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At the biggest IT channel awards of the year, taking place at Evolution London in Battersea Park, and hosted by comedian Justin Moorhouse, Softcat took home two awards, including an Editor’s Choice award for Softcat CEO Graeme Watt.

Softcat CEO Graeme Watt was handed an Editor’s Choice Award for Channel Achievement, overseeing the recent stellar financial results and continuing a 13-year long run of continuous double-digit growth. Collecting the award, chosen by the Editorial team within CRN, Watt said: “This was a big surprise - a lovely surprise and I am chuffed to be recognised by an industry that I love so much.”

At the biggest IT channel awards of the year, taking place at Evolution London in Battersea Park, and hosted by comedian Justin Moorhouse, Softcat took home two awards, including an Editor’s Choice award for Softcat CEO Graeme Watt.

Collecting the Public Sector Reseller of the Year Award, Public Sector Director Ant Cowen said: “We are delighted to take home this award, recognising the great progress we’ve made within our public sector business in building a strong portfolio for our public sector customers. This award is a fantastic achievement and a reflection of all the hard work put in, not just from the public sector teams, but across the entire business by everyone at Softcat and our supporting partners.”

Continuing their successful award-winning streak, Softcat was delighted to pick up the EMEA Partner of the Year award at Arcserve’s 2019 EMEA Partner Summit earlier this month.

Vince Blackall, EMEA Channel Director at Arcserve said, “Softcat has developed into a hugely important strategic partner for us and is well deserving of its EMEA partner of the year award. As well as growing significantly as a reseller in the UK market, its cybersecurity expertise has also opened up several new opportunities for us – particularly with the ransomware threat continuing to disrupt business operations. A big congratulations to the Softcat team and we look forward to growing our partnership even further in the months and years to come.”

In the second year of the awards, taking place at The Brewery, London, Carola Van Der Sommen, Head of Programme and Project Management, picked up the Manager of the Year Awards. Softcat were shortlisted in 10 categories.

Colin Brown, Softcat Managing Director, commented on the win: “A huge congratulations to all our finalists and especially to Carola. She is passionate about delivering an outstanding service experience for our customers, achieving this through the development of talent within Softcat. She is driven by results, with a strong focus on bringing her teams with her on the journey to success.”

At a glitzy ceremony in Barcelona yesterday, Canalys announced the winners of the Candefero Channel Partner of the Year Awards for EMEA. The awards recognize high achievement by partners in a range of areas, with Softcat picking up the EMEA growth award for the second year running in front of over 1,000 attendees from nearly 25 countries across EMEA.

Collecting the award on behalf of Softcat, Operations Director Alastair Wynn: “Softcat has once again continued to grow exceptionally well, both organically and profitably, while maintaining a strong people culture and taking pride and care in everything we do. To receive this growth award at an EMEA level is a fantastic achievement for everyone within Softcat.”

Leading IT infrastructure and service provider Softcat has been named Customer Acquisition Partner of the year by top cybersecurity experts, Palo Alto Networks, at their annual Nextwave PartnerUp Awards in London last week.

Tim Jeans, Head of the Specialist Sales team at Softcat, praised the hard work of the Softcat team, saying, “I am delighted that the dedication and effort of the team has been recognised in this award. We are always striving to engage with new customers, providing them with the best solutions, and our partnership with Palo Alto Networks gives us the opportunity to do just that. A huge well done to all those involved.”

AUSTIN, TX – September 17, 2019 — Softcat announced it was a recipient of the Pure Storage Global Disruptor Partner of the Year award, which was awarded to the company during Pure’s Global Partner Forum at Pure//Accelerate 2019. The award represents the commitment of Softcat to deliver on hybrid-cloud solutions from Pure Storage and the ability to provide a modern data experience to their customers.

Tim Jeans, Head of Solutions Sales at Softcat, commented, “Softcat is privileged to receive this global partner of the year award from Pure, and we are grateful to the many customers who have placed their trust in our partnership. At the heart of our partnership with Pure is a focus on exceptional long-term customer service. Both organisations make sure we understand the detail that is unique to each customer so that the solutions we design and deliver meet or exceed the outcomes expected.”

Softcat announced that it has received the EMEA 2018 VMware Partner Innovation Award for EMEA Solutions Partner of the Year. Softcat was recognised at the VMware Partner Leadership Summit 2019, held in Carlsbad, CA.

“We congratulate Softcat on winning Partner Innovation Award for EMEA Solutions Partner of the Year, and look forward to our continued collaboration and innovation,” said Jenni Flinders, vice president, Worldwide Channel Chief, VMware. “VMware and our partners will continue to empower organizations of all sizes with technologies that enable digital transformation.”

Rapid7, a leading provider of security visibility, analytics, and automation capabilities, recently announced Softcat as the Largest Growth Partner in UKIE and InsightVM Partner of the Year.

The second award, InsightVM Partner of the Year, was presented by Senior VP of International Growth, Richard Moseley: “Softcat’s invested knowledge of Rapid7's InsightCloud solutions and close partnership with local teams resulted in creating and closing the highest number of InsightVM deals in the last 12 months with the largest revenue across EMEA. This is truly outstanding. A well-deserved win.”

Rapid7, a leading provider of security visibility, analytics, and automation capabilities, recently announced Softcat as the Largest Growth Partner in UKIE and InsightVM Partner of the Year.

Presenting the first of the two wins, Largest Growth Partner in UKIE, UKIE Sales Director Chris Hartley said: “Softcat have a fantastic understanding of Rapid7's platform solutions in addition to utilising their resources efficiently and effectively which has undoubtably contributed towards their outstanding performance and growth of over 100% in the last 12 months.”

Closely followed by two award wins at the CRN event, it was another award-winning day for Softcat last week when Fujitsu recognised the IT infrastructure provider as their Best Commercial Sector Partner UK&I 2019.

Taking place at the annual World Tour event in London, the awards recognise achievement with Fujitsu across a number of areas including Commercial & Public Sector, Specialist Project, Distributor etc. Softcat picked up the award off the back of a record-breaking year for Fujitsu within Softcat which is great recognition of how far their relationship has come over the past couple of years.

At a glittering summer event, Softcat were presented with a duo of awards at the CRN Sales and Marketing Awards event: the Best Graduate/Apprentice Scheme award and the Best Marketing Campaign award for our series of ExplainIT podcasts.

With the sales and marketing teams often sitting at the heart of many successful channel businesses, the annual CRN awards recognises the achievements of those individuals and teams that are responsible for making the UK IT channel truly great. The event focuses on innovation, evolution, and development, qualities that all vendors, distributors and resellers strive for.

At a glittering summer event, Softcat were presented with a duo of awards at the CRN Sales and Marketing Awards event: the Best Graduate/Apprentice Scheme award and the Best Marketing Campaign award for our series of ExplainIT podcasts.

With the sales and marketing teams often sitting at the heart of many successful channel businesses, the annual CRN awards recognises the achievements of those individuals and teams that are responsible for making the UK IT channel truly great. The event focuses on innovation, evolution, and development, qualities that all vendors, distributors and resellers strive for.

At a glamorous awards ceremony at Ascot Racecourse, the Softcat Dell Technologies team collected the Dell UK: Go Big Win Big New Business Partner of the Year award.

Hosted by Rob Tomlin, the Vice President Channel UK&I at Dell Technologies, the annual partner summit awards brings together some of the industry’s finest experts alongside Dell business leaders to deliver a series of executive keynote sessions, whilst also recognising and rewarding outstanding business results.

For the second year running, Softcat has been recognised as the best performing UK public company in the category of Infrastructure Services. Taking place at the Silicon Valley Bank, the awards evening also saw Softcat being placed 16th on the 2019 Megabuyte Quoted25 rankings, gaining three places on the rankings from last year.

The Megabuyte Quoted25 Awards is an annual event and an independent ranking of the UK’s best-performing public technology companies. The awards provide a unique independent measure of public company performance, looking beyond share price. Softcat was commended for strong revenue and gross profit growth over the year, and the role that its culture played in retaining talent which has led to more cross-selling opportunities with existing accounts.

At a glamorous awards ceremony last night, Sophos announced their Partner of the Year awards, with Softcat being awarded the 2019 UKI Enterprise Partner of the Year award.

The Partner Conference is an opportunity for Sophos to recognise all their partners who continue to offer customers award-winning, next-generation network and endpoint protection. At the conference, members of the Sophos executive leadership team delivered keynote sessions on Sophos strategy, its partner commitments and the broader future of the IT security industry.

At a glamorous awards ceremony last night, Sophos announced their Partner of the Year awards, with Softcat being awarded the 2019 Top UKI Performer

The Partner Conference is an opportunity for Sophos to recognise all their partners who continue to offer customers award-winning, next-generation network and endpoint protection. At the conference, members of the Sophos executive leadership team delivered keynote sessions on Sophos strategy, its partner commitments and the broader future of the IT security industry.

Taking place during the UK’s largest cloud ecosystem event, the Ingram Micro Cloud Summit, the award is presented to the partner who has added the most value outside of their corporate agenda, and whose philanthropy has created real change in society.

Softcat has raised over £2m for charities, and recently raised over £330,000 though the annual May Ball charity event.

Leading email and data security company Mimecast, has named Softcat its Reseller Partner of the Year 2019 – the twelfth year in a row Softcat has received the top partner award in recognition of outstanding performance and business growth throughout the financial year.

Receiving the Mimecast Premier Partner of the Year 2019 award this year was Softcat's Managing Director Colin Brown. Commenting on the event and the award win, Colin said: “Credit for this award goes to our specialist solutions sales team who, in the last year, have continued to drive the growth and our relationship with Mimecast from an already strong position. To take home the top award for the twelfth year running is an unbelievable achievement.”

Barracuda, the company that aims to protect customers, data and applications from today’s advanced threats by providing the most comprehensive and easy-to-use IT security platform, have now announced their award winners at their EMEA partner awards evening, with Softcat being awarded UK&I Regional Partner of the Year.

The awards ceremony, otherwise known as Discover19, was held in Spain this year, as Softcat headed to Marbella to receive their award. In recognition of the role that partners will play in helping Barracuda, they rewarded partners who have surpassed business expectations and shown meticulous dedication throughout the year.

This comes shortly after the announcement that Softcat won the EMEA 2018 VMware Partner Innovation Award for EMEA Solutions Partner of the Year.

Jacques Tibbels also commented, “I am thrilled to be given the Ambassador of the Year Award from VMware. I would personally like to thank Catherine Robertson, Stuart Davis, James Baker, Nick Bailey and the rest of the Softcat and VMware team for their support over the last four years. It would not have been possible without them.”

This comes shortly after the announcement that Softcat won the EMEA 2018 VMware Partner Innovation Award for EMEA Solutions Partner of the Year.

The Partner Recognition dinner is one of the many ways that VMware like to recognise the vital work their partners do for them, work that is critical to both VMware and their partners’ success. Each of the winners were chosen from strong shortlists, which in turn were picked from a variety of businesses that have all had sparkling results in the past year.

The annual Dell Technologies Global Partner Summit has been taking place this week in Las Vegas, including keynote speakers from senior executives, hands-on technology workshops, networking events and a gala awards dinner. The 15,000+ attendees can discover Dell Technologies’ vision for the future, learn new capabilities, innovate faster and create new value.

Collecting the award on behalf of Softcat, Graeme Watt, Softcat CEO, said: “Our success at combining our VMware and Dell expertise to win with Dell Technologies has been key to our growth over the last year, and I’m accepting this award with great pleasure on behalf of the team at Softcat.”

Varonis, a pioneer in data security and analytics, have now announced their ‘Partners in Excellence’ channel award winners, with Softcat scooping the prestigious Partner of the Year award.

The programme honours the Varonis channel partners that have excelled at delivering data-centric solutions to customers throughout 2018. They also wanted to reward partners for their successful relationships enabling both organisations to continually grow and achieve their business goals.

On 21 March 2019, at a black-tie event at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London, Softcat was presented with the Company of the Year Award in the 33rd annual PLC Awards ceremony. The award has already been safely placed in the trophy cabinet at the company’s head office in Marlow.

When Softcat was established 25 years ago, the founders never imagined that there would be a need for a trophy cabinet. The business was set up to give people a fun and challenging working environment that would bring some shared success. To be recognised as the Company of the Year—from among all Main Market, FTSE 100, FTSE 250, FTSE Small Cap and Fledgling businesses, is a true indicator of how far Softcat has come in a quarter of a century.

At HP Reinvent, HP’s World Partner forum, HP recently announced Softcat as the HP DaaS Partner of the Year 2019

Presenting the award, Neil Sawyer, HPi Commercial Channel Director (UK&I) said: “HP is delighted to recognise Softcat’s performance as our lead DaaS partner in the UK. HP and Softcat have worked together to develop a compelling, progressive and scalable Device as a Service offering for workplace technology/end-user client. HP’s TechPulse proactive management software coupled with Softcat’s device maintenance capabilities makes for a compelling proposition for any enterprise in the UK&I looking to embrace a more predictable operating model for end user computing. HP look forward to continuing and enhancing our relationship with Softcat.”

Ivanti, the company that unifies IT to better manage and secure the digital workplace, last week announced recipients of its 2019 Partners of the Year Awards. The awards, presented during Ivanti Interchange 2019 in Madrid, honor high performing partners throughout the Europe, Middle East and Africa regions as they work to build thriving Ivanti practices.

Accepting the Security Partner of the Year award, Matt Ward, ITAM Enterprise Account Director at Softcat, said: “The whole team here at Softcat is over the moon at winning Ivanti EMEA Security Partner of the Year. It just reinforces to us that we are making huge strides in our strong security portfolio and leading the way in our market, which is a great feeling.”

Softcat has been awarded EMEA New Customer Acquisition Partner of the year for Check Point Software Technologies, recognising 12 months of new customer growth.

Awarded during CPX 360 - the vendor’s annual cyber security summit in Vienna – Softcat took home the honours ahead of a competitive field of resellers spanning the entire region. The award is in recognition of Softcat bringing both the highest number of, and highest revenue, from new customers to Check Point in 2018.

Ivanti, the company that unifies IT to better manage and secure the digital workplace, announced this week the recipients of its 2018 Partner of the Year Awards, EMEA, at a ceremony held during Ivanti Interchange18 in Madrid.

Accepting the award on behalf of Softcat James Baker, Alliances Director at Softcat, said: “Softcat is delighted to be named the Ivanti EMEA Security Partner of the Year. Ivanti is delivering the products our customers need to help unify their IT and security operations for the improved management and security they need for their digital workplace.”

Following an inaugural appearance last year, Softcat were pleased to once again be included in the 2018 list of top 50 Best Managed IT Companies.

The award, which celebrates best business practice by MSPs and VARS, sees companies evaluated in 12 key areas of business through around 200 questions designed to measure best practices, and follows a day of presentations and interactive sessions based around the value that the channel brings – even in a world where Cloud-based technology is prevalent.

This month at Cisco’s annual partner conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, Softcat received the Social Responsibility Partner of the Year Award for its innovation, leadership and best practice as a Cisco business partner across the UK and Ireland. The award is given to a partner that embodies a commitment to making a positive impact on the world.

Softcat have always led with a strong Corporate Social Responsibility at the core of our culture and we continuously support and encourage our employees to involve themselves both at a personal level and through company-wide initiatives.

During a glittering gala at the Madejski stadium in Reading, hosted by award-winning broadcaster Rachel Burden and guest speaker Sir Trevor McDonald OBE, Softcat picked up the award for ‘Best Company to Work For.’

The Thames Valley Business Magazine Awards is open to every company in the Thames Valley area and recognises not only profitability, innovation and employment but also the contribution made to the local economic community and the provision of support to culture and charities in the region.

At a glitzy event in Battersea Park Evolution, London, hosted by comedian Katherine Ryan, Softcat scooped the top prize, walking away with the award for Reseller of the year (£51m+ Revenue).

The annual awards, now in its 25th year, sees 1,600 industry execs celebrate the latest technology innovations and advancements, recognising the ingenuity and exceptional achievements of the UK channel industry over the previous 12 months.

Softcat has been recognised as Reseller of the Year by leading sound solutions specialists, Jabra. Picking up the award at Jabra’s annual UK&I Partner conference, Softcat was commended for its outstanding performance in supporting the company as well as its collaborative approach.

Jabra create integrated headsets and communications tools that help professionals work more productively; and wireless headphones and earbuds that let people better enjoy calls, music and media. Softcat is a trusted reseller of Jabra products, demonstrating its confidence in the brand with an impressive 38% year-on-year growth. These results placed Softcat at the top of Jabra’s reseller list, and the company praised Softcat’s openness to collaboration and willingness to drive projects.

Canalys recently announced the winners of the Candefero Channel Partner of the Year Awards for EMEA.

These awards recognize high achievement by partners in a range of areas. The winners were honoured in the lively Spanish city on Thursday, 11 October at the eleventh Canalys Channels Forum EMEA, which attracted around 1,000 leading channel partners, distributors and vendors from nearly 25 countries across EMEA.

Softcat has been announced as ‘Sennheiser Partner of the Year’ for 2018. Presented with the award at the recent Nimans Elite conference in Croatia, this title recognises the strong partnership that has been forged over many years.

Delivering the best in audio through their headphones, microphones and all-round conferencing and audio solutions, Sennheiser and Softcat share a commitment to providing the highest quality products, and Softcat has seen significant growth in demand for Sennheiser equipment.

Leading the way with innovation, Softcat picked up an industry award at the Snow Partner Forum in Birmingham this month. Software Asset Management (SAM) solution developer Snow recognised Softcat’s true innovation in delivering products and services based around Snow technology, creating tailored solutions to provide cost effective and efficient IT asset management (ITAM).

Working in unity with Snow, Softcat has demonstrated a range of innovations for organisations, developing offerings to fit with individual strategies and ensuring multi-million-pound savings and further efficiencies for many organisations. This included right-sizing a SAP estate, saving £29million, as well as providing a Snow Automation Platform and optimising licensing rights to increase business capacity. Softcat also delivered a range of innovative marketing initiatives, bringing SAM into the focus of the wider business and raising its profile.

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Taking place at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London last week, the CRN Sales & Marketing Awards were hosted by stand-up comedian and actor Tiff Stevenson. Softcat scooped the award for Best Company to Work For - £51m+ turnover, also picking up a highly commended for Best Marketing Campaign for our work educating and assisting businesses to meet GDPR requirements.

The CRN Sales & Marketing Awards focus on innovation, evolution and development, recognising and rewarding the achievements of those individuals and teams responsible for making the UK IT channel truly great.

Leading IT infrastructure provider, Softcat, have done the double at VMware's annual Partnership Leadership Summit, scooping not only the Regional, but also the Global VMware Partner Innovation award for having the ability to Transform Network and Security.

These accolades recognise the sharp focus and huge effort that Softcat have placed on incorporating VMware's technologies into highly innovative solutions, transforming networking and security offerings to organisations across the country.

The Megabuyte Quoted25 Awards are an annual event and an independent ranking of the UK’s best-performing public technology companies.

The awards provide a unique independent measure of public company performance, looking beyond share price. Softcat was commended for strong revenue and gross profit growth over the year, and the role that its culture played in retaining talent which has led to more cross-selling opportunities with existing accounts.

Celebrating the best of the UK’s PLCs, the annual Stock Market Awards have seen Softcat announced as the ‘Best Technology Plc.’ With nominees whittled down to a final selection of six organisations based on a range of factors including share price performance, management acumen and growth of revenue, Softcat were voted winners of the award in a public vote.

The Stock Market Awards recognise and reward all that is great about publicly-listed British firms, the equity market in which they operate and their enormous contribution to the United Kingdom's economy. The awards celebrate companies creating shareholder value, and Softcat’s award specifically acknowledges their success and development in the Technology sector.

Softcat scooped two awards this week as Hewlett Packard Enterprise recognised channel partners across the globe, celebrating their outstanding performance and significant accomplishments at HPE’s annual Global Partner Summit in Las Vegas.

Claiming the titles of UK & Ireland Hybrid IT Partner of the Year and Financial Services Partner of the Year, Softcat was commended for excellent financial performance, innovative solutions and for driving meaningful business results for their shared customers.

Softcat scooped two awards this week as Hewlett Packard Enterprise recognised channel partners across the globe, celebrating their outstanding performance and significant accomplishments at HPE’s annual Global Partner Summit in Las Vegas.

Claiming the titles of UK & Ireland Hybrid IT Partner of the Year and Financial Services Partner of the Year, Softcat was commended for excellent financial performance, innovative solutions and for driving meaningful business results for their shared customers.

Ivanti®, the company that unifies IT to better manage and secure the digital workplace, announced this week the recipients of its 2018 Partner of the Year Awards, EMEA, at a ceremony held during Ivanti Interchange18 in Madrid.

The awards recognise partners for outstanding performance and significant contributions in helping customers better manage and secure their digital workspaces.

Leading email and data security company Mimecast, has named Softcat its Premier Partner of the Year 2018 – the eleventh year in a row Softcat has received the award in recognition of outstanding performance and business growth throughout the financial year. Mimecast Vice President UK and Northern Europe John Ansell hosted the annual awards at The Brewery in London last Thursday.

Receiving the Mimecast Premier Partner of the Year 2018 award this year was Softcat's Head of IT Security and Networking Matthew Helling, Networking and Security Northern Sales Manager Trevor Highly, and Networking and Security Southern Sales Manager Patrick Armson.

Leading IT infrastructure provider, Softcat, have done the double at VMware's annual Partnership Leadership Summit, scooping not only the Regional, but also the Global VMware Partner Innovation award for having the ability to Transform Network and Security.

These accolades recognise the sharp focus and huge effort that Softcat have placed on incorporating VMware's technologies into highly innovative solutions, transforming networking and security offerings to organisations across the country.

Continually striving to prove that we are one of the Best Workplaces in IT, Softcat have now officially been named Top Employer for School Leavers in the IT and Technology sector, at the School Leaver Awards. The event was hosted at the glamorous Sheraton Grand, Park Lane with comedian Josh Widdicombe, presenting the awards. We were also shortlisted for the Best Training Provider and Best Training awards.

Recognised as one of the biggest and best awards ceremony of its kind for school and college leavers, this event rewards those employers who offer the best UK apprenticeships and school leaver programmes, as well as those who excel in areas such as job satisfaction, career progression, training and company culture. The award was based on feedback from surveys of our apprentices and school leavers.

Winning the title for the second year in a row, leading IT infrastructure provider Softcat has been named EMEA Partner of the Year by Nutanix, a leader in enterprise cloud computing.

The team’s outstanding efforts and collaboration with Nutanix led to their success and Softcat was praised for demonstrating a passion that produces results, challenging the status quo and delivering a top-quality service to its customers.

For the third year running, Softcat has been awarded the title of Top UK and Ireland performer, in recognition of their outstanding performance in the past year and their commitment and dedication to selling Sophos.

The Sophos Discover Partner Conference, held yesterday at 8 Northumberland in London, celebrates those partners who demonstrate commitment to offering award-winning next-generation network and endpoint protection.

Kaspersky Lab, a multinational cybersecurity and anti-virus provider, have awarded Softcat the award for Best SMB Project 2017, showcasing Softcat’s increased success in driving business sales in the B2B market.

The Kaspersky 2018 UK Partner Awards, held this year at the prestigious British Library in London, was a great opportunity to not only announce the award winners, but to bring together industry partners to discuss the latest cybersecurity trends and market opportunities for channel partners.

VMware, a leading innovator in enterprise software, announced last week that Softcat, the leading IT infrastructure provider, has been awarded the ‘Customer Story of the Year’ award for their work with a major healthcare organisation.

The ceremony, taking place at Amba Hotel Charing Cross, in London, was hosted by Alanzo Blackstock, Director of the VMware Partner Organisation, UK&I, while the award was presented by Michael Watkins, Sales Director of the Commercial Team.

Veeam Software, the Availability for the Always-On EnterpriseTM innovator, announced at their 2018 Partner Summit that Softcat have completed the Most Significant Project of the Year, for their work with a major healthcare provider.

Taking place at Mercedes Benz World in Surrey, these third annual awards recognize Veeam ProPartners and Veeam Cloud & Service Provider (VCSP) partners who have not only demonstrated success in providing Veeam Availability solutions to their customers, but who have also provided first-class support, expert knowledge, continued product education, and a true Veeam strategy incorporated into their business.

Global cybersecurity leader Forcepoint announced at their annual EMEA Partner Conference last night that they have named Softcat as the UK & Ireland Partner of the Year, recognising the continued business success of Softcat.

Welcomed by Matt Moynahan, Forcepoint CEO, and Tom Flink, vice president of Global Channel Sales, the three-day event has been taking place in Lisbon, Portugal, featuring keynotes and panel discussions with subject matter experts and local sales leadership, and culminating in the EMEA awards announcements.

At a prestigious event celebrating and recognising achievements across the UK PC and tech industry last night, Softcat picked up the award for Corporate VAR of the Year 2018.

Hosted at The Brewery in London by fast-rising standup star Phil Wang, Softcat was judged by a panel of independent experts to be the leading Corporate VAR in the UK market.

Softcat, a leading infrastructure provider, announced today that they have been named as the EMEA Partner of the Year by AlienVault®, a leading provider of Unified Security Management® and crowd-sourced threat intelligence. The Awards program recognizes AlienVault partners – both global and regional – that achieved phenomenal business growth during 2017.

The AlienVault Partner Program enables leading VARs, system integrators, MSSPs and corporate resellers to sell and support AlienVault solutions and deliver compelling services powered by AlienVault USM in the global marketplace. With a strong focus on partner enablement, it is designed to help partners create new opportunities for business growth, expansion and profitability.

Softcat was named one of 12 National Winners from 196 businesses representing the Ones to Watch in the United Kingdom at an exclusive event held at the London Stock Exchange for The European Business Awards, Europe's largest business competition.

Softcat was chosen by a panel of independent judges including senior business leaders, politicians and academics as the best in their country in the Awards' category of 'Business of the Year Award With Turnover of €150m or Higher', and will now go on to represent their country in this category in the final stage of the competition.

Softcat, a leading provider of IT infrastructure products and services, today announced it has been named the recipient of Puppet’s Channel Partner of the Year Awards for the Rising Star, EMEA category. In receiving this award, Softcat was recognised for contributions made to driving customer success with automation.

Highlighting the importance of the award, Sam Routledge, CTO at Softcat, said: “We appreciate the opportunity to work with new & innovative vendors, and I’m delighted to accept the award on behalf of the team at Softcat that have worked so hard in building this relationship and securing new mutual business.”

Veeam Software, the Availability for the Always-On EnterpriseTM innovator, announced at their 2018 Partner Summit that Softcat have completed the Most Significant Project of the Year, for their work with a major healthcare provider.

Taking place at Mercedes Benz World in Surrey, these third annual awards recognize Veeam ProPartners and Veeam Cloud & Service Provider (VCSP) partners who have not only demonstrated success in providing Veeam Availability solutions to their customers, but who have also provided first-class support, expert knowledge, continued product education, and a true Veeam strategy incorporated into their business.

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At a glitzy reception dinner at the Institute of Directors on Thursday, Softcat were pleased to be named one of Britain’s 50 Best Managed IT Companies.

The award, which celebrates best business practice by MSPs and VARS, sees companies evaluated in 12 key areas of business through around 200 questions designed to measure best practices, and follows a day of presentations and interactive sessions based around the value that the channel brings – even in a world where Cloud-based technology is prevalent.

At the 2017 Cisco Partner Summit, held in Dallas, Texas this week, Softcat picked up two awards, UK&I Services Partner of the Year and UK&I Cisco Capital Partner of the Year.

The 3-day event was hosted by Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins and Senior VP for Global Partners, Wendy Bahr, supported by other senior figures within Cisco, and attended by senior partners from around the world to share insight, network with channel partners and reflect on successes throughout the Cisco worldwide channel.

At the 2017 Cisco Partner Summit, held in Dallas, Texas this week, Softcat picked up two awards, UK&I Services Partner of the Year and UK&I Cisco Capital Partner of the Year.

The 3-day event was hosted by Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins and Senior VP for Global Partners, Wendy Bahr, supported by other senior figures within Cisco, and attended by senior partners from around the world to share insight, network with channel partners and reflect on successes throughout the Cisco worldwide channel.

Softcat, a leading provider of IT infrastructure to the corporate and public sectors, was named European Partner of the Year by Nutanix, at its .NEXT partner event, which took place at the Acropolis Conference Center in Nice, France.

Accepting the award on behalf of Softcat, CTO Sam Routledge said, "I'm absolutely delighted to accept this award on behalf of the team at Softcat. We work closely with Nutanix to maximise their disruptive technology and the ability to drive datacentre simplicity and agility. Our role is to help customers deliver a positive user experience and spend more time differentiating their business, technologies like Nutanix are critical to that."

Cylance, the fastest growing Cybersecurity vendor ever, announced at their recent EMEA partner forum held in Marbella, Spain that they have named Softcat its Emerald Partner of the Year 2017 in recognition of their commitment to partnership, along with excellent engagement across sales and technical teams.

Announcing the award, EMEA Channel Director Stuart Quinsey said, “Nothing pleased me more this year than to announce Softcat as the UK’s Emerald Partner of The Year! The word partnership could indeed be defined by the engagement and relationship we have in place with this outstanding partner.”

Softcat scooped the award for Best Apprenticeship Scheme, coming hot on the heels of several other apprentice and learning awards this year.

During a glitzy ceremony at The Brewery in London hosted by comedian and freestyle rapper Chris Turner last night, Softcat scooped the award for Best Apprenticeship Scheme, coming hot on the heels of several other apprentice and learning awards this year.

The 3-day Red Hat Partner Conference took place in Frankfurt last week, culminating in an award ceremony where Softcat was announced as Red Hat’s EMEA Partner of the Year in front of some 600+ Partners of various types.

The agenda of the EMEA conference focused on providing partners with the knowledge needed to truly profit from their partnership with Red Hat, today and in the future. The event is open to independent software vendors, systems integrators and (cloud) service providers and included a mix of keynotes, breakout sessions and social meetings.

Softcat were named Client Partner of the Year from Dell EMC last night at their 2017 Channel Gala Dinner held at The Pavilion, Tower of London. The award was collected by Richard Wyn Griffith, Softcat's Solutions Sales Director.

This award recognises Softcat's commitment, knowledge and expertise in the client solutions arena and demonstrates the high level of engagement that Softcat has with Dell EMC's sales teams. It cements Softcat’s in-depth knowledge of Dell EMC solutions and we continue to see success and growth in the Dell EMC client business.

Softcat has been awarded an unprecedented four awards at this year's Snowstorm UK event, held at St. Paul's in London on 8th June.

The event, part of the largest Snow Community World Tour, outlines the importance of having an effective Software Asset Management (SAM) program in place. The awards reflect the value of the Softcat Software Asset Management (SAM) service and the successful working partnership between Softcat and Snow Software.

Softcat has been awarded an unprecedented four awards at this year's Snowstorm UK event, held at St. Pauls in London on 8th June.

The event, part of the largest Snow Community World Tour, outlines the importance of having an effective Software Asset Management (SAM) program in place. The awards reflect the value of the Softcat Software Asset Management (SAM) service and the successful working partnership between Softcat and Snow Software.

Softcat is one of the top employers for young people at the beginning of their careers. Announced at the 2017 School Leaver Awards last week, the leading IT infrastructure provider claimed the title of Best Training Provider in partnership with apprenticeship training provider PDS, as well as placing third in the Top Advanced Apprenticeship category.

Leading email and data security company Mimecast has named Softcat its Premier Partner of the Year 2017 – the tenth year in a row Softcat has received the award in recognition of outstanding performance and business growth throughout the financial year.

Mimecast General Manager Alan Kenny and Senior Channel Sales Director Gillian Crewdson co-hosted the annual awards at The Brewery in London last Thursday.

Proving their commitment to offering world-class customer service, leading IT infrastructure provider Softcat collected two awards from IT solutions giants, Ivanti, at their London Partner Interchange event.

Softcat has been named 'Northern Europe Partner of the Year' for their outstanding contribution and engagement with Ivanti's customer base, recognising their ability in adopting and embracing Ivanti's vision and efficiently guiding customers through a range of IT challenges.

Credited with proactively and proficiently engaging with Ivanti's IT asset management (ITAM) solutions, Softcat has been awarded 'ITAM 2017 Partner of the Year'.

This honour recognises their unparalleled understanding of Ivanti's asset management services and their forward-thinking approach to helping customers get the best out of their products.

Leading the way with delivering cloud technologies, top IT infrastructure provider Softcat has been named Cloud Partner of the Year by ScanSource Imago, an award sponsored by video communications experts, BlueJeans.

Softcat's Collaboration Team collected the award at ScanSource Imago's Business Breakthrough event at The Brewery in London, early in May.

Gaining top notch results and holding a wealth of network security expertise, leading IT infrastructure provider Softcat has been awarded three major awards by security pioneers, Sophos.

At the Sophos EMEA Partner Conference in Lisbon this week, Softcat were awarded the 2017 Top Performer of the Year for UK and Ireland, the Complete Security Partner of the Year EMEA, and the Enterprise Partner of the Year UK and Ireland award.

Gaining top notch results and holding a wealth of network security expertise, leading IT infrastructure provider Softcat has been awarded three major awards by security pioneers, Sophos.

At the Sophos EMEA Partner Conference in Lisbon this week, Softcat were awarded the 2017 Top Performer of the Year for UK and Ireland, the Complete Security Partner of the Year EMEA, and the Enterprise Partner of the Year UK and Ireland award.

Gaining top notch results and holding a wealth of network security expertise, leading IT infrastructure provider Softcat has been awarded three major awards by security pioneers, Sophos

At the Sophos EMEA Partner Conference in Lisbon this week, Softcat were awarded the 2017 Top Performer of the Year for UK and Ireland, the Complete Security Partner of the Year EMEA, and the Enterprise Partner of the Year UK and Ireland award.

Softcat has once again been named by Great Place to Work® as one of the UK's Best Workplaces. The UK's leading IT infrastructure provider ranked 5th in the large category (organisations with 500+ employees).

Great Place to Work presented the award to Softcat at its annual Best Workplaces awards gala last night at the Park Plaza Hotel in Westminster.

Just weeks after being Highly Commended by judges at the National Apprenticeship Awards, Softcat has won the coveted Apprenticeship Programme of the Year award at the 2017 Learning Awards.

Softcat’s head of training and development Anushka Davies and Apprentice Programme Lead Laura Sneath attended the awards, held at the Dorchester Hotel, London.

Software manufacturer Veeam has named Softcat its 2016 SMB Partner of the Year.

Softcat’s Data Management Business Manager, Katie Bain collected the award while attending Veeam’s inaugural partner summit, held at Penny Hill Park in Berkshire.

Softcat has been highly commended by judges for the Rolls-Royce Newcomer Large Employer of the Year award. The IT reseller received the accolade while attending the National Apprenticeship Awards at Grosvenor House in London on Friday 20 January 2017.

The National Apprenticeship Awards, now in its 13th year, looks for standout companies that demonstrate the positive impact apprenticeship schemes have on organisations and careers.

Global security provider, Symantec, has awarded Softcat its 'President's award for outstanding recognition'. Softcat's Alliances Director, James Baker, and Symantec Business Manager, Lina Mughal, collected the award at Symantec's annual EMEA Partner Engage event, held earlier this week at the Hilton Metropole, London.

The award follows a strong year for Softcat and recognises both the reseller's significant growth with Symantec and its ongoing commitment to developing technical accreditations in key Symantec technologies. Softcat is one of three Symantec Platinum Partners in the UK.

Software giant Adobe has named Softcat their 2016 EMEA Partner of the Year. Adobe's VP Global Consumer and Business Sales, Rob Giglio, announced Softcat as the winner of the award at the company's annual worldwide sales conference in Las Vegas.

Softcat CEO, Martin Hellawell, added: "We're delighted with this award and would like to thank Adobe for its continued investment in our joint partnership. Adobe's solutions are critically important to our customers so I'm thrilled that our employees have been recognised for their ability to offer sound and informed advice and support."

Softcat won CRN's 'Reseller of the Year' at the CRN Awards last night at the Battersea Events Arena, London. The awards follow a momentous year for Softcat which has continued to grow in its first 12 months as a public company.

Martin Hellawell, Softcat CEO said, "There are hundreds of resellers in the UK market and many of them are fabulous companies. To be recognised as the best of the best is a tremendous accolade and testament to the tremendous work the fabulous Softcat team put in day in, day out."

At its November 2016 Global Partner Summit, worldwide technology leader Cisco presented Softcat with its prestigious EMEAR Partner of the Year award, one of a total of five awards received for outstanding channel performance.

At two separate ceremonies held at Terra Gallery and St. Francis Yacht Club, San Francisco, Cisco named Softcat as its EMEAR Partner of the Year, Partner of the Year UK and Ireland, Commercial Partner of the Year UK and Ireland, Enterprise Networking Partner of the Year UK and Ireland and Data Centre Partner of the Year UK and Ireland. Kevin Rama, Cisco Business Manager and I collected the awards on Softcat’s behalf.

At its November 2016 Global Partner Summit, worldwide technology leader Cisco presented Softcat with its prestigious EMEAR Partner of the Year award, one of a total of five awards received for outstanding channel performance.

At two separate ceremonies held at Terra Gallery and St. Francis Yacht Club, San Francisco, Cisco named Softcat as its EMEAR Partner of the Year, Partner of the Year UK and Ireland, Commercial Partner of the Year UK and Ireland, Enterprise Networking Partner of the Year UK and Ireland and Data Centre Partner of the Year UK and Ireland. Kevin Rama, Cisco Business Manager and I collected the awards on Softcat’s behalf.

At its November 2016 Global Partner Summit, worldwide technology leader Cisco presented Softcat with its prestigious EMEAR Partner of the Year award, one of a total of five awards received for outstanding channel performance.

At two separate ceremonies held at Terra Gallery and St. Francis Yacht Club, San Francisco, Cisco named Softcat as its EMEAR Partner of the Year, Partner of the Year UK and Ireland, Commercial Partner of the Year UK and Ireland, Enterprise Networking Partner of the Year UK and Ireland and Data Centre Partner of the Year UK and Ireland. Kevin Rama, Cisco Business Manager and I collected the awards on Softcat’s behalf.

At its November 2016 Global Partner Summit, worldwide technology leader Cisco presented Softcat with its prestigious EMEAR Partner of the Year award, one of a total of five awards received for outstanding channel performance.

At two separate ceremonies held at Terra Gallery and St. Francis Yacht Club, San Francisco, Cisco named Softcat as its EMEAR Partner of the Year, Partner of the Year UK and Ireland, Commercial Partner of the Year UK and Ireland, Enterprise Networking Partner of the Year UK and Ireland and Data Centre Partner of the Year UK and Ireland. Kevin Rama, Cisco Business Manager and I collected the awards on Softcat’s behalf.

At its November 2016 Global Partner Summit, worldwide technology leader Cisco presented Softcat with its prestigious EMEAR Partner of the Year award, one of a total of five awards received for outstanding channel performance.

At two separate ceremonies held at Terra Gallery and St. Francis Yacht Club, San Francisco, Cisco named Softcat as its EMEAR Partner of the Year, Partner of the Year UK and Ireland, Commercial Partner of the Year UK and Ireland, Enterprise Networking Partner of the Year UK and Ireland and Data Centre Partner of the Year UK and Ireland. Kevin Rama, Cisco Business Manager and I collected the awards on Softcat’s behalf.

Leading technology market analyst Canalys has named Softcat its ‘2016 Overall Europe Middle East and Africa (EMEA) Channel Partner of the Year.’

Softcat’s CEO Martin Hellawell collected the award while attending the Canalys Channels Forum held at the Hotel Arts, Barcelona. This is the second time Softcat has won the award which distinguishes the solutions provider for its consistently high volume of sales, outstanding levels of customer satisfaction and ongoing growth.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has awarded Softcat its United Kingdom and Ireland (UKI) Partner of the Year 2016 award.

Softcat's CEO Martin Hellawell and solutions sales director Richard Wyn Griffith were in Boston at HPE's Global Partner Conference to collect the award.

VMware, the global leader in virtualisation and cloud infrastructure, has honoured Softcat with its UKI Partner of the Year for 2016.

Softcat's solutions director, Sam Routledge and Softcat's VMware business managers Ashley West and Kat Milton, collected the award at VMware's awards ceremony, held at the Mayfair Hotel in London.

Email management and cloud services provider Mimecast has named Softcat its premier partner of the year 2016 for the ninth year in a row, following outstanding performance and business growth throughout the financial year.

Mimecast's CPO Alan Kenny and channel director Gillian Crewdson co-hosted the annual awards at The Brewery in London ahead of CRN's charity fight night. Softcat's Peter Ollerenshaw, Microsoft Azure Sales Specialist, was one of eighteen contenders who battled it out in the ring, boxing his way to victory with a first round stoppage.

Softcat, the leading IT infrastructure provider, was named by Great Place to Work® as first overall on the UK's Best Workplaces ranking in the large category (organisations with 500+ employees). Great Place to Work presented the award to Softcat at its annual Best Workplaces awards gala dinner on 27th April.

As well as being officially named as the UK's best workplace, Great Place to Work gave Softcat it's 'most trusted leadership' award and also named Softcat as one of its Laureates, which recognises the company's consistent ranking as a Best Workplace for five consecutive years. During the 16 years that the awards have been running, only 47 companies have achieved this status.

Great Place to Work named Softcat as one of its Laureates, which recognises the company's consistent ranking as a Best Workplace for five consecutive years. During the 16 years that the awards have been running, only 47 companies have achieved this status.

Great Place to Work gave Softcat it's 'most trusted leadership' award

Softcat has won the 'Management Team of the Year' award, at the Thames Valley Deals Awards, held at the Royal Berkshire Conference Centre, Madejski Stadium.

The Thames Valley Deals Awards bring together professionals from the finance community to recognise outstanding deals as well as top-performing banks, law firms and private equity houses. Nominations are drawn from across the Thames Valley, which incorporates one of the largest concentrations of businesses in the UK

Data security leader Sophos has presented Softcat with its prestigious 'Partner of the Year UK & Ireland' award, following a record-breaking year of continued sales growth.

The award ceremony was held in Cannes, where Sophos hosted its sales kick-off meeting at the Palais des Festivals et des Congrés de Cannes.

Cisco, the worldwide technology leader has presented Softcat with its award for achieving the greatest EMEA year-on-year sales growth for its Unified Computing System (UCS) product line.

The award ceremony took place at Cisco's 'Platform for Success' data centre conference held recently in Rome.

VMware, the global leader in virtualisation and cloud infrastructure, has honoured Softcat with its Solution Provider Partner of the Year award for 2016 for the European region.

Sam Routledge, Softcat's solutions director, collected the award on the company's behalf at VMware's invitation-only Partner Leadership Summit, held in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Cisco, the worldwide technology leader, presented Softcat with its Commercial Partner of the Year award for UK and Ireland (UK&I) at its 2016 Cisco Partner Summit, earlier this week.

The Cisco Partner Summit, held this year in San Diego, California, is an invitation-only event for top partners from around the world. It offers opportunities for executive networking, strategy discussions and technology updates.

At the 2016 Bett Awards, SMART Technologies’ president and chief executive Neil Gaydon presented Softcat with the ‘Most Innovative Deployment’ accolade in recognition of a substantial 71-screen SMART Technologies implementation in a UK independent school.

Representatives from Softcat joined a stream of educational professionals from across the UK attending the 32nd annual occurrence of the four-day Bett show. Secretary of State for Education Nicky Morgan and Sir David Attenborough were also in attendance.

Data protection solution provider Veeam has honoured Softcat with its Most Significant Project award for 2015.

Tableau (NYSE: DATA) a global leader in easy-to-use business analytics software, awarded Softcat its 'Rising Star' accolade at the company's recent 2016 EMEA Tableau Partner Summit.

Tableau's awards recognise excellent growth and notable achievements from its global partners. This new award, which was one of just eight categories, acknowledges significant contributions to business growth.

Softcat wins Forcepoint's 2015 'Growth Reseller of the Year'

Softcat has been awarded New Business Partner, Revenue Partner and Managed Services Partner awards at this year's Snow Software Awards Ceremony, held at The Belfry in Sutton Coldfield on 29 April.

The Snow Software Awards are held annually to promote and celebrate the achievements of their one hundred partners. A panel of Snow Software employees selected Softcat to win three awards this year. They reflect the value of the Software Asset Management (SAM) service and the successful working partnership between Softcat and Snow Software.

Softcat has been awarded New Business Partner, Revenue Partner and Managed Services Partner awards at this year's Snow Software Awards Ceremony, held at The Belfry in Sutton Coldfield on 29 April.

The Snow Software Awards are held annually to promote and celebrate the achievements of their one hundred partners. A panel of Snow Software employees selected Softcat to win three awards this year. They reflect the value of the Software Asset Management (SAM) service and the successful working partnership between Softcat and Snow Software.

Softcat has been awarded New Business Partner, Revenue Partner and Managed Services Partner awards at this year's Snow Software Awards Ceremony, held at The Belfry in Sutton Coldfield on 29 April.

The Snow Software Awards are held annually to promote and celebrate the achievements of their one hundred partners. A panel of Snow Software employees selected Softcat to win three awards this year. They reflect the value of the Software Asset Management (SAM) service and the successful working partnership between Softcat and Snow Software.

GlobalCapital, a leading news, opinion and data service for the international capital markets, has presented Softcat with its Equity Capital Markets 'Best IPO under $300m' award for 2016.

Rory Watts, Softcat's marketing manager, collected the award on the company's behalf at a black tie ceremony hosted yesterday evening at The Banking Hall, London. The award recognises Softcat's successful initial public offering on the London Stock Exchange during November of 2015.

Earlier this week at IGEL Technology's partner roadshow, Softcat picked up its 'Southern UK Partner 2015' award in recognition of another year of strong sales, large deals and increased revenues.

IGEL, one of the world's leading thin-client providers, is one of Softcat's go-to partners for end user computing (EUC) solutions.

LANDESK has named Softcat its EMEA partner of the year as a result of its commitment to the partnership and joint business growth.

Vice-president of worldwide sales Mitch Rowe presented the awards last Thursday at LANDESK’s annual partner conference at Prince Philip House in London.

Softcat has ranked 23rd in The Sunday Times’ 11th annual Grant Thornton Top Track ranking of the UK’s mid-market growth private companies with the biggest sales – a jump of 29 places from its ranking in 2014.

The league table ranks companies according to their growth, with businesses needing to achieve either sales or profit growth of at least 10% to enter.

Softcat has won the ‘Best Emerging Partner’ award from security solution provider Becrypt, in recognition of its commitment, customer service and overall sales performance this year.

Softcat’s Grant Davey accepted the award from Becrypt CEO Dr Bernard Parsons at a drinks reception at InfoSec last week.

Softcat has won Sophos’ UK & Ireland Mid-Market Partner of the Year award at the data security provider’s annual partner conference in Rome.

Sophos’ Regional Vice President UKI James Vyvyan presented the award to Softcat’s alliances director James Baker. Since it became Sophos’ UK Partner of the Year last year, Softcat has continued to demonstrate its commitment through continued sales growth – last financial year growing Sophos business by 26%.

Just weeks after reaching second place in the UK 'Great Place To Work' rankings, Softcat has been ranked 6th best European workplace at a prestigious awards ceremony in Rome last night, having entered the large company category for the first time.

As with the UK awards, the European rankings are determined by reviewing employee satisfaction levels. 2,330 companies participated in the ranking. Last year Softcat achieved 10th place in the same ranking in the medium category.

Email management and cloud email services provider Mimecast has named Softcat its premier partner of the year 2015 for the eighth year in a row, following outstanding performance and business growth throughout the financial year.

Mimecast’s CPO Alan Kenny presented the award at the company’s annual partner awards at The Brewery in London last night.

Softcat has been awarded the Top UK Performing Solutions Provider award from Qlik at Qonnections 2015, Qlik’s tenth annual Global Partner Summit in Dallas.

Lissa Jackson, Softcat’s business development manager for business intelligence (BI) and analytics, accepted the award in front of Qlik’s UK partners in recognition of Softcat’s partner performance and commitment in 2014.

Softcat won CRN's 'Best Company to Work For' at the CRN Sales and Marketing Awards last night at the Brewery in London. The award comes just a month after the IT infrastructure provider came 2nd and 8th in the 'Great Place To Work' UK and European rankings respectively.

Martin Hellawell, Softcat CEO said, "We are delighted to win this award from CRN. Softcat's fortunate to have been recognised a number of times for its commitment to employee satisfaction however these awards have always come from outside our industry. To be recognised by CRN and chosen from a prestigious list of candidates and employers who we hold in high regard, is humbling and a great start to the weekend."

Softcat has ranked second in the prestigious Great Place to Work ‘Best Workplaces’ awards for the second year running.

The award, announced at a gala dinner on 13th May, is testament to Softcat’s ability to maintain outstanding levels of employee satisfaction as it has grown by 28% over the past year while recruiting hundreds of new staff.

Great Place to Work honoured Softcat with the 'Delivering Excellence in Leadership' special award, in the large business category, also for the second year in a row.

"Workplace satisfaction comes from your employees being well led and well managed. This creates strong followership, and achieving the Great Place To Work leadership award at the same time as coming second again in the Best Workplaces large category listing underlines that this is definitely true for us," said Colin Brown, Softcat's managing director. "We tend to promote people internally rather than hire outside the company, which enables managers to relate well to their team, and it also inspires employees to work hard and move on up. Our managers and directors sit amongst teams 100% of the time, and this approachability is key to good employee engagement

Last night Softcat accepted the Enterprise Networking Partner of the Year UK&I award at Cisco’s global Partner Summit in Canada.

Colin Brown, managing director at Softcat, accepted the award from Cisco’s Phil Smith, senior vice president, UKI and Richard Roberts, MD partner and commercial organisation, in recognition of partner excellence in the provision of switching, routing and wireless solutions.

For the second year running, Softcat has been named as ESET Partner of the Year. The award follows a booming financial year for Softcat which saw 25% growth and revenues of £504m.

Softcat accepted the ESET ‘UK Channel Partner of the Year’ award during a ceremony held by the antivirus software, internet security and virus protection provider in Hinkley.

Last week Softcat’s End User Computing (EUC) team enjoyed a bumper few days of success, achieving the AppSense EMEA Partner of the Year accolade at a two-day AppSense partner and reseller event held in London.

The award followed hot on the heels of Softcat’s recent elevation to VMware’s Elite Business Mobility Partner status, making it one of the UK’s best partners for customers seeking higher-level expertise in user environment management.

Last week Softcat picked up the Value Added Reseller for H2 FY2015 award from growing data storage provider Pure Storage at the Eight Members Club in Bank, London.

Peter Gadd, Pure Storage’s Northern EMEA director, presented the award. The award recognises Softcat’s performance in the delivery of Pure Storage’s revolutionary FlashArray storage and applications to its 8,000-strong customer base in the UK.

HP has awarded longstanding partner Softcat its Financial Services Partner of the Year award. It's the first year that HP has offered this worldwide award to a company in Europe.

HP granted Softcat the award at its Global Partner Conference in Las Vegas last night, on the basis of its strong performance, business growth and collaboration as a partner over the past year.

Last week at the inaugural Megabuyte50 awards Softcat came 23rd in the Megabuyte top 50 ranking.

Softcat was the second largest in revenues, 6th in the owner-managed segment, and one of just three VARs on the list. The awards celebrate the top 50 best performing privately-owned technology companies in the UK mid-market.

Softcat wins Redhat's 2015 'Stronger Together Award'

Softcat has been named Nimble Storage 2015 'Rising Star of the Year'

Softcat has had a strong start to 2015 with the award of its latest accolade, Adobe EMEA Reseller of the Year – the first time the platinum partner has achieved it.

Most Softcat customers use Adobe’s software or licensing in some capacity, and over the past year Softcat has been supporting customers through Adobe’s transition from perpetual licensing to cloud subscription.

Last night Softcat took home the 'Best IT Management Company' accolade at the Talk of Manchester Awards.

Over 400 guests from 112 local businesses attended the glittering ceremony, which was sponsored by Natwest in aid of The Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital and held at the Mercure Manchester Piccadilly Hotel.

Last night Softcat scored a hat-trick in Brussels as it took Platinum Partner of the Year, UK Partner of the Year and EMEA Partner of the year at Dell’s annual EMEA partner conference and awards ceremony.

Michael Dell, Cheryl Cook (VP Global Channels) and Laurent Binetti (GM Emea Channels) presented the awards to Softcat’s Dell Business Manager Mike Cosby and Alliance Manager Vanessa Barkaway.

Yesterday Softcat collected two prestigious awards at the annual HP Partner Forum in Twickenham: Partner of the Year for Storage and Partner of the Year for HP Financial Services.

The awards follow a year that has seen Softcat grow HP financial services business 300%, reflecting the increasing number of customers demanding flexible pay as you go ‘as a service’ solutions, which in turn drives demand for more advanced financing options.

Softcat’s awards cabinet is bulging this month with the addition of yet another partner of the year award.

The Check Point ‘European Growth Partner of the Year’ award follows similar recent accolades from Sophos, Barracuda and ESET. Softcat security specialist Paul Solomon accepted the award from Check Point’s vice-president of sales Bruno Darmon, CEO and founder Gil Shwed, and president Amnon Bar-Lev, at the ceremony in Barcelona.

Softcat has been announced as Premier Partner of the Year for the seventh year running by Mimecast, a leader in enterprise cloud services for the protection and management of corporate human generated data.

The award was presented to Softcat at Mimecast’s annual Partner Awards ceremony held in London recently. Mimecast’s Partner Awards recognise and reward the achievements of channel partners in areas such as revenue, growth, channel advocacy, technical skills and customer excellence.

Softcat’s software asset management (SAM) team was thrilled yesterday when Microsoft singled out the reseller with its Worldwide SAM Partner of the Year award in recognition of a surge in Microsoft SAM business this year.

Softcat’s SAM manager Matt Ward will officially accept the award at Microsoft’s global partner awards in Washington, July 13-17. Softcat was also a finalist for Worldwide Volume Licensing Partner of the Year.

Entered in the large company category for the first time, Softcat was delighted to be announced a remarkable 2nd in the UK Great Place to Work rankings, at a prestigious awards ceremony in London last night.

The rankings are determined by reviewing employee satisfaction levels in companies across the UK. Softcat’s Executive chairman Martin Hellawell and Managing Director Colin Brown also jointly accepted a specialist award, ‘Delivering Excellence in Leadership’, in recognition of Softcat’s leadership efforts.

Data security leader Sophos has awarded Softcat its prestigious ‘Partner of the Year UK & Ireland’ and ‘Mid-market Partner of the Year’ awards following a year of flourishing growth, which saw Softcat become Sophos’ largest revenue partner in the UK.

Sophos presented the awards to Softcat’s Sophos team, led by account manager Adam Price, at its partner awards at the Hilton London Metropole last Thursday.

Softcat’s award cabinet is filling up quickly this month, with the recent additions of two ‘partner of the year’ awards from Barracuda and ESET.

The awards follow a booming financial year, which saw 30% growth and revenues of £398m. Softcat’s sales director David Ridgeway accepted the ESET ‘UK Channel Partner of the Year’ award in Hinkley. Alan Thake, head of sales at ESET, praised the proactiveness of Softcat’s account managers and added that Softcat had and continue to be a pleasure to work with.

Softcat’s award cabinet is filling up quickly this month, with the recent additions of two ‘partner of the year’ awards from Barracuda and ESET.

The awards follow a booming financial year, which saw 30% growth and revenues of £398m. Softcat’s sales director David Ridgeway accepted the ESET ‘UK Channel Partner of the Year’ award in Hinkley. Alan Thake, head of sales at ESET, praised the proactiveness of Softcat’s account managers and added that Softcat had and continue to be a pleasure to work with.

Softcat has won the ‘Best Partner Experience’ award from Becrypt at its third annual partner awards held at a reception at InfoSec Europe.

Becrypt presents these awards each year to its top performing and most innovative channel partners that have demonstrated success by delivering great customer service.

Softcat has pipped the competition to the post to win Snow Software’s ‘Hosting Partner of the Year’ award. Matt Ward, Softcat’s Software Asset Manager, accepted the award at Snow Software’s Headquarters in Bracknell.

The award follows a year that saw Softcat, one of three Gold partners, become Snow’s highest grossing revenue partner in the UK for its Snow hosted service.

Last night Citrix awarded Softcat the Citrix Service Provider (CSP) Partner Program Distributor Award at the Citrix Summit in Orlando, Florida, in recognition of ‘demonstrating excellence in the overall desktop as a service (DaaS) approach’.

Scott Swanburg, Citrix’s senior director of service provider and cloud computing, presented Softcat’s solutions director Sam Routledge with the award.

Vision Solutions, Inc., a leading provider of data protection and migration software and services, has announced Softcat as the first Vision Solutions Diamond Partner in the UK.

The new partner status has been awarded in recognition of Softcat’s outstanding expertise around the use of Vision Solutions technology to help customers deliver IT transformation and achieve new levels of cost-efficiency.

Lanamark Inc., a global provider of collaborative analytics and design automation tools for IT sales and services organisations delivering cloud, storage and virtualisation solutions, today announced that VAR Softcat has won the 2013 Lanamark Partner of the Year Award.

Softcat uses Lanamark Suite to deliver world-class desktop and datacentre solutions for corporate and public sector organisations.

Data protection solution provider Veeam has named Softcat its top performing ProPartner in Northern EMEA following a year of sustained high revenues.

Softcat will accept the award formally at Veeam’s 2013 EMEA Partner Awards ceremony in Istanbul on May 15 and 16th. Softcat provides Veeam’s solutions to UK businesses seeking to protect and back up their data and ensure smooth business continuity.