HPE Global Ecosystem Partner Awards: Here Are The Winners

Hewlett Packard Enterprise honored its best and brightest global ecosystem partners at the HPE Discover Partner Summit in Las Vegas. Here is a look at the winners.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise, which has designed its new unified Partner Ready Vantage program to help partners deliver breakthrough innovation, feted its most accomplished global ecosystem partners at HPE Discover Partner Summit.

HPE Worldwide Channel and Partner Ecosystem leader Simon Ewington, for his part, says HPE is helping partners cross the chasm into hot markets like AI with HPE Private Cloud AI or the $4 billion virtualization market with HPE VM Essentials.

“Our innovation engine keeps increasing,” said Ewington in an interview with CRN. “That is what I think makes HPE so interesting for partners: being an innovator and not being an imitator. That is the thing that we do well. And our partner program and HPE Partner Ready Vantage—the new framework pulling together 11 partner programs into a single program—is pretty revolutionary for those that know HPE really well. This is a partner program for innovators, not for imitators.”

The HPE goal is to be partners’ “first choice” to leverage the industry megatrends of AI, hybrid cloud and networking with a focus on driving growth and profitability with innovative offerings.

As to the far-reaching impact of AI on partners, Ewington said the market is moving at “lightning speed” into the AI era with agentic AI changing the market at a breakneck pace.

“Undoubtedly the speed and evolution of AI is unlike anything we have seen,” he said. “Agentic AI is a good example. … That is the perfect example of a topic that no one was talking about in terms of opportunity for partners but now is front and center. That means we have got to react much quicker than we used to because our whole value to the partner community is keeping them relevant so they in turn can be relevant to their customer. So when their customer says, ‘How can you help me be more efficient with agentic AI?’ they need to know what they are talking about. They need to understand the use cases, the opportunities and how they can size and implement agentic AI solutions, which means we have got to move quicker to educate them.”

Here then are the best and brightest partners teaming with HPE to push the technology envelope forward.

HPE Global Solution Provider Of The Year 2025: World Wide Technology

Top Executive: Jim Kavanaugh, Co-Founder, CEO

World Wide Technology, which last year made a big bet expanding its partnership with HPE, is the HPE Global Solution Provider of the Year.

The award comes after WWT CEO Jim Kavanaugh last year said he was “thrilled” about “expanding” its partnership with HPE in a bid to deliver “transformative AI outcomes” for customers.

Kavanaugh’s comments came after WWT, No. 9 on the 2025 CRN Solution Provider 500, hosted HPE President and CEO Antonio Neri and HPE Executive Vice President and General Manager Hybrid Cloud and CTO Fidelma Russo.

Kavanaugh said the conversation with HPE’s top executives “underscored the significance of collaboration and synergy” in delivering AI business outcome-based solutions.

Kavanaugh said a “focal point” of the discussion with HPE was centered on WWT’s ATC AI Proving Ground, a multivendor lab environment that lets customers “experiment, test and innovate with the latest AI hardware, software and reference architectures in a secure, scalable and transparent manner.”

In an interview on WWT last year, Neri said HPE was betting heavily on WWT’s AI future to help their joint customers.

“WWT is one of our most strategic partners,” he said, praising the “tremendous value” WWT provides customers with its services prowess.

“We do an enormous amount of business with them. We like them because they do multiple things. They continue to invest with us in the key relevant areas of the market. Obviously, they are really focused on cloud and AI, which are very much aligned to what we’re doing,” Neri said.

HPE Global Distributor Of The Year 2025, HPE North America Distributor Of The Year 2025: TD Synnex

Top Executive: Patrick Zammit, CEO

TD Synnex, the which has invested heavily in helping partners build AI practices, is the winner of both the HPE Global Ecosystem Distributor of Year 2025 and North America Distributor of the Year 2025.

In a recent LinkedIn post, Neri said of TD Synnex: “HPE’s vision is to be our partner’s first choice to address the industry megatrends across networking, hybrid cloud and AI. To deliver on that vision, distributors like TD Synnex will play a pivotal role as we advance our strategy and expand our innovation portfolio.”

HPE Global Service Provider Of The Year 2025: Orange Business Services

Top Executive: Aliette Mousnier-Lompré, CEO

Orange Business Services, an HPE Aruba Platinum partner that has teamed with HPE on Network as a Service and hybrid cloud and private cloud, is the winner of the HPE Global Service Provider of the Year 2025.

The Paris-based company, which has invested heavily in GenAI and provides a wide range of cloud infrastructure services, has more than 2,600 cloud experts, 2,500 cyberecurity experts and 70 data centers.

Last year, Orange Business launched two new GenAI solutions “co-constructed” with HPE: a SaaS GenAI offer and GPU as a Service for inference training.

On its website, Orange Business Services says the HPE collaboration is a “best-of-breed partnership between two Gartner Magic Quadrant leaders” with worldwide coverage capabilities.

HPE Global Hybrid Cloud Solution Provider Of The Year 2025: Comline SE

Top Executive: Lorenz von Schröder, CEO

Comline SE, the German IT service provider that this year launched a GenAI as a Service based on HPE Private Cloud AI, is the HPE Global Hybrid Cloud Solution Provider of the Year 2025.

Comline SE said the new private cloud AI service added to its existing HPE GreenLake environment operates in its cloud data centers in Berlin and Frankfurt/Main.

In the press release announcing the new offering, Comline SE COO Ralf Schäfer said the company has seen a “high demand” for a GenAI-as-a-Service offer “that helps customers take the step from proof of concept to production at scale—while ensuring data sovereignty, which we can provide from our German cloud data centers.”

Schäfer said Comline selected HPE Private Cloud AI because “it’s really a turnkey solution unlike competitive offerings, which require a lot of custom integration.”

HPE Global AI Solution Provider Of The Year 2025: MKIS CORE Co. Ltd

Top Executive: Moon-Ki Chung, Founder, CEO

MKIS CORE, a Korean AI powerhouse whose mantra is to provide the “best enterprise” AI experience to customers, is the HPE Global AI Solution Provider of the Year 2025.

Among the company’s notable achievements is building a liquid cooling data center to power AI solutions at its headquarters in Korea.

HPE, for its part, has taken a leadership position in direct liquid cooling. In fact, Neri has called the company’s direct liquid cooling expertise a key AI systems differentiator versus competitors.

The company—which also has a partnership with HPE Nvidia AI Computing By HPE partner Nvidia—provides a full AI stack aimed at helping customers optimize their AI experience.

The company has also developed facial recognition solutions using an HPE Cray XD6500 system.

The company has been an HPE partner since it was founded in 2019. It achieved a Platinum partnership with HPE in 2021.

HPE Global IT Sustainability Partner Of The Year 2025: Atea

CEO: Steinar Sønsteby

Atea, a leading supplier of IT solutions in Northern Europe, is the HPE Global IT Sustainability Partner of the Year 2025.

Atea, widely considered a leader in sustainability, was recognized this year with an “A List” ranking for its leadership in climate change by global environmental nonprofit CDP.

The A ranking recognizes Atea’s “commitment to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, enhancing energy efficiency and promoting low-carbon solutions for customers,” the company said in a press release.

“We believe that technology can help address the climate crisis and create a circular economy, and we are proud to join the global movement of companies taking action for a better future,” said Sønsteby in a press release.

Atea, which has a presence in 88 cities in the Nordic and Baltic regions, has annual sales of $3.23 billion.

HPE Global Colocation Provider Of The Year 2025: Equinix
Top Executive: Adaire Fox-Martin, CEO

Equinix, a longtime leader in providing colocation services for HPE GreenLake and HPE Private Cloud, is the HPE Global Colocation Provider of the Year 2025.

Equinix began offering the HPE GreenLake cloud service through Equinix data centers six years ago.

What’s more, Equinix was recognized three years ago by HPE as the GreenLake Momentum Partner of the Year.

Another sign of the close relationship between the two companies: HPE’s Russo sits on the Equinix board of directors.

Fox-Martin said Equinix closed more than 16,200 deals across more than 6,000 customers in 2024 and channel partners were critical to driving those numbers.

“Our channel program delivered nearly 30 percent of bookings and more than 50 percent of company new logos for the year, with wins across a wide range of industry segments and use cases in our xScale business,” she told investors during the company’s fourth-quarter earnings call earlier this year.

HPE Global System Integrator Partner Of The Year 2025: Deloitte

Top Executive: Joe Ucuzoglu, CEO

Deloitte, the $67.2 billion systems integrator behemoth which has created a GenAI agent application bonanza based on HPE’s Private Cloud AI service, is HPE’s Global System Integrator Partner of the Year 2025.

Among the HPE Private Cloud AI-based GenAI agent offerings is Deloitte C-Suite AI for CFOs. That GenAI agent offering provides CFOs with a GenAI financial analysis, modeling and competitive market analysis.

Another Deloitte offering based on HPE Private Cloud AI is Atlas AI, a GenAI solution designed to accelerate life sciences discoveries centered on molecular modeling and drug discovery.

Abdi Goodarzi, GenAI products and innovations leader and principal for Deloitte Consulting, told CRN last year that the HPE Private Cloud AI platform is a “significant game-changer” that will drive dramatic improvements in business processes of all kinds.

“This is a significant commitment to the partnership with Nvidia and HPE for Deloitte,” he said. “We have an AI factory with thousands of developers and thousands of AI practitioners, data scientists that understand how you can bring these ideas and innovations to life. Our goal is to enable this as fast as possible.”

HPE Global System Integrator Momentum Partner Of The Year 2025: Kyndryl

Top Executive: Martin Schroeter, CEO

Kyndryl, No. 11 on the 2025 CRN Solution Provider 500, is the HPE Global System Integrator Momentum Partner of the Year 2025.

Kyndryl, which also won the Global System Integrator Momentum Partner of The Year in 2023, offers the Kyndryl private cloud on HPE infrastructure in a pay-per-use model.

Kyndryl also offers a private LTE/5G solution in collaboration with HPE Aruba and Kyndryl Campus LAN Services based on HPE Aruba networking technology.

Kyndryl said its Bridge AI-enabled operating platform freed up more than 13,000 delivery professionals and generated annualized savings of about $775 million at the end of its last fiscal year.

Kyndryl reported record signings of $18.2 billion for Fiscal Year 2025.

HPE Global Technology Partner Of The Year 2025: Microsoft

Top Executive: Satya Nadella, Chairman, CEO

Microsoft, which has a long-standing partnership with HPE delivering hybrid cloud solutions with Microsoft Azure, is the HPE Global Technology Partner of the Year 2025.

In May, HPE announced it added unified block and file storage and software-defined cloud storage on Microsoft Azure for its Alletra Storage MP B10000.

HPE also has teamed for many years with Microsoft to provide HPE GreenLake for Microsoft Azure Stack HCI, a fully integrated hybrid cloud solution that combines Microsoft Azure Stack HCI with on-premises infrastructure.

HPE AI Partner Of The Year 2025: Wipro

Top Executive: Srini Pallia, CEO, Managing Director

Wipro, the $10.8 billion global systems integrator behemoth, is the HPE AI Partner of the Year 2025.

The award comes one year after Wipro launched a GenAI solution with HPE at its Wipro Cloud Studio’s Kodathi office in India.

The solution combined Wipro’s Smart Operations platform and HPE’s Machine Learning Development Environment.

The two companies said the GenAI solution is designed to reduce Mean Time to Resolution duration for GenAI applications by about 50 percent.

Wipro said GenAI platform is a “testament” to its “longstanding strategic partnership with HPE and to our unwavering commitment to delivering advanced AI solutions within our new Customer Experience Center.”

HPE Networking Partner Of The Year 2025: Infosys

Top Executive: Salil Parekh, CEO

Infosys, which has collaborated with HPE Aruba to deliver AI networking capabilities, is winner of the HPE Networking Partner of the Year 2025.

Infosys and HPE have also worked together to jointly provide a Customer Innovation Center at Düsseldorf, Germany, to serve as a “hub for enterprises to explore and implement AI-driven solutions across networking, hybrid cloud and cybersecurity.”

Infosys and HPE have also collaborated with Suse to help enterprise customers build and secure AI solutions.

The latest award comes one year after Infosys was honored as the 2024 HPE Global AI Partner of the Year.

HPE Software (OpsRamp) Partner Of The Year 2025: Wipro

Top Executive: Srini Pallia, CEO, Managing Director

Wipro, which has partnered with HPE AI-powered OpsRamp software to proactively detect and resolve IT services issues, is HPE Software (OpsRamp) Partner of the Year 2025.

Wipro, which was also recognized as Global Strategic Partner of the Year in 2023, executed a 10-week implementation of an OpsRamp solution for a North America customer that resulted in three times faster IT problem resolution and a 95 percent reduction IT alert “noise.”

In April, Pallia told analysts that in the last year the company has won two “megadeals,” which he called a strong sign that its large deal engine is working and continues to expand.

“Our clients have responded well to our consulting-led AI-powered industry and cross-industry solutions,” Pallia said. “This has reflected the strong growth in top accounts and also large deal bookings in financial year 2025. We have continued to invest in our people, skilling them for the new AI wave. Our execution rigor with speed definitely has been acknowledged by our clients, and that’s reflected in a clear improvement in our client satisfaction scores. And we have done all of this while strengthening our margins.”

HPE Networking Momentum Partner Of The Year 2025: DXC Technology

Top Executive: Raul Fernandez, CEO

DXC Technology, No. 14 on the 2025 CRN Solution Provider 500, is HPE’s Networking Momentum Partner of the Year 2025.

DXC Technology, which was the HPE Aruba Networking Global System Integrator of the Year in 2024, has co-developed with Aruba and Pensando the DXC Secure Network Fabric, a software-defined hybrid cloud network solution.

DXC Technology has also developed the breakthrough DXC Robotic Drive solution for autonomous driving developers, which features HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric, HPE Apollo systems and HPE Edgeline Converged Edge Systems.

DXC, which finished its fiscal year with $12.87 billion in annual sales, has reported bookings growth of more than 20 percent for two consecutive quarters.

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