Arkphire receives double honour at EMC Partner Awards Ceremony 2014

‘Sales Person of the Year’ and the prestigious new ‘Innovation Partner of the Year’ awarded to Sandyford company...

Arkphire, a leading Irish IT Consulting and Managed Services company, today announced that it was honoured with two awards at the annual EMC Partner Awards Ceremony. Arkphire received awards for ‘Sales Person of the Year 2014’, awarded to John J Murphy who heads up their Managed Services Division. Arkphire were also awarded with the prestigious new award for ‘Innovation Partner of the Year 2014’. The event took place on Thursday 13th March at the Dylan Hotel, Dublin.

Gerry Murray, Country Manager, EMC Ireland commented “Arkphire are most deserving of their awards tonight. Their work during 2013 and into 2014 was exemplary on so many levels and it is great to be able to reward the massive effort that they put into delivering innovative solutions to their clients leveraging EMC technology.” The Awards are designed to recognise and reward achievement and success within EMC’s partner community. Through the program, EMC works with partners to ensure they are fully equipped with the necessary skills, tools, training and support to gain market share, increase profitability and advance their EMC business. Murray continued, “The program requires dedication, commitment and an in-depth knowledge of EMC’s information
management solutions and services. Equally, it requires our partners to meet the demand of new technologies such as cloud and big data. Arkphire has met and
exceeded these challenges and has demonstrated great success, leadership and achievement. We congratulate Arkphire on its achievement at this year’s awards
and look forward to our continued success working together.”

John J Murphy winner of the sales person of the year award and Head of Arkphire’s Managed Services division said “It was a great honour to be recognised by EMC both personally and for Arkphire. It is down to our team who continually invest in advancing their knowledge and expertise with EMC and other partners. Arkphire also provides leading industry vendors like EMC with the consultative and technical support they need to meet their customer requirements.” TonyQuinn, Sales Director, Arkphire commented “We have a culture of embracing new technologies at Arkphire and we work with the very best partners whose technologies enable us to bring exciting new innovations to the market.”

Arkphire is an EMC partner for over 15 years and is currently a PSP (Premier Solution Partner). Over this time Arkphire has invested heavily in growing its expertise in the full range of EMC products and solutions. Arkphire specialises in bringing together best-in-class technologies to provide seamless solutions that meet their clients technical and business requirements. They work with industry leading technologies from EMC, VMware, Cisco, VCE and Symantec.

About Arkphire:

Arkphire is a leading Irish IT Consulting and Managed Services company that specialise in transforming how IT delivers long-term value to businesses. Arkphire’s IT consultants are highly skilled in understanding their customer’s IT environments regardless of scale and complexity. They work with industry leading partners to deliver the very best IT infrastructure solutions for their clients. Arkphire is an Irish owned company with operations in Dublin and London. Customers include Allied Irish Bank (AIB), Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI), Boylesports, Easytrip, Calor Gas, Deloitte, Invesco,
Friends First and Hospital Corporation of America (HCA).

Article Published: 02/04/2014