Last night (March 11), EMC announced the winners of the 2014 EMC Business Partner Program Awards at an event at The Establishment in Sydney. The awards recognise the achievements of the highest performing EMC partners from the last financial year and provide partners and customers with an opportunity to learn about developments in the industry and business and technology trends for 2015.
The ANZ winners of the 2014 Business Partner Program Awards are:
Highlights of the evening included triple award wins for both Datacom and Infront, while Telstra was awarded the EMC Service Provider Outstanding Achievement Award. CSC was acknowledged for its exceptional growth and Ethan Group was recognised for showing overall excellence in Hybrid Cloud technology. Christopher Trevitt, General Manager, Partner Sales EMC ANZ, and Mark Fioretto, General Manager Telecommunications and Service Providers EMC ANZ, were on hand to give out the awards.
For the first time, EMC held its partner sales conference ahead of the EMC Business Partner Program Awards dinner. During the events, David Webster, President EMC APJ, Joergen Jakobsen, Vice President and General Manager Channel EMC APJ, and Alister Dias, Vice President and Managing Director EMC ANZ, provided almost 200 channel partner representatives with updates on EMC strategy and the achievements of 2014.
Alister Dias, Vice President and Managing Director EMC ANZ said: “The EMC Business Partner Program Awards allow us to acknowledge our channel partners for all their hard work during the previous year. We have over 250 channel partners in Australia and New Zealand and each and every one plays a huge part in the success of EMC and its products and solutions. We look forward to continuing to develop and grow these partnerships in 2015.” 
