Hitachi Data Systems presents Alphawest with Platinum Partner of the Year Award 2007 and Overall Partner of the Year Award 2007 at the recent Hitachi TrueNorth conference.
Alphawest Services Pty Ltd - a leading Australian ICT Services provider to the government, legal, educational and business sectors - today announced it was presented with two major awards by Hitachi Data Systems (a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd.), which recognise Alphawest as the leading partner in the Australasian region.
The two awards won by Alphawest were the Platinum Partner of the Year award and the Overall Partner of the Year award, both of which were presented at the Hitachi Data Systems’ annual partner conference, TrueNorth Leadership Forum, in November. The conference was attended by business and technical leaders from a number of key Hitachi Data Systems partners across Australia and New Zealand.
As both the Platinum and the Overall Partner of the Year winner, Alphawest has cemented the value of its long term partnership with Hitachi Data Systems for the delivery of systems and storage solutions and services to organisations Australia-wide.
As a Platinum Partner Alphawest offers a comprehensive range of Hitachi Data Systems’ hardware and software products to provide dynamic tiered storage, common management, data protection, and archiving capabilities. With certified employees all over Australia, Alphawest tailors these solutions to enable organisations to align their storage infrastructure with their unique business requirements.
Ian Smith, General Manager, Technology Solutions, Alphawest, said, “We’re extremely pleased to be recognised by Hitachi Data Systems as a key Australasian partner. Alphawest’s strategic direction aligns well with that of Hitachi Data Systems. Our future focus is on enterprise storage virtualization and immutable storage as well as the continuation of our assessment-led consultancy and high level certification. We look forward to continuing our successful partnership with Hitachi Data Systems into 2008 and beyond.”
"Alphawest has successfully demonstrated not only that they have an intimate technical knowledge of Hitachi Data Systems’ offerings, but moreover they continue to invest to build strong methodologies around strategic assessment for offering our products and services to the local market. They are an important partner to us in the region and we’re pleased to have been able to recognise them with two important awards this year - Outstanding Overall Partner of the Year and Platinum Partner of the Year,” said Kerstin Baxter, Channel Director, Australia & New Zealand, Hitachi Data Systems.
Hitachi Data Systems is the third major IT vendor to recognise Alphawest as their Partner of the Year for 2007, following the company’s similar recognition earlier in the year from both VMware and Symantec. These awards top off a great year for Alphawest whose innovative system and storage practices, particularly in the growing area of virtualization and high quality consultancy services have made them a leading provider of managed service offerings.
About Hitachi Data Systems
Hitachi Data Systems Corporation provides Services Oriented Storage Solutions that enable heterogeneous storage to be dynamically provisioned according to business needs and centrally managed via industry-leading Hitachi storage virtualization software. As an integral part of the Hitachi Storage Solutions Group, Hitachi Data Systems delivers storage infrastructure platforms, storage management software, and storage consulting services through direct and indirect channels in over 170 countries and regions. Its customers include nearly 60-percent of Fortune 100 companies. For more information, visit the company's Web site at http://www.hds.com.
About Hitachi, Ltd.
Hitachi, Ltd., (NYSE: HIT / TSE: 6501), headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, is a leading global electronics company with approximately 384,000 employees worldwide. Fiscal 2006 (ended March 31, 2007) consolidated revenues totaled 10,247 billion yen ($86.8 billion). The company offers a wide range of systems, products and services in market sectors including information systems, electronic devices, power and industrial systems, consumer products, materials and financial services. For more information on Hitachi, please visit the company's website at http://www.hitachi.com.
