Zenoss Inc., a leader in software-defined IT operations, today announced that CRN, a brand of The Channel Company, has recognized Zenoss Cloud as a finalist in the 2018 CRN Tech Innovator Awards. These annual awards honor standout hardware, software and services that are moving the IT industry forward.

In compiling the 2018 Tech Innovator Awards list, CRN editors evaluated 300 products across 34 technology categories using several criteria, including technological advancements, uniqueness of features, and potential to help solution providers solve end users' IT challenges. Zenoss Cloud took top honors in the Cloud Platform category.   

Zenoss Cloud is the first SaaS-based intelligent IT operations management platform that streams and normalizes all machine data, uniquely enabling the emergence of context for preventing service disruptions in complex, modern IT environments. Zenoss Cloud is powered by Google Cloud Platform, leveraging the most powerful machine learning and real-time analytics of streaming data to give companies the ability to scale and adapt to the changing needs of their businesses.

"With Zenoss Cloud, enterprises and service providers can seamlessly deploy hybrid IT monitoring and analytics in the most complex IT environments, leveraging machine learning to root cause issues and predictively deliver actionable insights," said George Kanuck, vice president of worldwide sales at Zenoss. "We are honored that the revolutionary Zenoss approach is being recognized by CRN with this award."

"Each year, the CRN Tech Innovator Awards recognize technology vendor offerings that are reshaping the IT channel landscape by increasing worker productivity, reducing cost, and minimizing complexity for solution providers, IT departments, and end users," said Bob Skelley, CEO of The Channel Company. "The winners in this year's awards bring breakthrough ideas to the table for solution providers and their customers, in areas ranging from cloud to security to business intelligence to IoT. We congratulate all the winners and look forward to their future endeavors."

The Tech Innovator Awards will be featured in the December issue of CRN and can be viewed online at https://www.crn.com/techinnovators.