HP: Channelnomics 2011 Influencer of the Year
Channelnomics has been leading up to this announcement for the past week: Our inaugural Channelnomics Influencer of the Year award winner. Our intent with this awards program was to highlight and recognize the people and companies that have had a profound influence on the channel and shaped the thinking and operations of channel businesses.
Truth be told, no other company had the influence or impact of our award recipient. The choice was clear based entirely on this company’s actions, the impact that its actions, products and decision-making had on the channel, and the continuing impact it has on channel thinking.
Influencer does not mean that a person or company’s impact on the industry or channel was positive. In some cases, a winner earned the honor for their infamy as much as their influence. And that’s part of the point – influence is something that is a result of any action that causes people and companies to think differently, change their approach or methodology or – most significantly – strive for better.
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, during which 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 arbiter. In total, Channelnomics conferred Influencer awards in 11 categories to 44 recipients. Each category had at least one winner – a company and/or person that influenced the industry more so than any other in their particular category; and “Ones to Watch” – people and companies that will likely make significant impacts on the channel in 2012.
Before we delve further into the HP story, here’s a recap of the previous award winners:
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
> Vendors
> Distributors
> Solution Providers
> Channel Supporters
And now, our Influencer of the Year.
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“Good” choice. I have to give you credit for naming a company and individual who demonstrated a textbook example on “how not to do things” as your Influencer of the Year. Hewlett and Packard would be saying WTF! if they were still around. Perhaps this was the “HP Way – Not” year. Print magazines have been criticized for naming bad people as their person of the year, frequently. HP has quite a task trying to turn things around on both a tactical and strategic level in the coming year. “The first thing we do kill all the lawyers.” – Shakespeare, Henry VI. Reign them in, anyway. The year ended with Hurd back in the press as a letter was released (by a lawyer) with further details on his relationship with Fisher.