ENGLEWOOD, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 30, 2006--The Storage Group of Arrow Enterprise Computing Solutions, a business unit of Arrow Electronics, Inc. (NYSE:ARW), today announced that it received the Distributor of the Year award for the Americas Region at EMC Corporation's second annual software channel partner conference, which took place earlier this month in Las Vegas.

The Partner of the Year awards recognize valuable EMC partners who have exceeded joint sales and business goals, achieved significant market penetration, and provided superior support throughout the year.

Arrow's community of enterprise storage VARs, skilled in both sales and technical environments, drive EMC solutions into the end-user marketplace with support from Arrow in the areas of training, demand generation, and financing. Arrow supports the EMC product line with a team of account development managers, marketing managers, and technical consultants.

"EMC has been one of Arrow's largest and fastest growing suppliers for five years in a row," said Ed Coleman, president, Arrow Enterprise Computing Solutions. "It is a relationship that continues to flourish based on mutual goals of being number one in the market place and promoting a strong channel program."

Rob Tarkoff, senior vice president, Business Development and Strategic Alliances, EMC Software, said: "The value of a distributor is measured not only by the revenue it produces but the top down commitment. Arrow has demonstrated how to be successful based on fully embracing all of EMC's solutions and making investments in its strategic partner base. We congratulate Arrow for winning the Americas Distributor of the Year award."

Arrow provides value-added distribution services for EMC CLARiiON networked storage systems and related software for storage management; EMC Centera content addressed storage; EMC Documentum enterprise content management software; EMC storage management software for back up and restore, email archival, and data replication; EMC Smarts automated network systems management software; and EMC Dantz backup and restore software for small and medium businesses.

EMC, CLARiiON, Documentum, and Dantz are registered trademarks, and Centera is a trademark of EMC Corporation.

About Arrow ECS

Arrow ECS is the global business group of Arrow Electronics, Inc. (NYSE:ARW) that provides enterprise and midrange computing products, services and solutions to value-added resellers, system integrators, and independent software vendors (ISVs). Based in Englewood, Colo., Arrow ECS connects its customers to an exclusive network of the world's foremost technology suppliers, including HP, IBM, Sun Microsystems, EMC, NetApp, and other leading storage networking, software, and security suppliers. Arrow Electronics reported $2.6 billion in worldwide computer products sales in 2004. Visit us at www.arrowecs.com.

CONTACT: Arrow Electronics, Inc.
Ann Shiveley, 303-824-3762
ashiveley@arrow.com

SOURCE: Arrow Electronics, Inc.