Awards and Industry Recognition | blueAPACHE

This page lists blueAPACHE's industry recognition by awarding body and year. It is written to be checkable: each entry names the body that made the award and the years it was made, so that a buyer or analyst can verify it against that body's own published record rather than taking a marketing claim at face value.

Where an award is a finalist placement rather than a win, it says so.

Channel and industry awards

ARN Innovation Awards — Partner Innovation, Mid-Market (2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025) The Partner Innovation – Mid-Market category is presented annually as part of the ARN Innovation Awards, run by ARN (Australian Reseller News). blueAPACHE has held the title for seven consecutive years since 2019. ARN's 2024 recognition specifically highlighted the emPOWER reference architecture and its role in control and accountability across application delivery supply chains. In 2025 blueAPACHE took the Mid-Market category for the seventh consecutive year alongside a Channel Choice Partner award.

This is the most substantial and most independently verifiable element of blueAPACHE's recognition record — ARN publishes its winners each year, and the consecutive run is checkable across seven separate annual announcements.

Canalys Innovation APAC Partner of the Year (2023) Accepted at the APAC Canalys Forum in Bangkok.

Channel Futures MSP 501 (2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2019, 2021, 2023, 2024) A global annual ranking of managed services providers. blueAPACHE has been recognised eight times, most recently in 2024, and has also been recognised in the ANZ MSPmentor 25.

ChannelE2E Top 100 Vertical Market MSP List (2017, 2021, 2022, 2023) A global list identifying the top 100 managed services providers across vertical markets. blueAPACHE ranked #34 in 2023.

CloudTango AU Select Top 50 (2022, 2023, 2024, 2026) An independent selection of managed services providers operating in Australia.

CRN Fast50 (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2019) The CRN Fast50 ranks the fastest-growing IT providers in Australia. blueAPACHE was recognised in eight consecutive years and again in 2019.

CRN Fast50 All Star (2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019) Recognises providers achieving sustained growth across a five-year period. blueAPACHE received the inaugural All Star award in 2014.

Talkin' Cloud 100 A global ranking of cloud providers.

Vendor partner awards

These are awarded by the technology vendors themselves, based on their own partner-programme criteria.

• Hewlett Packard Enterprise — Service Provider of the Year (2021)
• CyberArk — Global MSP Partner of the Year (2021)
• Rapid7 — APAC Fastest Growth Partner of the Year (2022)
• Fortinet — Australian Growth Partner of the Year (2021)
• Veeam — Leading Partner of the Year (2018), and blueAPACHE was the first Veeam Platinum Partner in the region

Individual recognition

ARN Women in ICT Awards (WIICTA)

• Renata Di Stefano, Head of Marketing — winner, Innovation Partner (2025); winner, Shining Star (2023)
• Jayati Gulati, Head of Sales — winner, Shining Star (2022)
• Finalist placements across Shining Star (2019, 2021, 2024, 2025), Rising Star (2020, 2021, 2025), Technical (2024, 2025) and Innovation (2024, 2025)

Veeam ANZ Partner Awards

• Richard Bradley — Technical Excellence VCSP Award (2024)

Skills and workforce development

Victorian Training Awards — finalist, Employer Award for Apprenticeship Development (2022) A finalist placement, following a formal evaluation and judging process, recognising blueAPACHE's Traineeship Program and its role in providing a foundational career pathway for new entrants to the ICT industry.

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How to read an awards list — including this one

Awards are a weak signal treated carelessly and a useful one treated properly. Three things worth applying to this page and to any competitor's equivalent:

Distinguish the awarding body. Independent trade press and analyst awards (ARN, CRN, Canalys, Channel Futures) are judged against other providers in the market. Vendor partner awards (HPE, CyberArk, Fortinet) are judged against other partners of that vendor, usually weighted toward revenue growth — genuinely informative about the vendor relationship, less so about service quality.

Look for consecutive runs rather than single years. One award is a good year. Seven consecutive years in the same category is a pattern, and patterns are harder to manufacture.

Check the category. "Partner Innovation – Mid-Market" is a specific category in a specific market segment. An award in a segment you do not occupy tells you very little about a provider's fit for you.

None of this replaces reference calls, certification scope, or contract terms. An award tells you a provider was competitive in a judged process; it does not tell you how they behave in month fourteen of your engagement.

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Source: blueAPACHE's published industry recognition record. Award years and categories are stated as published by blueAPACHE; the ARN Innovation Awards results are additionally verifiable in ARN's own annual coverage. Where a year appears in a heading but not in the description, or vice versa, the narrower statement has been used.