Avnet Technology Solutions Helps Partners Tap the Growing Software as a Service Market...

Avnet Technology Solutions Helps Partners Tap the Growing Software as a Service Market with OneTech Hosted Exchange Services

OneTech Hosted Exchange Services Enable Value-Added Resellers to
Increase Their Services Portfolios with Cost-Effective, Federally
Compliant, Reliable Email Offerings
TEMPE, Ariz.--(Business Wire)--Avnet Technology Solutions, a value-added distributor of
enterprise computing products, embedded subsystems, software and
services, and an operating group of Avnet, Inc. (NYSE:AVT), today
unveiled its first offering for the Software as a Service (SaaS)
market -- OneTech Hosted Exchange Services. These newly announced
services provide email messaging based on a reliable and scalable
platform and will be available through Avnet's value-added reseller
partners.

Avnet's OneTech Hosted Exchange solution is an integrated
messaging management service that uses Microsoft Exchange Server to
deliver enhanced security, storage and administrative functions under
a central policy. The services include hosted mailboxes, highly secure
mail delivery, compliance, filtering and oversight, message archiving,
message availability, mobile device support, and anti-spam and
anti-virus protection. Avnet's OneTech Hosted Exchange Services are
designed to help partners expand their service portfolios, gain
incremental revenue and enter the rapidly emerging SaaS market,
without the significant upfront costs of developing these types of
services in house.

"Email is a business-critical application for companies of all
sizes; however, managing an email system within today's high demand
environments and federal regulations is quickly becoming
overwhelming," said Jack Morris, vice president, Avnet Technology
Solutions, Americas, Technology & Market Solutions. "This presents
tremendous opportunities for partners to serve as trusted advisors to
their customers by helping them resolve the key business challenges
around email management. Our partners will be able to further grow
their services businesses with Avnet's OneTech Hosted Exchange
Services, while providing a reliable, secure and cost-effective email
management alternative for their customers."

Designed for today's governance-focused environment, OneTech
Hosted Exchange Services ensure federal regulatory compliance around
retention, content filtering and data encryption. Avnet's OneTech
Hosted Exchange Services also feature audit trails to track access and
amendments to all records, Intelligent Content Analysis (ICA) to offer
accurate detection of potential email-based violations, and archiving
for e-Discovery and litigation support.

"Hosted email management services provide customers with tangible
business advantages by eliminating overhead and capital costs, and
freeing up resources to focus on revenue-driving applications," said
Rob Anderson, CEO, Pinnacle Business Systems, Inc. "Avnet's OneTech
Hosted Exchange Services provide us with all the tools and resources
needed to meet and exceed our customers' email management
requirements."

OneTech Hosted Exchange Services leverage industry-leading data
centers that feature high availability, redundancy and security. These
services offset the risks, costs and complexity related to email
management, and leave full transparency, control and control with the
customer.

"Small-to-mid-sized businesses experience many of the same email
management challenges as larger enterprises, however they lack the
resources available to support user demands," said John Zanni,
managing director of Worldwide Hosting for Microsoft Corp. "By
offering hosted Microsoft Exchange from Avnet as a service,
value-added resellers can provide their customers with Microsoft's
industry-leading software in a cost-effective and highly secure
manner."

Avnet's OneTech Hosted Exchange Services is one of the messaging
solutions available through OneTech Managed Services offerings.
Avnet's OneTech Managed Services also include fully managed services,
partially managed services, database administration, application
support, remote monitoring and management services, and messaging
services. Additional information regarding Avnet's OneTech offerings
is online at http://www.ats.avnet.com/onetech.

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. For more information, http://www.avnet.com.

Brodeur, for Avnet
Marcia Chapman, 602-808-1169
mchapman@brodeur.com

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