NetApp Named 2025 Microsoft Americas Partner of the Year Winner for SDC Canada
NetApp, the Intelligent Data Infrastructure company, today announced that it has been recognized as the 2025 Microsoft Americas Partner of the Year Winner in the Software Development Company (SDC) – Canada category. This award acknowledges NetApp’s outstanding innovation, collaboration, and impact in helping customers leverage Microsoft technologies to accelerate their digital transformation and prepare for the AI-driven future of business.
The Microsoft Americas Partner of the Year Awards celebrate the most exceptional Microsoft partners across the region who have demonstrated excellence in innovation, customer success, and technology integration over the past year. Honorees are selected from a highly competitive pool of more than 2,000 nominations, representing the very best of Microsoft’s extensive partner ecosystem.
NetApp’s recognition in the SDC Canada category highlights its deep commitment to empowering organizations through advanced data management, cloud storage, and AI-ready infrastructure solutions. By combining NetApp’s Intelligent Data Infrastructure with Microsoft Azure’s powerful cloud ecosystem, enterprises across industries are transforming their IT environments with greater agility, scalability, and intelligence.
A Partnership Built for Innovation and the AI Era
For more than two decades, NetApp and Microsoft have collaborated closely to deliver integrated solutions that help organizations move faster, store smarter, and innovate without limits. Today, that partnership stands stronger than ever—driving new possibilities for cloud modernization, artificial intelligence (AI), and data-driven business transformation.
“We believe that being honored by Microsoft as the 2025 Americas Partner of the Year for the SDC Canada category is a powerful validation of our unmatched innovation and impact for customers across industries,” said Pravjit Tiwana, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Cloud Storage and Services at NetApp.
Tiwana continued, “We are the only storage company natively embedded in Microsoft Azure as a first-party service—a distinction that underscores the depth of our collaboration. Together, we’re not only helping customers modernize their workloads at scale—we’re architecting the foundation for the AI era. The future of intelligent infrastructure is one where cloud, data, and AI converge seamlessly, and our partnership with Microsoft is at the forefront of making that vision real.”
This recognition reflects NetApp’s dedication to simplifying complex hybrid and multi-cloud environments through automation, intelligent storage, and native cloud integration. By aligning its solutions closely with Microsoft’s strategic initiatives—particularly Azure and Microsoft Fabric—NetApp empowers enterprises to confidently adopt cloud technologies, optimize performance, and unlock new value from their data.
Delivering Tangible Business Outcomes
Through its collaboration with Microsoft, NetApp enables organizations of all sizes to:
- Empower Data-Driven Innovation
With NetApp’s intelligent data platform, enterprises can run mission-critical and AI workloads seamlessly across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. NetApp’s AI-ready storage architecture is designed for high performance, resilience, and security—ensuring that businesses can analyze and act on data in real time. - Accelerate Modernization on Azure
As the only natively integrated enterprise file service in Microsoft Azure, Azure NetApp Files allows customers to migrate, deploy, and scale workloads faster and with greater confidence. This deep integration enables customers to simplify operations, reduce infrastructure complexity, and maintain enterprise-grade performance and reliability within Azure. - Unite Teams for Greater Impact
Through a tightly connected go-to-market partnership, NetApp and Microsoft bring together engineering, field, and partner teams to deliver unified, end-to-end solutions. Customers benefit from a single collaborative experience that aligns strategy, support, and technical expertise to drive business results. - Stay Ahead with Continuous Innovation
Both companies share a commitment to continuous improvement. Ongoing innovations—such as AI-optimized data services, Microsoft Fabric integrations, and cloud-based performance enhancements—enable customers to stay ahead of industry changes and unlock new opportunities for efficiency and growth. - Achieve Proven Cloud Results
Customers across sectors—including finance, healthcare, public sector, and manufacturing—are realizing measurable business outcomes by migrating complex workloads such as SAP, Oracle, DB2, and EDA to Azure. The result is enhanced resilience, agility, and scalability, powered by NetApp’s intelligent data infrastructure and Microsoft’s trusted cloud.
Driving Value for Customers Across Canada and Beyond
In Canada, where enterprises are rapidly embracing digital transformation, NetApp’s collaboration with Microsoft is enabling organizations to harness data as a strategic advantage. From modernizing legacy infrastructure to enabling AI and analytics capabilities, Canadian customers are leveraging the joint solution portfolio to simplify IT operations and deliver better outcomes for their end users.
This recognition as Microsoft Americas Partner of the Year – SDC Canada underscores the success of these efforts. NetApp’s intelligent cloud storage and data services have become foundational for many Canadian enterprises that require secure, compliant, and high-performance solutions in sectors such as energy, finance, healthcare, and public services.
NetApp’s work with Microsoft also emphasizes sustainability and efficiency. Through intelligent workload placement and advanced data lifecycle management, the partnership helps customers minimize carbon footprints and optimize energy usage while maintaining peak performance—supporting both business growth and environmental responsibility.
Customer-Centric Innovation
At the core of this recognition lies NetApp’s unwavering commitment to customer success. The company’s Intelligent Data Infrastructure approach integrates automation, observability, and security across the entire data lifecycle. This approach allows businesses to seamlessly manage, govern, and protect data across on-premises, cloud, and edge environments.
The collaboration with Microsoft Azure further enhances these capabilities, providing organizations with unified visibility and control over their hybrid environments. Customers can deploy AI workloads, analytics pipelines, and critical business applications with speed and confidence—knowing that their data infrastructure is built for reliability and scale.
“Today’s enterprises are looking for more than just storage—they’re looking for intelligent infrastructure that anticipates needs, scales automatically, and supports next-generation workloads like AI and machine learning,” added Tiwana. “Our collaboration with Microsoft ensures customers have the flexibility, security, and performance they need to innovate continuously.”
Recognizing Excellence in Partnership
The Microsoft Americas Partner of the Year Awards serve as a benchmark for excellence within the partner ecosystem. Each year, the awards recognize companies that demonstrate exceptional capabilities and outcomes in leveraging Microsoft technology to solve real-world challenges.
NetApp’s 2025 win in the SDC Canada category exemplifies the company’s ability to deliver innovative, reliable, and transformative solutions that align with Microsoft’s vision for the intelligent cloud and intelligent edge. The recognition also highlights NetApp’s consistent investment in engineering, co-innovation, and customer enablement—cornerstones of its global partnership with Microsoft.
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