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Arrow fires at Complete Networks

Posted on March 15, 2021 by - News

Arrow Business Communications has acquired Complete Networks as part of its cunning plan to expand into the public sector.

Complete Networks flogs critical managed WAN and LAN solutions and has particular clout in the NHS with a number of hospitals and two ambulance services in its customer base.

Based in Debyshire, Complete Networks works with vendors including Mitel, Cisco and Gamma.

CEO of Arrow, Richard Burke said: “I’m delighted to welcome the Complete Networks team to Arrow. The business will enable us to expand our foothold in the public sector and NHS in particular. The acquisition positions us perfectly to maximise opportunities within the public health sector as the transition to digitalisation builds momentum in the coming years.”

Arrow gets pan-European deal for Symantec business

Posted on December 11, 2020 by - News

Arrow has become the first pan-European aggregator partner for Symantec’s Enterprise Security business.

For those who came in late, Symantec was flogged off to Broadcom last year and mightily miffed Symantec’s European distribution partners.

Arrow claims the new deal with Broadcom’s Symantec makes it the vendor’s first commercial pan-European aggregator.

The deal covers the UK, Ireland, Benelux, DACH, France, Italy, Iberia and the Nordics and will see Arrow will provide customer technical support directly for Broadcom’s commercial enterprise clients and support the channel.

Arrow denies Chinese military connection

Posted on November 30, 2020 by - News

Arrow has denied Chinese military connections after one of its subsidiaries was named and shamed in a draft sanctions document by the US government.

One of the distie’s Asian units, Arrow Asia Pac, has found itself on Donald Trump’s list of outfits requiring US businesses apply for a licence before they can export certain products to firms listed.

Arrow’s subsidiary appears in the document as a “military end user” but the distie has denied any links to the Chinese military and called its inclusion on the list, which is yet to be formalised, an error.

Arrow Electronics announces EMEA distribution agreement with Cyren

Posted on May 7, 2020 by - News

Arrow Electronics has entered into an EMEA distribution agreement with cloud security solutions provider Cyren to distribute its cloud-based internet security products.

Atif Ahmed, vice president of sales, Cyren EMEA said: As the threat from phishing grows, organisations must stay ahead of the weaknesses exposed in their corporate email systems. Phishing is still an enormous headache for CIOs and email systems provide an increasingly porous method for breaching an organisation’s security.”

Arrow and Puppet partner on EMEA distribution

Posted on April 1, 2020 by - News

Arrow Electronics has announced a new distribution deal with infrastructure automation provider Puppet as part of a cunning plan to widen its channel across Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Arrow said the move would create new opportunities for customers to mix leading vendor products with other enterprise automation systems.

Puppet’s Enterprise offering allows companies to deliver and manage almost any infrastructure at scale in a single platform with or without agents It enables the continuous enforcement of security and compliance policies, the firm says.

Channel brings 10,000 ventilators to the NHS

Posted on March 31, 2020 by - News

A number of firms across the computer channel, led by Microsoft, Dell, Arrow Electronics, Accenture and PTC have banded together to form a consortium to deliver 10,000 ventilators to the NHS.

The consortium is headed by Dick Elsy, CEO of High Value Manufacturing Catapult (HVMC), a group of manufacturing research centres in the UK and is made up of Airbus, BAE Systems, Ford, GKN Aerospace, Inspiration Healthcare, Meggitt, Penlon, Renishaw, Rolls Royce, Siemens, Smiths Group, Thales, Ultra Electronics, Unilever and a number of UK-based F1 teams.

Arrow takes MML Capital Partners cash

Posted on January 17, 2020 by - News

Comms VAR Arrow Business Communications has taken private equity investment from MML Capital Partners to spruce up its buy-and-build strategy.

The deal has handed the firm a £50 million to continue its cunning plan of buying anything which is not nailed down.  So far the company has bought eight businesses its most recent acquisition came in December, in the form of comms provider BTL Communications.

Arrow has made changes to its leadership, with previous CEO Chris Russell taking on the role of chairman and Richard Burke, who joined the business in 2017 becoming CEO.

Arrow wears cloak of visibility

Posted on September 25, 2019 by - News

Getvisibility and Arrow Electronics have struck a distribution deal.

Getvisibility uses machine learning and focuses on digging out volumes of data and then classifying it to search for data and ensure it meets secure data standards.

Arrow said it will offer product distribution for the product in both EMEA and North America and offer support services for existing and for new customers.

Arrow Electronics lets channel access Greenwave Systems’ AXON Predict

Posted on August 7, 2019 by - News

Global technology provider Arrow Electronics and Greenwave Systems, a global software leader for managed services and Industrial IoT edge analytics have announced an EMEA distribution agreement.

The deal involves Greenwave’s AXON Predict that delivers the power of edge intelligence and provides businesses with the information they need to understand and optimise their assets. The solution will be available through Arrow`s cloud marketplace ArrowSphere.

Arrow to shut PC asset disposition business

Posted on July 16, 2019 by - News

Arrow plans to close its PC asset disposition business saying that since it was established, the market dynamics have changed.

Arrow’s CEO Michael Long announced the move as he noted second quarter results would fall short of expectations and shares fell seven per cent following a business update containing news of the planned closure.

Long said the shuttering will be “substantially complete” by the end of 2019 and will lead Arrow to incur charges of about $115 million in its the second quarter.

Arrow turns platinum

Posted on October 26, 2018 by - News

Arrow  has been awarded the Platinum Reseller Partner status by Mitel, an industry-recognised leader in Unified Communications and Collaboration (UCC).

The Platinum Partner status is the highest level of accreditation that Mitel can offer, and distinguishes elite partners who represent the highest standards for Mitel’s solutions.

Arrow has been a reseller for Mitel for 18 years and in that time has designed and built one of the first Multi-Instance Communication Director (MiCD) platforms in the UK as well as being recognised as a Mitel Hospitality Partner – one of only eight in the UK.

Arrow Head of Products, Andy Arnold said: “This award is recognition of the depth of our Mitel expertise and also Arrow’s success in pushing the boundaries of unified communications. Earlier this year we launched our cloud collaboration platform. Scala – a flexible and feature-rich hosted telephony solution built on best of breed applications and services. Scala is designed and built with Mitel at its core and is a technology that people trust.

“We are delighted with this news and look forward to working even more closely with the Mitel team ” to ensure our customers continue to get the very best UCC solutions”.

Arrow hits targets

Posted on February 8, 2018 by - News

Teen_Wolf_Season_2_Episode_11_Battlefield_Allison_Takes_AimArrow has just had the most successful year in its 83 year old history.

CEO Michael Long said that an 18 percent sales increase in the final quarter of the year propelled Arrow’s total 2017 revenue haul to $26.81 billion which is a 13 percent rise. Ignoring a $125 million hit from changes relating to US tax regulations, net income also rose from $182 million to $224 million.

Arrow’s Enterprise Computing Solutions (ECS) arm recorded a 10 percent revenues increase to $2.69 billion. Its components arm saw revenues rise 24 per cent to $4.94 billion.

Long told the assembled throngs on a conference call that this outfit delivered unprecedented growth in 2017.

“This growth validates our strategy and inspires us to push forward to 2018 and the years ahead,” he said.

Arrow thinks the storage market reached a “turning point” during Q4, with new form factors driving the growth of its storage revenues in both the Americas and EMEA.

“Last year, we thought that the storage piece would cross over in the third quarter,” Long said.

“It happened in the fourth quarter that we saw the growth… What’s exciting or what drove us down was there was a pretty good budget flush on hardware, and that changed our mix a bit. But I still read into that as good news.”

Cloud now a $1bn-a-quarter business for Arrow

The 10 percent sales rise at ECS was underpinned by “strong growth” in infrastructure software and cloud sales, Long said.

He added that the company is on target for its $1bn cloud services quarter run rate target.

“If we take out December, we exceeded the $1bn run rate,” he said. “It’s still growing at a strong rate. It’s going to be exciting. And since you asked about that, we might as well tell you that digital is well over the $1bn mark at this point, too. So both of those activities are ramping and going very strong.”

 

HPE names Arrow as a UK distributor

Posted on January 24, 2018 by - News

Teen_Wolf_Season_2_Episode_11_Battlefield_Allison_Takes_AimHPE  has appointed Arrow as its UK distributor to work with Azlan (formerly Avnet), Ingram Micro and Westcoast.

Arrow was a SimpliVity and Nimble distributor, and HPE bought both in the last year. On 1 November HPE made Nimble available to all its UK distributors but said it was in discussions with Arrow about its UK role.

HPE’s UK channel boss Mark Armstrong said that it was decided to add Arrow to HPE’s distribution channel to reach new customers.

The agreement will see Arrow continue to distribute Nimble and SimpliVity.

Arrow’s director of solutions Dan Waters said: “HPE’s portfolio further enables our customers to add incremental business across solution practices in business intelligence and analytics, data management, IoT, and next-generation infrastructure technologies.

“It fits seamlessly into our value-added model and the propositions of our reseller community. The collaboration will further expand the successful work we’ve already been doing with Nimble and SimpliVity.”

Arrow rolls out virtual classroom programme

Posted on January 19, 2018 by - News

Archer-Shooting-a-Goose-Arrow--59097Arrow has released its virtual classroom programme across the UK and EMEA.

The distributor is offering its virtual classroom to people to use at the office, home or through its own Arrow Education centres across EMEA.

The scheme has already gone live in the UK.

The big idea is to provide flexibility around training sites and dates, resulting in cost savings because of reduced travel expenses and greater collaboration through group activities, supported by video conferencing systems and interactive smart boards.

Jacques Assant, business development services director for Arrow’s enterprise computing solutions business in EMEA, said that the Arrow Virtual Classroom combines all the benefits of interactive, live training delivered by highly skilled instructors with the option to save on time and travel and greater choice of offerings.

Arrow ECS Education has 25 classrooms in the UK using authorised trainers and has training centres in London, Stockport, Harrogate and Dublin.

The distributor pitches the need for classroom training on its website as a chance for students to get into what it calls a focused environment.