Tego Earns 2026 CRN Triple Crown Award for the Fourth Consecutive Year
Tego, an engineering-led IT and cybersecurity firm based in Raleigh, North Carolina, has won the 2026 CRN Triple Crown Award for the fourth consecutive year. CRN, a brand of The Channel Company, gives the award to solution providers that earn a place on three CRN lists in the same year: the Tech Elite 250, the Fast Growth 150, and the Solution Provider 500.
Key Takeaways
- Tego won the 2026 CRN Triple Crown Award for the fourth consecutive year.
- The award requires placement on the Tech Elite 250, Fast Growth 150, and Solution Provider 500 lists in one year.
- Together, the three lists measure technical expertise, business growth, and revenue scale.
- For clients, the award signals a partner that pairs engineering depth with long-term relationships.
What Is the CRN Triple Crown Award?
The CRN Triple Crown Award recognizes solution providers that earn a place on three CRN lists in the same year. The lists are the Tech Elite 250, the Fast Growth 150, and the Solution Provider 500. Together, they measure technical expertise, growth, and scale. As a result, the award highlights providers strong in all three areas.
The Three CRN Lists Behind the Award
Each list recognizes a different dimension of performance in the technology channel. For example, one list rewards technical certifications, while another rewards revenue.
| CRN List | What it recognizes | What it signals to buyers |
| Tech Elite 250 | Solution providers with advanced technical certifications from leading technology vendors | Technical expertise |
| Fast Growth 150 | The channel’s fastest-growing solution providers | Business growth |
| Solution Provider 500 | North America’s largest IT solution providers, ranked by revenue | Scale and resources |
Earning a spot on any one of these lists is a meaningful accomplishment. However, earning all three in the same year takes more. It shows a company can grow its business while staying committed to technical expertise. Doing so for four consecutive years also reflects the consistency behind Tego’s engineering-led approach.
Why Did Tego Win the CRN Triple Crown Award Four Years in a Row?
Tego won because it earned a place on all three qualifying CRN lists in 2026, as it has for four years running. Specifically, the lists reward technical certifications, rapid growth, and revenue scale. As a result, the award reflects both what Tego knows and how fast it has grown.
What Tego’s CEO Says About the Award
Nolan Smith, Tego’s CEO, credited the team and clients behind the milestone.
“Earning the Triple Crown Award for the fourth consecutive year reflects the consistency of our team and the trust our clients place in us,” said Nolan Smith, CEO of Tego. “For our clients, it means working with a partner that continues to invest in technical expertise while staying focused on what matters most: solving their challenges and delivering results. We’re proud of this recognition, but even prouder of the relationships and work behind it.”
What Does the CRN Triple Crown Award Mean for Tego Clients?
For clients, the award signals a partner with technical depth, the resources to support complex projects, and a proven track record. In practice, Tego helps organizations modernize infrastructure, evaluate cloud options, strengthen cybersecurity, or navigate audit and compliance requirements. As a result, clients work with engineers who understand both the technical challenge and the operational goal.
How Tego Works with Clients
Technology decisions are business decisions. That is where Tego focuses its efforts. The team brings deep experience across mission-critical data center, cloud, and security services. Additionally, Tego works as an extension of each client’s team. Engineers take the time to understand each environment, its priorities, and its challenges before recommending a path forward.
Specifically, the capabilities behind the Triple Crown Award align with that approach. They include technical knowledge for complex environments, the resources to support client needs, and a commitment to continued development as technology evolves.
Ultimately, the goal is not simply to implement technology. Instead, Tego helps clients build secure, reliable IT environments that support the way they work today and where they want to go next.
A Team Achievement Built on Trust
Four consecutive Triple Crown Awards are a milestone worth celebrating. They also give Tego a chance to recognize the people behind the work. As Tego celebrates its 2026 Triple Crown Award, the focus remains the same: solving problems, strengthening relationships, and delivering results for the organizations Tego serves.
Frequently Asked Questions About the CRN Triple Crown Award
The CRN Triple Crown Award recognizes solution providers that earn a place on three CRN lists in the same year. Those lists are the Tech Elite 250, the Fast Growth 150, and the Solution Provider 500. CRN, a brand of The Channel Company, publishes them. Tego earned the award in 2026.
Yes. Tego, an engineering-led IT and cybersecurity firm in Raleigh, North Carolina, won the 2026 CRN Triple Crown Award. CRN, a brand of The Channel Company, presented the recognition. This is Tego’s fourth consecutive Triple Crown Award, reflecting consistent results over several years.
Tego has won the CRN Triple Crown Award for four consecutive years, including 2026. Specifically, each win means Tego placed on the Tech Elite 250, Fast Growth 150, and Solution Provider 500 lists in the same year. In short, that consistency reflects Tego’s engineering-led approach to IT and cybersecurity.
Tego appears on three CRN lists that each measure something different. The Tech Elite 250 recognizes advanced technical certifications from leading vendors. The Fast Growth 150 highlights the channel’s fastest-growing providers. The Solution Provider 500 ranks North America’s largest IT solution providers by revenue.
The award shows that a provider like Tego combines technical expertise, business growth, and scale. Technology decisions are business decisions, so buyers need a partner that understands both. However, buyers should still evaluate references, service fit, and their own requirements alongside any award.
Tego provides data center, cloud, cybersecurity, and Enterprise Managed Services from its Raleigh, North Carolina base. The engineering-led team also supports audit and compliance requirements, including frameworks such as CMMC 2.0 and NIST SP 800-171. Additionally, Tego works as an extension of each client’s team.
Nolan Smith is Tego’s CEO; the company is an engineering-led IT and cybersecurity firm based in Raleigh, North Carolina. Smith said the 2026 Triple Crown Award, Tego’s fourth in a row, reflects Tego’s team’s consistency and the trust clients place in the company.
Organizations can contact Tego through tegodata.com to discuss IT and cybersecurity challenges. Tego’s engineers begin by learning the client’s environment, priorities, and challenges. Afterward, the team recommends a path forward that supports how the organization works today and where it wants to go next.
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