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ARROW ELECTRONICS LAUNCHES SECOND ENTERPRISE STORAGE LAB

This lab, which duplicates the broad array of technologies in the lab Arrow opened in Atlanta in April, is a hands-on, multi-vendor facility that is dedicated to helping resellers capitalize on the growing storage opportunity. In order to accomplish this, Arrow teamed up with 19 of the industry's leading storage vendors who together, provide resellers with the most comprehensive solutions in the areas of back-up and restore, business continuity, centralized management, data migration, disaster recovery, high availability, SAN interoperability, SAN security and server consolidation.

"In Atlanta, over 150 industry professionals experienced for themselves how Arrow's labs can replicate their customers' environments and help solve their customers' business challenges," said Lance Sedlak, director of marketing, Enterprise Storage, Arrow Electronics. "We received extremely positive response from resellers attending the event in Atlanta and we expect the same in Minneapolis."

"Arrow has proved to us that they are partners in the truest sense of the word," said Ed Gogol, director, Enterprise Systems, Solarcom, LLC. "They have not only assembled the most impressive array of enterprise storage vendors in the industry in a hands-on environment for resellers, but they are helping us in many other critical areas, such as certification, training, marketing and multiple revenue streams."

About the North American Computer Products group of Arrow Electronics

The North American Computer Products group of Arrow Electronics, Inc. , is a leading distributor of enterprise and embedded computing systems to reseller and OEM customers in North America. Based in Englewood, CO, the group is comprised of four divisions that make up Enterprise Computing Solutions (Support Net, SBM, MOCA, Enterprise Storage Solutions) and the Arrow/Wyle Division, which serves industrial OEM customers.

Arrow Electronics is one of the world's largest distributors of electronic components and computer products and a leading provider of services to the electronics industry.

About Enterprise Storage Solutions

Enterprise Storage Solutions, a division of the North American Computer Products group of Arrow Electronics, is based in Chanhassen, MN, and provides a full range of storage networks and services to enterprise computing reseller communities in cooperation with Arrow's other enterprise divisions: Support Net, SBM, MOCA. The OEMs who will work with Arrow to deliver new storage services to the reseller community through Enterprise Storage Solutions are Adaptec, APC, Compaq, Crossroads, EMC, Exabyte, Gadzoox, HP, Hitachi Data Systems, IBM, Infinity I/O, JNI, Legato Systems, McData, Nortel Networks, QLogic, Quantum, IBM Tivoli and VERITAS Software.