The new solution incorporates industry-leading products from Sun and Diligent Technologies, a world-class innovator in enterprise-class disk-based data protection solutions. It is designed to help Avnet’s Sun partners meet the unique storage needs of their small-to-mid-sized business (SMB) customers by providing them with a cost-effective solution that improves back up processes, reduces infrastructure costs, ensures data integrity and reliability, and simplifies management and support.

“Avnet is committed to investing in the solutions, markets and services that will help our partners grow their businesses and gain a competitive advantage,” said Mike Hurst, vice president and general manager, Avnet Technology Solutions Americas, Sun Solutions group. “Our data de-duplication solution is a perfect example of this commitment. The solution gives our partners a unique offering for the SMB market helping them to maximize their customers’ current storage investments and provide a compelling cost savings.”

Completely integrated by Avnet, the data de-duplication solution combines Sun’s Sun Fire™ x4200 M2 server and a Sun™ StorageTek™ 2530 SAS storage array with Diligent’s ProtecTIER™ inline data de-duplication software. It delivers the performance of a four-way server and the benefits of affordable, reliable SAS storage with 6.3 TB of physical capacity. ProtecTIER enables a capacity expansion of up to 25 times the physical capacity of the system, bringing the usable capacity of the system to beyond 150 TB of backup data. Powered by Diligent’s patent-pending HyperFactor™ de-duplication technology, the solution provides users with significant performance and capacity benefits. The solution is available as a pre-configured, fully integrated solution and is easily deployed into existing backup environments.

“This is an excellent solution for the mid-range customer that is feeling the crunch of growing data protection needs, shrinking backup windows, and reduced budgets,” said Doron Kempel, Chairman and CEO of Diligent Technologies. “Avnet and Sun have defined a de-duplication solution that combines the enterprise strengths of ProtecTIER—Performance and Capacity—with world-class server and storage hardware tuned for the mid-sized data center environment.”

“Data de-duplication is a great door-opener with customers because it provides a concrete return on investment by reducing storage infrastructure and management costs,” said Nick Cellentani, vice president of operations and storage consulting, Adexis. “Our customers want to know that they are absolutely getting the most value possible out of their IT investments. The new Avnet solution gives us one more way to make them happy customers.”

About Avnet Technology Solutions

Avnet Technology Solutions is an operating group of Avnet, Inc. (NYSE:AVT) representing US$6 billion in annual revenue for fiscal year 2007, with locations in more than 30 countries. As a global technology sales and marketing organization, Avnet Technology Solutions has sales divisions focused on specific customer segments and a select line card strategy enabling an exceptional level of attention to the needs of its customers and suppliers. Visit www.ats.avnet.com.

About Avnet

Avnet, Inc. (NYSE:AVT) is one of the largest distributors of electronic components, computer products and technology services and solutions with more than 300 locations serving more than 70 countries worldwide. The company markets, distributes and optimizes the supply-chain and provides design-chain services for the products of the world's leading electronic component suppliers, enterprise computer manufacturers and embedded subsystem providers. Avnet brings a breadth and depth of capabilities, such as maximizing inventory efficiency, managing logistics, assembling products and providing engineering design assistance for its 100,000 customers, accelerating their growth through cost-effective, value-added services and solutions. For the fiscal year ended June 30, 2007, Avnet generated revenue of $15.68 billion.