BraveIT – 2021 focus

With a new and expanded focus on philanthropy, BraveIT 2021 will support charitable groups offering educational programs that help inspire and prepare various populations to pursue STEM careers.  

We start this year with eight such organizations. In the coming weeks, we’ll share their stories and encourage the public to vote for the one organization they believe most effectively achieves its mission.  

All eight received a $2,000 donation. The organization with the most votes will become our grand prize winner, earning an additional $10,000 donation. And the organizations with the second and third-most votes will each receive an additional $5,000. Winners were announced on Thu., Sept. 23 at 1:00 p.m. ET. Watch the full webcast here.  

Announcing the BraveIT Award winner

Congratulations to our winner, The Children’s Museum of the Upstate (TCMU). Nominated for this year’s program by our valued partners at Intelisys, TCMU is a Smithsonian affiliate and one of the largest children’s museums in the nation. TCMU is an incredible place where children can discover, learn and grow.  The organization offers over twenty exhibits that reflect all areas of STEM-based learning and hands-on weekly programming for building critical thinking and developing other important skills. Through scholarship-funded field trips, all children can experience TCMU.

Third and Second place winners were Girl Scouts of Northeast Texas and Warrior-Scholar Project. Congratulations to all our winners and nominees.  

BraveIT Award Nominees and Criteria

Science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) programs help innovative minds create, imagine, and excel.  As the employment landscape evolves, our future workforce requires STEM education. This year’s BraveIT initiative shines a light on organizations dedicated to closing the STEM skills gap and helping their participants achieve a bright and brave future for generations to come.    

The 2021 nominees: 

1. Aspire2STEAM.org 
2. FIRST Mid-Atlantic Robotics 
3. Girl Scouts of Northeast Texas 
4. Girls Who Code 
5. i.c.stars 
6. The Children’s Museum of the Upstate (TCMU) 
7. The Summer Science Program 
8. Warrior-Scholar Project 

Watch the BraveIT Award ceremony here. 

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.

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