Tech Data Opens Symantec Solutions Center

Tech Data Corporation (NASDAQ:TECD), a leading IT products distributor, today announced the opening of the Symantec Solutions Center at its worldwide headquarters in Clearwater. The facility — the latest addition to Tech Data’s 6,000-square-foot solutions center — is a state-of-the art learning environment providing access to all the Symantec solutions sold by Tech Data. Newly constructed, the center is open and available for resellers to introduce their employees and end-user customers to Symantec’s security and data-protection solutions.

“Symantec’s extensive solutions portfolio encompasses a broad array of business-critical applications for end users of all sizes,” said Tech Data Vice President, Software Product Marketing Stacy Nethercoat. “To build successful, profitable practices around solutions ranging from security and systems management to storage and business continuity, resellers need access to expert support, and the right sales, marketing and technical knowledge. With the Symantec Solutions Center, Tech Data and Symantec are further strengthening our partner-enablement capabilities, which already include a dedicated team of specialists. These Symantec solutions experts will facilitate trainings and product demonstrations in the center.”

“Symantec is focused on giving our partners the solutions and resources they need to drive more revenue and maintain relevance with their customers,” said Symantec Vice President, North America Channel Sales Randy Cochran. “The Symantec Solutions Center will provide partners with hands-on access to Symantec’s portfolio as well as sales and technical trainings to help improve their readiness to support customers’ changing needs. We anticipate that Symantec, Tech Data and our partners will use the center to identify new opportunities and better work together to turn them into sales.”

The Symantec Solutions Center At Tech Data

The Symantec Solutions Center at Tech Data does much more than just introduce resellers to product specifications and capabilities. The center will provide broad solutions sales and technical trainings. Supported by the Tech Data solutions center’s robust networking and data center infrastructure, the facility will offer real-world demonstrations of Symantec solutions by replicating end-user IT environments using the latest software, servers, storage, client devices, networking technology and virtualization solutions.

Symantec solutions already installed in the center include:

• Symantec Endpoint Protection
• Symantec Backup Exec™
• Symantec Backup Exec™ System Recovery
• Symantec Enterprise Vault™
• Veritas NetBackup™
• The Altiris™ Client Management Suite from Symantec
• Symantec Data Loss Prevention (DLP)

The Symantec Solutions Center features the latest video conferencing, digital signage and presentation capabilities for onsite and remote training. It also can be reconfigured depending on reseller requirements. For example, if a reseller would like to use the facility to pitch a large deal or win over a new customer, the Tech Data Symantec team will prepare the center — with boardroom-style seating — for demonstrations of specific solutions included in the proposal, as well as have experts on hand to answer questions. If resellers prefer to have their sales and technical employees visit the center for training, a traditional classroom and instructor layout will be utilized.

To learn more or to schedule a tour of the Symantec Solutions Center, resellers can contact their Tech Data sales representative at 800-237-8931, or send e-mail to symantecsolutioncenter@techdata.com.

Tech Data Solutions Center

Hundreds of resellers each month visit the Tech Data solutions center to demonstrate a broad array of IT solutions for their end-user customers, as well as to train their own sales and technical employees on the latest technologies. This 6,000-square-foot facility comprises more than $6 million worth of technology products from more than 150 leading hardware and software producers. Solutions on hand include data center and networking infrastructure, unified communications, document management, video surveillance and digital signage. The center also is home to Tech Data’s Apple Lab and the Cisco Solutions Center at Tech Data.

About Tech Data

Tech Data Corporation (NASDAQ GS: TECD) is one of the world's largest distributors of technology products from leading IT hardware and software producers. Tech Data serves more than 125,000 IT solution providers in over 100 countries. Every day, these value-added resellers depend on Tech Data to cost-effectively support the technology needs of end users, including small and medium businesses (SMB), large enterprises and government agencies. Ranked 102nd on the FORTUNE 500(R), Tech Data generated $24.1 billion in net sales for its fiscal year ended January 31, 2009. To learn more, visit www.techdata.com.