Every year, The Channel Company’s CRN Annual Report Card (ARC) Survey recognizes the best-in-class vendors in the categories of partnership, support and product innovation.  For more than 30 years, thousands of solution providers have cast their votes, and this year’s honorees were selected based on the results of an in-depth survey by The Channel Company’s research team.

IBM is honored to have received CRN's 2015 ARC Award for both Midrange Servers and Enterprise Network Storage. This was presented on August 9, at The Channel Company’s  XChange 2015 Conference in Washington, DC.

I would like to thank our Business Partners for voting for IBM’s Servers and Storage as best-in-class.  This recognition confirms that our Business Partners and clients are experiencing the tremendous business benefits that our technologies deliver.  It is a testament to IBM’s continued commitment to our channel partners as they support the new IT infrastructure paradigms that are emerging in the marketplace with cloud, analytics, mobile, and social.

"At a moment of profound shifts in the IT supply chain, the winners will be those that are able to transform their businesses to capture the cloud, data and analytics, mobile and social opportunities. This move to the third platform drives tremendous demand for IT infrastructure and we are very proud to be recognized as leaders by our Business Partners, a vital part of our ecosystem," says Paulo Carvao, Vice President, IBM North America Systems Hardware.

Our Business Partners are engaging with clients in new ways to work, building the infrastructure and deploying innovative solutions for the digital era.   IBM’s z and Power Systems servers and Storage Solutions are designed to meet clients’ demands of today and tomorrow.

Our commitment to open innovation platforms, designed for big data and superior cloud economics, continues to be the cornerstone of IBM Power Systems. Our leadership in product innovation was also recognized in December 2014, with the CRN Tech Innovator award for servers. 

Businesses are under tremendous pressure to leverage their data to stay ahead of the competition. Big data and analytics, mobile and social applications are generating an explosive growth of data to be saved and analyzed, whether it's in the cloud or within the data center. Clients need to find a new way forward with their storage infrastructure and IBM is leading the way with IBM Spectrum Storage™ and IBM FlashSystem™ solutions. These transformational technologies are helping businesses make more money, spend less and move faster.  IBM was recently recognized as a leader for Solid-State Arrays¹, and was also named a leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Backup Software and Integrated Appliances².  Learn more at ibm.com/storage.

There has never been a better time to team with IBM.

Together with our Business Partners, it’s time to celebrate our success and build on the momentum we have established in the market.  For those who would like to join our program and team with one of the world’s most innovative technology brands – please reach out to IBM PartnerWorld Contact Services at pwcs@us.ibm.com and we will direct you to the Distributors that can help you become an IBM Business Partner today.

To view the results of the study as well as the list of this year’s honorees, visit CRN's ARC Awards page. Thank you once again to The Channel Company and our Business Partners for this great honor.  

¹ Gartner Magic Quadrant for Solid-State Arrays by Valdis Filks, Joseph Unsworth, Arun Chandrasekaran, June 23, 2015.

² Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Backup Software and Integrated Appliances – Dave Russell,Pushan Rinnen, Robert Rhame, June 15, 2015.