Arrow ECS Signs Agreement To Deliver Voltaire in the UK

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HARROGATE, U.K. (30 November 2010) -- Arrow Enterprise Computing Solutions, a business segment of Arrow Electronics Inc. [NYSE: ARW], has signed an agreement with data-centre networking provider Voltaire [NASDAQ: VOLT] to be the first distributor of its products in the United Kingdom. Also, Arrow ECS has joined Voltaire’s adVantage Partner Program.

The agreement will make Voltaire's range of lowest latency InfiniBand, 10 GbE and InfiniBand-to-Ethernet Gateway switching platforms available to the U.K. market.

Voltaire is a leading provider of high-performance, scale-out data-centre fabrics. Used by more than 30 percent of the Fortune 100, and with hundreds of production deployments globally, Voltaire is increasingly the solution provider of choice in not just high-performance computing environments but also in mainstream enterprise cloud environments and virtualised data centres. Voltaire also is known for delivering ultra-low-latency networks for high-frequency trading to many of the world’s leading exchanges, banks and hedge funds.

Voltaire’s portfolio of products can help customers to overcome challenges with designing and deploying data-centre fabrics that reduce latency, increase reliability and move large volumes of data between systems and systems/storage. By collaborating with Arrow ECS, Voltaire is expected to gain a greater reach into the U.K. reseller community, particularly those focused on the financial-services industry where demands for low latency are strong.

“We are pleased to enter into a distribution agreement with Arrow ECS. Its well-established leadership in the U.K. distribution market made Arrow ECS a logical distributor of choice for our company,” said Patrick Guay, executive vice president global sales and general manager for Voltaire. “Speed is increasingly a differentiator for us in the financial-services sector, as is the ability to handle increasing volumes of data. We believe that Arrow ECS has both the agility and the established relationships in place to map our leading solutions with customer requirements. We look forward to taking Voltaire solutions further into the U.K. market with the help of Arrow ECS.”

“Voltaire is an innovative company with quality products, so we were honoured to be chosen first as a distributor of its products in the U.K. Voltaire delivers some of the lowest latency networking solutions available and it’s an important supplier for financial institutions seeking competitive advantage through faster, reliable networks,” said Steve Pearce, managing director for Arrow ECS in the U.K. “At Arrow ECS, we take a structured approach that integrates the disciplines of data management and infrastructure management. Our reach into the financial-services market in the U.K. puts us right at the forefront of helping take Voltaire products to market.”

ABOUT VOLTAIRE
Voltaire [NASDAQ: VOLT] is a leading provider of scale-out computing fabrics for data centres, high-performance computing and cloud environments. Voltaire’s family of server and storage fabric switches and advanced management software improve performance of mission-critical applications, increase efficiency and reduce costs through infrastructure consolidation and lower power consumption. Used by more than 30 percent of the Fortune 100 and other premier organisations across many industries, including many of the TOP500 supercomputers, Voltaire products are included in server and blade offerings from Bull, Fujitsu, HP, IBM, NEC and SGI. Founded in 1997, Voltaire is headquartered in Ra’anana, Israel, and Chelmsford, Mass. More information is available at www.voltaire.com or by calling 1-800-865-8247.

ABOUT ARROW ENTERPRISE COMPUTING SOLUTIONS
Arrow ECS, a business segment of Arrow Electronics Inc. [NYSE: ARW], provides enterprise and midrange computing products, services and solutions to value-added resellers, system integrators, and independent software vendors. Based in Englewood, Colo., and with offices in 26 countries, Arrow ECS connects its customers to the world’s foremost technology suppliers. Arrow ECS reported $4.9 billion in global enterprise computing solution sales in 2009. Visit ecs.arrow.com for more information.

For further information please contact:

Dawn Small
Arrow ECS
303-824-4188
dsmall@arrow.com

Sebastian Mathews
FD
020 7269 7158
sebastian.mathews@fd.com

Sophia Winfield
FD
020 7269 7161
sophia.winfield@fd.com

Christy Lynch
Voltaire
+1 978 439 5407
christyl@voltaire.com

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