Why Virtualization?

According to leading industry analysts, the North American virtualization market excluding hardware reached $9.6 billion in 2011 and is expected to grow at a 14.7% 4-year CAGR.* Although the virtualization market has greatly evolved over the past several years, it still constitutes a significant opportunity for you to take advantage of.

The virtualization market has greatly evolved over the past several years. What was primarily a CAPEX focus on server consolidation, virtualization today is being leveraged further into data center infrastructure… all the way to end point devices and to further drive operational efficiencies through more effective management of the heterogeneous physical and virtual environment. In addition, virtualization is an IT cornerstone of modern infrastructures and a foundation for cloud computing.

Avnet has identified key opportunities in virtualization to help you to navigate through tough market complexities including integration difficulties, extensive training and certification requirements so you are equipped with highly effective and profitable virtualization solutions that can deliver measurable results for your customers.

If you are interested in learning more about virtualization solutions, Avnet provides training and enablement tools that accelerate your success, including:

Partner Training and Education

Elevate your virtualization knowledge and solution expertise through our comprehensive training curriculum, from on-site Universities to on-demand training.

SolutionsPath® Playbooks

Access proven solution "plays" that highlight key supplier-neutral market opportunities as well as align leading suppliers' products and services to address key customer challenges and priorities.

Avnet Demo Center

Extend the value of our Playbooks with live remote demonstrations of key technology solutions featured in the Playbooks. Access to the Demo Center allows for virtual demonstration of key solutions, allowing for real time proof of concept to accelerate the sales cycle while reducing your total cost of sale.

Avnet Demand Center

Utilize this innovative "plug & play" tool to quickly and easily create and deploy original demand generation campaigns specifically geared toward end users in targeted markets.

Data Center Lifecycle Services

Drive profitable growth through the delivery of data center services that span the full IT lifecycle. Take advantage of Avnet’s managed, cloud and professional services to address your customers’ data center optimization needs. Avnet can enable partners with services for all IT lifecycle stages - plan, acquire, integrate, deploy, manage and dispose.

*Avnet Est Based on Gartner/IDC Data, September 2011