Eaton and Avnet sign Australian distribution agreement

Avnet Technology Solutions, a solutions distributor of enterprise computing products, software and services, and Eaton Industries, provider of power quality and backup power management solutions, announced an agreement where Avnet Technology Solutions will distribute the full range of Eaton power quality products and services to the Australian IT channel. These will include scalable BladeUPS technology, enclosures, ePDUs (enclosure power distribution units), environmental rack monitoring, VoIP and PoE (power over ethernet) midspan solutions, software and connectivity products.

Avnet will also distribute Eaton’s mid-to-high range of UPS products (formerly both Powerware and MGE Office Protection Systems) and focus on delivering turnkey solutions for enterprise data centre infrastructures.

Gavin Lawless, general manager of Avnet Technology Solutions, Australia, said: “The Eaton partnership not only complements Avnet’s existing enterprise technology solution vendor portfolio, but allows us to extend our solution expertise and capabilities, in terms of supporting the channel with business-critical continuity and energy efficiency solutions.”

Eaton will support Avnet with dedicated account management for pre-sales and post-sales engineering and technical support. Avnet’s business partner community will also benefit from Eaton’s extensive training and certification program.

“Avnet has a skilled team across the IT spectrum from virtualisation to IP telephony,” added Darren Butterworth, Eaton’s national IT channel manager. “The partnership will enable us to concentrate our resources on servicing the higher-end data centre enterprise and government market where there are increased requirements for power distribution and environmental monitoring solutions driven by legislation, compliance and budget priorities.”