Celebrating the Wins of 2023

I firmly believe we should take the time to celebrate our wins. Personally, I try to keep in mind the wins (big and small) I’ve had throughout the year. They drive me when things are tougher or when I’m doubting myself or even when it’s time to review my performance. As 2023 draws to a close, I thought now was a perfect time to toast ourselves on the year's victories. Let’s kick off 2024 with good vibes and great memories. In case you missed it, SolarWinds has won a number of awards this year, and I’d like to take a moment to congratulate all the teams that made these victories possible and share some good cheer.

SolarWinds Corporate and Industry Awards:

• The SolarWinds Secure by Design initiative, a new, gold-plated standard for secure software development, won a Business Intelligence Group’s 2023 Fortress Cyber Security Award. 
• The SolarWinds Next-Generation Build System, a key component of Secure by Design, was also recognized by the 2023 BIG Innovation Awards and the Cloud Security Awards. The Cloud Security Awards judge stated the company’s cutting-edge technology sets “a new standard for excellence in the industry.” 
• SolarWinds Chief Information Security Officer and VP of Security Tim Brown, who has spearheaded the ongoing development of the Next-Generation Build System, was awarded CISO of the Year from the Globee Cybersecurity Award. He was also named a winner of the G2Xchange Disruptive Tech Change Agents Award, which recognizes disruptors and trailblazers leading the transformation of federal IT. 
• CRN^® honored SolarWinds Transform Partner Program with a prestigious 5-star rating in its 2023 Partner Program Guide. The Transform Partner Program enables company partners to accelerate digital transformation for their customers with simple and AI-powered technology, including SolarWinds observability solutions. 
• SolarWinds President of North America Channel Sales Chad Reese, Director of North America Channel Sales Troy Dankworth, and Global Channel Marketing Lead Zhanna Boguslavska were recognized in CRN’s 2023 Channel Chiefs, which recognizes channel executives who consistently support, promote, and execute effective channel partner programs and strategies. 
• Zhanna Boguslavska and Director of North America Channel Led Initiatives Ashley Irwin, were also named to CRN 2023 Women of the Channel, a list honoring over 1,500 women whose channel expertise and vision deserve recognition. 
• The company was also honored for its customer service management by the Stevie^® Awards, which honor and generate public recognition of the achievements and positive contributions of organizations and working professionals worldwide. The company was named a Bronze winner for “The Customer Service Management, Planning & Practice” award by the Middle East & North Africa Stevie Awards (MENA Stevie Awards). 
• Director of Sales for SLED & Healthcare John Wilson, was named a finalist of the StateScoop 50 Award, a program recognizing the best and brightest in the state government IT ecosystem. 
• SolarWinds was awarded Best Cybersecurity System Vendor of the Year of the Future Security Awards 2023 in UAE for its commitment to the Next-Generation Build System, a component of the SolarWinds Secure by Design initiative.
• At the IT Security Awards 2023 in Germany, SolarWinds was awarded as a winner in the ‘Cloud Security’ category for its Secure by Design initiative.
• Zhanna Boguslvaska was named to CRN’s list of 100 People You Don't Know But Should list for 2023
• SolarWinds was named Public Relations Department of the Year in the BIG Public Relations & Marketing Excellence Awards.
• SolarWinds and Tim Brown received a CSO50 Award for IT Infrastructure Monitoring and Management in recognition for the SolarWinds Next-Gen Build System.

 SolarWinds Product and Solution Awards: 

• The Globee^® Information Technology Award recognized the company as a Gold Winner for the Most Innovative Company of the Year in the Cloud/SaaS category for SolarWinds^® Observability, the company’s unified, full-stack, cloud-native SaaS observability solution. 
• SolarWinds was named a Silver Winner for Company of the Year in the IT services category by the Globee Awards for American Business for developing a unified platform and cloud-native SaaS observability solution. 
• The company was also named the Bronze Winner for SolarWinds^® Hybrid Cloud Observability under the “Excellence in Innovation in Technology Industries” category by the Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards. 
• SolarWinds also won Data Observability Solution of the Year at the Data Breakthrough Awards, which recognizes the best companies, products, and services in the new era of digital data. 
• Database Trends and Applications (DBTA) named SolarWinds to its DBTA 100 2023 list, which showcases forward-looking companies improving and expanding upon existing technology and processes to help their customers use data more effectively. 
• SolarWinds^® Serv-U File Transfer Protocol Server won silver in the Visual Studio Magazine 2023 Reader’s Choice Awards in the FTP, Email and Network Connectivity category.
• The company won Gold at the German IP Insider 2023 Awards in the network monitoring category and was named Silver winner at the DEV Insider 2023 Awards in the observability category. 
• SolarWinds^® IT Service Management was named Product of the Year in the Business Intelligence Awards for Business.
• SolarWinds Observability has been named DevOps Innovation of the Year in the 2023 Tech Ascension DevOps Awards.  
• SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability was shortlisted in the Cloud Awards for the Best Hybrid Cloud Solution category.
• SolarWinds Observability named a finalist in the CRN Products of the Year list for the Application Performance/Observability category.
• SolarWinds Observability named a winner in the Cloud SaaS Awards for Best SaaS Product For IT Management.
• SolarWinds Observability named a finalist in the CRN Tech Innovator Awards for the Application Development & DevOps category.
• SolarWinds Observability named a finalist in the DevOps Dozen for Best Observability Solution.
• SolarWinds Service Desk named a Gold Winner in the International Business Awards (also known as the International Stevie Awards) for the Service Management Solution category.

Congratulations to our fellow Solarians on a good year. We look forward to 2024 and new opportunities to improve upon the previous year. Please share your wins and accolades of the past year with us in the comments below. We’d love to celebrate with you. Happy New Year!