SAN JOSE, CA — (Marketwired) — 05/15/13 — The winners of the Brocade Partner of the Year Awards were announced today, following the awards ceremony held in New Orleans. ® (NASDAQ: BRCD) recognized the highest levels of performance and ongoing commitment, professionalism, and passion shown by channel partners at the event, held during the Brocade Partner Summit, an exclusive event for American and Federal strategic channel partners.
The Award winners were selected on the basis of revenues, business performance, technical certification, proven innovation and dedication, and customer feedback. All nominated channel partners are members of the , a structured, simple to understand, and easy to engage with range of programs, designed to maximize partners- profits, increase their skill-sets and expertise, and help them secure new sales opportunities through comprehensive lead generation and marketing support.
The Brocade America-s and Federal Partner Summit 2013 was held in New Orleans, with the theme “Think Forward.” The theme represents how Brocade is driving forward with differentiated networking technologies, a transition to a channel-led GTM model, and creating opportunities for channel, especially in the data center and hosted environments. Presenters included Brocade CEO, Lloyd Carney, and special guest speaker Paul George from Corporate Visions Inc., who revealed breakthrough techniques for transforming sales pitches, to close more deals through differentiation and by challenging the status quo.
The Brocade Partner of the Year 2012 Award winners are:
Distributor of the Year: TechData
Federal Distributor of the Year: immix Group
Partner of the Year – Fast Start: Lynbrook
Partner of the Year – Growth: OnX Enterprise Solutions
Partner of the Year – Innovator: Vology
Federal Partner of the Year – Fast Start: GTRI
Federal Partner of the Year – Growth: Alliance Technology Group, LLC
Partner of the Year – Technical Excellence: Abacus Solutions
Partner of the Year – Campus networks: CDW
Partner of the Year – Ethernet fabrics: Red Sky Solutions
Federal Partner of the Year – Technical Excellence: Copper River IT
Federal Partner of the Year – Campus networks: Intelligent Decisions, Inc
Federal Partner of the Year – Ethernet fabrics: Swish Data Corporation
Partner of the Year – Canada: Metafore
Innovator of the Year – Canada: Scalar
Partner of the Year – Mexico and Central America and Caribbean: Datatell
Innovator of the Year – Mexico and CACE: Vanume
Partner of the Year – Spanish-speaking America and Brazil: Vernet
Innovator of the Year – SSA and Brazil: Servix Informatica Ltda
“Brocade has enjoyed a year of great success, but we couldn-t have achieved this without the hard work and dedication of our channel partners,” explained Laurie Potratz, senior director Americas channel sales at Brocade. “They bring the expertise, insight, and knowledge needed to help customers reap the real rewards from Brocade technology, and have shown amazing levels of commitment, determination, and innovation in taking the Brocade message of easy-to-manage, easy-to-deploy, future-proof, scalable yet resilient networks to a wider audience.”
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