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