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Everything Channel Announces VAR500 Award Winners, Honors the Most Successful Solution Provider Organizations in North America

Posted on: Wednesday, 3 June 2009, 08:00 CDT

FRAMINGHAM, Mass., June 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Last night at the 2009 VAR500 awards gala in New York City, Everything Channel, a division of United Business Media, honored the most successful Solution Provider organizations in North America with the VAR500 awards. The awards gala was part of the exclusive one day VAR500 Executive Conference & Awards, which brought together North America's top information technology (IT) solution providers.

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The VAR500 listing, which was published in the May 25 issue of CRN, is the definitive listing of the largest IT solution providers, system integrators, IT consultants and services companies in North America, as measured by gross worldwide revenue. The 2009 list included 92 new companies with 10 percent of them in the Top 100 of the list. The starting point of the list is company #500 with revenues of $26.8 million, ending with company #1 with revenues of $57.3 billion. The complete listing of the VAR500 and a comprehensive editorial package is featured at www.channelweb.com.

"The VAR500 Executive Conference & Awards is an elite event that brings leading vendors and the most powerful solution provider organizations together to leverage partnerships, drive sales and create strong business opportunities," said Robert C. DeMarzo, senior vice president and editorial director, Everything Channel. "This VAR500 list reflects the strength of the technology reseller channel. Last night we came together to honor the largest and most influential Solution Providers - we applaud them on their success."

The VAR500 award winners include:

• Best Partnership Award: Lilien, LLC
• Editor's Choice Award for Business Excellence: InfoLogix
• Company of the Year: Accenture
• Executive of the Year: Richard J. Marcotte, President & Chief Executive Officer, DLT
• VARBusiness 500 Newcomers Award: TVAR Solutions, LLC
• VARBusiness 500 Newcomers Award: Bluewolf
• VARBusiness 500 Newcomers Award: RSM McGladrey, Inc.
• Top Revenue Generator (by percentage growth) - under $50 Million: Fedstore
• Top Revenue Generator - $50 - $250 Million: BlueWater
• Top Revenue Generator - $250 - $1 Billion: Carasoft
• Top Revenue Generator - Over $1 Billion: Softchoice
• Top Technology Practices - Storage: Whalley Computer Associates
• Top Technology Practices - Storage/Virtualization: Denali
• Top Technology Practices - Security: Perimeter eSecurity
• Top Technology Practices - MSP: Navisite
• Top Technology Practices - Mobile: TeleCommunication Systems
• Top Technology Practices - Infrastructure: Trace3

The executive conference was designed for top-level executives from the top Solution Provider organizations in North America. With a focus on business and financial strategies, the conference agenda offered actionable content to learn the secrets of success from solution provider colleagues. Over 90 VAR500 executives plus more than 100 Solution Providers were in attendance. Event keynote speakers included Enrique Salem, President and CEO, Symantec Corp; Steve Rubinow, CIO, NYSE Euronext; Larry Bonfante, CIO, US Tennis Association/US Open; and Senator Bill Bradley who discussed the economy as it relates to technology.

Event sponsors included: ESET, IBM, Symantec, APC, CA, Kaspersky Lab, Avnet, Iron Mountain, Microsoft and VMware.

Everything Channel (www.everythingchannel.com, www.channelweb.com)

Everything Channel is the one-stop shop for accessing, enabling, managing and accelerating technology sales channels. From branding and recruiting to marketing and sales, Everything Channel offers technology marketers the unmatched breadth and depth of global brands and market intelligence combined with unparalleled audience loyalty and credibility serving all technology sales channels through an extensive database. Everything Channel provides innovative field sales and marketing solutions to arm the sellers of technology with the resources they need to achieve measurable and significant results.

About United Business Media Limited (www.unitedbusinessmedia.com)

UBM (UBM.L) focuses on two principal activities: worldwide information distribution, targeting and monitoring; and, the development and monetisation of B2B communities and markets. UBM's businesses inform markets and serve professional commercial communities - from doctors to game developers, from journalists to jewellery traders, from farmers to pharmacists - with integrated events, online, print and business information products. Our 6,500 staff in more than 30 countries are organised into specialist teams that serve these communities, bringing buyers and sellers together, helping them to do business and their markets to work effectively and efficiently.

Contact Maureen Park Everything Channel mpark@everythingchannel.com 516 562 5942

SOURCE Everything Channel

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