Stepping Up And Standing Out: CRN’s 2020 Triple Crown Award Winners
CRN assembles a number of lists and rankings throughout the year, including the Solution Provider 500, the Fast Growth 150 and the Tech Elite 250. CRN recognizes the 44 solution providers that earned a spot on all three lists this year with the annual Triple Crown honors.
With a global pandemic, a faltering economy and national turmoil over racial injustice, 2020 has been a year of challenges. For the IT industry and the channel community, it also has been a year of sudden shifts in demand for IT products and services as customers moved to a work-from-home model that required more laptop PCs, collaboration tools and remote support.
And yet many solution providers that exceled during the economic expansion in recent years are continuing to thrive this year by building on their records of rapid growth and leveraging strengths such as their technical proficiency and deep service offerings.
Each year CRN develops lists and rankings of solution providers, including the Solution Provider 500, the largest solution providers in North America by revenue; the Fast Growth 150, ranking the fastest-growing solution providers; and the Tech Elite 250, which identifies solution providers with the highest-level certifications from major IT vendors.
And each year a number of solution providers make all three lists—an impressive accomplishment. This year 44 solution providers pulled off that feat to become the 2020 class of CRN Triple Crown winners.
2nd Watch
Top Executive: Doug Schneider, CEO
Location: Seattle
2nd Watch offers services around business transformation, data center migration and application modernization, cloud computing, data engineering, DevOps, compliance, security, business continuity and managed services.
2020 SP 500 Rank: No. 134
2020 Fast Growth Rank: No. 30
2020 Fast Growth: 117.86%
Triple Crown Winner: 2017, 2018
Advanced Computer Concepts
Top Executive: Reza Zarafshar, President
Location: McLean, Va.
Advanced Computer Concepts focuses on cloud, collaboration, cybersecurity, data center, networking and audio/visual systems—all supported with professional and managed services.
2020 SP 500 Rank: No. 99
2020 Fast Growth Rank: No. 132
2020 Fast Growth: 43.69%
Triple Crown Winner: 2015, 2016, 2017
Advanced Network Management
Top Executive: Raminder Mann, CEO
Location: Albuquerque, N.M.
Advanced Network Management provides IT solutions and managed services to customers across the West, focusing on network automation, data center, cloud, collaboration, security and Salesforce applications.
2020 SP 500 Rank: No. 170
2020 Fast Growth Rank: No. 133
2020 Fast Growth: 43.60%
Triple Crown Winner: 2017
AEC Group
Top Executive: Danielle Mizia, President
Location: Oakdale, Pa.
AEC Group specializes in cloud, data center, telecommunications and mobility; system architecture, design and deployment; and security, disaster recovery and business continuity through the AEC Technology Assistance Center.
2020 SP 500 Rank: No. 238
2020 Fast Growth Rank: No. 28
2020 Fast Growth: 120.98%
Triple Crown Winner: 2017, 2018, 2019
AHEAD
Top Executive: Daniel Adamany, Founder, CEO
Location: Chicago
AHEAD helps customers build and sustain digital business platforms, including enterprise cloud infrastructure engineering services and delivering modern applications. It was the winner of VMware’s 2020 Americas Partner of the Year Award for Services Excellence.
2020 SP 500 Rank: No. 36
2020 Fast Growth Rank: No. 15
2020 Fast Growth: 198.85%
Triple Crown Winner: 2015
Aqueduct Technologies
Top Executive: Manak Ahluwalia, President, CEO
Location: Waltham, Mass.
Aqueduct provides managed, professional and IT assessment services to customers throughout New England in areas including data center, enterprise networking, advanced security, cloud, collaboration and carrier services.
2020 SP 500 Rank: No. 288
2020 Fast Growth Rank: No. 125
2020 Fast Growth: 45.43%
Triple Crown Winner: 2017, 2018, 2019
Aspire Technology Partners
Top Executive: John Harris, Co-Founder, President, CEO
Location: Eatontown, N.J.
Aspire Technology Partners powers customers’ complete business transformations with a focus on digital infrastructure, collaboration and cybersecurity technologies.
2020 SP 500 Rank: No. 207
2020 Fast Growth Rank: No. 87
2020 Fast Growth: 60.50%
Triple Crown Winner: 2016
ATSG
Top Executive: Anthony D’Ambrosi, CEO
Location: New York
ATSG’s managed services lineup includes rediTech (applications, tools and infrastructure), rediManage (end-user support, digital workplace, cloud, mobility and application management) and rediSecure (managed security).
2020 SP 500 Rank: No. 264
2020 Fast Growth Rank: No. 38
2020 Fast Growth: 96.87%
Triple Crown Winner: *New to list
Business IT Source
Top Executive: Bob Frauenheim, Founder, Principal
Location: Buffalo Grove, Ill.
Business IT Source provides a broad range of IT products and solutions including personal systems, servers, storage systems, network and communications gear, data protection products, and printers and accessories.
2020 SP 500 Rank: No. 167
2020 Fast Growth Rank: No. 82
2020 Fast Growth: 63.31%
Triple Crown Winner: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
C Spire Business
Top Executive: Hu Meena, Chairman, CEO
Location: Ridgeland, Miss.
C Spire provides voice, wireless, business internet and cloud services to customers in Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee. Data center services include data protection and backup and recovery while cloud offerings span public, private and hybrid cloud services.
2020 SP 500 Rank: No. 91
2020 Fast Growth Rank: No. 138
2020 Fast Growth: 41.74%
Triple Crown Winner: 2014
CBT
Top Executive: Kelly Ireland, Founder, CEO
Location: Orange, Calif.
CBT is a premier, woman-owned domain expert Integrator and technology provider with extensive experience designing and deploying enterprise-class solutions. Combining best-of-breed technologies, CBT provides services and solutions in the areas of Industrial IoT, HPC and analytics, hybrid IT, and IT supply chain optimization.
2020 SP 500 Rank: No. 148
2020 Fast Growth Rank: No. 90
2020 Fast Growth: 59.39%
Triple Crown Winner: 2016, 2019
CBTS
Top Executive: Jeff Lackey, President
Location: Cincinnati
CBTS focuses on IT infrastructure (compute, network and data management), cloud computing (infrastructure, public cloud and cloud management) communications (UCaaS, SD-WAN and collaboration) and security services and technology.
2020 SP 500 Rank: No. 33
2020 Fast Growth Rank: No. 131
2020 Fast Growth: 44.20%
Triple Crown Winner: *New to list
Clearpath Solutions Group
Top Executive: Gary Vaughan, President, CEO
Location: Reston, Va.
Clearpath provides managed and consulting services and customized IT solutions. The company boasts expertise with data center, cloud, IP networking, data protection, IT security, and communications and collaboration technologies.
2020 SP 500 Rank: No. 315
2020 Fast Growth Rank: No. 140
2020 Fast Growth: 40.63%
Triple Crown Winner: 2014, 2015
Computacenter Fusionstorm
Top Executive: Michael Keogh, President, Computacenter U.S.
Location: San Francisco
Computacenter acquired Fusionstorm in September 2018, creating a channel powerhouse with solutions, services and expertise in data center and hybrid cloud, analytics and big data, cybersecurity and more.
2020 SP 500 Rank: No. 44
2020 Fast Growth Rank: No. 89
2020 Fast Growth: 59.75%
Triple Crown Winner: *New to list
Coretelligent
Top Executive: Kevin Routhier, Founder, President, CEO
Location: Westwood, Mass.
Coretelligent offers services for IT planning and strategy, IT support, security and compliance, cloud management, backup and disaster recovery, and co-managed services. It has deep expertise in the financial services and life sciences verticals.
2020 SP 500 Rank: No. 344
2020 Fast Growth Rank: No. 42
2020 Fast Growth: 93.05%
Triple Crown Winner: 2017
Decisive Technologies
Top Executive: Mike Smith, President
Location: Ottawa, Ontario
Decisive Technologies focuses on cloud, virtualization, data storage, enterprise networking and IT security technologies surrounded with architecture planning, design and engineering, deployment and integration, and maintenance and optimization services.
2020 SP 500 Rank: No. 220
2020 Fast Growth Rank: No. 37
2020 Fast Growth: 98.72%
Triple Crown Winner: 2018, 2019
DH Technologies
Top Executive: Devin Henderson, CEO
Location: Leesburg, Va.
DH Technologies develops IT solutions that incorporate technologies in virtual desktop infrastructure, enterprise cloud, security, networking, AI and machine learning, big data, hyperconverged systems and NVMe shared accelerated storage.
2020 SP 500 Rank: No. 289
2020 Fast Growth Rank: No. 18
2020 Fast Growth: 167.24%
Triple Crown Winner: 2017, 2019
EVOTEK
Top Executive: Cesar Enciso, Founder, CEO
Location: San Diego
EVOTEK leads customer engagements with its deep consulting and executive advisory services around practices in cybersecurity, data center and mobility and digital platform solutions—with each practice led by former client-side executives with experience in each discipline.
2020 SP 500 Rank: No. 132
2020 Fast Growth Rank: No. 24
2020 Fast Growth: 133.35%
Triple Crown Winner: 2018, 2019
Focus Technology Solutions
Top Executive: Douglas Alexander, CEO
Location: Boston
Focus provides professional and technology maintenance services in IT infrastructure management, server support, network and desktop monitoring, help desk, cloud, data centers and cybersecurity.
2020 SP 500 Rank: No. 277
2020 Fast Growth Rank: No. 109
2020 Fast Growth: 50.92%
Triple Crown Winner: 2014, 2015, 2016
High Availability
Top Executive: Steve Eisenhart, CEO
Location: Eden Prairie, Minn.
High Availability is a provider and integrator of data center products, data management solutions and cloud services. It develops customized solutions and services using its five-step approach: discover, design, deploy, operate and optimize.
2020 SP 500 Rank: No. 194
2020 Fast Growth Rank: No. 148
2020 Fast Growth: 38.25%
Triple Crown Winner: 2018, 2019
HighPoint
Top Executive: Mike Mendiburu, President
Location: Sparta, N.J.
HighPoint’s IT solutions and services business is built around data center (including hyperconverged infrastructure and virtualization), security, mobility and collaboration technologies, combined with professional, managed and OEM maintenance services.
2020 SP 500 Rank: No. 107
2020 Fast Growth Rank: No. 139
2020 Fast Growth: 40.88%
Triple Crown Winner: 2015
InCare Technologies
Top Executive: Brian Walker, CEO
Location: Birmingham, Ala.
InCare serves SMBs, local government and K-12 schools from its offices in Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee. Services include managed backup and disaster recovery, email migration and Office 365 managed services, and network and security solutions.
2020 SP 500 Rank: No. 439
2020 Fast Growth Rank: No. 70
2020 Fast Growth: 67.79%
Triple Crown Winner: *New to list
iVision
Top Executive: Gabe Damiani, Founder, CEO
Location: Atlanta
IVision builds its practices around cloud, networking and security technologies, combined with consulting services in IT strategy, cloud computing, and technology transformation and life-cycle management; and cloud, network and security managed services.
2020 SP 500 Rank: No. 240
2020 Fast Growth Rank: No. 128
2020 Fast Growth: 44.44%
Triple Crown Winner: 2015, 2018
Kelser
Top Executive: Barry Kelly, President, CEO
Location: East Hartford, Conn.
With a focus on customers in the Northeast, Kelser offers IT managed services and solutions in data center, network and wireless, cybersecurity, business continuity and disaster recovery, and supply chain technologies.
2020 SP 500 Rank: No. 197
2020 Fast Growth Rank: No. 71
2020 Fast Growth: 67.67%
Triple Crown Winner: *New to list
Lewan Technology
Top Executive: Steve St. John, President
Location: Denver
Lewan provides managed IT services, technology solutions and printer/copier management. Solutions include cloud and virtualization systems, collaboration, networking, security and risk management, and application delivery and mobility.
2020 SP 500 Rank: No. 254
2020 Fast Growth Rank: No. 150
2020 Fast Growth: 37.88%
Triple Crown Winner: 2015
Logically
Top Executive: Mike Cowles, CEO
Location: Portland, Maine
Logically specializes in providing a range of managed IT services to small and midsize companies, health-care organizations, nonprofits and public sector agencies. Services are delivered through the company’s OpLogic MSP platform.
2020 SP 500 Rank: No. 401
2020 Fast Growth Rank: No. 52
2020 Fast Growth: 82.64%
Triple Crown Winner: 2016
Melillo Consulting
Top Executive: Dan Sytsma, President
Location: Somerset, N.J.
A leading HPE authorized service management partner, Melillo boasts expertise in IT operations service management, infrastructure, digital transformation, business performance management, and customer support services.
2020 SP 500 Rank: No. 209
2020 Fast Growth Rank: No. 59
2020 Fast Growth: 75.44%
Triple Crown Winner: *New to list
Mobius Partners
Top Executive: Jay Uribe and Junab Ali, CoFounders, Presidents
Location: San Antonio
Mobius Partners serves customers throughout Texas and the central U.S. with an emphasis on providing advanced IT in cloud, data center, DevOps and digital workspace combined with managed, security and analytics services.
2020 SP 500 Rank: No. 304
2020 Fast Growth Rank: No. 121
2020 Fast Growth: 46.50%
Triple Crown Winner: 2017
N2grate
Top Executive: Steve Halligan, CEO
Location: Greenbelt, Md.
With a focus on federal agencies, the public sector and large enterprises, N2grate provides expertise in managed services and solutions in data center infrastructure and management tools, cloud and co-location, virtualization, security, networks, and intelligent storage.
2020 SP 500 Rank: No. 105
2020 Fast Growth Rank: No. 22
2020 Fast Growth: 136.67%
Triple Crown Winner: 2017, 2018
NexusTek
Top Executive: Bill Wosilius, CEO
Location: Greenwood Village, Colo.
NexusTek specializes in managed IT services for SMBs, offering business technology solutions and services covering hosted infrastructure, cloud, cybersecurity, Disaster Recovery as a Service, unified communications, and server and network monitoring.
2020 SP 500 Rank: No. 208
2020 Fast Growth Rank: No. 19
2020 Fast Growth: 155.73%
Triple Crown Winner: 2019
Ntiva
Top Executive: Steven Freidkin, CEO
Location: McLean, Va.
Ntiva offers managed IT, security, cloud and business telephony services, as well as strategic IT consulting and application development expertise. In January Ntiva acquired MSP Equilibrium IT Solutions, its third Chicago-area acquisition.
2020 SP 500 Rank: No. 310
2020 Fast Growth Rank: No. 20
2020 Fast Growth: 145.09%
Triple Crown Winner: 2018, 2019
Pegasus Technology Solutions
Top Executive: Buck Jones, Founder, CEO
Location: Frisco, Texas
Pegasus focuses on services around cloud, security, infrastructure and as-a-service solutions. A Hewlett Packard Enterprise Platinum partner, Pegasus describes its services and solutions as “enterprise-class” for companies of all sizes.
2020 SP 500 Rank: No. 437
2020 Fast Growth Rank: No. 63
2020 Fast Growth: 71.72%
Triple Crown Winner: 2018, 2019
Red River
Top Executive: Alan Dumas, CEO
Location: Claremont, N.H.
Serving commercial and government customers across the U.S., Red River’s expertise and offerings in managed, consulting and life-cycle services span data center, cloud, networking, security, collaboration, DevOps, analytics and mobility.
2020 SP 500 Rank: No. 49
2020 Fast Growth Rank: No. 69
2020 Fast Growth: 67.96%
Triple Crown Winner: 2015, 2016
Rove
Top Executive: David Brown, CEO
Location: Charlotte, N.C.
Rove serves customers across the Southeast, providing strategic services including multi-cloud integration, public and private cloud, cloud readiness assessment, cloud application migration, application modernization and DevOps.
2020 SP 500 Rank: No. 432
2020 Fast Growth Rank: No. 43
2020 Fast Growth: 90.43%
Triple Crown Winner: *New to list
Saturn Business Systems
Top Executive: Alan Krieger, Founder, President
Location: New York
Saturn develops data center and cloud solutions incorporating hyperconverged and composable infrastructure, hybrid and private cloud, networking and security and HPE’s GreenLake as-a-service offering.
2020 SP 500 Rank: No. 198
2020 Fast Growth Rank: No. 67
2020 Fast Growth: 69.23%
Triple Crown Winner: *New to list
Sirius Computer Solutions
Top Executive: Joe Mertens, President, CEO
Location: San Antonio
Sirius provides cloud and managed services, security, and business transformation solutions. In May Sirius acquired Advanced Systems Group—the company’s eighth acquisition since 2014.
2020 SP 500 Rank: No. 21
2020 Fast Growth Rank: No. 91
2020 Fast Growth: 58.86%
Triple Crown Winner: 2017, 2018, 2019
Structured Communication Systems
Top Executive: Ron Fowler, President, CEO
Location: Clackamas, Ore.
Structured provides managed, professional and systems integration services in security integration, data center operations, multi-cloud architecture and helps customers identify digital transformation opportunities.
2020 SP 500 Rank: No. 178
2020 Fast Growth Rank: No. 124
2020 Fast Growth: 45.46%
Triple Crown Winner: *New to list
Sycomp
Top Executive: Michael Symons, CEO
Location: Foster City, Calif.
Sycomp is a global provider of cloud and data center services and security solutions. The company’s lineup of professional services includes IT system assessment and analysis, design and architecture, integration and implementation, and training and support.
2020 SP 500 Rank: No. 73
2020 Fast Growth Rank: No. 135
2020 Fast Growth: 42.32%
Triple Crown Winner: *New to list
Technologent
Top Executive: Marco Mohajer, President
Location: Irvine, Calif.
Technologent is a global provider of IT, data, cloud and security services and solutions focused on enterprise-class data centers and IT infrastructure. Technologent offers remote access, remote collaboration and virtual desktop infrastructure bursting solutions.
2020 SP 500 Rank: No. 58
2020 Fast Growth Rank: No. 113
2020 Fast Growth: 50.40%
Triple Crown Winner: *New to list
Thrive
Top Executive: Rob Stephenson, CEO
Location: Foxborough, Mass.
Thrive provides managed services and outsourced IT support. Core to its offerings is the Thrive5 Methodology covering IT strategy, IT assessment, solution design, implementation and optimization, and 24x7 managed services.
2020 SP 500 Rank: No. 278
2020 Fast Growth Rank: No. 54
2020 Fast Growth: 81.52%
Triple Crown Winner: 2019
ThunderCat Technology
Top Executive: Tom Deierlein, CEO
Location: Reston, Va.
Under the tagline “complexity minimized, performance optimized,” ThunderCat Technology delivers IT services and solutions to government organizations, educational institutions and commercial companies.
2020 SP 500 Rank: No. 48
2020 Fast Growth Rank: No. 40
2020 Fast Growth: 95.15%
Triple Crown Winner: *New to list
vCore
Top Executive: Steve Leavitt, Founder, CEO
Location: Scottsdale, Ariz.
vCore specializes in cloud and automation, data center infrastructure, networking and security. Its Operations-as-aService covers systems management, cloud, enterprise Network Operations Centers, identity management and Office 365.
2020 SP 500 Rank: No. 172
2020 Fast Growth Rank: No. 65
2020 Fast Growth: 70.09%
Triple Crown Winner: 2017, 2018, 2019
Winslow Technology Group
Top Executive: Scott Winslow, Founder, President
Location: Waltham, Mass.
Winslow Technology Group helps businesses realize the value of hyperconverged, software-defined and hybrid cloud infrastructure with its expertise in servers, storage, cloud, security and more.
2020 SP 500 Rank: No. 356
2020 Fast Growth Rank: No. 111
2020 Fast Growth: 50.65%
Triple Crown Winner: 2017, 2018, 2019
Zivaro
Top Executive: Greg Byles, CEO
Location: Denver
Zivaro has cloud, data center, network infrastructure, network security, unified communications and big data analytics practices. It is a Cisco Gold partner with Master Networking Specialist and HyperFlex and Webex Contact Center certifications.
2020 SP 500 Rank: No. 104
2020 Fast Growth Rank: No. 106
2020 Fast Growth: 53.33%
Triple Crown Winner: 2019