Hosted Network named an Innovative Vendor finalist at the GTIA ANZ Spotlight Awards

GTIA has announced the shortlist for the ANZ Spotlight Awards 2026, and Hosted Network is a finalist in the Innovative Vendor category.

The awards are held on 17 September at the Hyatt Regency in Sydney, on the same night as the CRN Channel Awards Australia, where Hosted Network is also shortlisted for Vendor of the Year.

About the awards

The Spotlight Awards recognise GTIA members who have done something worthwhile for the IT channel over the past year. There are nine categories, covering leadership, community work, cybersecurity, diversity, distribution, vendors and service providers.

Innovative Vendor

Nineteen organisations made the shortlist across all categories, including Ingram Micro, Sophos, Acronis, ConnectWise and Tech Data.

For a wholesale provider, innovation shows up in someone else’s business rather than our own. We only sell through partners, so anything we build has to make an MSP’s job easier or it doesn’t count for much. That applies to how partners work with us and to what they’re actually selling.

The Partner Portal is the clearest example of the first part. Everything in it exists to take work off a partner’s plate, whether that’s ordering, managing services or getting an answer without raising a ticket.

Hosted Network Cloud is the second part. Australian MSPs have spent years being told the hyperscalers are the only serious option for their clients’ workloads, and for a lot of those workloads it isn’t true.

So the work sits across both workflow and product rather than in one flagship release. Partners are the ones who notice when either side of it improves, which is why a shortlist in this category means something to us.