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Aruba unveils inaugural ANZ channel winners
Fri, 20th Nov 2015
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Distribution Central has taken out Aruba's Distribution Partner of the Year award, with Optus Busines named Enterprise Service Provider of the Year and Dimension Data claiming New Zealand Growth Partner of the Year.

The awards, announced at the inaugural Atmosphere ANZ Conference this week, are the first ever Channel Partner Awards for Aruba, now part of Hewlett Packard Enterprise.

Awards were presented across seven categories, with Accucom Systems Integration named Mid Market Partner of the Year and UXC Connect taking out Enterprise Partner of the Year.

Netsolutions Australia took out the Innovation Partner category, with Datacom winning Best Solution Sale.

Steve Coad, Aruba Australia and New Zealand managing director, says the company is ‘a complete channel-first organisation' and passionate about celebrating its partners.

“The past year has been a year of innovation and growth,” Coad says. “Moving into 2016 Aruba's wireless products will provide partners will even more opportunities to arm their customers with mobile-first, cloud-first technology to support a new bread of technology users known as #GenMobile.”

Nick Verykios, Distribution Central chief executive, says Aruba's ability to recognise how to leverage Distribution Central's enablement and development services ‘has amplified not only our own success but has contributed significantly to Aruba's hyper-growth in our region, which is why we are so thrilled in receiving this recognition'.