Veeam acknowledges top A/NZ partners for 2023

Veeam Software has announced the winners of its regional ProPartner Awards for 2023, handing out 13 awards to companies across Australia and New Zealand (A/NZ).

According to the vendor, the awards recognise the accomplishments and commitment of its highest performing Veeam Pro Partner value-added resellers (VAR) and Veeam Cloud and Service Providers (VCSP) across the A/NZ region.

The awards were held at the Altitutde Restaurant at the Shangri-La in Sydney, with over 100 partners in attendance.

The recipients of this year’s awards were:

• Marketing Excellence Award: Insight (A/NZ)
• Distribution/Aggregator Excellence Award: Craig Stewart, Ingram Micro New Zealand
• Technical Excellence – VAR Award: Etienne van Der Berg, Lexel
• Technical Excellence – VCSP Award: Jake Ellingham, TIMG
• Sales Excellence Award: David Cochrane, Perfekt
• Alliance Partner of the year Award: Microsoft (A/NZ)
• VCSP Rising Star Award: New Trend
• ProPartner of the Year Rising Star Award: Oreta
• Distributor/Aggregator of the Year Award: Dicker Data (A/NZ)
• Innovation Partner of the Year Award: Probax
• VCSP Partner of the Year Award – New Zealand: Plan B
• VCSP Partner of the Year Award – Australia: AUCloud
• ProPartner of the Year Award: Data#3

Veeam director of channel and alliances for A/NZ Klasie Holtzhausen said partners have always been a critical element to the vendor’s success.

“Mutual success is the core of every successful partner relationship. For Veeam, partners are instrumental to realising our company mission to empower customers not to just bounce back from an outage or data loss, but bounce forward,” he said.

“Veeam thrives on helping its partners compete, evolve and grow at scale via successful channel programs that provide predictability and profitability.

“We thank all our A/NZ partners for their continued commitment to protecting customers from a growing range of threats to their data and business continuity. Our annual ProPartner Awards are just one of many gestures to recognise them and show our appreciation. Congratulations to all our winners!”