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RCP Reader's Choice Awards 2017: The Year's Top Products for Microsoft Partners
The very best in each of 23 categories as chosen by the RCP audience.
- By Redmond Channel Partner magazine staff
- December 04, 2017
A well-run Microsoft partner's business depends on multiple vendor relationships.
To find out which vendors are most important to that business, we asked the experts, our readers, to decide. Hundreds of you responded to our online ballot invitations in August and September of this year.
The results are in for the second Redmond Channel Partner Reader's Choice Awards, covering everything you sell to customers along with the critical services and programs you use internally to run your own business. On the sell side, categories range from security products to desktop hardware to cloud services. On the internal use side, they include critical tools like managed services provider tools and Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) programs. For each category, the platinum award goes to the top vote-getter, followed by gold, then silver.
2017 Winners List
Listed here are the very best in each of 23 categories from among hundreds of choices in the complex Microsoft ecosystems.
ANTI-VIRUS SOLUTION
Platinum Award: Kaspersky
Gold Award: Microsoft
Silver Award: Symantec (Norton)
BACKUP AND RECOVERY SOLUTION
Platinum Award: Acronis
Gold Award: Veeam
Silver Award: Datto
CSP INDIRECT DISTRIBUTOR
Platinum Award: SherWeb
Gold Award: Rackspace
Silver Award: Tech Data and Ingram Micro (tie)
SOFTWARE-AS-A-SERVICE APP PROVIDER
Platinum Award: Microsoft
Gold Award: Amazon
Silver Award: Salesforce
DESKTOP HARDWARE
Platinum Award: Dell
Gold Award: Lenovo
Silver Award: HP
LAPTOPS
Platinum Award: Lenovo
Gold Award: Dell
Silver Award: Apple
CLOUD FILE SHARING SOLUTION
Platinum Award: Microsoft
Gold Award: Dropbox
Silver Award: Google
DISTRIBUTION PARTNER
Platinum Award: Ingram Micro
Gold Award: Tech Data
Silver Award:Synnex
HYBRID/CONVERTIBLE PC
Platinum Award: Microsoft
Gold Award: Lenovo
Silver Award: Dell
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE AUTOMATION (PSA) PLATFORM
Platinum Award: ConnectWise
Gold Award: Kaseya
Silver Award: Autotask
REMOTE MONITORING AND MANAGEMENT (RMM) PLATFORM
Platinum Award: Kaseya
Gold Award: Solarwinds MSP
Silver Award: ConnectWise
INTEGRATED RMM/PSA SUITE
Platinum Award: Kaseya
Gold Award: Solarwinds MSP
Silver Award: ConnectWise
CLOUD MIGRATION SOLUTION
Platinum Award: BitTitan
Gold Award: Kaseya
Silver Award: SkyKick
PUBLIC CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE
Platinum Award: Microsoft Azure
Gold Award:Amazon Web Services
Silver Award: Google Cloud Platform
MOBILE DEVICE MANAGEMENT SOLUTION
Platinum Award: Microsoft
Gold Award: VMware
Silver Award: IBM
SERVER HARDWARE
Platinum Award: Dell
Gold Award: Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Silver Award: Intel
SMARTPHONE
Platinum Award: Apple
Gold Award: Samsung
Silver Award: Google
BACKUP AND RECOVERY HARDWARE
Platinum Award: Barracuda, EMC (tie)
Gold Award: Datto
Silver Award: Unitrends
UPS AND POWER CONDITIONING
Platinum Award: APC/Schneider Electric
Gold Award: Eaton
Silver Award: CyberPower
BROWSER
Platinum Award: Google Chrome
Gold Award: Mozilla Firefox
Silver Award: Microsoft Internet Explorer
SHAREPOINT TOOL
Platinum Award: Nintex
Gold Award: Sharegate
Silver Award: Accellion and AvePoint (tie)
SOFTWARE-BASED FIREWALL
Platinum Award: Fortinet
Gold Award: Kaspersky
Silver Award: Webroot
HARDWARE-BASED FIREWALL
Platinum Award: Cisco
Gold Award: Fortinet
Silver Award: SonicWall