CENTENNIAL, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Arrow Electronics, Inc. (NYSE: ARW) today announced its membership in the OpenStack® Foundation, a global community of more than 63,000 developers and users from 180 countries worldwide promoting the development and adoption of OpenStack cloud software and solutions.
“It’s a privilege to join the global OpenStack community and support the developers and users who are guiding such exciting cloud innovation forward,” said Steve Robinson, vice president of Arrow’s global cloud business. “As the only distributor currently participating in this community, we believe the knowledge and insight we gain will ensure that Arrow’s ecosystem of suppliers and solution providers are best positioned to capture the opportunities posed by these next-generation solutions before they come to market.”
The OpenStack Foundation provides shared resources for users and developers to grow the global footprint of public and private OpenStack clouds and to help inform the development of new OpenStack cloud software and solutions. Arrow is the first distributor to join the OpenStack Foundation. As a corporate sponsor-level member, Arrow Electronics joins other thought leaders in the cloud computing industry in supporting the foundation’s mission of protecting, empowering and promoting OpenStack software and the community of developers and users around it.
“Distributors are an important part of the value chain in enterprise IT,” said Heidi Bretz, director business development and alliances at the OpenStack Foundation. “Arrow Electronics is forward-thinking, and their team’s commitment to our community paves the way for a unique perspective to join the conversation among OpenStack developers and users.”
OpenStack developers and users interested in learning more about the expertise, services and solutions that Arrow’s enterprise computing solutions business can offer across cloud, Big Data, analytics, data center configuration, storage and more can visit: https://www.openstack.org/foundation/companies/profile/arrow-electronics.
About Arrow Electronics
Arrow Electronics is a global provider of products, services and solutions to industrial and commercial users of electronic components and enterprise computing solutions. Arrow serves as a supply channel partner for more than 100,000 original equipment manufacturers, contract manufacturers and commercial customers through a global network of more than 460 locations serving over 85 countries.
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