CNT BRAZIL - Distribution and Training
Founded in 1994 in São Paulo (SP), Value Added Distributor of CNT Brazil is one of the main solutions for the country's Cloud Computing and Virtualization. The company serves the entire country based on four areas: Networks and Connectivity, Security, Virtualization and Storage. It also has another business unit that is specialized on training, the CNT Training.
The company has an annual average growth since it´s foundation, around 35%. Last year, the company has been positioned as the largest Value Added Distributor around the country, which distributes several solutions. Its revenue is represented by approximately 50% hardware and 50 % software.
The company has the following brands at its portfolio:
In Infrastructure Networks: HP Networking, 3Com, (solutions secure, converged voice and data) and D-Link (connectivity, networking and data communication) TRENDnet (network infrastructure), Axis (IP cameras); Digifort (solutions management of IP cameras and analog) and Seventh (Monitoring Software and security).
In Virtualization: Citrix (access on-demand solutions for virtualization, resource management and security), VMWare (virtualization infrastructure) Wyse (Thin Computing platform and desktop virtualization) and ThinPrint (management and optimization-based print software).
Security: Trend Micro (secure content and threat management) and McAfee (secure content and threat management).
In Storage: NetApp (storage and data management and virtualization projects.)
CNT Brazil has the distinction of personalized service and partner qualification through its training unit. The company is headquartered in Sao Paulo (SP) and has units in Miami (USA), Itatiaia (RJ) and São José dos Campos (SP), totaling 130 employees. The distributor has over 10 000 sales outlets and 25 000 active listings - these partners are distributed strategically in order to cover the entire national territory.
The distributor has two business divisions, one volume, which represents greater capillarity of the company, and the other, projects, which accounts for roughly 70% of its revenues. The company has a specialized team to support the area, pre-and post-sales, given only to authorized dealers.
CNT Training, an arm of the group, acts much aligned with the distributor, offering training and certification to both business partners and distributors to end customers. This area is recognized as the Center Authorized Prometric and VUE (Virtual Private University), and Citrix, VMware, Wyse and others, which allows the students to obtain their certification with international validity.
Among the awards received by the CNT in Brazil: 6 times recognized as the largest distributor of Citrix Latin America; best distributor in the Americas (2009), VMware; distributor with better sales performance NetApp in 2009, Best Value Added Distributor (VAD ) of Brazil in 2008 and 2009 by CRN magazine, a publication which in 2010 granted the company the title of best company for Lead Generation and better in Training / Certification.