Avnet embedded boosts storage offering in Americas with EchoStreams Innovative Solutions

Avnet Embedded, a division of Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas, a business region of Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT) today announced that it has entered into a distribution agreement with EchoStreams Innovative Solutions, LLC, a provider of specialized server and storage solutions. Avnet Embedded can now offer customers in the Americas purpose-built server and storage platforms to meet their custom digital content generation, delivery, presentation and archiving needs at off-the-shelf prices. 

“EchoStreams takes conventional off-the-shelf components and packages them to meet the different usage models of various vertical markets,” said John Salemme, vice president and general manager of Avnet Embedded. “These unique purpose-built platforms enable our mutual customers with limited IT infrastructure resources to leverage the economy of scale of mass-produced components, while enjoying the benefits of a highly flexible or customized solution.”

Among Ecostreams’ trademarked solutions are the DURAStreams™ high performance, high availability platforms; FLACHEStreams™ products to accelerate high performance computing and data center content delivery network applications; and GRIDStreams™ and SCALEStreams™ purpose-built scale-out compute and storage solutions, providing the platform for OEMs to build the next-generation data centers for the cloud. Target end user applications include cloud-integrated storage, VDI-redundant servers, software-defined storage, cloud DVR, video archive, media streaming, online transactional database storage and both object and cold storage.

“EchoStreams is proud to join forces with Avnet Embedded, the global-leading value-added solution distributor for IT infrastructure technologies,” said Gene Lee, president and CEO of EchoStreams Innovative Solutions. “With its strong market access and global logistics capabilities, Avnet Embedded can help bring EchoStreams’ solutions to OEMs of all sizes, from fresh startups to global technology leaders.”