Press Release - 3 June 2014

Telindus Luxembourg named “Partner of the Year 2014” by NetApp for the quality of its customer services

Luxembourg, June 3, 2014 – One year after being awarded as “Service Provider of the Year”, Telindus has just been named as “Partner of the Year” for Luxembourg and Belgium during the NetApp Channel Kick-Off & Partner Awards Ceremony 2014.

The Partner Awards ceremony, which was held on May 21st at the Château Fond’Roy in Brussels, recognizes the particular and exceptional collaboration of its partners. In all, NetApp honoured 6 companies for their achievements in the fiscal year 2014, across various partners in Belgium and Luxembourg. Telindus was rewarded for its business performance and service quality with the “Partner of the Year” award 2014. This recognition culminates a successful year of mutual collaboration succeeding to the last year’s award as “Service Provider of the Year” and the achievement of a common vision: excellence, innovation and quality.

Both companies have been working hand in hand for many years now in order to deliver cloud-based services to the local market. By providing a flexible, secure and high-performance platform, NetApp’s and Telindus’ combined strengths allow companies to focus on their core business.

“We are very proud of this confidence vote from NetApp for the second year in a row. This award testifies of the work accomplished in collaboration with our strategic partner, aiming at one single objective: deliver added value solutions to our customers. Last year, our ambition was to achieve this goal and today we are very proud to have reached it and to see our efforts rewarded as “Partner of the Year”. Above all we wish to thank our customers who saw in us a partner capable of understanding their challenges and to align NetApp technological solutions to their needs. ”, says Jean Calçada, Partner Contract Manager at Telindus Luxembourg.

“After demonstrating its ability to build up strong cloud services, Telindus, who has traditionally been a very strong partner of NetApp, has again proven to have an impressive services track record as well as an outstanding business result. It has shown strong growth and near flawless execution. It is the key for our joint success in Luxemburg and this reward recognizes a very strong year delivering great customer outcomes”, says Derrick Struys, Area Partner Manager BeNeLux at NetApp.

About Telindus Luxembourg

Telindus Luxembourg is the Belgacom Group’s ICT branch and, through Telindus Telecom, the Group’s enterprise operator in Luxembourg. It provides solutions to a variety of private and public-sector companies. Its areas of expertise include enterprise networks and connectivity (national and international), datacenters, systems, storage, security, collaboration, applications and mobility.

About NetApp

NetApp creates innovative storage and data management solutions, which enable companies to speed up their growth while optimizing their costs. To learn more about how NetApp helps its customers all over the world to go further and faster, please visit www.netapp.com.