CRN Channel Awards Germany 2024: Winners and nominees
22 distinguished IT channel firms and individuals each took home a gong at the very first CRN Channel Awards Germany
Last night, CRN welcomed more than 300 guests at the first edition of the Channel Awards Germany 2024 in Berlin.
The elegant ceremony saw lots of networking, entertainment and 22 beaming winners who received the highest score from the 20 jury members.
On Thursday, excitement in the hall ran high as CRN announced the winners out of a list of distinguished nominees across 22 categories, spanning vendors, distributors and solution providers.
The jury had a difficult job in this first edition of the awards, as in some cases, results from the shortlisting round were extremely close.
The jury took another close look at the applications, then the panel discussed the arguments that ultimately tipped the scales in favor of one of CRN' s coveted awards.
It was not the size of a company that was the deciding factor in winning a CRN award, but rather a sound application backed up by facts that clearly demonstrated the benefits of a solution for partners or an initiative.
It was therefore not uncommon for medium-sized companies - distributors, vendors or IT service providers - to prevail against industry giants or US-headquartered technology groups.
Read on for a full list of winners.
Vendor categories
Channel Chief of the Year
WINNER: Hartmut Husemann, HP
Nominees
Hendrik Flierman, G DATA CyberDefence
Oliver Gorges, IT Scope
René Hofmann, Securepoint
Tim Kartali, IONOS
Marco Kuhn, bb-net
Katja Neumann, Vertiv
Peter Neumeier, ESET
Jens Pälmer, CrowdStrike
Bernd Rischer, Kyocera Document Solutions
Gerry Steinberger, HPE
Lynn Vollmert, Huawei
Cloud Services Provider of the Year
WINNER: CloudBlue
Nominees
Enreach
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
IONOS
OVH Cloud
Plusserver
Emerging Vendor of the Year
WINNER: Unicon
Nominees
ITQ
Hardware & Peripheral Manufacturer of the Year
WINNER: Jabra – GN Audio Germany
Nominees
Acer
EPOS
HP
Kyocera Document Solutions
Schneider Electric
Vendor of the Year 2024
WINNER: HP
Nominees
Fujitsu
IBM
Lenovo
Infrastructure and storage vendor of the year
WINNER: Pure Storage
Nominees
Dell Technologies
Huawei
Infinidat
OVH Cloud
Scale Computing
Vertiv
Security vendor of the year 2024
WINNER: CrowdStrike
Nominees
Acronis
ESET Germany
Enginsight
F5
IBM
OpenText Cybersecurity
Securepoint
Sophos
Trend Micro
WatchGuard Technologies
Software vendor of the year 2024
WINNER: Aagon
Nominees
Apollon
AvePoint
c-entron Software
DocuWare
ITscope
N-able
NinjaOne
SOTI
TeamViewer
Distributor categories
Cloud distributor of the year
WINNER: ADN Distribution
Nominees
Aconitas
Pax8
Distributor of the year
WINNER: Herweck AG
Nominees
SOS Software
Westcon-Comstor
Most innovative distributor of the year 2024
WINNER: Ingram Micro
Nominees
Aconitas
ALSO
Siewert&Kau
Synaxon
Vanquish
Security Distributor of the Year
WINNER: Infinigate
Nominees
Aconitas
BOLL
Sysob
Solution provider/system house categories
Cloud Solution Provider of the Year 2024
WINNER: ITscope
Nominees
q.beyond
plugilo
IT Cooperation of the Year 2024
WINNER: Synaxon
Nominees
ALSO Network (ANW)
CPN Cooperation Network
ITleague
MSP of the Year
WINNER: Noris Network
Nominees
MR Datentechnik
Schneider+Wulf
MSSP/Security of the Year
WINNER: Bechtle
Nominees
Gemakom
Helmich IT-Security
pco
Schneider+Wulf
Synaxon
CRN Channel Award for the Rising Star of the Year
WINNER: Kloud Klickers
Nominees
Connexta
Solution provider/system house of the year 2024
WINNER: netgo
Nominees
Albacon
Axians
Bechtle
EDV-Partner
Kutzschbach
Mahr EDV
System AG
@data
Cross-category awards
Best ESG project in 2024
WINNER: FOX Group
Nominees
bb-net
Bechtle
Boston Server & Storage Solutions
Pure Storage
Seagate
TD SYNNEX
Vertiv
Best AI initiative of the year 2024
WINNER: Bechtle
Nominees
Dell Technologies
Enreach
ITleague
Juniper Networks
Netgo
TD SYNNEX
Start-up of the year 2024
WINNER: PRW Legal Tech
Nominees
Pioneerdesk
SPOO Group
Best young professional initiative of the year
WINNER: Bechtle
Nominees
Factor X
Hyrise
MR Datentechnik