Avnet, Inc. enhanced the ability of Avnet partners in the U.S. and Canada to help their customers easily support off-premise and hybrid cloud environments. Avnet will now offer solutions from CenturyLink and IO that enable partners to provide their customers with solutions based on off-premise, co-located data center models. These solutions suit a range of offsite data center and infrastructure co-location needs, including data center expansions, redundancy support and migrations.

Partners will be able to profit from these solutions through either a referral model or a resale model. Avnet will help partners quickly and easily begin offering these co-location solutions with its customized hybrid data center solution offerings. These offerings require no upfront capital requirements and feature highly available redundant and blended bandwidth, and secure access to enterprise-class data centers.

Additionally, partners can leverage Avnet's IT services, including orchestration and automation, to create more complete offerings for cloud solutions. Partners can access cloud solutions through the Avnet Cloud Marketplace. This one-stop shop offers access to comprehensive solutions from cloud service providers, flexible payment models and Avnet's sophisticated management and optimization tools.

The Avnet Cloud Marketplace is part of Avnet Cloud Solutions, which helps partners and customers transform IT with data center automation and cloud solutions that emb race new consumption models and enable services delivery.