Channel Awards 2018 - SHORTLIST

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The first judging day took place in August and we are delighted to announce the 2018 shortlist.

CRN is very pleased to announce the 2018 shortlist. 

All shortlisted entries will now go through a further judging process by another panel of judges on 11 October. 

PLEASE NOTE: if you are shortlist for any of the following: Reseller of the Year (sub £50m), Reseller of the Year (£51m+), Distributor of the Year (sub £200m), Distributor of the Year (£200m+) or Vendor of the year, you will be required to send a senior member of your management team for a 10-minute presentation in front of the judging panel on 11 October in central London. More details to follow. 

Congratulations to all those that made it this year, competition was very tough. 

 

2018 SHORTLIST:

Vendor Shortlist

 

Security Vendor of the Year

AlienVault

BullGuard   

Egress Software Technologies

Mimecast

Pulse Secure

WatchGuard Technologies

Malwarebytes

Sophos

 

Vendor Innovation award

Dell EMC

Epson UK

HP

Logitech

Pure Storage

Rubrik

Riverbed Technology

Thoughtonomy

Virtual1 ltd

Vodafone UK

 

Cloud Services Vendor of the Year

CloudHealth Technologies

Citrix

Exclaimer

Exponential-e

Gemalto

Red Hat

StorageCraft

TeleWare Group Plc

VMware

 

Channel Chief of the Year (nominated by partners)

John Glendenning, SVP Sales and Business Development for StorMagic

Chris Ross, SVP international sales at Barracuda 

Neil Sawyer - Commercial Channel & Education Director (UK&I) HP Inc

 

Channel Service Provider of the Year 

Agilitas IT Solutions

Boost Technology Group

Comms-care

Company 85

Daisy Wholesale

Perspicuity Ltd     

Robertson Sumner

Stock in the Channel

Synaxon UK Ltd

 

Emerging Vendor of the Year  

Cohesity

Duo Security

Quest

Exclaimer

Ivanti

LiveTiles

Thycotic

TelcoSwitch Ltd

 

Datacentre Vendor of the Year

Cisco

Equinix

Juniper Networks Inc

Pure Storage

Scality

Spectra Logic

 

Specialist Vendor of the Year  

Datto

Entanet International

Getac UK Ltd

Jabra

Kyocera Document Solutions UK

 

Vendor of the Year       

Cisco

Dell EMC

HP Inc

Lenovo

Ruckus Networks             

TalkTalk Business

Sophos

Virtual1 Ltd           

 

See Next Page for Distributor shortlist...

 

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