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Arrow Enterprise Computing Solutions Corporate Overview

Arrow Enterprise Computing Solutions (ECS) is a business unit of Arrow Electronics, Inc. [NYSE: ARW] which enables nearly 15,000 value-added resellers with providing comprehensive computing solutions to small- to enterprise-sized businesses.

Based in Englewood, Colorado, and with offices in 22 countries around the world, Arrow ECS reported $4.8 billion in global enterprise computing solutions sales in 2007. Arrow ECS has had 17 consecutive quarters of year-over-year sales growth. Global enterprise computing solutions accounted for approximately 30 percent of Arrow Electronics’ 2007 sales.

Leading Value-Added Distributor
We bring broad market access, extensive supplier relationships, scale and resources to help our partners meet the present and future needs of their customers. We connect our partners to more than 70 hardware, software, storage and security suppliers. We are the No. 1 value-added distributor of enterprise storage and security and virtualization software.

In addition to providing pre-sales technical support and order fulfillment management for multi-platform and single-platform solutions, Arrow ECS offers business planning and marketing services, flexible financing and customized configurations to provide a high-level of support for all of its partners’ business needs.

Highly Ranked—by the Industry and Our Partners
Solutions providers consistently rank Arrow ECS as the No. 1 value-added distributor in the industry. Our most recent distinctions include:

Voted the “most important” value-added distributor by VARBusiness 500 companies in 2006 and 2007
Named the No. 1 “Most Sourced Specialty Distributor” – meaning that survey respondents most frequently purchased from Arrow ECS than any other channel manager – in the 2006 Computer Reseller News (CRN) Sourcing Study; also ranked highest in “business management planning/support” services in this study
Ranked as a leading distributor with which to partner by the fastest-growing solutions providers in the 2006 CRN Fast Growth 100 List.
Ranked as the No. 1 value-added distributor in our customer surveys.

Arrow ECS’ subsidiary businesses include Alternative Technology, Inc. (ATI) and DNSint.com AG. ATI is the leading specialty distributor of products and services targeted at thin-client and server-based computing, edge infrastructure, security, and wireless markets. DNS is a leading value-added distributor which provides services server, storage, access infrastructure, security, internetworking and virtualization.