StorTech was announced winner of an IBM Choice Award for Growth Markets (Top Business Partner, Non-Distributor Category). The award recognises outstanding contribution and success in delivering IBM-based solutions.
“The IBM Choice Awards recognise outstanding performance by IBM Business Partners in driving client satisfaction and growth using our combined technology capabilities and industry expertise,” said David LaRose, vice-president, IBM Business Partners, Growth Markets. “We congratulate our winning Business Partners for their commitment and skills in helping our mutual clients achieve higher value and business results.”
“StorTech is very proud to have been recognised at a global level for its performance and growth. We have selected IBM as one of our strategic partners and have been aggressively building out our end-to-end sales, services and solutions capabilities,” said Tim Knowles, Chief Executive Officer for StorTech.
Knowles added that “from a strategic perspective, our focus on assisting clients with their cloud strategies and ensuring that we are positioned to offer world-class data centre solutions, delivered in any way from on-premise, private cloud, public cloud or any other combination thereof, is paying off. I believe this is why the relationship is flourishing the way it is, with both parties delivering significant value to each other and ultimately delivering superior business solutions to our combined clients.
“The alignment of IBM and StorTech's combined solutions capability is very compelling,” said Knowles.
Announced at the IBM PartnerWorld Leadership Conference, in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, IBM's Choice Awards recognise a select number of IBM Business Partners who have demonstrated business excellence in delivering IBM-based solutions resulting in client satisfaction and business growth.
The IBM Business Partners who win Choice Awards exhibit IBM values in all client interactions and achieve common business goals and mutually significant business impact. The Choice Awards are given to Business Partners in each geography across a range of categories, recognising their working relationships with clients and demonstrated skills in selling IBM solutions.
For more information about the IBM Choice Awards, including information about winners, please visit https://www-304.ibm.com/partnerworld/wps/servlet/ContentHandler/pw_com_prb_beacon.
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StorTech provides adaptive information solutions that are ecologically responsible, cost-effective and energy-efficient. With its established track record in the South African market, StorTech offers clients an innovative portfolio of end-to-end data centre solutions, underpinned with a unique understanding of the needs of the virtualised enterprise.
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Storage Technologies Services operates as a network computing and data management solutions integrator in South Africa. Its solutions include backup and data protection, archiving, data centre consolidation and virtualisation, security, on-demand computing, managed and hosted services, and digital filing. The company provides maintenance services, as well as professional services, including assessments, education, project management, and business and IT service continuity management. Its managed and hosted services include hosted data protection, storage and security services. The company enables companies to understand, process, store, secure and manage information in order to drive business, mitigate risk and reduce operational costs. Storage Technologies Services was incorporated in 2003 and is based in Rivonia, South Africa. It has additional offices in Johannesburg, Pretoria, and Cape Town, and service centres in Port Elizabeth and Durban. As of 21 January 2009, Storage Technologies Services operates as a subsidiary of Vodacom.
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