Avnet signs global contract for Lenovo’s training program
Avnet Technology Solution has today announced its training division is about to expand.
Its education portfolio is growing to include comprehensive training courses for Lenovo's System x and Flex products. This is now available to partners and their customers in all the countries where Avnet operates around the globe.
Avnet continues to invest in delivering IT training and certification services, principally around the high growth technologies that align with Avnet's solutions specialist approach.
Lenovo is an existing strategic supplier for Avnet, and this agreement will further support partners and their customers to develop, implement and maintain business solutions that rely on Lenovo technology.
IT education and certification training enables IT professionals to become more highly qualified. According to IDC, certified IT professionals take training at a far greater rate than their uncertified colleagues. The study showed that certified professionals are:
- Almost three times more likely to take classroom training
- Seven times more likely to take self-paced e-learning courses
- Ten times more likely to take instructor-led e-learning classes
Avnet Technology Solutions vice president for marketing, education and supplier management in Asia Pacific, Michael Costigan says education is key in ensuring that Avnet and our channel partners can take the most innovative technologies to market – first.
"With this latest edition to our global training offering, we can help our partners to enhance their own skills, but also to and expand their channel ecosystem to include new technologies and customers," Costigan says.
Director of data center group services training at Lenovo, Alex M. Badia shares these sentiments.
"As a leading solutions specialist, the launch of this program by Avnet makes it simpler for partners and their customers to build up knowledge and become more highly qualified, which in turn helps them to transform technology into business solutions and further accelerate their success," Badia concludes.
