On Thursday January 28, at the stroke of 16:30, Dell Technologies launched the virtual presentation of the Dell Technologies Partner Awards 2020. We were one of the nominees. Full of anticipation, the entire Fundaments team sat at home, all behind their own screens, and watched the nerve-wracking ceremony.
The Dell Technologies Partner Awards are a recognition of Dell Technologies partners who have demonstrated exceptional performance over the past year. These include achievements in innovation, deepening of knowledge and successful implementation of solutions based on Dell Technologies software and hardware solutions. Where usually hundreds of partners and customers gather physically to celebrate their successes and take a look to the future, Dell Technologies had to find a different way this year. They opted for a virtual award ceremony with a livestream on YouTube, so that all interested parties could be ‘present’ at the ceremony. Different than usual, but certainly no less exciting.
After an hour, the liberating announcement finally came and loud cheers went up from the houses of all Fundaments colleagues. We were told that we were the big winner in the category: Cloud Services Provider of the Year. The other nominees in this category were TrueServer, Solvinity and Leaseweb. Winning the award underlines Dell Technologies' confidence in Fundaments as a partner.
Larik-Jan Verschuren, CTO at Fundaments, says: ‘We have been working with Dell Technologies for over 15 years, for both server and storage solutions. This collaboration has grown into a partnership, where we look together with Dell Technologies to find the right solution for the end user. In this, the Cloud Service Provider (CSP) programme has developed into a very fully grown programme in recent years. With this programme, we can facilitate digital transformation in a very fine way, from both on-site hardware, as well as the connection with Cloud solutions. We have really distinguished ourselves in this with Fundaments recently, not only in terms of technology, but also certainly across the commercial and marketing axis. This has been rewarded with the award for Cloud Services Provider of the Year. Besides being very proud of Fundaments as an organisation with all its driven employees, this award is of course also a wonderful recognition of the concept of partnership: one of Fundaments' core values.
