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Premier
Cisco designs and sells broad lines of products, provides services and delivers integrated solutions to develop and connect networks around the world, building the Internet. As a global market leader in our industry, we help our customers connect, digitize and thrive. Together, we change the way the world works, lives, plays and learns. For more than 30 years, we have helped our customers build networks, automate, orchestrate, integrate and digitize information technology (IT)-based products and services. In an increasingly connected world, Cisco is helping lead the way by transforming businesses, governments and cities worldwide with differentiated innovation. www.cisco.com
Fujitsu is the leading Japanese information and communication technology (ICT) company offering a full range of technology products, solutions and services. Approximately 155,000 Fujitsu people support customers in more than 100 countries. We use our experience and the power of ICT to shape the future of society with our customers. Almost two decades of strong and successful partnership, unite Fujitsu and NetApp – thanks to innovative strength and shared outstanding achievements in technology and financial soundness. Customers will benefit from our expert support well into the future due to our continuous development in the areas of smart data and digital transformation. Fujitsu and NetApp are setting new standards for optimizing complete IT infrastructures: everything from just one source, including service, support/maintenance and for every application scenario – whether SMEs or global corporations. Discover more about our partnership at www.smartdata.rocks.
Global Cloud Leader
Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT”) enables digital transformation for the era of intelligent cloud and intelligent edge. Microsoft Azure is an ever-expanding set of cloud services delivered though a global network of Microsoft-managed datacenters. Azure enables customers to build, manage, and deploy their infrastructure and applications securely across on-premises and cloud environments, while working with their favorite tools, frameworks and partners. www.azure.com
Platinum
CDW is a leading multi-brand technology solutions provider to business, government, education and healthcare organizations in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. A Fortune 500 company with multi-national capabilities, CDW was founded in 1984 and employs more than 8,600 coworkers. For more information about CDW, please visit www.cdw.com.
Veeam Hyper-Availability for Intelligent Data Management: Veeam Software Hyper-Availability solutions provide non-stop business continuity, digital transformation agility, and visibility for virtual, physical, and cloud. www.veeam.com
Sapphire
CenturyLink (NYSE: CTL) is a global communication, hosting, cloud and IT services company enabling millions of customers to transform their businesses through innovative technology solutions. CenturyLink offers network and data systems management, big data analytics and IT consulting, and operates more than 55 data centers in North America, Europe and Asia. The company provides broadband, voice, video, data and managed services over a robust 250,000-route-mile U.S. fiber network and a 300,000-route-mile international transport network. www.centurylink.com
Data Dynamics, a leader in intelligent file management solutions, empowers enterprises to analyze, move, manage and modernize critical data across hybrid, cloud and object-based storage infrastructures for intelligent business transformation. The StorageX 8.0 platform eliminates vendor lock-in and provides a policy-based, storage management platform for insight, agility and operational efficiency to transform data assets into competitive advantages. StorageX has optimized over 200 PB of storage, saving more than $100 million in total storage costs. www.datadynamicsinc.com
Datalink, an Insight company, is an IT services and solutions provider that helps companies transform their technology, operations and service delivery to meet business challenges. Combining extensive experience, a full lifecycle of services and a comprehensive approach to producing IT innovations, Datalink delivers success across cloud IT transformation, next-generation technology and security. Parent company Insight Enterprises is a Fortune 500-ranked global provider of hardware, software, cloud and service solutions. www.datalink.com
IBM Cloud is designed to equip leading-edge customers, from web startups to global enterprises, with the data, technology and human ingenuity you need to advance your business opportunities. Mix and match a set of consistent, open, powerful options to deliver your next great idea. With IBM Cloud as your foundation, you have access to a next-generation platform—built on open technology—featuring robust infrastructure and services choices designed to facilitate and accelerate innovation across your business. www.ibm.com
NetApp Insight helps you navigate complex challenges to develop fresh solutions and processes, enabling you to manage today’s priorities and prepare for tomorrow’s needs. Our Cloud + Data Center Transformation Division (Datalink) helps transform data centers – defining and navigating cloud and data center platforms, so you can optimize your business. With experience in the latest cloud and data center technologies, we devise the right platform strategy to ensure maximum efficiency, productivity, and agility. www.insight.com
Primary Data develops intelligence and automation for enterprise data management across on-premises IT infrastructure and into the cloud. Its DataSphere software platform combines metadata management and machine learning to move the right data to the right place at the right time across a global namespace, automatically and without application disruption. www.primarydata.com
As the world’s leading end-to-end technology distributor, we put singular focus on our customers’ needs and goals with the objectivity of a true strategic partner. With reach, capabilities and resources that span the technology continuum, we are a vital link in the IT channel, delivering the insights and optimized solutions our channel partners depend on to compete in the market today, tomorrow and into the future. Tech Data is currently ranked No. 83 on the Fortune 500®. www.techdata.com
Gold
Amazon Web Services has been the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS offers over 90 fully featured services trusted by millions of active customers around the world, including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises and government, to power their infrastructure, make them more agile and lower costs. aws.amazon.com
Arrow Electronics is a global provider of products, services and solutions to industrial and commercial users of electronic components and enterprise computing solutions. Arrow serves as a supply channel partner for more than 150,000 original equipment manufacturers, value-added resellers, contract manufacturers and commercial customers through a global network. www.arrow.com
Through a long-standing OEM partnership, Brocade and NetApp offer modern SAN solutions that truly capitalize on innovation in NVMe over Fibre Channel for Flash technology, enabling customers to achieve up to 30 percent increases in storage savings with NetApp AFF-A Series storage, and up to 70 percent faster execution for key applications. www.brocade.com
Commvault is the recognized leader in data backup and recovery through its data management solution that protects and manages customer data. It’s available through the company and a global ecosystem of trusted partners. Commvault is publicly traded on NASDAQ (CVLT), and is headquartered in Tinton Falls, New Jersey. www.commvault.com
Faction is a rapidly growing provider of first-of-its-kind solutions purpose-built for hybrid and multi-cloud deployments, creating value and efficiency for service providers, SaaS providers and enterprises. With tight partnerships at its core, Faction has had great success as a Premier Partner of NetApp since 2011. www.factioninc.com
Google Cloud Platform lets you build and host applications and websites, store data and analyze data on Google’s scalable infrastructure. cloud.google.com
IAS – a long-time NetApp Partner and systems integrator – is focused on enabling customers in their digital transformations. With a focus on open source tools, RedHat and NetApp, IAS has the experience and ability to help you design, deploy and if desired, manage your private/hybrid and multi-cloud environments. www.iarchive.com
Harnessing the capabilities of the cloud and Internet of Things, the latest advances in memory and programmable solutions, and the promise of always-on 5G connectivity, Intel is disrupting industries and solving global challenges. Leading on policy, diversity, inclusion, education and sustainability, Intel creates value for its stockholders, customers and society. www.intel.com
Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT”) is a Cloud first, Mobile first company delivering technologies that help businesses worldwide take advantage of mobile, enterprise social and cloud computing trends to drive growth. Microsoft helps you to move to the cloud on your terms; getting the most value from your existing IT investments while giving you the flexibility to respond quickly to changing business needs. www.microsoft.com
Komprise Intelligent Data Management enables enterprises to manage unstructured data at scale while cutting 70%+ costs. Leverage Flash, Scale-Out, Object/Cloud for the right data at the right time, with zero disruption to users/apps. Komprise uses no stubs, no agents and no changes to hot metadata paths – and scales out as your storage footprint grows. www.komprise.com
QuickStart Learning Inc. is one of the most innovative IT skills training providers in the industry. Accredited by IT giants like NetApp, Microsoft and Cisco, the company uses its unique CLIPP platform to ensure multi-modal knowledge transfer. QuickStart helps CTOs mitigate IT risks and transform IT teams through personalized and customized technical training. www.quickstart.com
Rackspace is modernizing IT in today’s multi-cloud world. By delivering IT as a service, we help customers of all industries, sizes and locations realize the power of digital transformation without the complexity and expense of managing it on their own. www.rackspace.com
Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of open source software solutions, collaborating with customers, partners, and communities to create innovative cloud, Linux, middleware, mobile, management, storage, and virtualization technologies. Red Hat also offers award-winning support, training, and consulting services that help organizations better prepare for the future of IT. www.redhat.com
Samsung Semiconductor provides the most extensive range of solid state drives, NAND Flash, DRAM, SRAM and specialty memory for OEMs worldwide. Samsung Semiconductor, Inc. is a subsidiary of Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a global leader in technology that is opening new possibilities for people everywhere. Through relentless innovation and discovery, Samsung is transforming the worlds of televisions, smartphones, personal computers, printers, cameras, home appliances, LTE systems, medical devices, semiconductors and LED solutions. We employ 236,000 people across 79 countries. www.samsung.com
STEALTHbits Technologies is a cybersecurity software company focused on protecting an organization’s credentials and data. By removing inappropriate data access, enforcing security policy, and detecting advanced threats, we reduce security risk, fulfill compliance requirements and decrease operations expense. www.stealthbits.com
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is an IT services, business solutions and consulting organization that delivers real results, ensuring a level of certainty for global business. TCS offers a consulting-led, integrated portfolio of IT and IT-enabled services delivered through its unique Global Network Delivery Model. www.tcs.com
Toshiba Memory America, Inc. (TMA) is the US-based subsidiary of Toshiba Memory Corporation, a leading worldwide supplier of flash memory and solid state drives (SSDs). From the invention of flash memory to today’s breakthrough 96-layer BiCS FLASH™ 3D technology, Toshiba continues to lead innovation and move the industry forward. www.toshiba.com
VMware is a global leader in cloud infrastructure and business mobility. VMware enables enterprises to master a software-defined approach to business and IT. VMware’s Any Cloud, Any Application, Any Device architecture enables customers to rapidly develop, automatically deliver and safely consume all types of applications. www.vmware.com
Varonis is a pioneer in data security and analytics, specializing in software for data security, governance, compliance, classification and analytics. Varonis detects insider threats and cyberattacks by analyzing file activity and user behavior; prevents disaster by locking down sensitive data; and efficiently sustains a secure state with automation. www.varonis.com
Virtual Instruments App-centric Infrastructure Performance Management products ensure the performance, availability, health, and utilization of holistic enterprise IT infrastructure – in the context of complex and demanding business applications. The analytics-based solutions intelligently profile, collects, and visualizes machine and wire data, physical, and virtual hosts, fabrics, SDS, and SAN/NAS storage. www.virtualinstruments.com
Silver
ATTO provides a range of solutions for NetApp, including workstation and server connectivity to E-Series and FAS storage and Storage Controllers for MetroCluster environments. www.attotech.com
BerkCom is a NetApp Star Partner with several unique value-added services: 24x7x365 concierge-level, US-based technical support, global logistics, professional services, migration services, asset recovery services, custom engineering services and more. www.berkcom.com
#1 in Disaster Recovery & Migrations to NetApp. Capital Continuity’s BIPs technology is an Any cloud, Any compute, and Any Storage orchestration to NetApp. www.capitalcontinuity.co.uk
Cavium offers a broad portfolio of infrastructure solutions for compute, security, storage, switching, connectivity and baseband processing. www.cavium.com
Datos IO is the application centric cloud data management company that enables organizations to protect and scale their cloud-native applications with confidence. www.datos.io
Dimension Data will be the leading global systems integrator and managed services provider for hybrid IT. www.dimensiondata.com
Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX) in 52 markets across five continents, Equinix connects the world’s leading businesses to their customers, employees, and partners inside the most-interconnected data centers. www.equinix.com
Fast Lane enables execution of digital business strategies through authorized training courses, custom content development, sales enablement, demand generation and business transformation. www.fastlaneus.com
HCL Technologies is an industry-leading global IT services company that helps global enterprises re-imagine and transform their businesses through digital technology transformation. www.hcltech.com
JFrog powers over 4,000 customers with world-class DevOps solutions for software management and distribution, available as open source, on-premises, SaaS or hybrid models. www.jfrog.com
PoINT provides software products for managing and archiving of unstructured data with certified support for NetApp FAS, SnapLock, AltaVault, and StorageGRID Webscale. www.point.de
Presidio is a leading IT solutions provider assisting clients in harnessing technology innovation and simplifying IT complexity to digitally transform their businesses and drive return on IT investment. www.presidio.com
From IT infrastructure to data management and cloud solutions, TSP is an IT services company dedicated to an entirely positive, above-and-beyond service experience. www.mytsp.net
Bronze
Showcase
BridgeSTOR, LLC makes the world’s storage available by converting existing storage protocols into Cloud-based protocols; thereby allowing existing Windows and Linux-based applications to easily access cloud storage.
Premier
Cisco designs and sells broad lines of products, provides services and delivers integrated solutions to develop and connect networks around the world, building the Internet. As a global market leader in our industry, we help our customers connect, digitize and thrive. Together, we change the way the world works, lives, plays and learns. For more than 30 years, we have helped our customers build networks, automate, orchestrate, integrate and digitize information technology (IT)-based products and services. In an increasingly connected world, Cisco is helping lead the way by transforming businesses, governments and cities worldwide with differentiated innovation. www.cisco.com
Fujitsu is the leading Japanese information and communication technology (ICT) company offering a full range of technology products, solutions and services. Approximately 155,000 Fujitsu people support customers in more than 100 countries. We use our experience and the power of ICT to shape the future of society with our customers. Almost two decades of strong and successful partnership, unite Fujitsu and NetApp – thanks to innovative strength and shared outstanding achievements in technology and financial soundness. Customers will benefit from our expert support well into the future due to our continuous development in the areas of smart data and digital transformation. Fujitsu and NetApp are setting new standards for optimizing complete IT infrastructures: everything from just one source, including service, support/maintenance and for every application scenario – whether SMEs or global corporations. Discover more about our partnership at www.smartdata.rocks.
Harnessing the capabilities of the cloud and Internet of Things, the latest advances in memory and programmable solutions, and the promise of always-on 5G connectivity, Intel is disrupting industries and solving global challenges. Leading on policy, diversity, inclusion, education and sustainability, Intel creates value for its stockholders, customers and society. www.intel.com
Global Cloud Leader
Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT”) enables digital transformation for the era of intelligent cloud and intelligent edge. Microsoft Azure is an ever-expanding set of cloud services delivered though a global network of Microsoft-managed datacenters. Azure enables customers to build, manage, and deploy their infrastructure and applications securely across on-premises and cloud environments, while working with their favorite tools, frameworks and partners. www.azure.com
Platinum
CDW is a leading multi-brand technology solutions provider to business, government, education and healthcare organizations in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. A Fortune 500 company with multi-national capabilities, CDW was founded in 1984 and employs approximately 8,600 coworkers. For the trailing 12 months ended March 31, 2017, the company generated net sales of over $14 billion. For more information about CDW, please visit www.CDW.com.
Veeam® is the global leader in Intelligent Data Management for the Hyper-Available Enterprise. Veeam Hyper-Availability Platform is the most complete solution to help customers on the journey to automating data management and ensuring the Hyper-Availability of data. We have more than 294,000 customers worldwide, including 75 percent of the Fortune 500 and 58 percent of the Global 2000. Our customer satisfaction scores, at 2.5X the industry average, are the highest in the industry. Our global ecosystem includes 55,000 channel partners and nearly 19,000 cloud and service providers. Veeam has offices in more than 30 countries. To learn more, visit https://www.veeam.com or follow Veeam on Twitter @veeam.
Sapphire
Data Dynamics, a leader in intelligent file management solutions, empowers enterprises to analyze, move, manage and modernize critical data across hybrid, cloud and object-based storage infrastructures for intelligent business transformation. The StorageX 8.0 platform eliminates vendor lock-in and provides a policy-based, storage management platform for insight, agility and operational efficiency to transform data assets into competitive advantages. StorageX has optimized over 200 PB of storage, saving more than $100 million in total storage costs. www.datadynamicsinc.com
IBM Cloud is designed to equip leading-edge customers, from web startups to global enterprises, with the data, technology and human ingenuity you need to advance your business opportunities. Mix and match a set of consistent, open, powerful options to deliver your next great idea. With IBM Cloud as your foundation, you have access to a next-generation platform—built on open technology—featuring robust infrastructure and services choices designed to facilitate and accelerate innovation across your business. www.ibm.com
qSkills GmbH & Co. KG is a NetApp Authorized Learning Partner, specialized in carrying out high-value trainings in the IT and IT management sectors. The company works with over 170 trainers on freelance basis and offers 200 different training courses. qSkills focusses on Storage, Virtualization, Operating Systems, Industry 4.0, Data Bases and Tools. The portfolio also covers security and risk management systems and their international norms, standards and methods. www.qskills.de
Gold
Arrow Electronics is a global provider of products, services and solutions to industrial and commercial users of electronic components and enterprise computing solutions. Arrow serves as a supply channel partner for more than 150,000 original equipment manufacturers, value-added resellers, contract manufacturers and commercial customers through a global network. www.arrow.com
Through a long-standing OEM partnership, Brocade and NetApp offer modern SAN solutions that truly capitalize on innovation in NVMe over Fibre Channel for Flash technology, enabling customers to achieve up to 30 percent increases in storage savings with NetApp AFF-A Series storage, and up to 70 percent faster execution for key applications. www.brocade.com
Capital Continuity’s BIPs technology is a Any to NetApp data management and DR as a Service technology, which drives consumption of your NetApp investments. Any cloud, Any compute, Any storage, Anywhere to NetApp with BIPs. www.capitalcontinuity.co.uk
Commvault is the recognized leader in data backup and recovery through its data management solution that protects and manages customer data. It’s available through the company and a global ecosystem of trusted partners. Commvault is publicly traded on NASDAQ (CVLT), and is headquartered in Tinton Falls, New Jersey. www.commvault.com
Datadobi enables customers to migrate and protect data anywhere. Their DobiMiner Software Suite allows customers to migrate, replicate, and sync data between NAS and object storage on-premises or in the Cloud, providing the safest, fastest, easiest, and most cost-effective way to ensure data is always where it needs to be. www.datadobi.com
Harnessing the capabilities of the cloud and Internet of Things, the latest advances in memory and programmable solutions, and the promise of always-on 5G connectivity, Intel is disrupting industries and solving global challenges. Leading on policy, diversity, inclusion, education and sustainability, Intel creates value for its stockholders, customers and society. www.intel.com
Komprise Intelligent Data Management enables enterprises to manage unstructured data at scale while cutting 70%+ costs. Leverage Flash, Scale-Out, Object/Cloud for the right data at the right time, with zero disruption to users/apps. Komprise uses no stubs, no agents and no changes to hot metadata paths – and scales out as your storage footprint grows. www.komprise.com
VMware is a global leader in cloud infrastructure and business mobility. VMware enables enterprises to master a software-defined approach to business and IT. VMware’s Any Cloud, Any Application, Any Device architecture enables customers to rapidly develop, automatically deliver and safely consume all types of applications. www.vmware.com
Varonis is an innovative data security platform that specializes in creating software to manage, analyze and secure enterprise data. Varonis analyzes the behavior of the people and machines that access enterprise data, discovers and protects sensitive data, alerts on misbehavior and enforces a least privilege model. www.varonis.com
Silver
ATTO provides a range of solutions for NetApp, including workstation and server connectivity to E-Series and FAS storage and Storage Controllers for MetroCluster environments. www.attotech.com
#1 in Disaster Recovery & Migrations to NetApp. Capital Continuity’s BIPs technology is an Any cloud, Any compute, and Any Storage orchestration to NetApp. www.capitalcontinuity.co.uk
Cavium offers a broad portfolio of infrastructure solutions for compute, security, storage, switching, connectivity and baseband processing. www.cavium.com
Computacenter is Europe’s leading independent provider of IT infrastructure services, enabling users and their business. www.computacenter.de
Dimension Data will be the leading global systems integrator and managed services provider for hybrid IT. www.dimensiondata.com
Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX) in 52 markets across five continents, Equinix connects the world’s leading businesses to their customers, employees, and partners inside the most-interconnected data centers. www.equinix.com
HCL Technologies is an industry-leading global IT services company that helps global enterprises re-imagine and transform their businesses through digital technology transformation. www.hcltech.com
Ingram Micro helps businesses Realize the Promise of Technology™. It delivers a spectrum of global technology & supply chain services to organisations around the world. www.ingrammicro.com
PoINT provides software products for managing and archiving of unstructured data with certified support for NetApp FAS, SnapLock, AltaVault, and StorageGRID Webscale. www.point.de
By delivering flexible, accessible and secure IT solutions and services, Proact helps to reduce risk and costs, whilst increasing agility, productivity and efficiency. www.proact.eu
Virtual Instruments is the leader in application-centric infrastructure performance management. It provides comprehensive infrastructure instrumentation and performance analytics for enterprise data centers. www.virtualinstruments.com
Bronze
Showcase
BridgeSTOR, LLC makes the world’s storage available by converting existing storage protocols into Cloud-based protocols; thereby allowing existing Windows and Linux-based applications to easily access cloud storage.