Arrow Electronics, Inc. (NYSE:ARW), today announced the continued global
expansion of its cloud services portfolio with the addition of solutions
from SoftLayer, an IBM Company. Through a new reseller agreement, Arrow
will distribute SoftLayer cloud services in the United States, Canada,
Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
Softlayer offers unique benefits to customers seeking a high-performance
infrastructure cloud service, including bare metal and virtual servers
in one platform and with a seamless global network for exceptional
performance, flexibility and control.
“This new relationship with SoftLayer further demonstrates Arrow’s
commitment to delivering value-added aggregation of cloud services that
are aligned with and complementary to our data-center offerings,” said
Sean Kerins, president of Arrow’s global enterprise computing solutions
segment. “We look forward to recruiting and enabling solution providers
to sell SoftLayer cloud infrastructure offerings by coupling our
comprehensive services support with our IBM hardware and software
relationships, expertise and offerings.”
“Arrow is proud to offer the SoftLayer product set through ArrowSphere,
a cloud aggregation platform that was launched in EMEA in 2012 before
being expanded into North America,” said Laurent Sadoun, president of
the EMEA region and worldwide services for Arrow’s enterprise computing
solutions segment. “The addition of SoftLayer to ArrowSphere is further
validation of the value our platform brings to the channel.”
The modular ArrowSphere platform provides automated provisioning and
consolidated billing for cloud services from leading service providers,
facilitating transactions with more than 500 customers every day. In
addition to ArrowSphere, Arrow enables the transformation of the channel
to the cloud through workshops, business transformation roadmaps and
tools to build and scale cloud practices.
“Arrow brings the global presence, comprehensive sales, marketing
support and on- and off-premise expertise to provide enhanced support to
SoftLayer’s partner community,” said Tom Blair, senior vice president of
global sales for SoftLayer. “Additionally, its long-standing support for
IBM and its partner community made it an ideal fit for supporting IBM
solution providers and their customers in their transition to the cloud.”
“As a SoftLayer Partner, we are excited to leverage the ArrowSphere
platform to assist with our delivery of SoftLayer solutions to
customers,” said John McCarthy, president of Mainline. “We look forward
to leveraging Arrow’s robust sales training, pre-sales technical
support, and marketing to expand our SoftLayer’s business.”
More information about Arrow’s SoftLayer offering is available on its
ArrowSphere platform at http://sphere.arrow.com.
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.
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