NetApp honours ANZ partners

NetApp has revealed the winners of its Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) Partner Awards for FY25.

The awards celebrate the achievements of ANZ partners who have demonstrated commitment to customer success and innovation in delivering NetApp solutions, particularly in the areas of AI, cyber resilience, data infrastructure modernisation, and cloud transformation.

"Our partners are the engine of our success, and the 2025 award winners represent the very best of our ANZ channel community," said Mark Fioretto, Area VP and MD of NetApp in Australia and New Zealand. 

"NetApp is celebrating 25 years of excellence and innovation in the region this year, and we are excited to build on this shared success with our community of over 60 partners."

"Congratulations to all our partner winners this year. We are extremely proud to work alongside such a dedicated and forward-thinking community," said Stephen Persoglia, director of partners and alliances at NetApp. 

"As our Partner Sphere program continues to evolve, we are focused on upholding our commitment to deliver customer-centric solutions and drive positive business outcomes to help ANZ enterprises navigate the modern complexities of the intelligent data era."

The 2025 NetApp ANZ Partner Award winners are:

R1i - New Partner of the Year, 'recognising the partner that has driven a sizeable revenue contribution and investments in NetApp in the first full calendar year of partnership'. 

Vectec - Partner of the Year – Preferred, 'recognising the Preferred Partner’s excellence in the delivery of NetApp solutions, service, and support to end-user customers'. 

Atturra - Partner of the Year – Prestige, 'recognising the Prestige Partner’s consistent excellence in customer service, revenue levels, and technical expertise across multiple solutions and service competencies'.

5G Networks - Service Provider Partner of the Year, 'recognising excellence in creating either a new SP GTM with net-new customer wins, or has expanded an existing SP environment with breakout growth'.

Cisco - Alliance Partner of the Year, 'honouring a strong commitment to alliance engagement and advocacy of NetApp’s technologies and value proposition to the broader market'.

Graham McGeown (NTT) - Technical Excellence, 'demonstrating a best-of-breed technology leadership, a commitment to maintain high levels of skills, quality processes, and consistently high customer satisfaction'. 

Jason Webb (Ingram Micro) - Rising Star, 'celebrating a first-year champion who has gone above and beyond, with an outstanding commitment to NetApp solutions'.

David Dalby (Xpanse) - Hall of Fame, 'recognising an individual for exceptional leadership, high levels of skills and quality processes, and consistently high customer satisfaction year over year'. 

CompNow - Deal of the Year, 'honouring a marquee customer win that delivered impact for NetApp through size, complexity, scale, innovation, or outcome in the face of unique competitive headwinds'.

Dicker Data - Distributor of the Year, 'recognising the distributor that drives significant year-over-year growth in NetApp’s partner ecosystem while exhibiting demonstrated value in sales, partner engagement, delivery, service and support of NetApp solutions'.