
Gallery: Nutanix A/NZ Partner Awards winners
By Ben Moore
Wed 24 Oct 2018
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Nutanix held its 2018 A/NZ Partner Awards at the Four Seasons hotel in Sydney on Tuesday, October 23.
The awards closed the Nutanix Partner Xperience Day - below, you can see some photo highlights of the evening.
The winners are:
- Nutanix A/NZ Partner of the Year: Thomas Duryea Logicalis
- Nutanix A/NZ Growth Partner of the Year: Infront
- Nutanix A/NZ Innovation Partner of the Year: Intuit Technologies
- MVP Awards
- Nutanix Partner Sales MVP: Jim Zelener, Thomas Duryea Logicalis
- Nutanix Partner Technical MVP: Justin Davies, Lenovo
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