The co-development initiative will address the growing need for simplified communications in contact centre and UC environments.
The programme includes credentials and competency badges that partners can achieve for key SAS products and technologies.
The partnership helps fuel the increased demand for deception-based network security in SA.
Clients get a secure connection to Google, Amazon Web Services, Dimension Data Cloud and Microsoft Azure and Office 365 via IS's CloudConnect product.
The company won five awards, including the overall HP Enterprise Group Partner of the Year award.
First Distribution's partners can consume VMware products on a pay-as-you-go, pay-as-you-grow and monthly subscription model.
EOH Mthombo received the Microsoft Licensing Solution Provider Partner of the Year for 2015.
The group walked away with nine awards for 2015, including HP PPS Platinum Partner of the Year and HP PPS ServiceOne Partner of Year.
The certification is provided by Xerox Middle East and Africa and the process is facilitated by Bytes Document Solutions.
South African based Integr8 has been recognised with an award for out-performing sales quotas for the first half of the PC vendor's fiscal year.
The ISP is now able to offer organisations a private connection directly into Google's cloud platform.
The company was lauded for its rural and urban ICT Academy skills development programmes.