Buffalo Recognized in CRN's Prestigious 2013 Annual Report Card Awards

AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Buffalo Americas, a global leader in the design, development and manufacturing of wired and wireless networking and network and direct attached storage solutions, today announced the company's standings in the 2013 CRN Annual Report Card (ARC). This prestigious study is considered the definitive benchmark for measuring excellence in the IT Channel community and recognizes the top-rated vendor partners in the industry. Buffalo was given the highest honors for Networking Storage (SMB) as Overall Category winner, as well as two Networking Storage subcategory  awards for support and partnership.

To determine the winners, CRN's research team surveyed more than 2,200 solution providers across 18 product and service categories. Respondents evaluated the importance and their satisfaction with vendor partners on 18 criteria within three major areas: product innovation, support and partnership. Winners were announced live in front of a full audience during an awards reception on Tuesday, August 20, 2013, at the XChange 2013 event in Washington, D.C. To view coverage of the awards, visit www.crn.com.

"Solution providers today need products and solutions that are specifically targeted at solving customer problems. Beyond demonstrating quality and innovation, they want to work with vendors who also excel at partner relationships and sales support," said Robert Faletra, CEO, UBM Tech Channel. "For decades, CRN's ARC has been recognizing the vendors who are the complete package, and we congratulate Buffalo Americas for being named to the 2013 list."

Buffalo's Award Winning Networking Storage Lineup for SMBs

Buffalo's TeraStation™ network attached storage (NAS) and iSCSI unified storage solutions offer SMBs secure and reliable centralized storage and backup. The TeraStation lineup with high availability storage technologies including RAID, hot-spare and real-time replication, delivers cost-effective network storage solutions for businesses that value performance and reliability.

"We are extremely honored to be selected as the ARC Overall Category winner for Networking Storage for SMBs as this award is directly chosen by our customers," said Matt Dargis, COO, Buffalo Americas. "This prestigious award is a testament to the outstanding work of our entire Buffalo team to not only deliver the high-performance storage solutions that meet the demands of today's SMBs, but also to provide the high level of support and service that our customers value. This award validates this company-wide effort."

Visit www.BuffaloAmericas.com for pricing and availability.

About Buffalo Americas, Inc.

Buffalo Americas, based in Austin, Texas, is a leading global provider of award-winning networking, storage, multimedia and memory solutions for the home and small business environments as well as for system builders and integrators. With almost three decades of networking and computer peripheral experience, Buffalo has proven its commitment to delivering innovative, best-of-breed solutions that have put the company at the forefront of infrastructure technology.  For more information about Buffalo Americas and its products, please visit www.BuffaloAmericas.com.

About UBM Tech Channel
UBM Tech Channel, a UBM company is the premier provider of IT channel-focused events, media, research, consulting, and sales and marketing services. With more than 30 years of experience and engagement, UBM Tech Channel has the unmatched channel expertise to execute integrated solutions for technology executives, managing partner recruitment, enablement and go-to-market strategy in order to accelerate technology sales. To learn more about UBM Tech Channel, visit us at http://www.ubmchannel.com. Follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/UBMTechChannel.

About UBM llc 
UBM llc is a leading global business media company. We inform markets and bring the world's buyers and sellers together at events, online, in print and provide them with the information they need to do business successfully. We focus on serving professional commercial communities, from doctors to game developers, from journalists to jewellery traders, from farmers to pharmacists around the world. Our 6,000 staff in more than 30 countries are organised into specialist teams that serve these communities, helping them to do business and their markets to work effectively and efficiently. For more information, visit www.ubm.com.

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