CMP Technology's VARBusiness Seventh Annual VARBusiness 500 Awards Conference Honors North America's Top IT Solution ProvidersVARBusiness 500 to Welcome Record Number of New Companies; New York Times Best Selling Author, Stephen J. Dubner, and performance metrics guru, Jeffrey MA, to Keynote EventPRNewswire MANHASSET, N.Y., May 29 /PRNewswire/ -- CMP Channel Group's VARBusiness, the biweekly business magazine that provides strategic insight for technology integrators, today announced that the VARBusiness 500 Conference and Awards will take place June 11-12 at the Marriott Marquis Hotel, Times Square in New York City and will bring together North America's top information-technology (IT) solution providers. "The countdown to the VARBusiness 500 is ticking away quickly. The health of the channel is directly related to the strength of the VARBusiness 500 and it is getting stronger. We are already very excited about the results we are seeing. We have a powerful line up of speakers and events scheduled. It is going to be a spectacular event," said Lawrence M. Walsh, VARBusiness Editor. VARBusiness 500 Conference The two-day conference includes networking, educational sessions and an awards program for industry leaders, vendors and solution providers. Event highlights include the VARBusiness 500 Executive Panel moderated by VARBusiness' editor where attendees will learn the secrets of success from fellow VARBusiness 500 companies; a panel session with customer executives from emerging enterprises as well as keynote presentations by Stephen J. Dubner, the best selling author of FREAKONOMICS and Jeffrey MA, Performance Metrics Specialist, Founder of PROTRADE and the MIT engineering student who took down Las Vegas. The 2007 VARBusiness 500 This year's VARBusiness 500 has a combined value of nearly $349 billion. One hundred thirteen new companies will join the list due to a change in the methodology of the list. The VARBusiness editorial team removed the vendor services arms from the list, opening nearly 40 slots for new companies. The threshold for inclusion on the list rose to nearly $25 million, up from the 2006 threshold of $21 million. This year's list also brings more billion- dollar companies than in year's past. The VARBusiness 500 revenue breakdown as follows: -- $25 million to $49.9 million: 29% -- $50 million to $99.9 million: 25% -- $100 million to $499.9 million: 28% -- $500 million to $999.9 million: 6.2% -- $1 billion to $4.9 billion: 8% -- $5 billion to $9.9 billion: 2% -- Greater than $10 billion: 1.5% The VARBusiness 500 is generously supported by executive platinum sponsors: AMD, IBM, HP and Symantec; platinum sponsors: Business Objects, CA and SonicWall; and gold sponsors: Avnet, Sun, Toshiba, ViewSonic and WebSense. VARBusiness magazine will publish the full VARBusiness 500 list and analysis on June 11 at http://www.channelweb.com/. For more information about the event and to register, go to http://www.varbusiness.com/var500reg. About VARBusiness (http://www.varbusiness.com/) For the past 20 years, VARBusiness' strategic resources have been the gateway to the commercial and public sector (or government) Solution Provider community. The VARBusiness integrated platform of media opportunities provides strategic insight for technology integrators through industry-defining research, in-depth editorial, channel events and innovative Web services, enabling these IT professionals to make educated decisions for their businesses, partnerships and customers. VARBusiness offerings lead vendors and distributors to unprecedented access to the most powerful strategic Solution Providers in the market. VARBusiness has been the recipient of numerous industry awards for both editorial content and design. About CMP Channel Group (http://www.cmpchannelgroup.com/) CMP Channel Group is the one stop shop customers turn to in order to meet their global sales channel objectives from access to execution. Through use of its family of channel solutions which include CRN and VARBusiness, the ChannelWeb network, the Group's XChange worldwide face-to-face conferences and the Institute for Partner Education & Development (IPED), vendors are able to accelerate sales through the channel. CMP Channel Group provides a worldwide answer to advertising, branding and marketing services, lead generation, market intelligence, branded and custom events, education of solution providers and best practices for vendors. About CMP Technology (http://www.cmp.com/) CMP Technology is a marketing-solutions company serving the technology industry. Through its market-leading portfolio of trusted information brands, CMP has earned the confidence of more technology professionals than any other media company. As a result, CMP is the premier provider of access, insight and actionable programs designed to connect sellers and buyers in ways that yield superior return on investment. CMP Technology is a subsidiary of United Business Media (http://www.unitedbusinessmedia.com/), a global provider of news distribution and specialist information services with a market capitalization of more than $3 billion. Contact Laura Allen CMP Channel Group's VARBusiness Lallen@cmp.com 516.562.7766 SOURCE: CMP Technology CONTACT: Laura Allen of CMP Channel Group's VARBusiness, Web site: http://www.cmp.com/ Company News On-Call: http://www.prnewswire.com/comp/181993.html |