NetApp Celebrates the Digital Transformation and Business Growth Achievements of FY’21 APAC Partner Excellence Award Winners

Selected partners recognized for their commitment toward customer success with NetApp solutions and for driving revenue growth in cloud, FlexPod, AI, data protection and backup as a service

SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 19 July 2021 – NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP), a global cloud-led, data-centric software company,
today announced the winners of its annual Asia-Pacific (APAC) Partner
Excellence Awards. Presented during this year’s virtual NetApp Partner Summit,
these awards recognize partners that have demonstrated outstanding commitment
toward customer success and revenue growth.

 

These partners have excelled in selling NetApp^® solutions in categories, such as cloud, the
FlexPod^® platform, AI, data protection and backup
as a service in the past fiscal year, by building differentiated
specializations in key focus areas of the NetApp Unified Partner Program.

The award-winning, recently updated NetApp
Unified Partner Program enables partners to gain a
competitive advantage, grow their business, increase margin opportunity, and attain
an optimal return on relationship. With NetApp’s industry-leading portfolio of
hybrid cloud data services and data management solutions, partners are well-positioned
to help enterprises accelerate digital transformation and unlock the power of
data wherever it resides: on-premises, in multiple clouds, or anywhere in
between.

 

“We are especially proud to acknowledge our partners’ successes in
helping our customers navigate the most challenging period we have ever seen,”
said Wendy Koh, Vice President, Channel & Alliance, APAC, NetApp. “Our
partners are critical to the growth and success of our business across the
region. Through our Unified Partner Program, we are committed to a long-term
investment strategy, so that our strategic partners have profitable growth
opportunities to continue doing what they do best – helping customers derive
the most value from their data to achieve exceptional business outcomes.”

APAC Partner Excellence Award Winners
for NetApp’s Fiscal Year 2021 (FY’21):

• Partner of the Year: Recognizing the partner’s overall NetApp FY’21
  revenue, services capabilities, and for driving the highest growth in the APAC
  region.

o    Winner: SysOne Co Ltd
(South Korea)

 

• Distributor of the Year: Recognizing
  the partner’s overall NetApp FY’21
  revenue, services capabilities, and ability to drive distributor managed
  partner (DMP) growth.

o    Winner: Zero One
Technology Co., Ltd (Taiwan)

 

• Service Partner of the Year: Recognizing the
  partner’s investment in NetApp services and ability to develop advanced
  technical skills across the entire NetApp’s portfolio to deliver best-in-class
  experiences for customers.

o    Winner: ITOCHU
Techno-Solutions Corporation (CTC) (Japan)

 

• Growth Partner of the Year: Recognizing the partner’s ability to generate significant year-on-year growth in their revenue
  across the NetApp portfolio.

o    Winner: Amidas Hong
Kong Limited (Hong Kong)

 

• New Account Acquisition Partner of the Year: Recognizing the partner
  with the highest number of net-new account wins to NetApp in the APAC region.

o    Winner: Otsuka
Corporation (Japan)

 

• Cloud Partner of the Year: Recognizing the
  partner’s overall FY’21 cloud data services revenue and deployment of a cloud-focused
  digital transformation strategy that aligns with NetApp’s cloud vision.

o    Winner: ITOCHU
Techno-Solutions Corporation (CTC) (Japan)

 

• Solution Innovation Partner Awards: Recognizing partners that
  have successfully driven new workloads for new
  and existing customers.

o   
Winner
(AI): SoftFusion Co Ltd (South Korea)

o   
Winner
(FlexPod): PT. Mastersystem Infotama (Indonesia)

o   
Winner
(Data Protection Alliance): Hitachi Systems Micro Clinic Pvt. Ltd. (India)

o    Winner (Backup as a
Service): Global Storage (Australia)

 

• Global Systems Integrator (GSI) Partner of the Year: Recognizing the partner’s ability to drive incremental engagements that
  are focused on SAP workloads and supporting customers’ journey to the cloud.

o    Winner: Accenture
(ASEAN)

 

For more information on
the NetApp Unified Partner Program, visit: www.netapp.com/partners/resources