Cloud Innovators

CRN's 2017 Tech Innovator Awards honors the vendors drawing the roadmap for the future of IT and providing cutting-edge solution providers with the tools to navigate it. With countless vendor options on the market, identifying future-ready IT solutions for customers is no easy task.

The annual Tech Innovator Awards help to narrow the field, honoring honor groundbreaking vendors in 32 categories, with the winners and finalists chosen from among 216 applicants. Among this year's class are 16 vendors in the cloud market, driving collaboration and productivity with innovative apps and automating the management processes of complex cloud workloads.

Here we present the winners and finalists from this year's Cloud Applications, Cloud Backup/Disaster Recovery, Cloud Management and Cloud Storage categories.