Wasabi Honored as a Finalist in the 2019 CRN® Tech Innovator Awards

BOSTON, MA, November 14, 2019 – Wasabi, the hot cloud storage company, announced today that CRN_®, a brand of The Channel Company, has recognized Wasabi as a finalist in the 2019 CRN Tech Innovator Awards. These annual awards honor innovative hardware, software, and services. CRN editors evaluated hundreds of products, across 34 technology categories using criteria, including technological advancements, uniqueness of features, and potential to help solution providers solve common IT challenges. Wasabi’s hot cloud storage took top honors in the enterprise category.

Wasabi delivers disruptive hot cloud storage technology that is 1/5th the price of Amazon S3 and faster than industry competitors. Wasabi is on a mission to disrupt cloud storage with remarkable innovation and steep price cuts that allow enterprises to reimagine the value of their data to fully realize their company goals. Designed for exabyte-scale and extreme data durability, Wasabi also features a single high-performance tier with no charge for data egress or API requests. Unlike first generation cloud vendors, Wasabi is solely focused on providing the world's best cloud object storage service.

“CRN’s Tech Innovator Awards honor technology vendors who work tirelessly to craft ground-breaking solutions for end users, matching the speed of the channel’s evolution,” said Bob Skelley, CEO of The Channel Company. “The winners in this year’s award categories deserve congratulations for their success in driving IT innovation forward for solution providers and their customers.”

“We are honored to be recognized as a finalist for the innovator awards. It means so much when the staff’s hard work and dedication to Wasabi is recognized by an outlet like CRN,” shares David Friend, CEO of Wasabi.

The Tech Innovator Awards will be featured in the December issue of CRN and can be viewed online at crn.com/techinnovators.

About Wasabi:

Wasabi is the hot cloud storage company delivering disruptive storage technology that is 1/5th the price of Amazon S3, faster than the competition with no fees for egress or API requests. Unlike first generation cloud vendors, Wasabi is solely focused on providing the world's best cloud object storage service. Created by Carbonite co-founders and cloud storage pioneers David Friend and Jeff Flowers, Wasabi is on a mission to commoditize the cloud storage industry. Wasabi is a privately held company based in Boston, MA. Follow and connect with Wasabi on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and our blog.

 

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