HPM Networks Named to Everything Channel’s VAR500 List

17th Annual List Ranks North America’s Top 500 Technology Integrators

 

Pleasanton, CA., June 22, 2011 – HPM Networks, today announced it has been recognized by Everything Channel as a part of CRN’s 2011 VAR500 list, which ranks the top technology integrators in North America. Featuring the highest producing technology integrators and solution provider organizations in the IT channel, the VAR500 rankings consider earnings from hardware sales, software sales and managed IT services.

HPM Networks placed #102 in the 17th annual ranking.

The VAR500 is a list of the largest value-added resellers, solution providers and integrators in North America by revenue size. Revenue size is determined by the amount of annual products and services sold over the course of 2010.

 

 

HPM Named to CRN Elite 250

 

The CRN Tech Elite 250 is a new list CRN will be publishing that's similar to the VAR500 and Fast Growth 100. This is the definitive list of VARs with deep technical expertise and premier certifications serving customers in North America. These 250 VARs are best-of breed integrators who have invested in technical know-how and premier/platinum certifications in the areas of data centers and infrastructure.

Methodology: CRN Editors worked with solution providers and outside experts to define the most important technical certifications in the market today. They mapped the certifications against the key technology opportunities as defined by Everything Channel's State of the Market and Midmarket studies. From there, CRN editors built the list based on level and depth of technical certifications within the VAR organization.

The following vendor certifications are part of the CRN Tech Elite: EMC, IBM, Cisco, VMware, Citrix, Microsoft, Dell, HP, Symantec and NetApp.

 

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HP Names Romi Randhawa New President of SMB Advisory Council

 

Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ) named six new members to its SMB Advisory Council Wednesday and appointed the council’s new president, Romi Randhawa, president and CEO of Fremont, Calif.-based HPM Networks.

“I’m honored to be presiding over a group of incredible partners to help further drive the momentum that’s been created as a result of this council,” said Randhawa, a council member since 2003, at a press conference in Cupertino, Calif.

He said a key mission for the council in the next year would be to better communicate HP’s SMB-facing value propositions to more of the 16,000 solution providers HP estimates service the IT needs of SMBs in the U.S.

Run by Palo Alto, Calif.-based HP’s Solution Partners Organization (SPO) - Americas, the SMB Advisory council is made up of key HP channel partners who collaborate with the computing giant to address a bigger portion of the SMB market in the U.S.

 

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