Wiesbaden, October 12, 2020

SVA has received the NetApp Partner Excellence Award for Partner of the Year. As physical events remain a challenge, the award ceremony took place online for the first time. Every year, the Partner Excellence Awards honor those partners that have achieved outstanding revenue and have made a significant contribution to the NetApp Unified Partner Program in the EMEA region through their innovation and service quality.

“These awards are all about giving back to our partners. Like so many businesses, they too have had to survive some incredibly difficult months. We would like to honor those partners who faced these challenges and overcame them,” says Kristian Kerr, Vice President NetApp EMEA Partner Organisation. “Our major focuses this year were investment and simplification. We wanted to make it as simple as possible for our channel ecosystem to be successful with NetApp solutions. Partners like SVA show what is ultimately possible here. After a series of acquisitions and solution updates, we are now firmly focused on our future together.”

In the Partner of the Year category, SVA received the Excellence Award for its outstanding achievements in the 2020 financial year, as well as for the way it stood out with NetApp.

“We are delighted with this award and the recognition for our many years of partnership with NetApp. It confirms that we are on the right track with our strategy of collaborating closely to offer clients solutions based on our joint portfolio. We have integrated NetApp technology in almost our entire range of products and services, from data center infrastructure and cloud computing to SAP, agile IT and big data analytics. It will also remain part of our strategy for expanding our partnership in the future,” says Marc Riedel, Partner Manager NetApp at SVA.