Ingram Micro's EMEA division acquires Spanish distribution company Areté Sistemas and its specialised solutions division, Arkenova.
Areté is Spain's HP value solutions market leader, while Arkenova specialises in Netapp, Symantec Enterprise solutions and Overland Storage. Through this move Ingram strengthens its position in Spain, as well as within the EMEA server and storage markets.
The 2 companies will be operate as a separate value division within Ingram's Spanish division.
The acquisition follows Ingram's other recent European purchases, including CCD (UK-based enterprise product distributor), Albora Soluciones (Spanish Citrix market leader) and InterAct (Belux Citrix distributor).
