Distribution Partner of the Year: AVANT Communications

In 2022, the AVANT ecosystem continued its multi-year run as the largest single generator of TierPoint channel bookings. The keys to AVANT’s success include top-notch executive leadership, world-class engineering talent, and best-in-breed sales enablement programs. 

Through its Special Forces Summit and regional Bootcamp events, AVANT draws hundreds of trusted advisors for training and networking opportunities. The company also provides unique value through its proprietary Pathfinder software, offering dynamic insights and on-target intelligence for both trusted advisors and solution providers.

Services & Solutions Partner of the Year: CDW

CDW was TierPoint’s top-producing services and solutions partner across all regions in 2022. Their dedication to building strong customer relationships helped open the door to exciting new opportunities and positioned us repeatedly to win big together.   

With in-depth knowledge of TierPoint’s product portfolio, CDW’s Integrated Services Engagement (ISE) team worked closely with our engineers to develop customized solutions that delivered the business outcomes sought by our shared clients.

Alliance Partner of the Year: Zerto

As they have for multiple years, the Zerto team in 2022 proved yet again the power of collaboration, supporting the continued adoption and robust growth of TierPoint’s market-leading Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) solutions.  

Across the board – from cloud architects to sales representatives –the Zerto team has proven remarkably easy to work with. Consistently, they have brought to the table a keen understanding of what it takes to win in today’s marketplace and helped our mutual clients achieve their resiliency goals.

Breakout Partner of the Year: Bridgepointe

Bridgepointe is recognized for driving strategic alignment between our companies, expanding our reach in several markets, and closing a major, six-figure monthly billing account. Their commitment and focus in 2022 were instrumental to building a strong and successful partnership.  

Our companies have collaborated on several marketing initiatives and co-sponsored events that strengthened our brands and increased our visibility, promising great upside in the future.

Pre-Sales Team of the Year: Telarus

This award recognizes Telarus for providing exceptional, pre-sales support, leading to more wins and revenue.

Telarus engineering resources exemplify greatness and have proven crucial to the success of our partnership. Consistently, they have brought to the table outstanding communication skills and tailored solutions that meet our shared customers’ needs, stayed up to date on industry trends, and demonstrated an unparalleled commitment to continuous learning and improvement. 

Zerto, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, announced its 2022 Partner of the year awards at their partner advisory board. The award winners are key standouts for contributions to the Zerto partnership program. Awards are based on a partner’s ability to deliver high-quality, innovative solutions. Solutions should focus on the customer’s needs, like the protection, recovery, and mobility of on-premises and cloud applications.

For the second year in a row, Zerto has named TierPoint as the “Managed Service Provider (MSP) of the Year”. This award recognizes TierPoint’s Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) solution for protecting virtualized workloads from data loss and downtime. The solution offers a variety of configurations with failover to private, multicloud, and public cloud services in the event of a disaster. TierPoint delivered significant revenue growth over the past year and grew the number of Zerto-protected virtual machines (VMs) by more than two million instances.

TierPoint and Zerto’s long-standing, cooperative relationship has resulted in numerous successful joint customer wins and marketing efforts. The TierPoint team appreciates the knowledge Zerto’s cloud architects and sales teams bring and looks forward to another successful year of collaboration and success.

TierPoint’s Focus on Enabling Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

Disruptions come in many forms. At TierPoint, we understand businesses need to be ready to handle those disruptions and ensure business continuity. TierPoint offers solutions that minimize data loss and downtime, house infrastructure in diverse geographies across the U.S., ensure solutions meet low RPO and RTO requirements and create a strategy around resilience to combat vulnerable workloads and ransomware attacks. They do this with a combination of Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS), Data Center, and cloud services.

Disaster Recovery as a Service (powered by Zerto)

Cloud-based disaster recovery is among the fastest-growing cloud services, and DRaaS enables recovery of your data, applications, and infrastructure – all within minutes. TierPoint’s Cloud to Cloud Recovery (DRaaS) solution flexibly fits your unique mix of recovery time objective (RTO), recovery point objective (RPO), production environment, and recovery environment requirements.

Data Center Services

In combination with DRaaS, TierPoint offers backup solutions in its over 40 data centers across the United States. Because these data centers are geographically diverse, customers get additional resilience from natural disasters.

Hybrid IT and Cloud Services

The cloud has many benefits over traditional on-premises disaster recovery. Learn why disaster in the cloud is better than the alternatives. Our agnostic approach to the cloud enables us to manage your recovery and production workloads.

A complimentary playbook on overcoming business continuity challenges

Does your organization have a business continuity strategy? If so, does it account for more than one disaster? A great BC plan should account for various challenges and a roadmap to get your business operations back to normal. Download this complimentary eBook, The Ultimate Guide to Running Your Business Through Uncertainty and Disruption, to learn why you should make business continuity a top priority and how to overcome some of the biggest challenges.

At the annual ZertoCON user conference, Zerto presented several partner awards based on 2020 revenue attainment, new customer adoption, and engagement with Zerto. This year, TierPoint was the recipient of the ‘Top MSP of the Year’ award based on total VMs protected, revenue and growth.

TierPoint has partnered with Zerto for eight years and increased the total VMs protected by 62%; in 2020, revenue with Zerto grew by nearly 50%. TierPoint’s Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) solution, powered by Zerto, helps businesses meet RTO (recovery time objective) and RPO (recovery point objective) requirements with near-synchronous replication, automated failover to a secondary site, and is available as a fully managed or self-managed solution. TierPoint also took an aggressive sales, development, and marketing approach to position Zerto as a unique differentiator. This resulted in exponential growth with current customers and prospects in 2020.

Our Cloud to Cloud DRaaS solution powered by Zerto

TierPoint’s Cloud to Cloud Recovery (DRaaS) solutions flexibly fit your unique mix of recovery time objective (RTO), recovery point objective (RPO), production environment, and recovery environment requirements. Automation provides peace of mind. Your organization can test your DR solution anytime, quickly recover from a cyberthreat or outage into an enterprise-class recovery environment and use your recovery environment for as long as you want.

Businesses depend on data, applications, and infrastructure, so data backup alone is not enough. Cloud-based disaster recovery is among the fastest-growing cloud services, and DRaaS enables recovery of your data, applications, and infrastructure – all within minutes. You can achieve more control over your recovery plan, replication, and failover with TierPoint DRaaS.

Download our Cloud to Cloud DRaaS, powered by Zerto fact sheet to learn more.

More Disaster Recovery resources

Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity planning insights

The key to a successful business continuity (BC) and disaster recovery (DR) program is a comprehensive plan. BC/DR plans can be the difference between a minor and major downtime and data loss. Read some of our resources on Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery planning.

Why You Should Test Your Disaster Recovery Plan

2021 Disaster Recovery trends

The pandemic has changed how many businesses will approach IT resilience in 2021 and beyond. With more remote workers, businesses need to evolve and find ways to protect their business critical applications and data. Here are some resources on the trends we’re seeing in 2021.

IDC Technology Spotlight: 2021 Trends Driving Data Resilience
Mitigating Ransomware Attacks with Secure Data and Storage

Disaster Recovery solutions: Why Disaster Recovery as Service (DRaaS)?

There are multiple disaster recovery services options to choose from. We believe that DRaaS is one of the best disaster recovery solutions for businesses who have specific RPO (recovery point objectives) and RTO (recovery time objectives) goals. Here are some resources on why DRaaS is a great option.

Why Adopt DRaaS? 5 Considerations to Maximize Business Benefits

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