Symantec Announces 2013 Pacific Partner Award Winners

Symantec Announces 2013 Pacific Partner Award Winners

Auckland, 13 June 2013 – Symantec (Nasdaq: SYMC) last night announced the winners of the 2013 Pacific Partner Awards at an exclusive dinner and awards ceremony.

The Symantec Pacific Partner Awards recognise local channel partners that demonstrate innovative delivery of services and solutions to customers, and acknowledge their hard work and commitment to selling Symantec’s portfolio of security, storage and systems management solutions.

The award winners were selected based on a number of criteria including overall performance in revenue, achievement of Symantec Specialisations, deal registration, technical and marketing investments and customer service excellence.

There are seven Symantec Pacific Partner Award categories. The 2013 award winners are:

• ExSP Partner of the Year ANZ: Datacom New Zealand
• Services Partner of the Year NZ: RHEis
• Specialised Growth Partner of the Year – NZ: Gen-i
• Distributor of the Year ANZ: Ingram Micro Australia
• SMB Market Specialist Partner of the Year ANZ: Datacom Australia
• Specialised Partner of the Year ANZ: Insight
• Specialised Growth Partner of the Year – AU: Intalock
• Services Partner of the Year AU: Insentra

The awards night was co-hosted by Brenton Smith, vice president and managing director for Symantec, Pacific Region and Klasie Holtzhausen, senior director, Channel and Alliances, Symantec, Pacific Region.

“Partners have always been of great importance to Symantec and will be even more so in the future as we continue to evolve our offerings and improve our levels of service and support,” said Brenton Smith. “Our awarded partners have made outstanding achievements. Their performance and commitment demonstrates a deep investment in Symantec as they build their specialisation expertise.

“Working with our partners, we’re extending this positive momentum to drive more collective success, continuing to collaborate to protect the information of businesses and organisations across Australia and New Zealand, whether it is on premise, in the cloud or mobile.”

“We congratulate this year's winners and look forward to supporting all of our partners throughout 2013,” added Smith.

About Symantec
Symantec protects the world’s information, and is a global leader in security, backup and availability solutions. Our innovative products and services protect people and information in any environment – from the smallest mobile device, to the enterprise data centre, to cloud-based systems. Our world-renowned expertise in protecting data, identities and interactions gives our customers confidence in a connected world. More information is available at www.symantec.com or by connecting with Symantec at: go.symantec.com/socialmedia.

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