The Avnet/Riverbed Advantage
Why Riverbed?
Riverbed Technology is the IT infrastructure performance company. The Riverbed family of wide area network (WAN) optimization solutions liberates businesses from common IT constraints by increasing application performance, enabling consolidation, and providing enterprise-wide network and application visibility – all while eliminating the need to increase bandwidth, storage or servers. Thousands of companies with distributed operations use Riverbed to make their IT infrastructure faster, less expensive and more responsive. Read more about Riverbed (NASDAQ: RVBD) at www.riverbed.com.
Why 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.
A Smokin ’ Hot Market Opportunity.
Avnet Technology Solutions and Riverbed Technology, the IT infrastructure performance company, have teamed up to provide Value-Added Resellers (VARs) with the training, tools, and support needed to improve their customers’ networks in the 90%+ un-penetrated WAN optimization market. Talk about a greenfield opportunity.
As an Avnet VAR, you can grow business by selling Riverbed solutions that tap directly into the most lucrative areas of IT today: consolidation, virtualization, application acceleration, backup/disaster recovery, and bandwidth optimization.
Become an Avnet/Riverbed Reseller to:
- Get in on high-priority IT initiatives: Riverbed develops solutions for consolidation, virtualization, application acceleration, backup/disaster recovery, and bandwidth optimization.
- Help customers leverage their investments: Riverbed makes existing servers, virtualization, backup, disaster recovery, and applications perform better.
- Drag more business: One vendor noted that $5 of Riverbed brings an additional $95 in storage, networking and services opportunities.
- Earn significant revenue in a growing market: Riverbed solutions serve a wide range of vertical and horizontal market segments.
- Expand your footprint with existing customers: Riverbed Technology complements other vendor offerings, providing you with layered upsell and cross-sell opportunities.
