Cloudflare has announced the winners of its first partner awards 2020 which recognize its partner companies and representatives around the world.

Rackspace Technology was named Cloudflare’s Global Managed Services Provider Partner of the Year, honoring its place as the Top Performing MSP Partner in APAC, the Americas and EMEA.

“These awards recognize our partner companies and representatives around the world who distinguished themselves last year for their investments in acquiring technical expertise in our offerings, for the delivery of innovative applications and services based on Cloudflare. , and for their commitment to the success of our customers, ”said Matthew Harrell, Global Head of Channels and Alliances for Cloudflare.

“The unprecedented challenges of 2020 have reinforced how essential it is to have a secure, efficient and reliable Internet.

“Throughout this turbulent time, our partners have worked to innovate and help organizations of all sizes and in various industries,” he says.

“By protecting and accelerating websites, applications and teams with Cloudflare, our partners have helped these organizations adapt, seize new opportunities and prosper.”

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“And our partners are more essential than ever to the achievement of our mission. Demonstrating Cloudflare’s global reach, our award winners represent companies headquartered in 16 countries, ”he said.

Cloudflare Partners of the Year, 2020 winners

Global MSP Partner of the Year: Rackspace Technology
Honors the Top Performing Managed Service Provider (MSP) Partner in Cloudflare’s three sales areas: Americas, APAC and EMEA.

APAC Cloudflare Partner Awards

Distributor of the Year: Softdebut Co., Ltd
Honors the Top Performing Distributor who has best represented Cloudflare and positioned its partners to secure customer sales and growth revenue streams.

Service Partner of the Year: Pacific Tech Pte Ltd
Honors the technology alliance that has produced exceptional business results and demonstrated an ongoing commitment to our mutual customers.

Partner Systems Engineers (SE) of the year:
Honors the top three individuals who have achieved four key certifications and have demonstrated in-depth knowledge and expertise in these areas.

Shim Chin Leong, Excer Global Sdn Bhd
Alex Yang, Omni Intelligent Services, Inc.
Eric Tung, primary guard Sdn Bhd

Most Valuable Players of the Year:
Honors top performers who have not only provided exceptional service to our mutual customers, but also created new business value by harnessing the power of network, relationships and ecosystems.

Eric Cheng, NC Services Limited
Shripad Dhole, Wipro Limited

Cloudflare Americas Partner Awards

Partner of the year: Optiv Security
Honors the Top Performing Partner who demonstrated phenomenal sales in 2020.

Joint Solutions Partner of the Year: Sumo Logic
Honors the technology alliance that has produced exceptional business results and demonstrated an ongoing commitment to our mutual customers.

New Partner of the Year: GuidePoint Security
Honors the partner who, although new to the Cloudflare partner network in 2020, has already made substantial investments to grow our joint business.

Partner Systems Engineers (SE) of the year:
Honors partner OSs who have demonstrated in-depth knowledge and expertise of Cloudflare solutions through certifications achieved and also exceptional customer service delivery in the practical application of Cloudflare technology solutions to customers’ technical and business challenges.

Stephen Semmelroth, Stratacore
Bill Franklin, FRONT
Kyle Rohan, GuidePoint Security
Ryan Nieva, Optimal Safety

Most Valuable Players of the Year:
Honors top performers who have not only provided exceptional service to our mutual customers, but also created new business value by harnessing the power of network, relationships and ecosystems.

Manooch Hosseini and Isaac Liu, Optiv
Leo Perez, RKON
Bill Milone, GuidePoint Security
Kati Graff, Adaptation

Cloudflare EMEA Partner Awards

Partner of the year: Safenames
Honors the Top Performing Partner who demonstrated phenomenal sales in 2020.

Distributor of the Year: V-Valley
Honors the Top Performing Distributor who has best represented Cloudflare and positioned its partners to secure customer sales and growth revenue streams.

New Partner of the Year: Synopsis
Honors a new partner in the Cloudflare Partner Network this year who has already made substantial investments to grow our joint business.

Cloudflare Certification Champions: KUWAITNET, Origo, WideOps
Honors partner companies whose teams have achieved the highest total number of Cloudflare certifications.

Partner Systems Engineers (SE) of the year:
Honors partner OSs who have demonstrated in-depth knowledge and expertise of Cloudflare solutions through certifications achieved and also exceptional customer service delivery in the practical application of Cloudflare technology solutions to customers’ technical and business challenges.

Mika Peltonen, Ambientia
Illia Melnikov, BAKOTECH
Jobin Joseph and Varghese George, KUWAITNET
Gulaugur Garar Eyrsson, Origo
Vahid Madi, Synopsis
Roberto Lpez Snchez, V-Valley