NEC gets Cisco partner gong

NEC has won the Cisco ANZ Acceleration Partner of the Year 2012 at the networking gear manufacturer’s annual Partner Insight Awards.

“As a channel-oriented business, Cisco is deeply committed to supporting our partners to build their business, and to recognise those that have demonstrated outstanding achievement,” says Sara Adams, managing director, Partner Business Group for Cisco Australia and New Zealand, in a statement.

Other companies to be recognised in the awards, which were selected by a group of ANZ Cisco partner executives, included Dimension Data, which won Data Centre Partner of the Year; Telstra, with Cloud Partner of the Year; and North Sydney IT, which got the Small Business Partner of the Year gong.

The full list appears below:

Data Centre Partner of the Year	Dimension Data
Collaboration Partner of the Year	Telstra
Borderless Technologies Partner of the Year	Data#3
Cloud Partner of the Year	Telstra
New Zealand Partner of the Year	gen-i
Innovation Partner of the Year	Datacom
Vertical Solution Innovation Partner of the Year	Secure Agility
Architectural Excellence	Fujitsu
Marketing Excellence	Logicalis
Small Business Partner of the Year	North Sydney IT
Distribution Innovation Partner of the Year	Westcon Group, Australia
Services Partner of the Year	Telstra
Smart Services Partner of the Year (APJC)	Data#3
Excellence in Post Deployment Support	Logicalis
ANZ Acceleration Partner of the Year 2012	NEC
Alliance Manager of the Year	Graham Robinson, Data#3
Sales Excellence	Anoop Dhankhar, EMC
Technical Excellence	Chris Ross, UXC Connect
Technical Execution	Adam Clark, Optus AlphaWest