Gravic Wins HPE’s Momentum Technology Partner of the Year 2019 Award!

At the annual HPE Global Partner Summit 2019 in Las Vegas, Gravic, Inc. graciously accepted the Momentum Technology Partner of the Year 2019 Award from Hewlett Packard Enterprise during the Alliances Reception and Awards Ceremony. The HPE Global Solutions Awards recognize HPE Partners for their outstanding performance and accomplishments in driving meaningful business results for shared customers. All of the winning HPE Partner Ready partners were recognized from across the partner ecosystem for outstanding performance, collaboration and accomplishments that raise the standard for business excellence and customer satisfaction.

“It’s an honor to award partners who have excelled in developing their partnerships with HPE and grown mutual business opportunities with collaborative solutions for our joint customers,” said Paul Hunter, Senior Vice President of Worldwide Partner Sales, HPE. “HPE is committed to innovating new solutions and enabling mutual growth together with our partners, and our awards recognize the partnerships, collaborations and successes of our top performing partners.”

After accepting the award on behalf of Gravic, Paul J. Holenstein, Executive Vice President, said, “We are very humbled by this award and want to thank HPE and its product management team, especially Mark Pollans, WW Sr. Product Manager, for working so closely and effectively with us on HPE Shadowbase. We are extremely proud of what we have achieved together this year, and look forward to many business opportunities with HPE in the future.”

Hewlett Packard Enterprise directly sells and supports Shadowbase solutions under the name HPE Shadowbase. For more information, please contact your local HPE Shadowbase representative or visit our website.

HPE Shadowbase Team Presents at N2TUG Meeting

This past week, Paul and Paden Holenstein attended the N2TUG Meeting in Dallas. Thanks to American’s booking policies, both the to and from flights were oversold, and there was nary a seat left unoccupied. Sound familiar? Fortunately, the N2TUG venue at the Gaylord Texan Resort in Grapevine, Texas is close to the airport, rather large, and not filled to capacity. It is a terrific hosting location for the event, which was well-attended (about 75 attendees in total) with extensive representation by HPE and ISV partners, along with respectable representation by the user community.

Diane Funkhouser (HPE Liaison to N2TUG) and Bill Honaker (N2TUG President) kicked off the event, welcoming everyone. Then, Ken Goldman (Director, HPE NonStop Sales for North America) gave us an overview of HPE sales and strategy for the first half of the year. Meg Watson (Master Software Engineer) of HPE’s Advanced Technology Center (ATC), offered insight into powerful ways of leveraging Devops environments on the NonStop. Later, Justin Simonds presented an interesting research presentation on the history of artificial intelligence, and the vendors presented on their wares and new features.

Paden and Paul Holenstein tag-teamed the HPE Shadowbase Use Cases presentation, with Paden describing the use cases and Paul adding details for our exciting new and upcoming future features. We are happy to share this with whomever may have missed it, please contact us. After the meeting, we all retired to the San Antonio terrace for libations and refreshments. We would like to thank Bill and Diane for their extensive work on this event. A good time was had by all! Congratulations to Koteswara Silla of JCPenney for winning our Beats earbud headphones prize.