Red Hat Honors 2016 North American Partner Award Winners

Award recipients recognized for delivering innovative open source solutions

LAS VEGAS – 2017 RED HAT NORTH AMERICA PARTNER CONFERENCE -

Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the winners of its 2016 Red Hat North America Partner Awards. The winners were recognized at Red Hat’s 2017 North America Partner Conference, which concluded today in Las Vegas.  

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An integral part of Red Hat’s success is the efforts our partners bring to our technologies and services to our customers. It is inspiring to see the innovation and customer successes being driven by our ecosystem, and we are thrilled to be able to congratulate and thank them through the North American Partner Awards. Congratulations to all of this year’s recipients and we look forward to working with all of our partners to continue to help companies embrace innovation and transform and modernize their approaches to IT with open source solutions.

Mark Enzweiler

senior vice president, Global Channel Sales and Alliances, Red Hat

The awards honor Red Hat commercial and public sector partners for developing innovative solutions to meet customer needs and business challenges. The honorees were recognized for impressive solutions in several categories that span Red Hat’s open source portfolio and their dedication to delivering customer success.

The winners of the 2016 Red Hat North America Partner Awards are:

DMR Partner of the Year

Honoring a Red Hat partner that is national in scope and provides a wide variety of solutions within the corporate, enterprise, midmarket and SMB market space.

  • Insight Enterprises, Inc.

Canadian Partner of the Year

Honoring a Canadian Red Hat partner that has experienced the greatest growth and had the most significant impact on Red Hat’s business in Canada.

  • Arctiq

System Integrator Partner of the Year

Honoring Red Hat partners whose system integrator capabilities have enabled enterprise integration of Red Hat solutions.

  • Commercial: IBM Global Services

  • Public Sector: Science Applications International Corporation

US Partner of the Year

Honoring the US-based Red Hat partners that have experienced the greatest growth and had the most significant impact on Red Hat’s business in the US.

  • Commercial: Tata Consultancy Services

  • Public Sector: Emergent, LLC

Cloud Solution Partner of the Year

Honoring a Red Hat partner with full services and/or support capabilities that had the greatest impact on Red Hat's Cloud Solutions/Portfolio Business.

  • Accenture

Cloud Partner of the Year

Honoring a partner whose collaboration has enabled exceptional cloud adoption for Red Hat.

  • Commercial: Amazon Web Services

  • Public Sector: DLT Solutions

Distributor of the Year

Honoring partners whose distributorships enabled exceptional sales growth of Red Hat solutions.

  • Commercial: SYNNEX Corporation

  • Public Sector: Carahsoft Technology Corporation

Industry Solution Partner of the Year

Honoring a Red Hat partner who has significantly impacted the industry with Red Hat solutions.

  • NetApp

Innovation Partner of the Year

Honoring a Red Hat partner whose collaboration with Red Hat has enabled innovative opportunities over the past year.

  • Forsythe Technology

Rising Star Partner of the Year

Honoring Red Hat partners whose collaboration with Red Hat has enabled exceptional growth over the past year.

  • Commercial: Connection

  • Public Sector: immixGroup

Middleware Partner of the Year

Honoring Red Hat partners with specific middleware capabilities that had the greatest impact on Red Hat's Middleware Business.

  • Commercial: Shadow-Soft

  • Public Sector: Emergent, LLC

Security Partner of the Year

Honoring a Red Hat public sector partner who has driven the adoption of a broad set of Red Hat products as part of a platform/solution designed for greater security.

  • August Schell

Canada Collaboration Partner of The Year

Honoring a Red Hat Canada Alliance Partner who demonstrates a high level of collaboration in delivering success to our clients.

  • Microsoft Canada

Supporting Quote

Mark Enzweiler, senior vice president, Global Channel Sales and Alliances, Red Hat

“An integral part of Red Hat’s success is the efforts our partners bring to our technologies and services to our customers. It is inspiring to see the innovation and customer successes being driven by our ecosystem, and we are thrilled to be able to congratulate and thank them through the North American Partner Awards. Congratulations to all of this year’s recipients and we look forward to working with all of our partners to continue to help companies embrace innovation and transform and modernize their approaches to IT with open source solutions.”

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