SecureData, and ERP.com company and the exclusive sub-Saharan distributors of Trend Micro, a leading provider of enterprise antivirus and Internet content security software solutions, has announced that Trend was awarded the Best Vendor honor at the recent EnterpriseVision Winter 2001. The event, produced by Vision Events, a Gartner, Inc. company, was held February 18-20, 2001, in Phoenix, Arizona.
The Best Vendor award is part of the Best of EnterpriseVision Awards, the only awards in the industry selected by the Integrator community and honoring the vendors that provide industry-leading products and programmes. Winners of the Best Vendor award are typically awarded to a vendor with the best products, best channel strategy, and best service and support, as well as the easiest vendor to partner with and the vendor that saves their Integrators the most money. In addition to winning Best Vendor, Trend Micro was also nominated for both Best Networking Technology, as well as Best Channel Strategy awards at this event. At last year's EnterpriseVision Summer 2000 event Trend Micro was awarded Best Channel Strategy.
Enterprise Vision is a comprehensive event that brings technology vendors like Trend Micro together with more than 100 of the most powerful Systems Integrators from the largest and fastest growing market segments to promote growth and understanding of enterprise channel dynamics and to shape the future of Information Technology. Vision Events, a Gartner, Inc. company, is the leading producer of highly focused channel events that match the leading vendors and resellers in private boardroom appointments to form strategic partnerships and secure new business in the technology sector.
"We are thrilled that Trend Micro have won the Best Vendor award at Vision Events' EnterpriseVision Winter 2001," said Wayne Biehn, Sales Director, SecureData. "Integration specialists are the people who know every aspect of the network, and for them to recognise Trend Micro's comprehensive solutions for network security and its commitment to the channel is quite an honor." About Gartner
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SecureData, an ERP.com company, is a Managed Security Service Provider. SecureData is the exclusive sub-Saharan Distributors of Trend Micro, providing enterprise-wide, centrally managed, server-based, virus protection, e-mail filtering and Internet filtering products and services. Concern about Internet Safety has created a vigorous and growing market for content security products and services. Today, e-mail attachments account for over 50% of virus infections, and web-based malicious mobile code (vandals) is widely thought to be the predominant content threat of the near future. SecureData, brings sub-Saharan Africa the tools that build anti-virus and content security protection into the Internet and Mail/Groupware infrastructure.