BEAR Data Solutions Named to Inaugural CRN Tech Elite 250
SAN FRANCISCO, Ca, March 9, 2011—BEAR Data Solutions has been named to the inaugural CRN Tech Elite 250. The Tech Elite 250 serves as the industry’s definitive list of VARs with both deep technical expertise and premier certifications. BEAR Data Solutions has been recognized as a best-of-breed integrator who has invested in technical know-how and earned premier certifications in the areas of data centers and infrastructure for North American customers. To view a sample list of winners, visit www.CRN.com.
CRN Editors worked with solution providers and outside experts to define the most important technical certifications in the market today. By mapping certifications against the key technology opportunities as defined by CRN’s State of the Market and Midmarket studies, the Tech Elite 250 recognizes the VARs most committed to helping customers innovate while reducing costs.
BEAR Data Solutions believes that educated employees provide quality contributions to the clients they serve. With hundreds of sales and technical certifications on practice areas ranging from virtualization and storage solutions to security and managed services, BEAR Data has a well-trained staff that can design and implement complex IT solutions that fit customer goals and budget.
“The Tech Elite 250 recognizes an elite group of VARs who are successfully navigating the dynamic IT channel market,” said Kelley Damore, Vice President and Editorial Director of CRN. “By adapting to new customer purchasing patterns and redefining best practices, these solution providers are delivering the strategies and value customers demand to compete in today’s competitive economic environment.”
“We are honored to be named to the inaugural CRN Tech Elite 250,” states Don James, CEO of BEAR Data Solutions. “Our customers can count on our professional integrity and accountability throughout every engagement, and this industry recognition highlights the investments we have made in our people, our strategic partnerships and our satisfied customers.”
About BEAR Data Solutions
BEAR Data Solutions, Inc. is a global IT service provider that helps enterprise clients design, optimize, manage and support mission-critical IT infrastructures. By combining expert engineering resources, best-of-breed technologies, and superior customer service, BEAR Data delivers high-performance IT solutions and services including: virtualization, unified communications, networking, storage, database, security, managed services, wireless, staffing, and support contract management.
For more information, please visit www.beardatasolutions.com.
Accolades:
2010:
Listed on CRN’s 2010 Top Healthcare VAR list
Ranked 49 on CRN’s 2010 Fast Growth list
Ranked 288 on the VAR 500 list
Ranked 1989 on the Fastest-growing Private Companies in America by Inc. magazine
2009:
Ranked 913 Fastest-growing Private Company in America by Inc. magazine
Ranked 331 on the VAR500 list, Fast Growth 100 by CRN Magazine
Ranked 37 on the Top 100 Fastest Growing Private Companies by San Francisco Business Times
About Everything Channel
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About United Business Media Limited
UBM (UBM.L) focuses on two principal activities: worldwide information distribution, targeting and monitoring; and, the development and monetization of B2B communities and markets. UBM’s businesses inform markets and serve professional commercial communities — from doctors to game developers, from journalists to jewelry traders, from farmers to pharmacists — with integrated events, online, print and business information products. Our 6,500 staff in more than 30 countries are organized into specialist teams that serve these communities, bringing buyers and sellers together, helping them to do business and their markets to work effectively and efficiently. For more information, go to www.ubm.com.
Media Relations:
BEAR Data Solutions
Shawna Beeman Zaw, Director of Marketing
415-788-1514
szaw@beardatasolutions.com
