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Photo Gallery: Winning Microsoft partners take to stage at MAPAs

06 Sep 16

Heather Wright

In a night celebrating ‘the best of the best’, Microsoft’s Australian partners have taken to the stage in front of more than 1300 Microsoft partners to claim Microsoft Australia Partner Awards.

Rhipe was the big winner, taking out three awards, with MOQdigital, Readily, Kloud and Ionia snapping up two awards each.

Twenty-six awards were presented, including the inaugural awards for Excellence in Customer Lifecycle Management, won by Adopt and Embrace, and the Excellence in Surface Reseller Award, won by Ethan Group.

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Cohesity signs new reseller and cloud service provider in Australia

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Dell dominates enterprise storage market, HPE declines

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Lenovo DCG moves Knight into A/NZ general manager role

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In Australia and New Zealand, the company boosted PureCloud revenue by nearly 100%.

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SAP provides partners with free access to their cloud platform

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Proofpoint launches feature to identify most targeted users

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Tensions on the rise after Huawei CFO arrest

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Deloitte forms alliance with AI analytics company

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IDC: Smartphone shipments ready to stabilise in 2019

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