—CRN also Awards 5-Star Rating to Raritan’s Channel Program—

SOMERSET, N.J. (April 7, 2014) – Raritan – a leading provider of data center infrastructure management (DCIM) and rack power distribution solutions – announced today that Victoria Zona, Raritan’s Channel Sales Director, has been named to CRN’s list of the industry’s top Channel Chiefs.  CRN also awarded five stars, the highest rating, to Raritan’s partner program in the magazine’s annual guide to the very best channel partner programs.

Channel Chief Award
The magazine’s annual Channel Chiefs list consists of the most powerful IT channel leaders.  It recognizes those executives directly responsible for driving channel sales and growth within their organization, while evangelizing the importance of the channel throughout the entire IT Industry. 

The CRN editorial team selected Zona—who is responsible for Raritan’s channel partner program in the Americas—based on her channel experience, program innovations, and public support for the importance of IT channel sales.  For the past 17 years Zona has managed and grown Raritan’s channel partner program supporting the company’s three data center businesses—KVM Switch and remote console management, rack power distribution,  and DCIM software—that focus on providing tools and processes for managing complex IT infrastructures and resources more efficiently. 

5-Star Channel Award
For the sixth consecutive year Raritan’s Channel Program was awarded CRN’s 5-Star rating.  The award recognizes an elite subset of companies that offer solution providers the best partnering elements in their channel programs.  In selecting 5-Star winners CRN took into account: investments in program offerings, partner profitability, partner training, education and support, marketing programs and resources, sales support and communication.

“Congratulations to Vicki and her team for both awards,” said John O’Shea, Senior Vice President at Vology, a Raritan partner.  “She is one of the most competent and committed channel chiefs in the business.  She has created a great program that has made partnering with Raritan beneficial and easy, and at the same time has helped advance the data center infrastructure management market.”

Data Center 100
Earlier this year, CRN editors selected Raritan for the magazine’s Data Center 100 list that recognizes technology vendors whose solutions are vital for powering today’s data center. Raritan was selected because of the company’s data center management solutions that help data centers improve, uptime, efficiency and productivity. 

About Raritan
Raritan is a proven innovator of energy and infrastructure management solutions for data centers of all sizes.  In more than 50,000 locations worldwide, Raritan’s award-winning hardware and software solutions – including intelligent rack PDUs and environment sensors; DCIM software; and KVM Switch products – provide IT and facility directors, managers and administrators with the control they need to increase power management efficiency, improve data center productivity and enhance operations.  Based in Somerset, N.J., Raritan has offices worldwide serving customers in 76 countries.  Visit us at Raritan.com, RaritanDCIM.com, or follow us on the Raritan blog. 

Raritan is an active member of the Green Grid, Climate Savers Computing Initiative, and the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design associations.  The EPA has recognized Raritan for its contribution to the agency’s data center initiative.  A number of top industry analyst firms also have recognized the company:  Raritan was named a “Cool DCIM Vendor” by Gartner; a “Major DCIM player worldwide” by IDC; a “Strong Value DCIM Vendor” by EMA; and, “Key DCIM player” by TechNavio.

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