2019 Partner Program Guide: 5-Star Emerging Vendors

CRN designated the partner programs of these emerging vendor companies as 5-Star.

Emerging Channel Stars

Big, established IT vendors, generally speaking, have the biggest, most established partner programs offering more resources for the channel. But in the dynamic IT industry it's often the startups and young companies that develop the game-changing technologies that become the industry-dominating products of tomorrow – and strategic service providers should consider partnering with such companies so they can offer their customers the most advanced solutions to solve their business problems.

That's why CRN, as part of its annual Partner Program Guide, highlights the channel programs developed by emerging vendors (founded in 2013 or more recently with annual sales of less than $1 billion) that, despite their young age, have partner programs that have achieved 5-Star designations.

The 2019 Partner Program Guide offers information solution providers need to evaluate IT vendors they work with or are considering working with. The guide is based on detailed applications vendors submitted outlining all aspects of their partner programs.

Here we present the 5-Star designees among emerging vendors. Other slide shows in the 5-Star Partner Program Guide series running this week include companies that provide systems and data center, networking and unified communications, cloud, software, security, storage and peripherals technologies.

Alaris, a Kodak Business

Program Name: Alaris Partner Program

Year Program Established: 2016

Partner Program Tiers: Elite, Premier, Registered

North American Channel Chief: Katie Sullivan-Armento, Sale Director, U.S. & Canada Region

Partner Program Details: /partner-program-guide/ppg2019-details.htm?c=136

AttackIQ

Program Name: AttackIQ Accelerate Global Channel Program

Year Program Established: 2019

Partner Program Tiers: AttackIQ Accelerate Channel Program

North American Channel Chief: Dan Sibille, VP, Global Channels

Partner Program Details: /partner-program-guide/ppg2019-details.htm?c=137

AutonomIQ

Program Name: AutonomIQ Channel Partner Program

Year Program Established: 2018

Partner Program Tiers: AutonomIQ Partner Program

North American Channel Chief: Nathan Mayer, Leader, Partnerships & Alliances

Partner Program Details: /partner-program-guide/ppg2019-details.htm?c=138

Catalogic Software

Program Name: Partner Edge

Year Program Established: 2013

Partner Program Tiers: Elite, Authorized

North American Channel Chief: Marissa Miller, Director of Channel Sales

Partner Program Details: /partner-program-guide/ppg2019-details.htm?c=139

CloudHealth by VMware

Program Name: CloudHealth Partner Program

Year Program Established: 2014

Partner Program Tiers: Premier, Enterprise, Professional

North American Channel Chief: Bob Kilbride, Senior Director, Global Channels

Partner Program Details: /partner-program-guide/ppg2019-details.htm?c=140

Cohesity

Program Name: Cohesity Partner Program

Year Program Established: 2016

Partner Program Tiers: Authorized

North American Channel Chief: Keith Macove, Senior Director, Americas Channels

Partner Program Details: /partner-program-guide/ppg2019-details.htm?c=141

Cylance

Program Name: Cylance Partner Program

Year Program Established: 2013

Partner Program Tiers: Emerald, Platinum, Gold

North American Channel Chief: Louise Cooke, Director of North America Channel

Partner Program Details: /partner-program-guide/ppg2019-details.htm?c=142

Diamanti

Program Name: Diamanti Edge

Year Program Established: 2019

Partner Program Tiers: Diamond

North American Channel Chief: Bill Cordero, VP, Worldwide Channel Sales

Partner Program Details: /partner-program-guide/ppg2019-details.htm?c=143

erwin

Program Name: erwin Partner Program

Year Program Established: 2016

Partner Program Tiers: Diamond, Platinum, Gold, Authorized

North American Channel Chief: David Casillo, SVP, Global Channels and Enterprise Sales

Partner Program Details: /partner-program-guide/ppg2019-details.htm?c=144

Exabeam

Program Name: Exabeam 3D Channel Program

Year Program Established: 2015

Partner Program Tiers: Exabeam Authorized Partner

North American Channel Chief: Ken Hammond, AVP of Americas Channel

Partner Program Details: /partner-program-guide/ppg2019-details.htm?c=145

Fluency Security

Program Name: Fluency Corporation Reseller Agreement

Year Program Established: 2017

Partner Program Tiers: Reseller Agreement – Gold, Reseller Agreement – Silver

North American Channel Chief: Collin Miles, Principal, Channel and Strategic Relationships

Partner Program Details: /partner-program-guide/ppg2019-details.htm?c=146

Guardicore

Program Name: GuardiCore Partner Program

Year Program Established: 2015

Number of North American Partners: Gold, Silver, Authorized

North American Channel Chief: Todd Bice, Senior Director of Channels

Partner Program Details: /partner-program-guide/ppg2019-details.htm?c=147

HYCU

Program Name: HYCU Global Partner Program

Year Program Established: 2018

Partner Program Tiers: Global Solution Provider, Premier, Authorized

North American Channel Chief: Scott Henderson, VP, Sales and Channels Americas

Partner Program Details: /partner-program-guide/ppg2019-details.htm?c=148

Igneous

Program Name: Igneous Partner Program

Year Program Established: 2018

Partner Program Tiers: Gold, Silver

North American Channel Chief: Shaun Walsh, VP of Alliances

Partner Program Details: /partner-program-guide/ppg2019-details.htm?c=149

Jask

Program Name: Jask Momentum Global Partner Program

Year Program Established: 2018

Partner Program Tiers: Jask Momentum

North American Channel Chief: Jessica Couto, VP of Worldwide Channels

Partner Program Details: /partner-program-guide/ppg2019-details.htm?c=150

Mist

Program Name: Mist Partner Program

Year Program Established: 2016

Partner Program Tiers: Gold, Silver, Authorized

North American Channel Chief: Mike Anderson, VP of Worldwide Channels

Partner Program Details: /partner-program-guide/ppg2019-details.htm?c=151

Morpheus Data Multi-Cloud Management and Automation

Program Name: Morpheus Data MVP Program

Year Program Established: 2018

Partner Program Tiers: Morpheus Data MVP

North American Channel Chief: Brad Parks, VP, Business Development

Partner Program Details: /partner-program-guide/ppg2019-details.htm?c=152

One Identity

Program Name: One Identity Partner Circle Program

Year Program Established: 2017

Partner Program Tiers: Platinum, Gold, Silver, Registered

North American Channel Chief: Roger Moffat, Director, Channel and Alliances

Partner Program Details: /partner-program-guide/ppg2019-details.htm?c=153

Pax8

Program Name: Wingman Partner Program

Year Program Established: 2015

Partner Program Tiers: Wingman

North American Channel Chief: Ryan Walsh, Chief Channel Officer

Partner Program Details: /partner-program-guide/ppg2019-details.htm?c=154

Pulse Secure

Program Name: Access Now Partner Program

Year Program Established: 2019

Partner Program Tiers: Elite, Preferred, Authorized

North American Channel Chief: Aaron Moroson, Senior Director, Worldwide Channel Sales

Partner Program Details: /partner-program-guide/ppg2019-details.htm?c=155

Rubrik

Program Name: Rubrik Velocity Partner Program

Year Program Established: 2018

Partner Program Tiers: Elite, Select, Authorized

North American Channel Chief: Bertrand Yansouni, VP of Worldwide Channel

Partner Program Details: /partner-program-guide/ppg2019-details.htm?c=156

Seceon

Program Name: SecuRIGHT

Year Program Established: 2016

Partner Program Tiers: Platinum

North American Channel Chief: Lalit Shinde, Head of Partnerships and Business Development

Partner Program Details: /partner-program-guide/ppg2019-details.htm?c=157