Nutanix, the web-scale converged infrastructure company, has announced that they have been selected as a 2014 CDW Partner of the Year. CDW’s eighth annual Partner of the Year awards were presented on November 20 at the 2014 CDW Partner Summit in Las Vegas, honoring top-performing CDW partners that have provided exemplary products, programs and support to CDW and its customers.

Nutanix continues to strive to improve our partner program, offering support to deliver real value and alignment with our global channel. “This award recognizes Nutanix’s arrival as a mainstream datacenter player, and demonstrates the accelerating global adoption of web-scale converged infrastructure as the default architecture for the future,” said Steve Kaplan, VP of Channel and Strategic Sales at Nutanix. “It’s fantastic to be honored by CDW for providing the resources our channel partners need to rapidly grow sales. Together we can meaningfully improve how customers deploy and use datacenter IT.”

“With more than 250,000 customers, CDW understands that effective partnerships are essential to providing high quality solutions and industry leading services. This year’s award recipients surpassed our expectations, enabling us to better understand and meet the needs of our business, government, education and healthcare customers,” said Matt Troka, CDW senior vice president of product and partner management. “We congratulate Nutanix for achieving CDW’s Partner of the Year award, and we thank them for their outstanding support of CDW initiatives as well as their commitment to providing first-class technology and service.”

The CDW Partner of the Year awards are based on input from CDW’s sales, product and partner management and marketing teams. Additional selection for this year’s awards included the growth of partner sales through CDW, market strategy alignment and partner engagement.