{"id":121494,"date":"2020-11-18T12:00:32","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T20:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/?p=121494"},"modified":"2020-11-18T11:14:41","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T19:14:41","slug":"cc-2020-global-partners-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/origin-researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/cc-2020-global-partners-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to Our 2020 Global Partners of the Year!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"max-width:100%\" data-width=\"960\"><span class=\"ar-custom\" style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-121510 lozad\"  data-src=\"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/image1-4.png\" alt=\"Exceptional Impact: 2020 Global Partners of the Year. In addition to the text, the image shows hands assembling a set of gears. \" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" \/><\/span><\/div><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Palo Alto Networks global ecosystems team is incredibly proud to recognize our 2020 Global Partners of the Year!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Through these awards, we recognize an elite group of global partners that have continuously demonstrated excellence in delivering, integrating and building solutions enabled by Palo Alto Networks. Partners are doing more with us than ever before to safeguard the network \u2013 securing users, apps and data from anywhere; offering comprehensive, full lifecycle cloud native security; and enabling the autonomous SOC.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We announced our winners on Nov. 17 at the Palo Alto Networks Ignite '20 Partner Summit, where we virtually welcomed a record number of partners from around the world (more than 11,000 of you registered)! And we're pleased to introduce, for the first time, the Global Social Impact Award to a partner this year whose efforts were distinguished by their positive social impact \u2013 and who was among the many partners across the globe that rose to meet the daunting challenges of 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our global partners serve as trusted advisors to our more than 75,000 customers in every vertical, acting as force multipliers and expanding our scale to help our customers secure today for a better tomorrow.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I want to thank <\/span><b>all of our partners<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for helping us to create what we believe is the most comprehensive global partner ecosystem in cybersecurity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Congratulations again to our <\/span><b>2020 Global Partners of the Year winners:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Global NextWave Partner of the Year: World Wide Technology<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Global Distribution Partner of the Year: Westcon International<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Global Systems Integrator Partner of the Year: Accenture<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Global Service Provider Partner of the Year: BT<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Global Technology Partner of the Year: Nutanix<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Global Cortex Partner of the Year: Optiv<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Global Prisma Cloud Partner of the Year: NTT<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Global SASE Partner of the Year: Insight<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Global Social Impact Award: Trustwave<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Watch our <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mJBDHBASLDE&amp;feature=youtu.be\" rel=\"nofollow,noopener\" ><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Global 2020 Partners of the Year video<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to learn more.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><div class=\"styleIt\" style=\"width:560px;height:315px;\"><lite-youtube videoid=\"mJBDHBASLDE\" ><\/lite-youtube><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Palo Alto Networks recognized our 2020 Global Partners of the Year at the Palo Alto Networks Ignite \u201820 Partner Summit. 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