Expedient Wins VMware 2018 Regional Partner Innovation Award

Partners Awarded for Extraordinary Performance and Notable Achievements

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Apr 10, 2019, 11:30 ET

PITTSBURGH, April 10, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Expedient today announced that it has received the 2018 VMware Partner Innovation Award for Americas Regional Cloud Partner of the Year. Expedient was recognized at VMware Partner Leadership Summit 2019, held in Carlsbad, CA.

"We congratulate Expedient on winning the Partner Innovation Award for Americas Regional Cloud Partner of the Year category, and look forward to our continued collaboration and innovation," said Jenni Flinders, vice president, Worldwide Channel Chief, VMware. "VMware and our partners will continue to empower organizations of all sizes with technologies that enable digital transformation."

"We are thrilled to be honored as VMware's Americas Regional Cloud Partner of the Year," said Bryan Smith, Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer for Expedient. "This recognition underscores Expedient's business and technology commitments to VMware, including our development and deployment of Expedient's Enterprise Cloud platform, which leverages VMware vSAN, vCloud Director, NSX and vRealize Operations Suite, as well as the increased year over year growth in Expedient's VMware practice in 2018; and our recent achievement of the VMware Cloud Verified designation, enabling hybrid cloud architectures. We look forward to our continued VMware relationship and the value it provides to our clients in their business transformation pursuits."

Recipients of an Americas VMware Partner Innovation Award were acknowledged in 11 categories for their outstanding performance and distinctive achievements during 2018.

Americas Partner of the Year Award categories included:

Cloud
Distribution
Emerging Markets
Hyperconverged Infrastructure Solution
Mobility Management Solution
Network Virtualization Solution
Partner of the Year
Services
Solutions
VMware Cloud on AWS Solution
VMware SD-WAN by VeloCloud Solution

About VMware Partner Leadership Summit 2019
VMware Partner Leadership Summit 2019 offered VMware partners the opportunity to engage with VMware executives and industry peers to explore business opportunities, customer use cases, solution practices, and partnering best practices. As an invitation-only event, it provided partners with resources to develop and execute comprehensive go-to-market plans.

About Expedient
Expedient helps companies transform their IT operations through award-winning cloud solutions and managed services including disaster recovery, security and compliance, and more. Acknowledged in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Disaster Recovery as a Service and ranked as one of the Top 10 managed services providers worldwide on the Channel Futures MSP 501 list, Expedient's converged solutions enable clients to focus on strategic business innovation, while the Expedient team handles operation of the information technology needed to support it. In addition to its headquarters and two data centers in Pittsburgh, PA, Expedient operates data centers in six additional cities, including Baltimore, MD; Boston, MA; Cleveland, OH; Columbus, OH; Indianapolis, IN and Memphis, TN. Expedient data centers are compliant with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) as well as the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). Service Organization Control (SOC) reports are published annually for all locations. Learn more at expedient.com.

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