Press release
TEMPE, Ariz. -- Avnet Technology Solutions, an operating group of Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT), today announced a comprehensive solution to assist partners in targeting the emerging virtual desktop market in the US and Canada. Avnet Technology Solutions' new solution combines VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) software with the services and enablement resources needed to develop market expertise and effectively implement virtual desktop environments. Partners can use virtual desktop solutions to help their customers improve manageability, increase control and enhance the security of their enterprise desktops. The centralization of desktop management through virtualization also helps companies more effectively leverage their IT resources.
"The virtualization market is experiencing explosive growth, and companies are looking for new ways to deploy virtualization to further enhance their environments," said Tim FitzGerald, who leads the VirtualPathTM practice for Avnet Technology Solutions, Americas. "Desktop virtualization offers tremendous benefits to companies that are looking to tighten control of corporate assets, simplify desktop management and improve security while reducing operating and electricity costs. With Avnet's new offering, our partners will be able to design and implement complete virtual desktop solutions that create clear business advantages for their customers."
Avnet's new solution is based on VMware VDI, which allows companies to consolidate client PCs by running them as virtual desktops from servers in the datacenter. VMware VDI includes VMware Virtual Desktop Manager, which provides simplified management and secure provisioning of virtual desktops and manages user access to the virtual desktops from a wide range of devices such as Windows, Linux and Mac computers, and thin clients. By deploying the VMware platform, partners can extend business continuity and disaster recovery capabilities to their customers' desktops and streamline desktop management to reduce operating costs, increase control and deliver complete desktop environments with greater application compatibility.
