SonicWALL Announces Partner of the Year Award Winners

SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- SonicWALL, Inc., the leading provider of intelligent network security and data protection solutions, today announced the winners of the 2011 SonicWALL Partner of the Year Awards. The annual awards honor SonicWALL partners for delivering innovative solutions and outstanding performance that directly addressed customer challenges during the past year. Award winners were recognized at SonicWALL Peak Performance 2011, a premier event within the networking security industry where SonicWALL gathered over 400 of its worldwide partners together with customers, industry analysts and executives to exchange ideas, attend educational breakout sessions and form new business relationships.

The award winners were selected from a group of exemplary partners based on their commitment to customers and excellent use of SonicWALL solutions and services.

"Congratulations to all the 2011 Partner Award winners and finalists. Each of these partners has demonstrated a unique approach and exceptional dedication in addressing the technology and business challenges of its customers," said Marvin Blough, vice president worldwide sales at SonicWALL. "The efforts and expertise of these outstanding partners continue to bring incredible value to the customers they serve and the marketplace as a whole. We are honored to recognize their success."

The winners and categories were:

North America

Direct Market Reseller Partner of the Year: CDW
Canada Partner of the Year: Netcetera Consulting
US Silver Partner of the Year: NetConnect, Inc.
US Gold Partner of the Year: Sikich, LLP
Innovation Partner of the Year: Western NRG, Inc.
MSP Partner of the Year: High Touch, Inc.
MVP Partner of the Year: Solutions Granted, Inc.

EMEA

France

MSP Partner of the Year: Oceanet Technology

Saudi Arabia

Gold Partner of the Year: ICC Solutions

Germany

MVP Partner of the Year: Data-Sec

Latin America

Mexico

Innovation Partner of the Year: Dominion Mexico
Innovation Partner of the Year: 4IP

Chile

MSP of the Year: Soluciones Orion

Colombia

Innovation Partner of the Year: Arolen S.A.

Brazil

MSP of the Year: Energy Telecom
Solution Provider of the Year: MTel

SonicWALL, Inc. provides network security and data protection solutions that enable customers and partners - around the world – to dynamically secure, control, and scale their global networks. The security solutions have the intelligence to adapt dynamically as organizations and threats evolve globally. Leveraging its patented Reassembly-Free Deep Packet Inspection technology in combination with a high speed, multi-core, parallel hardware architecture, SonicWALL enables simultaneous, multi-threat scanning and analysis and provides the technical framework that allows the entire solution to scale for deployment in high bandwidth networks. Solutions are available for companies of all verticals and sizes and are deployed in large campus environments, distributed enterprise settings, government, retail point-of-sale and healthcare segments as well as through service providers.

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About SonicWALL, Inc.

Guided by its vision of Dynamic Security for the Global Network, SonicWALL develops advanced intelligent network security and data protection solutions that adapt as organizations evolve and as threats evolve. Trusted by small and large enterprises worldwide, SonicWALL solutions are designed to detect and control applications and protect networks from intrusions and malware attacks through award-winning hardware, software and virtual appliance-based solutions. For more information, visit http://www.sonicwall.com/.

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