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Ingram Micro CIO Mario Leone resigns

Sue Troy — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 18:34:42 +0000

By Lynn Haber, Senior Writer

After a four-year tenure at technology distributor Ingram Micro, executive vice president and CIO, Mario Leone is leaving his position. He will help with the transition through March 1. Ingram Micro’s executive vice president, global business process and cloud computing, Nimesh Dave, will take over Leone’s responsibilities until a successor is found.

Leone is responsible for significant improvements to Ingram Micro’s IT and Business Information Systems including implementation of a global network and mapping out the company’s IT architecture.

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Avnet employees pitch in on Extreme Makeover: Home Edition

Sue Troy — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 21:11:56 +0000

Are there any fans of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition out there? If so, keep an eye out for Avnet employees on Monday night’s show. Eighteen members of the company’s IBM Solutions group spent two Saturdays in San Antonio, Texas, planting sod, moving rocks, cleaning up construction debris and directing traffic. Avnet also donated three MacBooks and other components of a home tech system.

Despite broader economic jitters, IT sector continues to improve

Heather Clancy — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 20:13:03 +0000

Even if the broader U.S. figures suggests that economic uncertainty lingers, the IT sector continues to show signs of a turnaround both in the United States and in Europe.

According to data from The Global Technology Distribution Council (GTDC), U.S. hardware sales in the second quarter grew sequentially by 10 percent compared with the first quarter. On a year-over-year basis, 2Q revenue for IT hardware increased by 20 percent, the organization reports. The GTDC says sales in Europe were up by 15 percent year-over-year for the period.

The numbers are part of the NPD Group Distributor Track, which is based on sales-out information provided by GTDC members.

Here’s some commentary from the press release provided by the council’s CEO, Tim Curran:

“Among other key trends, we’re seeing SMB and larger enterprises invest more heavily in networking, storage and other IT infrastructure to support current and future growth. The range of solutions and services provided by IT distributors is also increasingly diversified, including a growing number of products that would have sold exclusively through other channels in the past.”

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Tech Data promises the benefits of a bi-coastal integration relationship

Heather Clancy — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 11:16:52 +0000

Distributor Tech Data, which as you all know (what you didn’t?) is based in Clearwater, Florida, has opened a new 25,000-square-foot West Coast integration center at its existing Fontana, California, facility.

The distributor already has a ISO 9001:2000-certified integration center in Swedesboro, New Jersey.

The new center will be able to handle customer hardware integration, including preloads and customer-specific configurations for desktops, notebooks, servers, routers and other equipment. With the addition of this capacity, Tech Data says its TDIntegration Services team now has the capacity to handle up to 600,000 custom configurations each year on behalf of its VAR and reseller customers. And, obviously, it will be able to get these configurations to all sorts of places on the western part of the United States more quickly now.

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