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D&H Distributing, the major North American computer products and consumer electronics distributor, announces it will hold its 2010 West Coast Technology event on March 4 at the Palms Hotel and Conference Center, Industry Hills, CA. The show will be marked by a festive "Go Green" Aisle, with plans to spotlight up to ten vendors showing as many as 40 ecologically-conservative products and solutions (estimated at press time). Although vendors are still being assembled for this section, D&H is considering products such as energy-saving notebooks, low-energy hard drives, e-readers that conserve paper pages, "green" printers, document imaging equipment and more for this exhibit.

Registration is free to D&H customers, and will begin at 9:00 a.m., with the first of four seminars starting at 1:30 p.m. and the exhibit floor opening at 4:00 p.m. Seminars will be offered from industry heavy-hitters Cisco, Microsoft, Intel and HP. Nearly 600 reseller attendees and approximately 60 manufacturers are predicted to attend.

One lucky reseller attendee at the West Coast Show will win the "Passport" Prize of the day, a gas-saving Vespa S 150 scooter (or similar model) with an approximate value of more than $4,000. In order to qualify for the Vespa prize, attendees must visit all the vendors in the Go Green Aisle as part of the show's "Passport" program. Other prizes will be awarded during the event, including a Lenovo IdeaPad Y550 notebook and an IdeaPad S10 netbook.

The Green exhibit is a complement to D&H's new Earth Day 40th Anniversary Promotion, which runs until April 16, during which time resellers who buy at least 40 eco-friendly products can qualify to win a Toyota Prius.

Beyond the manufacturers mentioned above, leading vendors on both the IT and CE side such as Acer, Kodak, Linksys, LG, NETGEAR, NVIDIA, Ricoh, Samsung, Seagate, Symantec, ViewSonic, and Western Digital will be in attendance at the show, along with experts at the D&H Server Solutions booth.

"We expect the Go Green Aisle to really get VARs motivated. It's a lively and yet very practical addition to the show," said Mary Campbell, vice president of marketing at D&H Distributing. "We take the issue of environmental responsibility to heart at D&H, not just ‘talking the talk,' but actually providing a framework of incentives and product knowledge that can help resellers get out there and market these solutions. This show is a great opportunity to physically illustrate that for our customers."

The 2010 West Coast Technology Show Agenda is as follows:

• 9:00 a.m.: Registration opens
• 1:30 – 2:30 p.m.: Manage Your Customers, Manage Your Profits: Intel System Management Opportunities
• 2:45 – 3:45 p.m.: Growing Real Profits with Microsoft Virtualization: Maximize Your Customer's Hardware Investment With Minimal Effort and Expense
• 4:00 p.m.: Exhibits Open
• 4:30 – 5:00 p.m.: New Cisco SMB Product Line-up
• 5:15 – 5:45 p.m.: HP Solution Stack
• 9:00 p.m.: Exhibits Close

About D&H Distributing
As the nation's leading technology distributor, D&H provides a wealth of resources to empower solution providers and consultants, delivering a broad selection of SMB categories, products and applications. The company's offerings span server and infrastructure, SOHO and mobile applications, consumer electronics and gaming. D&H's multi-market expertise, account-dedicated sales teams, sterling service and flexible financing options are unmatched in the industry.

With an impressive 92-year history serving as a trusted advisor to the reseller channel, D&H has been able to consistently reinvent itself based upon changing market conditions. The company prides itself on creating business partnerships with an astute focus on ease-of-doing-business, relationships, value, performance and service.

D&H has been named the Cisco Small Business Distributor of the Year, won the Microsoft Licensing Operational Excellence Award six years running, and was recently named Microsoft's OEM Distributor of the Year. The company ships out of five separate locations in North America, including its US headquarters in Harrisburg and its Canadian headquarters in Mississauga, Ontario. For more information visit www.dandh.com.

SOURCE: D&H Distributing