At F5, our partners play a crucial role in driving innovation, delivering value to customers, and shaping the future of application security and multicloud networking. Each year, we recognize the standout partners who have demonstrated exceptional expertise, commitment, and impact.
We’re thrilled to announce the F5 2024 North America Partner Award Winners, honoring F5 partners that have gone above and beyond in delivering exceptional value to customers, helping organizations strengthen security, optimize application performance, and navigate the complexities of modern IT environments.
North America Partner of the Year – WorldTech IT
WorldTech IT exemplifies what it means to be an F5 partner, achieving remarkable growth with a 340% increase in partner-initiated opportunities. In 2024, WorldTech IT achieved platinum partner status, further demonstrating their commitment to excellence. The company’s proprietary Cloud.Red platform is built for BIG-IP and NGINX monitoring, alerting and observability, providing business customers with a fully managed service for F5 environments. Beyond technology, WorldTech IT actively supports F5’s go-to-market initiatives, driving engagement through LinkedIn content, webinars, and event sponsorships. Most importantly, WorldTech IT’s technical expertise and customer-first approach earns them coveted “trusted advisor” status with our joint customers, which helps F5 forge deeper customer relationships and expand our reach.
North America BeF5 Partner of the Year – ePlus
ePlus embodies what it means to BeF5 by embracing a human-first approach to everything they do. The company shows commitment to corporate responsibility and community impact with its philanthropic and social initiatives. For example, the firm’s annual Kickoff Event, ePlus Transform 2024, brought together hundreds of employees and technology partners while raising funds for the National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP). Additionally, ePlus supports Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida, providing meals to children in need. And through their own GRIT (Girls Re-Imagining Tomorrow) program, they’re fostering the next generation of women in tech, helping to bridge the gender gap in STEM and cybersecurity careers.
North America Innovation Partner of the Year – World Wide Technology (WWT)
WWT continues to be a leader in AI-driven application security, collaborating with F5 on cutting-edge solutions through the WWT AI Proving Ground, the company’s AI testing program. Together, we’re ensuring customers have the tools they need to secure and optimize modern workloads with F5 solutions, including BIG-IP Next for Kubernetes, AI Gateway with NGINX, and F5 Distributed Cloud Services with NetApp. WWT not only verified each of these solutions as core customer use cases, but they committed full support for route-to-market, joint partnerships, and marketing resources. WWT’s commitment to joint development and go-to-market strategies extends to industry events such as Mobile World Congress, NVIDIA GTC, and WWT AI Days, reinforcing our partnership and leadership in cloud, AI, and security. Embracing their innovative approach, WWT is developing an F5 Cyber Range/Capture the Flag program, set to launch in FY26.
North America Public Sector Partner of the Year – GuidePoint Security
GuidePoint Security is the leading partner in F5’s federal business unit, securing the highest total revenue in fiscal 2024. Their success hinges on continuous investment in their F5 practice, which includes 18 F5-certified engineers, all with federal security clearance and four with top secret clearance, ensuring they meet the highest security standards for public sector clients. GuidePoint continues to lead the way in cybersecurity and government partnerships, serving as a Platinum Sponsor at F5’s Federal Symposium 2024. Their commitment to advancing security solutions and providing deep technical expertise makes them a key player in supporting F5’s public sector growth.
North America Strategic Solutions Partner of the Year – Trace3
Trace3 has been instrumental in advancing the F5 Distributed Cloud Platform go-to-market strategy. Last year, they integrated F5 solutions into their Cloud Solution Group to better position them to support the delivery and security of modern application workloads. Trace3 doubled down on F5, creating F5 solutions/services bundles for deployment in Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS) marketplaces. They will continue to be the “tip of the spear” for F5 in 2025 as a Development Partner for F5 AI Gateway and by building an F5/NetApp RAG Inference AI strategy. Trace3’s strong track record in driving innovation plays a critical role in advancing F5’s multicloud strategy, equipping customers with the solutions they need to securely manage and optimize their evolving IT environments.
Celebrating Our Partners’ Success
The F5 2024 North America Partner Awards recognize the outstanding achievements of our partners who are driving innovation, supporting customer success, and strengthening the F5 ecosystem. We’re honored to work alongside these industry leaders and look forward to another year of collaboration and success.
Congratulations to all the winners!
To learn more about becoming an F5 partner, visit https://www.f5.com/partners. To find an F5 partner, visit https://www.f5.com/partners/find-a-partner.