Tech Data Opens West Coast Integration Center

CLEARWATER, Fla.-(Business Wire)-September 1, 2009 - Tech Data Corporation (NASDAQ:TECD), a leading IT products distributor, today opened its 25,000-square-foot West Coast integration center co-located in the company’s Fontana, Calif., logistics center. The new facility enhances Tech Data’s TDIntegration Services, enabling IT resellers to more efficiently and cost-effectively deploy custom-configured solutions anywhere in the country. Coupled with its ISO 9001:2000 certified Swedesboro, N.J., integration center, Tech Data is the only distributor to offer resellers access to state-of-the-art configuration facilities on both coasts.

“Our exclusive bi-coastal configuration capabilities enable Tech Data to provide resellers with access to the channel’s most optimized distribution network for custom-configured solutions,” said Tech Data Vice President, Government, Technical and Integration Services Barb Miller. “Many resellers have customers with branch offices and remote workers spread across the country with strict service level agreements they have to meet regardless of location. Now, Tech Data can optimally route configuration orders to either coast, helping resellers meet their SLA commitments, while cutting costs and saving time.”

Through both facilities, resellers can leverage Tech Data’s TDIntegration Services team to efficiently preload and configure one or hundreds of systems, notebooks, servers, routers and other devices with hardware inserts and software applications that meet specific end-user requirements. This enables resellers to provide their customers with built-to-order solutions without holding product inventory, tasking their employees with time-consuming builds or reshipping hardware.

“TDIntegration Services help resellers free up valuable technical resources, keeping them in the field generating billable hours and not in the back office assembling components, loading software and repackaging hardware,” adds Miller. “Our integration service is a core competency of Tech Data, and we now have the capability to configure more than 600,000 devices a year on behalf of our customers.”

Starting as low as $20 for routers, $35 for systems and $40 for servers, Tech Data can custom configure everything from basic desktops to complex multi-server rack systems. The distributor also offers custom bundles and asset tagging services, and can ship products to end users on behalf of resellers using its private-label, reseller-branded delivery service. All systems are inspected and tested prior to shipping, and TDIntegration consistently achieves rates of greater than 99 percent error-free configurations and on-time shipping. TDIntegration Services include:

Systems And Storage Configuration

Hardware insert configuration
Software installation
Asset tagging and labeling
Custom packaging

Networking Solutions Integration

Configuration support for all networking products distributed by Tech Data
Hardware module integration
Software installation and upgrades
Custom configuration file loads
Custom port, network protocols, VLAN and VPN configuration

Custom Engineering Services

Software imaging
Change management
First article build
Customer instruction sets
Customer WAN connectivity
Reporting
Project management and solutions rollout for long deployments

Cisco Advanced Integration Services

Exclusive on-site capabilities quickly configure Cisco routers and switches
Configuration fees start at $20 for Cisco 800 Series routers, $45 for Cisco 7200 Series routers, $100 for Cisco 7600 Series routers, and $250 for Cisco Unified Communications Manager

To learn more or to schedule tours of the new facility, resellers can contact their Tech Data sales representative at 800-237-8931.

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.

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