Nearly every company finds itself in the midst of some form of digital transformation today. From the cloud to mobile to IoT and beyond, businesses are disrupting and being disrupted at an incredible pace. We believe that applications are at the core of this disruption. They are the most valuable asset of the modern enterprise and, increasingly, the point of greatest risk. For companies to succeed today, they need to modernize both their applications and infrastructures—or services—that ensure the availability, performance, and security of their application portfolio.
This is the era of Application Capital, and we see our mission to deliver the broadest and deepest portfolio of multi-cloud application services in the industry, with the most flexible consumption and multi-cloud deployment options, backed by world-class support. This is a big mission and not one we can accomplish solely on our own, which is why we rely so heavily on our channel partners. These companies are with us every day combining our solutions and with their knowledge to help solve the toughest problems our customers face and ensure their success.
Through the F5 UNITY Partner Program, we work with a broad set of value-added resellers, service providers, and distributors providing training, solutions and support that allow them to extend F5’s value to our customers. We recently had the opportunity to bring together our North America partner community and celebrate their contributions and recognize the 2018 Partners of the Year.
This year, we changed our North America partner awards to better reflect our strategy and mission as a company. From transformation to innovation to philanthropy, our 2018 Partners of the Year all uphold core F5 values. We are pleased to honor these exceptional partners:
- North America Partner of the Year: World Wide Technology
Honoring the top F5 partner of the year - Global System Integrator of the Year: Rackspace
Honoring the F5 GSI partner that has demonstrated a high level of collaboration in delivering success to our clients - Transformation Partner of the Year: CompuNet, Inc.
Honoring the F5 partner who is in alignment with F5’s multi-cloud and software strategy - Innovation Partner of the Year: Arctiq Inc.
Honoring F5 partner who developed a uniquely tailored offering to help customers solve emerging problems w/F5 solutions - Distributor of the Year: Ingram Micro
Honoring F5 Distributor partner who has enabled exceptional sales growth of F5 solutions - Federal Partner of the Year: Carahsoft
Honoring F5 partner who delivered the great value to our federal government customers - Be F5 Community Service Partner of the Year: Insight
Honoring the F5 partner whose company exemplifies the F5 values promoting Diversity & Inclusion within their company and supports initiatives within their community to make the world a better place
Congratulations to all this year’s winners and a huge Thank You to all our F5 UNITY Partners!
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