WD recognized as the ‘Storage Vendor of the Year 2013’ by customers around the globe

WD, a Western Digital Company has been selected as the best hard drive company to partner during the past year by the hundreds of distributors, retailers and e-tailers across the U.S. and Europe-Middle East-Africa regions.

WD was presented the channel champion award in the US after evaluating 6000 responses for the SATA hard drive category. In EMEA region, WD was selected as the storage vendor of the year and the award was presented to the company at the EMEA Channel Academy: 2014 Awards in association with the DISTREE EMEA event.

The Channel Company qualifies solutions providers and conducts extensive surveys, during which vendors are rated on 12 criteria under three sub-categories: Technical Satisfaction, Support Satisfaction and Financial Satisfaction. WD was the solutions providers’ top choice in the three sub-categories, as well as overall in the SATA hard drives segment.

For the EMEA Channel Academy Award, more than 300 of EMEA’s leading volume distributors, retailers and e-tailers voted for their preferred vendor in each category, assessing brands on a variety of factors. WD secured 46 percent of votes by channel partners, versus four other vendors, which split the remaining share.

The company tailors its customer service to channel businesses and offers a wealth of benefits with its myWD™ partner program to help them prosper. myWD is a points-based reward program, offering marketing tools, training, product evaluations and special promotions.