BEAR Data Solutions Named to Everything Channel’s VAR500 List
17th Annual List Ranks North America’s Top 500 Technology Integrators
San Francisco, CA, June 15, 2011 – BEAR Data Solutions, a global IT solutions provider, 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. BEAR Data Solutions placed 185th in the 17th annual ranking in just its sixth year in business.
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.
“BEAR Data is honored to be acknowledged as one of the largest value-added resellers in North America,” said Brad Thompson, EVP Sales & Marketing, BEAR Data Solutions. “We moved up 103 slots in the 2011 rankings from 2010. This shows that we are successfully increasing our revenue year over year and that we continue to support our clients across the globe.”
“The VAR500 represents the top performing solution providers in the IT community,” said Kelley Damore, VP, Editorial Director, Everything Channel. “Vendors of all sizes rely heavily on the VAR500 list to find those solution providers best suited to sell their products. VAR500 honorees are considered trusted business advisors, integration experts, and invaluable partners. Even more importantly, they solve customers’ biggest IT business problems through product integration, training, consulting and services.”
VAR500 Executive Conference and Awards
The 2011 VAR500 list was announced at the VAR500 Executive Conference and Awards, an elite two-day conference designed for high level executives to meet with VAR500 companies to discuss business models, technology offerings, and partnerships. Held June 13-14 at the Sawgrass Marriot in Jacksonville, Florida, the conference focused on channel marketing strategies and direction, offering actionable content to the top Solution Provider organizations in North America. Attendees learned the secrets for uncovering new market opportunities from industry experts, peers and fellow VAR500 companies.
A sample of the VAR500 list will be published in print and online at CRN.com on June 20, 2011.
About BEAR Data Solutions
BEAR Data Solutions, Inc. (www.beardatasolutions.com), a San Francisco based global IT service provider founded in 2004 with eleven offices throughout the U.S. and around the globe, helps enterprise clients design, optimize, 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:
2011:
- Selected to CRN Tech Elite 250
- Ranked 185 on the VAR500 list
2010:
- Selected to CRN’s 2010 Top Healthcare VAR list
- Ranked 49 on CRN’s 2010 Fast Growth100 list
- Ranked 288 on the VAR500 list
- Ranked 1989 on the list of Fastest-Growing Private Companies in America by Inc. magazine
Everything Channel
Everything Channel is the premier provider of IT channel-focused events, media, research, consulting, and sales and marketing services. With over 30 years of experience and engagement, Everything Channel has the unmatched channel expertise to execute integrated solutions for technology executives managing partner recruitment, enablement and go-to-market strategy in order to accelerate technology sales. Everything Channel is a UBM company. To learn more about Everything Channel, visit us at http://www.everythingchannel.com.
About United Business Media Limited (www.unitedbusinessmedia.com)
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.
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