London, 27 June 2011 – ControlCircle, a leading datacentre and managed services provider today announced it had been awarded the NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) Service Provider award for 2011. The NetApp UK & Ireland Partner Awards 2011 recognise the best-performing partners in the NetApp network and reward outstanding sales performance for design and implementation of NetApp storage and data management solutions.
“The NetApp Service Provider Programme was launched in June 2010 and rewards partners for their outstanding work in bringing innovative IT solutions as a service to market” said Damian Milkins, President and Founder ControlCircle. “We are delighted that in the first year we have been able to deliver solutions to our clients that accelerate time to market and help them achieve cost, quality and service-level benefits.”
Award winners were honoured for achieving business growth in FY 2011, community - participation in NetApp partner events and the design of NetApp into Shared Service Environments. Entries were judged by senior management across all areas of the NetApp business including sales, channel, professional services, technical and marketing. The judging process evaluated factors within each award category including new business activity, quality of NetApp deployments, exceptional customer experience and innovation.
Pete Rawden, Partner Sales Director at NetApp added: “The NetApp partner programme is focused on providing best-in-class solutions that meet the specific needs of our customers, which are delivered on time and on budget. As a service provider ControlCircle has fully embraced this ethos and stands apart from its rivals. This award is well-deserved and we look forward to building on this year’s success to help all our partners achieve their business goals.”
ControlCircle provides a suite of innovative storage infrastructure for backup and recovery services, virtualisation and archiving solutions worldwide. Unlike other storage vendors, NetApp does not deliver its own proprietary cloud services to compete with those of its service providers. However it does offer a full suite of design guides and capabilities geared to delivering value to cloud customers.
