Channel Awards 2021 - SHORTLIST OUT TODAY!

Congratulations to all those who have made the shortlist - it has not only been a record year for entries, but also the standard of many entries is the highest the judges have ever seen

CRN is delighted to reveal the 2021 shortlist below:

Vendor Shortlist:

Datacentre Vendor of the Year

Cohesity

Lenovo

Pure Storage

Rubrik

Vertiv

Security Vendor of the Year

Deep Instinct

Egress Human Layer Security

F-Secure

HP Inc

Illumio

KnowBe4

Lookout

Mimecast

Netwrix

One Identity by Quest

Palo Alto Networks

Progress

Rubrik

Webroot + Carbonite OpenText Business Solutions

Specialist Vendor of the Year

3CX

Hp Inc (Printer business)

Jabra

Progress

TP-Link UK

Cloud Services Vendor of the Year

8x8

AvePoint

Barracuda: Cloud-to-Cloud Backup

Epicor

Kong Inc

NetApp UK

Netskope

Tekton Billing

Emerging Vendor of the Year

Armis

Full Fibre

Ironscales

Menlo Secuirty

MYKI

Nebulon Inc

PSA/RMM Vendor of the Year

Datto

HP Inc

Best lockdown project/initiative

Corel Corporation

Epicor

Gamma

Getac

HP

Sage UK Channel Team

TP Link UK Ltd

Channel Chief of the Year (nominated by partners)

Vinod Chumber - VP of Global Channels, Kong

Marc Botham - VP of worldwide channel and alliances, Avast

Vendor of the Year - (please read to end of article)

AVEVA

HP

Lenovo

Pure Storage

Samsung UK

Sophos

Veeam

VMware

General Categories Shortlist

Channel Services Provider of the Year: Support (includes financial, recruitment and marketing)

AudPro

Blabbermouth Marketing

Digital Wholesale Solutions

Ice and a Slice

Robertson Sumner

Channel Services provider of the Year: Technical

Aditinet UK

Agilitas

Cloudmore

Comms-care

Glu Group

IPNetix

Park Place Technologies

Stock in the Channel

See next page for Distribution Shortlist...

Channel Awards 2021 - SHORTLIST OUT TODAY!

Congratulations to all those who have made the shortlist - it has not only been a record year for entries, but also the standard of many entries is the highest the judges have ever seen

Distributor Shortlist:

Cloud Distributor of the Year

Arrow

Distology

Giacom World Networks

QBS Software

Tech Data

Vuzion

Westcoast Cloud

Storage Distributor of the Year

Ethos Technology

Ingram Micro Cloud

Titan Data Solutions

Security Distributor of the Year

Arrow

E92plus

Exclusive Networks UK

Ingram Micro Security

Kite

Westcon Comstor

Tech Data

Networking/Comms Distributor of the Year

Tech Data

Westcon Comstor

Technology Incubator Award

Distology

Ignition Technology

Ingram Micro UK

Innovative Project Award

Comstor

Ingram Micro UK

Tech Data

Westcoast

Wavenet Wholesale

Distributor of the Year (sub £250m turnover) - (please read to end of article)

Ci Distribution

Distology

Ethos Technology

Giacom World Networks

M2M Direct

Midwich

VIP UK

Distributor of the Year (£251m+ turnover) - (please read to end of article)

Exclusive Networks UK

Ingram Micro UK

Nuvias Group

Tech Data

Westcoast

Westcon Comstor

See next page for the Reseller shortlist...

Channel Awards 2021 - SHORTLIST OUT TODAY!

Congratulations to all those who have made the shortlist - it has not only been a record year for entries, but also the standard of many entries is the highest the judges have ever seen

Reseller Shortlist:

Rising Star Award

ITHQ

Marathon Managed Services

Next Generation Security

North

Principle Networks

Valto IT Ltd

Public Sector VAR Award of the Year

Academia

Boxxe

FourNet

Softcat

Stone Group

XMA

SMB Reseller of the Year

Bam Boom Cloud

Cobweb Solutions

Epaton Ltd

Lily Comms

Sapphire Systems

Valto IT Limited

Corporate Reseller of the Year

Logicalis UK

EveryCloud

Insight UK

SHI Corporation UK

Softcat PLC

Transputec

Managed Services Provider (MSP) of the Year

FourNet

INFINITY IT Solutions

LMS Group

OryxAlign

Ramsac

SCC

Transputec

Cloud Services Provider of the Year

ANS Group

Creative ITC

EveryCloud

Transparity

PragmatiQ Solutions

Ultima

Virtuoso

MSSP of the Year

NormCyber

EveryCloud

Pentesec

Performanta

SHI Corporation UK

Tailor Made Technologies

Best lockdown project/initiative

Contrac IT

Creative ITC

Intelligent Servers

Jigsaw 24

Lily Comms

Computacenter

Transputec

Reseller of the Year - sub £100m turnover (please read to end of article)

Box.co.uk

Misco

Prodec Networks

Logicalis UK

Sapphire Systems

The 848 Group

Transputec

Reseller of the Year - £101m+ turnover (please read to end of article)

Jigsaw24

SCC

Softcat PLC

XMA

Editor's Choice Award

Outstanding Achievement Award - TO BE ANNOUNCED ON THE NIGHT

Once again, congratulations to all those who made the shortlist. It is no easy feat.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION: Those shortlisted in the 'big five' categories ONLY - Vendor of the Year, Distributor of the Year (sub £250m), Distributor of the Year (£251m+), Reseller of the Year (sub £100m) and Reseller of the Year (£101m+) will now be asked to submit a further short video for the judges to consider as outlined in the Ts&Cs (see point 19).

Due to ongoing Covid-related challenges, it has been decided that judging day in October will be virtual again this year, which means those that would normally be asked to attend in the afternoon for a face-to-face presentation to the judges, will now be asked to submit a short video instead.

We will be releasing some guidelines on the video very shortly - but it needs to be no longer than five minutes and really doesn't have to be anything overly complicated - the content of the video is going to be more important than the look. More to be revealed shortly.

We are also still planning for the awards to go ahead in physical form on 11 November, so again please do keep your eye on Channelweb for more information.