News

Arrow ECS signs with Trend Micro
2012-04-25
Norway : Japanese security editor Trend Micro has appointed network and security VAD Arrow ECS as new distributor in the country.

Symantec drops Infinigate
2012-04-20
Norway : as a part of its strategy of reducing its VAD number, Symantec has decided to cancel its distribution partnership with Infinigate and focus its business on its two remaining VADs, Arrow ECS and Pedab (based in Sweden).

Arrow acquires Altimate
2012-04-19
American giant distributor Arrow Electronics has signed a definitive agreement to acquire 100% of the shares of VAD Altimate, a subsidiary of Irish group DCC, for €41m in cash and €7.1m related to "deferred acquisition considerations" of Altimate that Arrow will take on. Specialized in storage and security, Altimate operates in eight countries including Belgium, France (its country of origin), Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and the United Kingdom. It has a network of approximately 2,500 value-added resellers and system integrators. This acquisition will allow Arrow's VAD division Arrow ECS to globally strengthen its positions in all these countries (despite some local overlaps in terms of vendors), providing the acquisition is closed (in the next 90 days) and cleared by regulatory approval.

Arrow ECS gets more wireless with Aruba
2012-04-04
Intelligent wireless LAN switching vendor Aruba has expanded its partnership with infrastructure VAD Arrow ECS to the full Western Europe. The companies were working together until now in Austria, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. From now on, Aruba products are also available through Arrow ECS offices in Belgium, Estonia, France, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands,Portugal and Spain.

Arrow ECS joins Pano Logic's EMEA Channel Network
2012-04-03
Pano Logic, a specialist in zero client desktop virtualization (VDI), has unveiled that infrastructure VAD Arrow ECS has become an authorized Pano Logic value-added distributor for 26 countries in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Pano Logic will draw from Arrow ECS' expertise and resources to Pano Logic resellers that are assisting organizations with radically centralizing desktop computing with the Pano System and slashing their total cost of ownership (TCO). Pano Logic products should be available in Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Morocco, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom as soon as local teams are trained.