Hayman Island, Australia – 22 November 2024 – NetApp®, the intelligent data infrastructure company today announced its Partner Award Winners for Fiscal Year 2024 (FY’24), recognising Partners in Australia and New Zealand for their commitment to customer excellence with NetApp solutions. NetApp’s strategic partnerships aid in providing NetApp products and solutions to solve the business challenges of their joint customers and help transform their IT environments to enhance the performance, productivity, and security of their data.

“Thank you to our incredible technology partners, managed services providers, and distributors for their ambitious drive and dedication, which helped us achieve outstanding results for FY24,” states Mark Fioretto, Area Vice President of NetApp in Australia and New Zealand. “Your commitment and expertise continue to be the backbone of our success across Australia and New Zealand. Together, we’re pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in technology, and we’re excited for the journey ahead. Here’s to another year of innovation, growth, and shared success!”

The Australia & New Zealand Partner Award winners have been instrumental in driving the success of NetApp’s solutions and services in the southern hemisphere. Each winning partner has demonstrated a thorough understanding of the NetApp portfolio and has proven their ability to provide customers with NetApp’s innovative solutions and services.

“Congratulations to all the winners of this year’s Partner Awards for Australia and New Zealand,” said Stephen Persoglia, Director of Partners and Alliances at NetApp. “The success for our partners underpins the success for our customers, are proud to work with a talented group of partners that we can rely on and drive positive outcomes for our customers as they confront the challenges of modernising their businesses.”

NetApp provides its partners with the resources, training, support, and access to the expertise they need to solve their customers’ most complex data management challenges and expand their market share with a broader range of cloud-based solutions.

And the winners are…

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.

New Partner of the Year: Triforce

Partner of the Year – Preferred

Description: This award is attributed to the NetApp Partner (Preferred 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 recognises excellence in the delivery of NetApp solutions, service and support to end user customers.

Partner of the Year – Preferred: Vectec

Partner of the Year – Prestige

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.

Partner of the Year – Prestige: Katana1

Service Provider Partner 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.

Service Provider of the Year – Global Storage

Alliance Partner of the Year

This award honours a company that continuously aims to connect and build key relationships whilst strengthening alliance engagement as well as uncovering new collaboration opportunities. Working alongside sales and technical teams, this particular company advocates NetApp technologies and value proposition to the broader market.

Alliance Partner of the Year: SentinelOne

Sales Excellence

This award highlights an individual who has demonstrated exceptional growth in revenue and how partner profitability is achieved, showcasing exceptional customer relationship knowledge and sales management expertise.

Sales Excellence: Adam Mulley (Vectec)

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.

Technical Excellence: Nigel Piltz (Attura)

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.

Rising Star: Kate Davis (Dicker Data)

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.

Hall of Fame: Steven De Celis (Katana1)

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.

Deal of the Year: Global Storage

Global Systems Integrator of the Year

This award is dedicated to a globally established NetApp Partner that has gone above and beyond in exceeding the KPIs as well as their continuous efforts in grasping, selling and delivering new NetApp solutions. This award recognises the high calibre of results and endless support provided to NetApp end users.

Global Systems Integrator of the Year: Fujitsu

Distributor of the Year

This award honours the NetApp distributor which has shown consistent efforts and delivery of results in expanding and improving the partner ecosystem. This award also rewards sales excellence, high degree of partner engagement and the exceptional delivery, service and support of NetApp solutions.

Distributor of the Year (New Category): Ingram Micro Australia

Additional Resources

• Photo gallery (captioned) https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Z1h8vEyIinG4qTXkvIT5WBELLINxQ8Z9?usp=drive_link
• NetApp Partner Executive Forum conference details
• NetApp S3 Graduate Program

For more information on how to become a NetApp partner, visit: https://www.netapp.com/partners/#become

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