NetApp celebrates partner excellence at CXO Forum with prestigious awards
Announcement posted by NetApp 17 Nov 2023
Hayman Island, Australia — 17 November 2023 — NetApp® (NASDAQ: NTAP), a global cloud-led, data-centric software company, today announced the winners of its annual Partner Excellence Awards in Australia and New Zealand. NetApp's strategic partnerships aid in providing NetApp products and solutions to solve the business challenges of their joint customers.
"I am delighted to recognise and celebrate the outstanding achievements of our partners and distributors in Australia and New Zealand, who have not only driven exceptional growth but have also demonstrated an unwavering commitment to customer excellence," stated Matthew Hurford, Managing Director of NetApp in Australia and New Zealand. "These awards reflect our strong collaboration and the remarkable impact our partners have had in delivering innovative data services solutions and driving success in the cloud, AI, data protection, and backup-as-a service sectors throughout the fiscal year 2023."
Presented at NetApp Australia and New Zealand's annual Partner Excellence Awards during the NetApp Partner Executive Forum held on Hayman Island, these awards recognise partners that have demonstrated outstanding commitment to driving customer success and revenue growth in Australia and New Zealand in the NetApp fiscal year 2023 (FY'23).
"I want to congratulate all the winners of this year's Partner Awards in Australia and New Zealand," said Jenni Flinders, SVP Worldwide Partner Organisation at NetApp. "Our partners have always been critical to NetApp's success as we work together to help customers realise value and as we work together to solve the business challenges presented by increasingly complex environments whether on-premises, hybrid-cloud, or cloud."
Australia & New Zealand Partner Award Winners for NetApp FY'23:
New Partner of the Year: This award honours a partner in its first full calendar year of partnership that, after meeting minimum requirement thresholds, has delivered a sizeable revenue contribution and made significant business development investments in NetApp.
Winner: CyberCX
Partner of the Year (Preferred Tier): This award will be attributed to the NetApp Partner (Gold Level) which has shown a consistent record of achievement against KPIs and a readiness to rapidly grasp and sell new solutions and technologies. This award will recognise excellence in the delivery of NetApp solutions, service and support to end user customers.
Winner: Meridian IT
Partner of the Year (Prestige Tier): This award is attributed to the NetApp partner which has shown a commitment to NetApp in delivering a consistent excellence in customer service, revenue levels and technical expertise across multiple solution and service competency's.
Winner: Cirrus Networks
Service Provider of the Year: Awarded to the partner who has excelled in creating either a new SP GTM in the past year and secured significant numbers of net-new customers or has expanded an existing SP environment and achieved breakout growth.
Winner: Aussie Broadband
Cloud Partner of the Year: This award recognises the cloud services provider that has created, marketed, and sold innovative cloud-based solutions that have high-market impact and exceed customer expectations whilst demonstrating a high level of commitment to NetApp and our mutual customers.
Winner: Versent
Alliance Partner of the Year: This award honours an organisation who shows continued leadership in developing co-branded solutions that solve complex customer outcomes. The organisation has demonstrated excellence in engaging NetApp field teams to jointly build pipeline and acquire new customer logos.
Winner: AWS
Sales Excellence: This award will be made to the individual who has demonstrated exceptional growth in revenue and how partner profitability is achieved, showcasing exceptional customer relationship knowledge and sales management expertise.
Winner: Neil Deoki (DDG Technology)
Technical Excellence: This award recognises an individual who has demonstrated best of breed technology leadership, a commitment to maintain high levels of skills, quality processes and consistently high customer satisfaction through investment in their technical capabilities.
Winner: Luke Mulcahy (FlexData)
Rising Star: This award recognises an individual who is new to the NetApp partner ecosystem but who in a very short space of time has gone above and beyond to become enabled on NetApp's value proposition and shown outstanding commitment and application to promoting NetApp solutions in their first year working with us.
Winner: James England (Onel Consulting)
Hall of Fame: This award recognises an individual who has demonstrated best of breed leadership, a commitment to maintain high levels of skills, quality processes and consistently high customer satisfaction through investment year over year.
Winner: Steve Parsonage (Canary IT)
Deal of the Year: Each year there are one or two stand out deals - for their size, complexity, scale, innovation, or outcome in the face of unique competitive headwinds. The winner of this category will have led a win for NetApp with one or more of these attributes to create a truly marquee customer win.
Winner: Canary IT
Data Visionary of the Year: This award recognises an individual who has demonstrated outstanding thought leadership, product or solution design, evangelism of the data fabric concept or genuinely driven a new and innovative initiative around the use or future of data.
Winner: Richard Tomkinson (CyberCX)
Additional Resources
- NetApp Partner Executive Forum conference details
- NetApp's Partner Sphere Program addresses the complex demands of today's flash and cloud customers
- NetApp S3 Graduate Program
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Angela Coombes
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NetApp Australia & NZ
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