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Ingram Micro longtime services chief departs

Barbara Darrow, Senior News Director
IT channel news in brief for June 21, 2010

Crotty exits Ingram Micro

Ingram Micro, Inc., which has been trying hard to build an IT services juggernaut, is losing the chief architect of that effort as Justin Crotty departs

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to become senior vice president and general manager of NetEnrich, Inc.

Crotty joined Ingram Micro, the largest broad line IT distributor, nine years ago and built a 30-person services division. He has been a loud booster of the channel's role in cloud computing -- and spearheaded Ingram Micro's seismic effort to facilitate that role.

Crotty was the second executive to depart Ingram Micro last week. Last Monday, the company disclosed that Alain Monie resigned as president and COO.

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The products support NAS and iSCSI protocols, and run in Windows, Mac and Linux operating environments.

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