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Avnet Technology Solutions to Offer Subscription-Based Services Platform from Lanamark

Avnet to help partners expand their virtualisation offerings with continuous capacity management and optimisation services

Bracknell, 10 February 2010:

Avnet Technology Solutions, the solutions distribution leader and an operating group of Avnet, Inc. (NYSE:AVT), today announced the immediate availability of Lanamark Suite Managed Services Edition for its business partners in the UK, Ireland, Netherlands, Italy, Turkey and France. The new edition of Lanamark Suite enables Avnet’s partners to generate ongoing services revenue by offering subscription-based capacity management and optimisation services to their enterprise customers.

Lanamark is a global provider of cross-vendor virtualisation and capacity management services platform to the IT channel delivering desktop, server and storage optimisation solutions across physical and virtual infrastructure. The combination of Avnet and Lanamark provides Avnet’s partners with a single source for building virtual infrastructure solutions, for the procurement of all of the key hardware and software components in those solutions and for continuous capacity management of physical and virtual infrastructure in enterprise environments.

“Avnet’s partners already have access to Lanamark Suite, which enables them to shorten their sales cycles and offer more effective IT solutions to clients who are seeking to virtualise their applications, desktops and servers,” said Mickey Bharat, director of Independent Software, Avnet Technology Solutions EMEA. “The introduction of the new Lanamark Suite Managed Services Edition will enable them to also generate ongoing services-based revenue by providing continuous, subscription-based capacity management and optimisation services as a value to their customers.”

“As Lanamark’s strategic distribution partner, Avnet ensures that its business partners are able to accelerate the delivery of application, desktop and server virtualisation solutions using Lanamark Suite," said Mark Angelo, CEO of Lanamark. "The new Lanamark Suite Managed Services Edition extends the value proposition of Avnet’s partners to enterprises looking to continuously optimize their physical and virtual infrastructure."

Lanamark Suite supports servers, blade enclosures, storage arrays, SAN switches, HBAs and thin clients from Brocade, Cisco Systems, EMC, Emulex, Fujitsu, Hitachi, HP, IBM, NetApp, QLogic, Sun Microsystems, Wyse and other products offered by Avnet. To learn more about Avnet and Lanamark, please visit www.lanamark.com/avnet.

About Lanamark
Lanamark is a global provider of virtualisation and capacity management services platform to the IT channel delivering desktop, server and storage optimisation solutions across physical and virtual infrastructure. Its flagship software Lanamark Suite enables solution providers to deliver application virtualisation, desktop virtualisation, server virtualisation and continuous capacity optimisation services. Lanamark products are available world-wide through leading distribution partners such as Avnet Technology Solutions. Led by CEO Mark Angelo, Lanamark is a privately held corporation headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

About Avnet Technology Solutions
As a global solutions distributor, Avnet Technology Solutions collaborates with its customers and suppliers to create and deliver effective solutions that address the business challenges of their end-user customers locally and around the world. For fiscal year 2009, the group served customers in more than 30 countries and generated US $7.04 billion in annual revenue. Avnet Technology Solutions is an operating group of Avnet, Inc. Visit: www.ts.avnet.com/emea/

About Avnet
Avnet Inc. (NYSE:AVT), a Fortune 500 company, is one of the largest distributors of electronic components, computer products and embedded technology in the world. Avnet accelerates its partners' success by connecting the world's leading technology suppliers with a broad base of more than 100,000 customers and providing cost-effective, value-added services and solutions. For the fiscal year ended June 27, 2009, Avnet generated revenue of $16.23 billion. For more information, visit www.avnet.com.

For more information please contact:

Avnet Technology Solutions
Linda Patterson, Marketing Director
T: +44 (0)1344 662000
E: Linda.patterson@avnet.com