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Sophos Receives Multiple Top Honors in CRN 2014 Annual Report Card
Thursday, August 28, 2014Company Profile | Follow Company
Sophos office in downtown Vancouver (580 Granville Street)
Vancouver, BC, August 28, 2014--(T-Net)--Sophos today announced it has taken the highest awards in the CRN 2014 Annual Report Card (ARC).
The company was named overall winner in the Client Security Software and Network Security Appliances categories and swept the subcategories of product innovation, support and partnership.
It is the first time in the history of the ARC that a company has swept both awards. For nearly three decades, this distinguished study has served as a benchmark for excellence throughout the IT channel, recognizing the technology vendors most highly praised by their solution provider partners, according to the company.
Honorees were selected based on the results of an in-depth survey by The Channel Company's research team. More than 2,500 solution providers were asked to evaluate their satisfaction with 81 vendor partners on each of the 18 criteria in terms of product innovation, support and partnership. The winners were honored by CRN, the top news source for solution providers and the IT channel, on Aug. 19 at The Channel Company's XChange conference in San Antonio. To view the results of the study as well as the list of this year's ARC honorees, visit www.crn.com.
“IT today is about solving business problems, and it requires more than just stellar products. Solution providers are looking for vendor partners that embrace the IT channel, working with them hand-in-hand to meet their customers' needs,” said Robert Faletra, CEO of The Channel Company, publisher of CRN. “CRN's Annual Report Card is the definitive word on who those vendors are, coming straight from the solution providers themselves. The ARC has been recognizing the vendors that deliver their solutions through the channel in the most effective ways for 29 years, and we congratulate Sophos as one of 2014's top honorees.”
“It's an honor to sweep these important security categories,” said Michael Valentine, senior vice president, worldwide sales, Sophos. “At Sophos, 100 percent of our focus is on the channel. These awards are a testament to the trust of our partners, the strength of our solutions, and the investment that we continue to make in our partner organization. We are excited for the future as we continue to innovate to make security simple to manage, deploy and use.”
About The Channel Company
The Channel Company is the channel community's trusted authority for growth and innovation, with established brands including CRN, XChange Events, IPED, and SharedVue. For more than three decades, we have leveraged our proven and leading-edge platforms to deliver prescriptive sales and marketing solutions for the technology channel. The Channel Company provides Communication, Recruitment, Engagement, Enablement, Demand Generation and Intelligence services to drive technology partnerships. Learn more at www.thechannelcompany.com.
About Sophos
More than 100 million users in 150 countries rely on Sophos as the best protection against complex threats and data loss. Sophos is committed to providing complete security solutions that are simple to deploy, manage, and use that deliver the industry's lowest total cost of ownership. Sophos offers award winning encryption, endpoint security, web, email, mobile and network security backed by SophosLabs - a global network of threat intelligence centers. Sophos is headquartered in Boston, US and Oxford, UK with a major facility in Vancouver, BC.
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Editor's Note: One of Sophos' three main facilities in North America is located in downtown Vancouver at 580 Granville Street. Sophos had earlier acquired Vancouver's ActiveState in 2003 for a reported $23 million in cash (see note below regarding ActiveState).
ActiveState is now a Canadian software company headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia that develops, sells, and supports cross-platform development tools for dynamic languages such as Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, and Tcl, as well as language distributions and enterprise services. The company is now owned by its employees and Pender Financial Group, an investment company focused on technology and healthcare sectors in British Columbia, after briefly being a division of Sophos.)
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