Avnet Technology Solutions, the global IT solutions distribution leader and an operating group of Avnet, Inc. (NYSE:AVT), today announced that it is a recipient of the Riverbed® Technology Global and North America Distributor Partner of the Year 2014 Awards. The awards were presented at Riverbed Partner Summit 2015, the company’s first partner conference, on May 19-21 in San Diego. The Riverbed Partner Awards recognize companies for excellence in delivering on customer needs and driving business results.

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Celebrating the awards for Distributor of the Year are: Cheryl Neal (Avnet), Shannon Bodnar (Riverbe ...

Celebrating the awards for Distributor of the Year are: Cheryl Neal (Avnet), Shannon Bodnar (Riverbed), Oni Ononye and Scott Look (Avnet), Jerry M. Kennelly, Paul Mountford, Lynn Tinney, Karl Meulema, Rob Rosiello, and Michele Hayes (Riverbed). (Photo: Business Wire)

Receiving these awards underscores the significance of Avnet and Riverbed’s relationship as well as Avnet’s continuing commitment to providing solutions that improve network performance and application delivery,” said Cheryl Neal, vice president, supplier business management, Security and Networking Solutions, Avnet Technology Solutions, Americas. “Our association with Riverbed helps provide our partners with solutions to deliver optimization across applications and maximize efficiencies supporting branch IT locations to directly address their customers' challenges. Through our SolutionsPath® practices, Avnet helps our partners with knowledge and skills to align Riverbed’s solutions into the high-growth vertical markets.”

“With this award, we recognize Avnet’s performance and achievements as a Riverbed partner in 2014, and look forward to continuing to work together to help our customers reach peak application and business performance,” said Karl Meulema, senior vice president, Global Channels at Riverbed. “Riverbed and our partner network are focused on providing solutions that deliver superior application performance, which in turn drives business performance in an increasingly complex hybrid IT environment.”

The Riverbed ecosystem spans approximately 3,000 partners worldwide, including technology resellers, distributors, service providers and integrators. Riverbed offers the most complete platform to give CIOs and IT organizations unparalleled visibility, optimization and control across the entire enterprise. The Riverbed Application Performance Platform™ includes SteelCentral™, SteelHead™ and SteelFusion™, which together are designed to ensure applications perform as expected, data is always available when needed, and performance issues can be proactively detected and resolved before impacting business performance. In addition, open APIs and developer tools, called SteelScript™, are part of each platform component to facilitate programmability, interoperability and intelligence across the Riverbed platform and partner ecosystem.

In addition, 2015 marks the fifth anniversary of the Avnet and Riverbed partnership. Throughout this relationship, Avnet has helped Riverbed bring innovative solutions to market. Avnet Technology Solutions works closely with Riverbed solution providers and value-added reseller partners to expand their offerings and increase vertical markets to drive Riverbed sales. Through the utilization of Avnet’s SolutionsPath® methodology and Avnet Services, Riverbed Technology has been able to provide their customers a wide range of services-oriented business and IT offerings.

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About Riverbed

Riverbed, at more than $1 billion in annual revenue, is the leader in Application Performance Infrastructure, delivering the most complete platform for the hybrid enterprise to ensure applications perform as expected, data is always available when needed, and performance issues can be proactively detected and resolved before impacting business performance. Riverbed enables hybrid enterprises to transform application performance into a competitive advantage by maximizing employee productivity and leveraging IT to create new forms of operational agility. Riverbed’s 26,000+ customers include 97% of the Fortune 100 and 98% of the Forbes Global 100. Learn more at www.riverbed.com.

About Avnet Technology Solutions

As a global IT solutions distributor, Avnet Technology Solutions transforms technology into business solutions for customers around the world. It collaborates with customers and suppliers to create and deliver services, software and hardware solutions that address the changing needs of end-user customers. The group serves customers and suppliers in North America, Latin America and Caribbean, Asia Pacific, and Europe, Middle East and Africa. It generated US $11.0 billion in annual revenue for fiscal year 2014. Avnet Technology Solutions is an operating group of Avnet, Inc. For more information, visit ats.avnet.com.

About Avnet, Inc.

Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT), a Fortune 500 company, is one of the largest distributors of electronic components, computer products and embedded technology serving customers globally. Avnet accelerates its partners' success by connecting the world's leading technology suppliers with a broad base of customers by providing cost-effective, value-added services and solutions. For the fiscal year ended June 28, 2014, Avnet generated revenue of $27.5 billion. For more information, visit www.avnet.com.