IT services and solutions provider BEarena has won two awards at the recent Nutanix Asia Pacific Partner Conference in Phuket, Thailand.

Sydney-based BEarena received the Momentum (Partner of the Year) Award for Australia and New Zealand, while the company’s Director Darren Ashley was named as Nutanix Valuable Player (NVP) for the region.

“The awards are an incredible validation of the decision we made two years ago to bet the house on Nutanix," Ashley says.

"We believed that with their technology and partnership we could challenge the status quo.

"Our relationship with Nutanix continues to grow, as does our collective customer base. It is a pleasure to work with such a motivated company.”

Operating as the only Elite Partner for Nutanix in ANZ, BEarena-Nutanix customers include Sanity Music, Hyundai, Transgrid and Pearson.

“BEarena are succeeding by leveraging their unique consulting skills and experience," adds Wayne Neich, ANZ Managing Director, Nutanix."BEarena is representative of a new breed of IT infrastructure partners who are certified and experienced in both traditional SANs and new world web-scale IT infrastructure.

"Customers already know traditional SANs and are hungry to work with partners who can deliver the benefits of the new world web-scale infrastructure."