NetApp reveals UK & Ireland partner award winners 2012
Success for ANS Group, Kelway UK, Q Associates, Proact UK, CSC UK, NTT Europe , PlanNet21, ITPS & Insight Direct
London, 27 April
2012-
NetApp
(NASDAQ: NTAP) last night celebrated the success of its UK &
Ireland partners at its sixth annual NetApp Partner Awards
dinner. The event, which took place in London's One Marylebone,
brought together more than 200 guests from NetApp and its UK &
Ireland partners, and saw winners in eleven categories recognised
for outstanding achievements in delivering flexible, future ready
solutions, over the last twelve months.
Entries were judged by senior management
across all areas of the NetApp business including sales, channel,
professional services, technical and marketing. The judging process
evaluated factors within each award category including outstanding
achievement in new business activity, quality of NetApp
deployments, exceptional customer experience and innovation.
Winners:
Outstanding Achievement - Enterprise Partner:
Kelway UK Ltd
Outstanding Achievement - SI Partner: CSC UK Ltd
Outstanding Achievement - Service Provider Partner: NTT Europe
Ltd
Best New Partner: PlanNet21 Communications Ltd
Marketing Excellence: ANS Group PLC
Outstanding Achievement - Sales Individual: Chris Greehalgh - Q
Associates Ltd
Outstanding Achievement - Technical Individual: Chris Kranz -
Kelway UK Ltd
Outstanding Achievement - Professional Services Partner: Proact UK
Ltd
Outstanding Achievement - IBM N Series Partner: IT Professional
Services
Outstanding Achievement - FlexPod Partner: ANS Group PLC
Outstanding Achievement - MSE Partner: Insight Direct (UK) Ltd
Pete Rawden, Partner Sales Director, UK &
Ireland, NetApp said: "The NetApp Partner Awards are our way of
rewarding our partners for their contribution to the growth of our
business. We know that all of our partners are committed to the
pursuit of excellence, innovation and quality and we wanted to give
them an opportunity to showcase thier achievements and achieve
recognition. Just as with previous years, we received a vast amount
of exceptional entries which further illustrates the on-going
commitment, skills and knowledge of our partners. Competition was
fierce but the winners were the partners that best demonstrated
excellent performance, first rate results and exceptional customer
interaction, and I send my sincere congratulations to all award
winners."
Dave Allen, Managing Director, UK &
Ireland comments: "The success of NetApp's channel operations is
testament to its first-class partner performance; producing
excellent results and developing key customer relationships. On
behalf of NetApp, I thank every channel partner for their on-going
commitment to our UK & Ireland channel operations and we
congratulate those who have excelled to win this year's
awards."
Sponsors of this year's awards included Arrow
ECS, Avnet Technology Solutions, Hammer Plc and VMware.
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