IGEL Technology, one of the world’s market leaders in thin clients, today announced a distribution contract with Arrow in Belgium and Luxembourg. The contract is an extension of a long-standing existing collaboration between the two companies in various countries across Europe.

Specialists in the distribution of infrastructure solutions and services in the areas of enterprise servers, storage, software and virtualization for IT professionals, Arrow will support the development of IGEL Technology in BeLux.

Arrow will market all IGEL

Under the terms of the agreement, Arrow will market all IGEL Technology’s thin client hardware and software. Its task will be to strengthen the network of “Authorised IGEL Partners – AIP” and to support the development of IGEL in BeLux.

“Arrow has had a longstanding, successful European relationship with IGEL in territories such as Germany, France, the UK and the Nordics and this appointment in BeLux will help extend our reach into Arrow’s strong virtualization reseller community, said Jan Stroombergen, Regional Sales Manager at IGEL Technology. Arrow’s enterprise computing solutions presence in the region and proven expertise in VMware and Citrix solutions will allow us to collaborate to offer customers the very best in desktop solutions.”

“Arrow works closely with IGEL Technology in other countries and we have a complementary range of offerings, says Bart van Rheenen, Managing Director Arrow Benelux (photo). IGEL Technology is one of the leading providers of thin clients in Germany, offering innovative products that bring real added value, particularly with their UDC2 thin client software. These solutions integrate seamlessly into the endpoint and virtualization services offered by Arrow.”

Complete portfolio

IGEL approached StorageData few years before, it was the first step to develop their goal. The addition of the solutions Storagedata completes the product portfolio of Arrow ECS in the Benelux. “This allows us to resellers – who want to offer based on clustering and server consolidation, cloud computing, virtualized environments and new forms of digital information to their customers solutions – better service. The flexibility and scalability of high performance storage systems are essential and systems Storagedata have been developed specifically with those principles, “said Bart van Rheenen about this last contract (in photo with).

IGEL’s range of Universal Desktop thin and zero clients, based on Linux and Microsoft Windows, allows customers to access a broad spectrum of server-based infrastructures and applications. IGEL also offers powerful and intuitive management software for easy deployment and administration of thin clients throughout any size organization, as well as its Universal Desktop Converter 2 software that allows customers to migrate existing PC or old thin client hardware to a fully manageable IGEL thin client-like device.