KP Tang, president, Avnet Technology Solutions, Asia Pacific, said, “HP is one of the world’s premier technology brands. The agreement with HP Networking gives us a strategic partner in the enterprise networks and IT infrastructure solutions provider space.  Our global relationship with HP now spans the America’s, EMEA and the Asia Pacific region.  In Asia Pacific we have relationships with HP in Australia, Singapore, India, and Vietnam and most recently through our acquisition of Datamation in Indonesia.  Those relationships have all been built around HP's Enterprise Servers Storage & Networking division (ESSN) and with the announcement of HP Networking in Australia and Singapore; we will now be able to expand our solutions distribution methodology. 
By forging relationships with world-class suppliers like HP, Avnet Technology Solutions is able to connect channel partners to more customers, thereby providing them access to developing markets. Our aim is to provide the right combination of resources to help bring more solutions to the market and educate and enable more business partners on HP solutions.”

“To stay competitive, companies need to reduce the complexity, increase the efficiency and enable greater flexibility in their networking solutions,” said Paul Robson, vice president and general manager, HP Networking, HP Asia Pacific and Japan.  “HP’s unique integrated networking portfolio, together with Avnet’s growing reach in Asia Pacific, will ensure that customers have innovative, standards-based, flexible technologies that help them deliver business outcomes that matter.”

William Chu, vice president, Avnet Technology Solutions, ASEAN, noted, “HP is a very proactive supplier, in that they work with Avnet Technology Solutions to create channels to market for them. They also seek to understand the dynamic relationship Avnet Technology Solutions has with the channel.  The relationship with HP Networking will now extend our offering to the channel in Singapore and allow us to leverage best in class programs that take HP’s Networking solutions to more channel partners and new markets.”