Arrow Electronics inks Nvidia solutions distribution agreement

04 June 2021

Dan Waters, country manager of Arrow’s enterprise computing business in the UK says “ our strength as an aggregator lies in providing our channel customers with unrivalled access to complementary, best-in-class technologies"

Dan Waters, country manager of Arrow’s enterprise computing business in the UK

Global technology provider Arrow Electronics has expanded its portfolio of business solutions for the data centre by entering into a distribution agreement with Nvidia, which enables Arrow to offer its customers Nvidia networking solutions.

Under the terms of the deal, Arrow will be one of the key distributors in the UK with access to the entire Nvidia solutions portfolio.

It will distribute the latter’s high-speed Ethernet and InfiniBand solutions, which increase data centre efficiency by providing high throughput and the lowest latency, delivering data faster. The new agreement will allow Arrow to provide its customers with a broader offering and more choice.

“Modern workloads can put massive performance demands on the data centre, and Nvidia networking products provide performance, speed, low latency, high efficiency and resilience,” Dan Waters, country manager of Arrow’s enterprise computing business in the UK said. “ Our strength as an aggregator lies in providing our channel customers with unrivalled access to complementary, best-in-class technologies. Nvidia has quite broad and well-established relationships with the largest industry vendors, all of whom also work with Arrow.”

Syd Virdi, senior director of EMEA channel sales at Nvidia Networking, added: “Arrow’s experience and broad customer network enable Nvidia solutions to reach a wider audience. NVIDIA InfiniBand and Ethernet networking for server and storage fabrics, Open Networking solutions for edge and cloud, and other accelerated networking solutions for AI and enterprise data analytics all offer customers the latest most advanced technology available in today’s market.”