
helping more companies consume efficient, scalable hardware based on
Open Compute designs," said Cole Crawford, COO of the Open Compute
Foundation. "Global solutions providers like Avnet are playing a key
role in bringing the promise of open hardware to anyone who wants it."
You can learn more about the OCP Innovation Labs by visiting Avnet
Embedded’s booth B5 at the OCP Summit in Santa Clara, Calif., Jan.
16-17. Avnet experts will be on hand to discuss the OCP Innovation Labs
in more detail. Or for more information, visit Avnet
Embedded’s webpage.
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About Avnet Electronics Marketing
Avnet Electronics Marketing is an operating group of Phoenix-based
Avnet, Inc. that serves electronic original equipment manufacturers
(EOEMs) and electronic manufacturing services (EMS) providers in more
than 70 countries, distributing electronic components from leading
manufacturers and providing associated design-chain and supply-chain
services. The group's website is located at www.em.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 30, 2012, Avnet
generated revenue of $25.7 billion. For more information, visit www.avnet.com.
