Arrow Electronics Is Now Authorized Training Center for Symantec

    Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

    ENGLEWOOD, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 14, 2005--The North American Computer Products group of Arrow Electronics, Inc. (NYSE: ARW), a leading enterprise computing distributor, announced today that it is an Authorized Training Center for Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC).
    Authorized Training Centers provide high-quality training to help partners plan and manage complex security and enterprise administration architectures using Symantec solutions.
    "Security is a sweet spot today for many of our reseller partners, as it is in particularly high demand from most types of end-users," said Kevin Powell, vice president, Enterprise Software, Arrow Electronics. "By offering free Symantec training to our reseller partners, we're enabling and helping them to build deeper and wider relationships with current and new customers, and doing it in an expeditious manner."
    Arrow's Symantec Authorized Training Center gives resellers an additional avenue for taking Symantec training courses, at no charge, which are critical preparation for Symantec certification exams.
    "The shortage of qualified security experts in the marketplace today presents a tremendous opportunity for Symantec's channel partners to provide certified security expertise to their customers," said Randy Cochran, vice president of Symantec channel sales for The Americas. "As an authorized distributor for Symantec enterprise solutions, Arrow has been an invaluable partner in helping us deliver our products to the enterprise market, and we're pleased to build on our common interest of ensuring that the channel has the knowledge, skills and tools necessary to meet the information security and availability needs of customers."
    Arrow offers the entire Symantec product line, including Symantec Network Security and Symantec Decoy Server intrusion protection solutions, Symantec Enterprise Security Manager (ESM) compliance and security management solutions, and patch management solutions with Symantec ON iPatch.
    For more information on the Symantec Security Solutions Certification Program, visit www.symantec.com/education/certification.

    About the North American Computer Products group of Arrow Electronics

    The North American Computer Products group of Arrow Electronics, Inc. (NYSE: ARW) is a leading distributor of enterprise and embedded computing systems to resellers and OEM customers in North America. Based in Englewood, CO, the group is comprised of four divisions that make up Enterprise Computing Solutions (Support Net, SBM, MOCA, Enterprise Storage Solutions) and OEM Computing Solutions, which serves industrial OEMs and intellectual property-based companies. Visit all of our divisions at www.arrownacp.com.
    Arrow Electronics is one of the world's largest distributors of electronic components and computer products and a leading provider of services to the electronics industry.

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CONTACT: Arrow Electronics, Inc. Ann Shiveley, 303-824-3762 Ashiveley@arrow.com

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