Forsythe Solutions Group Named 2009 Symantec “VAR of the Year”
Forsythe Earns Top Partner Honors from Symantec Corporation
SKOKIE, Ill.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Forsythe Solutions Group, an IT infrastructure integrator with 38 years of industry experience, today announced that it received the 2009 VAR of the Year Award from Symantec Corporation November 5th at Symantec Partner Engage 2009 in Orlando, Florida. The Symantec Partner Awards recognize partners who have invested in Symantec and successfully combined Symantec software with their own services to solve customers’ most complex business challenges.
“Symantec’s partners are vital to our success and we’re focused on helping our partners continue to increase their revenue, grow their business and stay relevant with our joint customers,” said Randy Cochran, vice president, North American channel sales, Symantec. “The 2009 Channel Partner Awards recognize the focus of our partners who have truly invested in themselves and Symantec to deliver solutions that help customers reduce costs and minimize risks to deliver a near-term return on investment.”
“Forsythe is committed to helping our clients optimize their computing environments by providing them with solutions that enable them to solve operational problems from high availability computing to email archiving,” says Michael Qualley, Forsythe senior vice president of systems and technology. “We are pleased to partner with Symantec in doing so and honored to be recognized by them.”
“As part of helping our clients manage risk, we take their enterprise information security very seriously,” says Steve Abbott, Forsythe senior vice president of security. “Our security consulting services, both technical and advisory, as well as our technology evaluation center (TEC) services are aimed at helping clients select and implement the right security technology and develop the right security programs to manage their risk while enabling business performance. We are delighted that they choose us to assist them with their security needs, and we are honored at being recognized by Symantec for the success of our efforts.”
Forsythe’s Technology Evaluation Center (TEC) is 2,500 square foot, state-of-the-art data center solely dedicated to laboratory functionality, which enables clients to conduct proof-of-concepts, product evaluations, technology bake-offs, and platform migration validations quickly and cost-effectively, without interrupting workflow in their own data centers. It also enables them to design and build real-world IT environments that can be customized to simulate their own development and/or production environments, allowing our clients to perform a variety of testing to help solve immediate business needs.
About Forsythe
Founded in 1971, Forsythe is an information technology infrastructure integrator. Forsythe helps complex organizations across all industries, including Fortune 1000 companies, optimize the cost and manage the risk of their IT while improving performance. Forsythe provides independent technology and business consulting services, technology leasing services, and value-added reseller services for all the leading technology product manufacturers. Headquartered in Skokie, Illinois, Forsythe employs 920 people in nearly 50 offices throughout the United States and Canada. Forsythe is privately held and 100-percent employee-owned. In 2008, Forsythe achieved its 38th consecutive year of profitability with revenues of $700 million. Forsythe McArthur Associates Inc., Forsythe Solutions Group Inc., Forsythe Federal Solutions Corp., Forsythe Technology Canada Inc. and Forsythe International Inc. are wholly-owned subsidiaries of Forsythe Technology Inc. For more information, visit www.forsythe.com.
