Three Steps Ahead: CRN's 2017 Triple Crown Award Winners
Three Cheers
Technological prowess in leading-edge IT, combined with the deepest of customer support and service, are the common elements among the solution pro­viders on this year's CRN Triple Crown Award list.
Throughout the year, CRN assembles a number of lists and rankings, including the Solution Provider 500 list of the largest solution providers in North America according to revenue; the Fast Growth 150, which ranks the fastest-growing solution pro­viders; and the Tech Elite 250 solution providers with the highest level of certifications from leading IT vendors.
Making any one of those lists is quite an achievement. Making all three deserves a special round of applause. This year there are 40 solution providers that accomplished that in our fourth annual CRN Triple Crown honors, with 11 making an encore appearance from 2016 and a few making the award list for the third time.
2nd Watch
Top Executive: Doug Schneider, CEO
Location: Seattle
2nd Watch is an AWS managed cloud ser­vice provider delivering digital marketing, business applications and big data analyt­ics to customers in the financial services, insurance, life sciences, consumer pack­aged goods, media and entertainment, and retail verticals.
2017 SP 500 Rank: No. 336
2017 Fast Growth Rank: No. 29
Access Technologies
Top Executive: Shane Sloan, President
Location: Waukee, Iowa
Keeping offices connected is the mantra at Access Technologies, which provides IT so­lutions, managed services, phone systems, copiers and printers, and related services and support to customers across Iowa and in Omaha. It is a Microsoft Gold partner and Sharp Platinum service provider.
2017 SP 500 Rank: No. 409
2017 Fast Growth Rank: No. 131
Adapture
Top Executive: Robert Pastor, President
Location: Atlanta
Adapture provides security, cloud, server, storage, networking and virtualization solutions to entities in the public sector, health-care, retail, manufacturing, energy, finance and entertainment verticals. The company has certifications in cloud solu­tions architecture, security consulting, and infrastructure and network design services.
2017 SP 500 Rank: No. 421
2017 Fast Growth Rank: No. 27
Advanced Computer Concepts
Top Executive: Reza Zarafshar, President
Location: McLean, Va.
ACC touts itself as a "total IT solution pro­vider" with data center, cybersecurity, col­laboration, cloud, networking and audio-visual solutions and a range of professional, managed, and system deployment and inte­gration services. Partners include Dell, HPE, VMware, Microsoft, Symantec and Polycom.
2017 SP 500 Rank: No. 128
2017 Fast Growth Rank: No. 111
Triple Crown Winner 2016, 2015
Advanced Network Management
Top Executive: Maninder Mann, President
Location: Albuquerque, N.M.
ANM has evolved into a major Mountain region/Western IT player thanks to strong relationships with vendors like Cisco, VM­ware and Dell EMC. ANM provides IT help desk, managed security, RMM, NOC and managed storage services, among other capabilities.
2017 SP 500 Rank: No. 330
2017 Fast Growth Rank: No. 16
AEC Group
Top Executive: Cathy Mary, President
Location: McKeesport, Pa.
AEC provides strategic consulting in data center, cloud, telecommunications and mobility. But it also offers a range of facili­ties services, helping businesses plan and manage the construction and renovation of data center. AEC is one of seven solution providers that make up the M7 Global Part­ners collaborative venture.
2017 SP 500 Rank: No. 362
2017 Fast Growth Rank: No. 124
Aqueduct Technologies
Top Executive: Manak Ahluwalia, CEO
Location: Waltham, Mass.
Aqueduct's lineup of offerings includes IT assessment and professional services, cloud services such as security- and backup-as-a-service, and IT solutions for data centers, networking, security and collaboration. The company is closely aligned with Cisco, holding ranks of Cisco Gold Partner, Master Cloud Builder and Master Security Partner.
2017 SP 500 Rank: No. 392
2017 Fast Growth Rank: No. 79
BlueAlly
Top Executive: Vijay Tanamala, CEO
Location: Vienna, Va.
BlueAlly is a prime source of managed IT services for large and small customers, in­cluding managed security and converged infrastructure management, IT staffing and IT infrastructure optimization. The com­pany has more than 700 customer engage­ments globally and its top vendor partners include HP Inc., Riverbed and ServiceNow.
2017 SP 500 Rank: No. 159
2017 Fast Growth Rank: No. 52
BlueBridge Networks
Top Executive: Kevin Goodman, Managing Director, Partner
Location: Cleveland
BlueBridge provides customers with cloud computing, data center and IT infrastruc­ture solutions and services. The long list of data center offerings includes implementa­tion services and data center optimization, managed security and storage, virtualiza­tion, disaster recovery, hosting, networking and "green" data center services. APC by Schneider Electric is a strategic partner.
2017 SP 500 Rank: No. 447
2017 Fast Growth Rank: No. 125
Burwood Group
Top Executive: Mark Theoharous, CEO
Location: Chicago
Burwood Group focuses on bridging the gap between business strategy and IT solutions, particularly in health care, financial servic­es and education. It provides expertise in IT automation, security, connected workspac­es, and customer engagement. Burwood Group was the 2016 North America Citrix Solution Advisor Partner of the Year.
20017 SP 500 Rank: No. 192
2017 Fast Growth Rank: No. 86
Triple Crown Winner 2016
Business IT Source
Top Executive: Daniel Frauenheim, President
Location: Vernon Hills, Ill.
Business IT Source supplies companies with IT products, customized solutions and services. It also offers data center design, consolidation and implementation; system configuration; and server and storage sys­tem deployment.
2017 SP 500 Rank: No. 270
2017 Fast Growth Rank: No. 114
Triple Crown Winner 2016
Cal Net Technology Group
Top Executive: James Hwang, CEO
Location: Chatsworth, Calif.
Cal Net is a top provider of IT managed and professional services in Southern Cali­fornia, including public and private cloud solutions such as Microsoft Office 365 and desktop- and Infrastructure-as-a-Service. It has partnerships with Microsoft, HPE, Dell, VMware, Datto and Palo Alto Networks.
2017 SP 500 Rank: No. 402
2017 Fast Growth Rank: No. 133
Comm Solutions
Top Executive: Paul Black, CEO
Location: Malvern, Pa.
Comm Solutions was a premier regional provider of enterprise-level security and networking technology, services and solutions. It was acquired earlier this year by Optiv Security.
2017 SP 500 Rank: No. 217
2017 Fast Growth Rank: No. 137
Triple Crown Winner 2016, 2015
Coretelligent
Top Executive: Kevin Routhier, Founder, CEO
Location: Westwood, Mass.
Coretelligent provides comprehensive man­aged IT and private cloud services to small and midsize customers in the financial ser­vices, life sciences and technology vertical industries. The company works with Cisco, Dell, Microsoft, Kaspersky Lab and Sophos.
2017 SP 500 Rank: No. 476
2017 Fast Growth Rank: No. 34
CorpInfo
Top Executive: Michael Sabourian, President
Location: Santa Monica, Calif.
To put CorpInfo's growth into perspective, the AWS premier consulting and managed services partner went from unranked to No. 350 on the 2017 CRN SP 500 in just two years. In June CorpInfo achieved Service Delivery Partner status for Amazon Redshift and became one of the first seven companies to earn AWS Storage Competency status.
2017 SP 500 Rank: No. 350
2017 Fast Growth Rank: No. 21
Datapipe
Top Executive: Robb Allen, Founder, CEO
Location: Jersey City, N.J.
Datapipe operates data centers in the Amer­icas, Europe and Asia, offering a range of public and hosted private cloud services, as well as cloud assessment, road-map de­sign and migration services. The company works closely with AWS and Microsoft Azure and was the 2017 Dell EMC Americas Ser­vice Provider Partner of the Year.
2017 SP 500 Rank: No. 95
2017 Fast Growth Rank: No. 67
DH Technologies
Top Executive: Devin Henderson, CEO
Location: Leesburg, Va.
When DH Technologies launched in 2013 it built its strategy around emerging technolo­gies and the disruptive vendors developing them, such as Nutanix. Specializations in­clude security, private clouds, virtualization and virtual desktops, hyper-converged plat­forms, data center consolidation and migra­tion, and software-defined networking.
2017 SP 500 Rank: No. 407
2017 Fast Growth Rank: No. 24
Epic A Bell MTS Company
Top Executive: Ryan Klassen, VP, Business Solutions (Bell MTS) and GM (Epic a Bell MTS Company)
Location: Winnipeg, Manitoba
Epic has operated as an independent sub­sidiary since Manitoba Telecom Services (Bell MTS) acquired the company in 2013. Epic provides expertise in managed, cloud and professional services and is proficient in hardware and software consulting, pro­curement and implementation.
2017 SP 500 Rank: No. 380
2017 Fast Growth Rank: No. 15
Triple Crown Winner 2016
Gotham Technology Group
Top Executive: Ira Silverman, CEO
Location: Montvale, N.J.
Gotham is a top IT consulting services com­pany in the Connecticut-Philadelphia region providing professional services, managed services and solutions in data center, server and desktop infrastructure, virtualization, cybersecurity and more. Among its partners are Citrix, VMware, Splunk, Check Point and AppSense.
2017 SP 500 Rank: No. 188
2017 Fast Growth Rank: No. 107
GuidePoint Security
Top Executive: Michael Volk, Founder, Managing Partner
Location: Herndon, Va.
GuidePoint is a cybersecurity solution and services provider with strong footing in the commercial and federal sectors. It has part­nerships with most major security vendors and holds technical certifications from ven­dors including AWS, Cisco, Google, HPE, IBM, Intel and Microsoft.
2017 SP 500 Rank: No. 134
2017 Fast Growth Rank: No. 46
Impact Networking
Top Executive: Frank Cucco, CEO
Location: Lake Forest, Ill.
Impact has expanded far beyond its office equipment supplier roots and today calls it­self the leading provider of business process optimization in the Midwest. Impact's offered solutions cover BPO, print and document management, branding and marketing, and managed IT and cloud services.
2017 SP 500 Rank: No. 271
2017 Fast Growth Rank: No. 83
JDL Technologies
Top Executive: Scott Fluegge, President, GM
Location: Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
JDL provides managed services, cloud services and IT solutions to businesses, health-care organizations and educational institutions. JDL was ranked among the top 100 security-focused MSPs on the 2017 CRN MSP 500 with its Security FastTrack flagship service. HPE, Citrix, 3CX and Aerohive are key partners.
2017 SP 500 Rank: No. 492
2017 Fast Growth Rank: No. 60
Marco
Top Executive: Jeff Gau, CEO
Location: Saint Cloud, Minn.
Marco, which got started as a typewriter shop in 1973, has grown into a leading solu­tion provider with expertise in data, voice, video and print systems. The company's so­lution offerings include cloud and managed IT, networking and telecommunications, data center, security, storage, and backup and disaster recovery services.
2017 SP 500 Rank: No. 94
2017 Fast Growth Rank: No. 132
Triple Crown Winner 2016
Mobius Partners
Top Executive: Junab Ali II and Jay Uribe, Co-Founders
Location: San Antonio
Mobius focuses on providing transforma­tional, best-of-breed technology and servic­es for large enterprises, particularly in cloud integration, converged systems, security, big data and operational excellence. Mobius is a Hewlett Packard Enterprise Platinum part­ner in software and hardware.
2017 SP 500 Rank: No. 344
2017 Fast Growth Rank: No. 115
Myriad Supply
Top Executive: Andrew Fisher, CEO
Location: New York
Myriad offers a range of cloud, connectiv­ity, data center, voice, logistics, managed and professional services and an equally broad range of IT products; from servers and storage, to routers and switches and more. Cisco, EMC, Juniper, APC by Schnei­der Electric and Brocade are key partners.
2017 SP 500 Rank: No. 182
2017 Fast Growth Rank: No. 64
Triple Crown Winner 2016
N2Grate
Top Executive: Steve Halligan, President, COO
Location: Greenbelt, Md.
n2grate offers infrastructure assessment, virtualization, project management, virtual desktop, end-user training, staffing, cloud and co-location solutions for the federal government, the public sector and large businesses. It works closely with Cisco, Dell, EMC, HP., IBM, Microsoft and VM­ware.
2017 SP 500 Rank: No. 281
2017 Fast Growth Rank: No. 20
Now Micro
Top Executive: Will Teevan, Vice President
Location: Saint Paul, Minn.
Now Micro specializes in device life-cycle management, providing consulting servic­es, systems and configuration management software, and digital media players and embedded devices for application-specific solutions. Key vendor partners include Dell, Lenovo, Microsoft, HP and Intel.
2017 SP 500 Rank: No. 353
2017 Fast Growth Rank: No. 144
PCM
Top Executive: Frank Khulusi, Chairman, CEO
Location: El Segundo, Calif.
PCM offers an extensive lineup of data center, cloud, networking and end-user solutions and managed services. The com­pany also provides solutions built around Microsoft and SAP products and in July was named HPE's North American SMB Partner of the Year.
2017 SP 500 Rank: No. 25
2017 Fast Growth Rank: No. 88
PKA Technologies
Top Executive: Felise Katz, CEO
Location: Suffern, N.Y.
PKA supplies IT services and products to Fortune 500 and smaller companies and the public sector. Solutions cover security, serv­ers and high-performance computing, big data analytics, enterprise storage and soft­ware, cloud services, virtualization, wire­less, and data protection/disaster recovery.
2017 SP 500 Rank: No. 412
2017 Fast Growth Rank: No. 92
Relus Technologies
Top Executive: Mark Metz, CEO
Location: Peachtree Corners, Ga.
Relus offers a range of services with par­ticular focus on data center transformation, cloud enablement, big data, and IT staffing and recruiting. The rising channel star is an AWS consulting partner that also works with a range of cloud and big data vendors.
2017 SP 500 Rank: No. 480
2017 Fast Growth Rank: No. 8
Scalar Decisions
Top Executive: Paul Kerr, President, CEO
Location: Toronto, Ontario
Scalar Decisions provides security, infra­structure and cloud services to clients with an emphasis on leveraging IT to achieve business goals. The companyrecently launched a cloud-based disaster recovery-as-a-service solution allowing customers to back up their data to AWS or Microsoft Azure data centers.
2017 SP 500 Rank: No. 95
2017 Fast Growth Rank: No. 30
Triple Crown Winner 2016, 2015
Sirius Computer Solutions
Top Executive: Joe Mertens, President, CEO
Location: San Antonio
Sirius offers a range of business and data center solutions; managed and cloud servic­es; and services around infrastructure and software consulting, project management, asset management and system maintenance. An aggressive acquisition strategy has fueled the company's growth.
2017 SP 500 Rank: No. 26
2017 Fast Growth Rank: No. 130
Sovereign Systems
Top Executive: George Barkley, Managing Partner
Location: Norcross, Ga
Sovereign's CLEAR (connect, leverage, engage, analyze, road-map) assessment program is at the core of its service offer­ings, accompanied by solutions in cloud, data center, service management and in­telligent data. Key partners include Cisco, Dell EMC, Puppet, SAP, ServiceNow, VCE, Veeam and VMware.
2017 SP 500 Rank: No. 235
2017 Fast Growth Rank: No. 53
Triple Crown Winner 2016, 2014
Sterling Computers
Top Executive: Jean Moore, CEO
Location: Dakota Dunes, S.D
Sterling has been providing IT solutions to government and education customers for more than 20 years. It provides a compre­hensive lineup of data center, cloud secu­rity, network, virtualization, managed and mobile application development services.
2017 SP 500 Rank: No. 67
2017 Fast Growth Rank: No. 110
Triple Crown Winner 2016, 2015
Universal Data
Top Executive: Jim Perrier, President
Location: New Orleans
Universal Data has come a long way since Hurricane Katrina wreaked havoc on the Big Easy in 2005. Once just a $1.5 mil­lion company that was losing money, the solution provider has established thriving disaster-recovery and virtualization prac­tices over the past decade.
2017 SP 500 Rank: No. 427
2017 Fast Growth Rank: No. 4
Vantage Point Corporation
Top Executive: Nick Preuss, CEO, Co-Owner
Location: Kenosha, Wis.
VPC has seen fast-rising demand for its hardware procurement, data center, web hosting and strategic consulting services. Primarily serving the SMB market, VPC uses a proprietary channel application that improves procurement procedures, quoting accuracy and technical support.
2017 SP 500 Rank: No. 348
2017 Fast Growth Rank: No. 39
vCore Technology Partners
Top Executive: Steven Leavitt, Founder, CEO
Location: Scottsdale, Ariz.
vCore offers a range of IT strategy and networking services with a focus on hy­brid cloud, security and managed services. Partners include established companies like Dell EMC and Cisco and upstarts like Nutanix and Rubrik.
2017 SP 500 Rank: No. 332
2017 Fast Growth Rank: No. 68
VeriStor
Top Executive: Ashby Lincoln, President, CEO
Location: Duluth, Ga.
Veristor's managed, professional, and design and deployment services span a broad range of data center solutions in­cluding security, private cloud, converged infrastructure, networking, server and desktop virtualization and more.
2017 SP 500 Rank: No. 242
2017 Fast Growth Rank: No. 54
Triple Crown Winner 2016
Winslow Technology Group
Top Executive: Scott Winslow, President
Location: Waltham, Mass.
Winslow Technology Group provides expertise in server, storage, networking, security, virtualization, hyper-convergence, data protection, and cloud technologies. WTG serves the needs of clients ranging from medium sized organizations to Fortune 100 companies and their key partnerships include Dell EMC, Nutanix, VMware, and SecureWorks.
2017 SP 500 Rank: No. 442
2017 Fast Growth Rank: No. 78
Xcentric
Top Executive: Trey James, CEO
Location: Alpharetta, Ga.
Xcentric is a cloud technology and ser­vices company that focuses exclusively on accounting firms, building networks and hosting more than 1,000 applications for CPAs.
2017 SP 500 Rank: No. 499
2017 Fast Growth Rank: No. 122