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Gigamon Announces Channel Award Winners at Sales Kick-off Event 2023

Gigamon | February 01, 2023 | Read time : 06:00 min

Channel Award Winners

One of the leading deep observability companies, Gigamon, recently announced its Channel Award winners in the annual sales kick-off event in San Diego (California). Each partner played a very important role in the company's market growth and drove Gigamon as the industry-leading deep observability vendor, with a 68% market share in 2022's first half. The Gigamon Channel Awards highlights distributors who helped deliver industry-leading solutions to customers worldwide and emphasizes the outstanding success of the top-performing partners.

The Sales Kick-off event's Channel Award winners include Trace3 as 2022 Americas Partner of the Year, Layer 8 Solutions titled as 2022 Americas Regional Partner of the year, ST Engineering as 2022 APAC Partner of the Year, Mannai Corporation wins 2022 EMEA Partner of the Year, Blackwood Associates, Inc. as Public Sector- 2022 Partner of the Year, World Wide Technology wins 2022 Global Partner of the year, Timothy Wong Kwai Hoong as 2022 Top Gigamon Community Partner and the last one was to Carahsoft Technology Corporation as 2022 Distributor of the Year.

The Gigamon Partner Program has received five-star ratings four times in a row among the CRN's Partner Program and four in a row CRN Women of the Channel recognitions. In addition, the company has been awarded three consecutive years for the CRN Channel Chief list. It also won the 2020 Channel Partner Top 10 Up award and was named one of CRN's Power 100 - Topmost Powerful Women in the Channel in 2019.

“Our channel-first strategy is a fundamental component of our business plan and we are fortunate to work alongside over 1,000 global partners that are focused on delivering industry leading solutions backed by unparalleled support. We are proud to recognize the impact that each of our top partners is having on their customers’ cloud transformation journeys,” said Doug Woodley, Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales at Gigamon.

(Source: Business Wire)

About Gigamon

Founded in 2004, Gigamon enables organizations to function fast, stay innovative and secure. The company delivers unified network visibility and analytics on all the data in transit. It helps in aggregation, transformation and analysis of network traffic to meet the customers' critical performance rapid threat detection and response needs in physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure. Gigamon has over 4,000 customers worldwide, including over 80% of the Fortune 100, 9 of the ten biggest mobile network providers, and hundreds of governments and schools.

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