HPE wins VMware Strategic Alliance Partner of the Year 2017 ... twice

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BY Phil Mclean, HPE VMware Alliance Manager , EMEA 

HPE has been named VMware Strategic Alliance Partner of the Year 2017 for both Worldwide and the EMEA region. While all VMware Partner of the Year awards are desirable and recognize outstanding achievement, many are for specific areas or technologies, such as Digital Workspace, Marketing, Data Center Modernization, SDDC, etc. HPE is especially pleased to have won its awards in one of the more global categories – Strategic Alliance Partner. The awards were presented at VMware’s Partner Leadership Summit recently held in California.

HPE has been a strategic partner with VMware for well over a decade. Together, we have revolutionized the datacenter with server virtualization. Today, HPE continues to be the leader in the servers virtualized on VMware with over 37% market share worldwide.

Satya Varharajan (VMware Alliance Director, HPE) collects the WW award from Tom Hermann (VP of Global Strategic Alliances, VMware) and Pat Gelsinger (Chief Executive Officer, VMware)HPE and VMware achieved this success by working together closely on R&D, building effective joint sales in the field and delivering tightly integrated services.

HPE provides full lifecycle deployment from the HPE Pointnext organization for most VMware products including design, implementation and support services providing a single point of contact for all hardware and software services.

In addition, HPE is the largest authorized training center for VMware products with over 1500 training centers in 90+ countries.

As a consequence of this close relationship, HPE and VMware deliver a number of exciting joint solutions, including:

• HPE Flex Bundles for VMware vSOM
• HPE VMware Virtual SAN Ready Nodes
• HPE Converged Systems for VMware Horizon
• HPE Synergy certified for VMware vSAN
• HPE ProLiant Ready Nodes certified for VMware Cloud Foundation (vCF)

Pierre Mirlesse (Vice President for Health, Public Sector and Global Industries, HPE EMEA) collects the EMEA award from Jean-Philippe Barleaza (VP, Channel, Alliances and General Business, VMware EMEA) and Jean-Pierre Brulard (SVP and GM, VMware EMEA)

To find out more about the HPE and VMware alliance and how it delivers real benefits for customers, please check out the IDC Technology Spotlight.

For channel partners, please take a look at the CRN Special Report which discusses the approach of the HPE and VMware partnership to Digital Transformation.

You can also find more information about the partnership on the HPE Alliance web page.