Soft Solutions was announced as Trend Micro’s Distributor of the Year for 2013 in New Zealand at the recent Trend Micro Partner Forum, held at the Sofitel Hotel in Auckland.

"With this award, we applaud Soft Solutions’ performance and achievements as a Trend Micro Distributor, and look forward to Soft Solutions continuing to raise the bar in delivering business value," says Sanjay Mehta, Managing Director, Trend Micro ANZ.

"Soft Solutions and its partner network are focused on investing in an entire portfolio of products to help our joint customers implement the most complete security solution.

"This award reflects the strong relationship between Soft Solutions and Trend Micro in championing innovative security software and services constantly adapted to a rapidly changing threat landscape."

In business since 1995, Soft Solutions is a distributor of computer products, particularly in the areas of security, network management, storage, and IP telephony.

Soft Solutions’ customers cover the full gamut of IT resellers in New Zealand, from enterprise right down to the independent computer consultants with an extensive list of agencies including ManageEngine, Trend Micro, StorageCraft, 3CX and Grandstream.

“We are very happy to have received this award from Trend Micro," adds Aaron Bhashkar, Business Development Manager, Soft Solutions.

“We have been distributing Trend Micro in New Zealand since 1997, our partners appreciate and leverage our team’s product knowledge, and the processes we have put in place to deliver what they require in a timely manner.”

“Our appointment as a Managed Service Provider distributor for Trend Micro last year has also allowed us to diversify our offerings to the channel.

"This applies to our enterprise partners who offer data center services, right down to a small to medium partner running managed services for their customers.”