Channelnomics is about the business of the IT channel. The channel, itself, a complicated ecosystem of vendors, solution providers, services and supporters that interact to develop and deliver services to their ultimate consumer – the end user. Different actors in this ecosystem affect businesses large and small. With the Influencer Awards, Channelnomics recognizes those special people and businesses for what they’ve done to affect change, influence strategic planning and sway markets.

Winners were selected from nominations submitted by Channelnomics readership and a blue ribbon panel of objective evaluators. The final list was tabulated and selected by an aggregation process, in which the blue ribbon panel members each selected their top choices. The winners were determined by the top vote recipients of this process. Channelnomics’ editorial team was the final arbiters.

The winners are:

2011 Influencer of the Year:

Winner: Hewlett-Packard and Leo Apotheker
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Ones to Watch: Dell, Michael Dell and Greg Davis
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Channel Associations and Groups
Winners: HTG Peer Groups & Arlin Sorensen (founder)
Ones to Watch: Nancy Hammervik, CompTIA; Channeleyes

Mobility
Winners: Apple and Steve Jobs
Ones to Watch: Microsoft and Google

Storage
Winners: Julie Parrish, NetApp and Leonard Iventosch, EMC
Ones to Watch: David Roberts, CA Technologies

Distribution
Winners: Renee Bergeron, Ingram Micro Services
Ones to Watch: Joe Quaglia, Tech Data

Europe
Winners: Ian Moyse, Cloud Industry Forum and Eurocloud
Ones to Watch: Jason Beal, Ingram Micro EMEA and Cloud Transformation Alliance

Voice and Data Networking
Winners: Andrew Sage and Cisco
Ones to Watch: Dell, Barbara Spicek of Brocade, Huewai Technologies

Channel Business
Winners: Arnie Bellini and ConnectWise
Ones to Watch: Spiceworks

Systems
Winners: Andy Monshaw, IBM Midmarket; and VCE
Ones to Watch: Hewlett-Packard

Security
Winners: Eugene Kaspersky, Kaspersky Lab; Palo Alto Networks
Ones to Watch: Steve Hale, Sophos; SourceFire; Gary Fish, FishNet Security and FireMon

Cloud Computing
Winners: Ron Huddleston, Salesforce.com; Amazon.com and Rackspace
Ones to Watch: Cloud Sherpas, CA Technologies; IBM; Box.net

Managed Services
Winners: Zenith Infotech; Dan Wensley, Level Platforms
Ones to Watch: Michael George, Continuum (formerly Zenith RMM); Xerox; Oki Data; GFI Max

Honorees
Channelnomics also wishes to recognize certain businesses and people who have considerable influence in the channel and are expected to continue impacting the way vendors and solution providers conduct their operations. These “Honorees” are in four categories:

> Vendors
> Distributors
> Solution Providers
> Channel Supporters

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