April 5, 2012; Brisbane, Australia: Data#3
Limited, one of Australia's leading Information and
Communications Technology companies, has been announced as
the 2012 VMware Cloud Infrastructure Partner of the Year.
With global revenues of $3.7billion, VMware has more than
300,000 customers and 25,000 partners worldwide.
Headquartered in Silicon Valley, VMware is recognised as the
global software leader in virtualisation and cloud
infrastructure.
The award recognises Data#3's ongoing commitment
and investment in offering VMware's cloud infrastructure
technology as a key solution component to customers. The 2012
win reflects and further builds upon Data#3's
2011 success as the VMware ANZ Partner of the Year.
Data#3 Group General Manager, Laurence Baynham
accepted the award from VMware's Channel Director, John
Donovan and Vice President and Managing Director, Duncan
Bennet at the VMware Partner Exchange Event in Sydney
yesterday.
"Data#3's success in achieving the VMware Cloud
Infrastructure Partner of the Year reflects our strategy to
partner with global leaders to consistently provide the best
solutions to meet our customers' needs.
"We have provided customers with a range of Public Cloud
Software as a Service (SaaS) and Private Cloud options over
the last three years. Our Australian-based Trusted Cloud
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) was launched in mid-2011.
Data#3's Trusted Cloud extends choice, which has
resulted in a number of our customers realising the benefits
of shifting capital expenditure to an operating expense
model," commented Baynham.
"VMware is delighted to present Data#3 with our
Cloud Infrastructure Partner of the Year Award. Our partners
are at the core of our business and this award recognises the
great work achieved by Data#3 over the past
year. I congratulate them and look forward to continuing our
work together in the future," said Duncan Bennet, Vice
President and Managing Director, VMware ANZ.
Data#3's own Cloud infrastructure is based on
architecture which leverages the full capability of VMware
solutions to provide scalable enterprise grade services to
customers. VMware technology assists Data#3 to
rapidly build flexible solutions to meet the diverse range of
customer needs, whether they are in Private, Trusted or
Hybrid Cloud environments.
Data#3's long standing relationships with world
leading technology vendors is core to our strategy in
offering choice to customers in sourcing and applying
technology to meet their business objectives.
Data#3 Limited (DTL) is an ASX listed company
that provides market leading technology solutions across a
wide range of industries throughout Australia and Asia
Pacific.
We consult with our customers to help them design, deploy and
manage technology solutions through our five specialist
businesses:
network and desktop infrastructure
- Managed Services: for essential support and hardware maintenance, selective outsourcing, and cloud-based infrastructure and software as a service - People Solutions: for contractor and permanent recruitment, and human capital performance managementData#3 reported revenues of $697 million in the 2010/11 financial year and has approximately 1,000 employees. The company is headquartered in Brisbane and has offices across Australia.
More information about Data # 3 and its solution offerings is available at http://www.data3.com.au For additional information contact:Ally Burt
MEDIA RELEASE
Team Leader - Marketing Communications, Data#3
Limited
Tel: 07 3243 6216 | Mob: 0427 189 988 |Email:
ally_burt@data3.com.au
Laurence Baynham
Group General Manager, Data#3 Limited
Tel: 07 3243 6210 | Mob: 0413 155 150| Email:
laurence_baynham@data3.com.au
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