Carahsoft Wins 2015 IES Sales Excellence Award

Carahsoft Named Winner in the Alliance Management Category

RESTON, Va. – July 7, 2015 – Carahsoft Technology Corp., the trusted government IT solutions provider, announced today that it won an award for Excellence in Alliance Management from the Institute for Excellence in Sales (IES).

The award recognizes Carahsoft's VMware vCloud Air Network (vCAN) Program that brings Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) together with public sector agencies and VMware’s market-leading technology to better build government clouds. The program offers pay-as-you-go licensing, support, and tools through which CSPs can develop, promote, and sell VMware-based products, services, and solutions.

“We are honored to be recognized for our vCAN program,” said John Lee, vice president, Carahsoft. “This program provides value and support to our vendor partners and helps our government customers reduce the cost and speed the implementation of their virtualization initiatives.”

In the past year, the VMware team at Carahsoft doubled its partner alliances to 32 CSPs who are dedicated to providing VMware-based cloud solutions for government customers. The alliance continues to grow and now encompasses federal systems integrators, solution providers, data center hosting and cloud services, storage as a service provider, SaaS providers and numerous federal agencies.

“Congratulations to Carahsoft being named winner in the 2015 IES Sales Awards, recognizing sales operational excellence,” said Fred Diamond, Co-Founder of the IES and President of DIAMOND Strategic Marketing. “It’s incredible to see the level of accomplishment that companies such as Carahsoft exhibit as they create and deliver innovative customer-centric approaches to grow their businesses, meet customer needs, and bring valuable solutions to the market.”

About the Institute for Excellence in Sales

The IES was co-founded by marketing guru Fred Diamond of DIAMOND Strategic Marketing to recognize corporate and organizational sales operational excellence through best practice and thought leadership promotion. The IES instills best practices across all operational areas in Sales. IES provides education, recognition, research, thought leadership, insights, and strategies for enabling Sales leadership, development, and excellence. The keystone program is the annual IES awards which recognizes achievement in corporate and organization sales initiatives, such as training, team building, sales/marketing integration, and customer relationship development. Learn more about the IES www.i4esbd.org or by calling 888.443.9943.