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14th September, 2011 – Symantec paid tribute today to its top channel partners in the Pacific region at an event in Sydney.

The Symantec Vision partner awards recognise companies that have innovated in the delivery of Symantec’s security, availability and systems management solutions to customers either through physical, virtual or cloud channels.

Specific criteria included revenue, deal registration, technical and marketing investments, customer service and achievement of Symantec specialisation.

Thomas Duryea was named as the 2011 winner of the ‘Specialised Services Partner of the Year’ – the second year they have received a Symantec partner award. Last year Thomas Duryea were named the ‘Enterprise Partner of the Year.’

David Dzienciol, Symantec vice president, channels and SMB, Asia Pacific and Japan said the channel had played a key role in driving sales for the company this year and that it was committed to exploring opportunities to grow sales opportunities, growth and profitability.

He noted that 2011 was a landmark year for the company’s channel which gained access to the enhanced Symantec partner program, which offers solution specialisations to partners.

Thomas Duryea have continued to invest in their Symantec partnership and in their expertise to deliver advanced services and solutions to protect customers and their information.

31st August, 2011 – Thomas Duryea has been named as one of Australia’s leading Managed Services providers in a 2011 study by MSPmentor. The report is an annual research report which considers Managed Services providers on their revenue, growth and number of devices managed.

For the top 20 MSPs in Australia, the report showed that recurring revenues jumped to US$71.5 million in 2010, up 36% from 2009. Also the top 20 MSPs in Australia managed 75,823 mobile and desktop devices in 2010, up 37% from 2009. And those same MSPs managed 21,892 servers and network devices, up 53% in 2010 vs 2009. The report also showed that MSPs in Australia were growing at a much faster rate than those in Europe.

Thomas Duryea made No.6 on the list of top MSPs with their offerings of complete managed infrastructure services and strategic managed services they offer to their clients. The Thomas Duryea Managed Services division has experienced year on year growth through a dedicated team of management and support personnel.

Henry Susilo, ICT Support Manager at Victorian Managed Insurance Authority says “As one of our key service providers, TD allow us to focus on and improve our ICT service delivery to the business. The technical expertise and support provided by TD has been instrumental in providing visionary guidance in the planning for growth, and disaster recovery while also ensuring the stability and reliability of our IT infrastructure.”

Find out more about TD’s Managed Services or contact us for more information.

11th July, 2011 – Capitalising on strong growth and an expanding client portfolio in NSW, IT infrastructure provider Thomas Duryea Consulting has appointed cloud computing pioneer, Nick McMenemy, to the position of NSW State Manager.

Charged with driving the company’s expansion along the eastern seaboard, McMenemy will head Thomas Duryea’s growing Sydney office and accelerate the company’s growth in this market.

Andrew Thomas Chief Executive Officer of Thomas Duryea says the appointment “underlines our ongoing commitment to addressing the needs of our clients and the rapidly growing Sydney operations.”

“Nick offers unique insights into the evolving needs of today’s organisations, and his depth of expertise in delivering service oriented IT solutions, combined with his ability to lead rapid growth ensures that our NSW clients will continue to receive outstanding technical consulting services from Thomas Duryea.”

McMenemy has over 20 years of experience in the IT industry, and has been a pioneer in introducing early adoption of cloud services. Prior to his appointment as NSW State Manager, McMenemy held the position of National Cloud Services Manager at Thomas Duryea and was instrumental in introducing Thomas Duryea’s ‘Cloudium’ solution, a private cloud as-a-service model working with vendors that include EMC, Cisco, VMware, APC and others.

McMemeny has also previously held the position of Head of Marketing & Product Management at Brennan IT and was responsible for successes in introducing early adoption of Infrastructure-as-a-Service, Backup, Recovery & Archive- as-a Service, hosted applications and managed services.

Commenting on his appointment McMenemy said, “Thomas Duryea has been at the forefront in delivering core IT infrastructure and cloud solutions and I am looking forward to working with Andrew and his team to capitalise on existing success and accelerate their growth in the Sydney market.”

Thomas signals aggressive expansion plans for the company explaining, “We have signed on a number of new clients in NSW and now with our expanded team, we look forward to replicating the dominance that we enjoy within the Victorian market.”

“Having been an EMC partner since 2006, it is great to be recognised as the leading Australian specialist in the unified storage market,” said Andrew Thomas, Thomas Duryea CEO. “The award acts to depict our investment and strong positioning in the unified datacentre storage market across Australia.”

EMC channel manager, Chris Moyle, said the partnership between Thomas Duryea and EMC was instrumental in seeing the company go from strength to strength.

In the past year, Thomas Duryea Consulting has been recognised in several awards including 2010 BRW Fast 100, 2010 Symantec Value Partner and CEO, Andrew Thomas, was the recipient of the Southern Region 2010 Ernst and Young, Young Entrepreneur of the Year.

The award acts to cement Thomas Duryea Consulting’s heavy investment in the Symantec partnership and recognise the enormous growth that the company has realised.

In the last year Thomas Duryea Consulting achieved platinum partner status, won the Symantec growth partner of the year due to having a growth rate of 3000%.

With the ability to support Symantec tools such as Netbackup, Backup Exec, Enterprise Vault, Altiris, End Point Protection,, Message Labs, CMS, Workflow, Service Desk and Data Loss Prevention to the Melbourne and Sydney markets, TD is one of the few vendors that can deploy the Symantec suite end to end.

Having realised significant achievements with the Symantec partnership, TD CEO, Andrew Thomas, is pleased with the award and the value that the relationship has had on the business strategically.

‘Our partnership with Symantec has really matured over the last year and has provided Thomas Duryea Consulting with the ability to offer best in class tools to the Melbourne and Sydney market across our Data Management and Enterprise Information Systems practices.’
Having deployed Symantec tools to ASX listed companies, TD has built up a reputation as a leading provider to the market.

With a revenue last year of $50 million and a team of 100, across Melbourne and Sydney, TD is well positioned to support continue supporting Symantec deployments of all sizes.

For further information on how Thomas Duryea Consulting can support Symantec rollouts, please contact your closest office.

Thomas has been instrumental in building Thomas Duryea Consulting over the past 10 years, with his co-founders, Micah Smith, Evan Duryea and David Stagg paving the technology roadmap for the business.

Thomas’ entrepreneurial efforts are evident in the success of growing the private company, from being a small provider, to now competing head to head with some of the larger global players within the IT reseller market.

With a turnover today of $50 million, an average annual growth rate of 185% since 2006 and over 100 staff across Melbourne and Sydney, it is little wonder that the 33 year old was recognised for his innovative business acumen.

The success of the company is perhaps most evident in the resilience demonstrated during the global financial crisis, where the company continued to grow by 130% and secure some of its biggest deals to date.

Andrew Thomas celebrated the evening with family and friends and was humbled about the outcome of the evening.

“I feel very honoured to have received this award as it means a great deal to me personally.

I would like this award to be a recognition of the combined efforts of the brilliant and energetic team that we have at Thomas Duryea Consulting, as well as the close relationships we have developed over the years with customers and vendors alike.”

Today, Thomas Duryea Consulting is a trusted advisor of technology strategy, services and solutions, to the mid-market, enterprise and government.

All finalists were judged on entrepreneurial spirit, innovation, personal integrity and influence, financial performance, strategic direction and national and global impact.

Past Southern Region winners of the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year include Joe Calleja (Apex Group), Paul Constantino (Quest Serviced Apartments), Andrew Grant (CO2 Group), Ruslan Kogan (Kogan Technologies), Greg Roebuck (Carsales.com), Mark Ryan (Tassal Group) and Stephanie Alexander (Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation.

The Thomas Duryea (TD) MOE framework, initially built ten years ago, is set to further revolutionise the market, providing the ability for clients to streamline their desktop deployment and management by simplifying the build and development process.

Evans noted at the event that the move to new operating systems, such as Windows 7, Citrix and VDI, is significantly easier for corporations now with the release of version 5 of the one of a kind tool.

‘The TD MOE has removed many of the headaches typically experienced by corporations when wanting to move to a new operating system or get new users on desk.

At TD we see a great opportunity for businesses to migrate to Windows 7, with a series of simple steps that when followed ensure that the migration is seamless and allows users to get the best experience from their desktop whilst saving considerable time and money for the business.

By automating common and introducing an administrative framework, the TD MOE has realised enormous success for our clients by cutting time to deployment of new systems from 2 weeks to less than half an hour.’

Evans contended in his presentation that the move to newer operating systems poses a great chance for businesses to re-shape the desktop experience for their users by looking at all areas of their desktop; authentication, applications, desktop policies and practices and introduction of additional technologies such as Cloud and VDI style solutions.

The TD MOE version 5 is a cost and time effective solution to support the automation of these services and reduce the heavy administrative burden for IT departments.

The TD MOE has been tested on a dozen clients over the last 6 months and is now available to the broader market.
For further information on the TD MOE, please contact your closest Thomas Duryea Consulting office.

The decision to appoint a new team to report directly to CEO, Andrew Thomas, is part of the company’s strategic growth initiative to build Thomas Duryea nationally to a revenue base of A$100 million within the next 3 years.

After 3 years within business development at Thomas Duryea, Erez Grushka has been appointed the role of National Sales Manager.

Highly customer focused in nature, Erez brings immense experience within the IT infrastructure industry, having been a key driver in building one of the most successful IT companies in South Africa.

Micah Smith, with 10 years of experience at Thomas Duryea, has been appointed Services Director.

Micah’s role will be fundamental to the strategic technology direction of the company and will see him oversee all practice areas; Enterprise Information Systems, Data Center Solutions, Managed Services, Data Management, as well as the launch of their upcoming cloud services offering.

Having held senior human resources and organisation development roles at several Australian Top 100 companies, the appointment of Michelle Vassos as Head of People and Culture is a huge asset to Thomas Duryea.

Implementing strategic talent management initiatives to support the people side of the business is a key focus of Michelle’s role and is fundamental to meeting the expansion objectives over the coming years.

With experience working within marketing for a leading B2B cloud-computing vendor, the appointment of Rachel Dobney as National Marketing Manager will see an increased focus on strategic market and branding initiatives to boost the profile of Thomas Duryea.

Finally, with over 3 years of experience in working at Thomas Duryea and over 14 years accounting and finance experience, Mary Karolyi will head up the finance and administration teams as Chief Financial Officer.

Andrew Thomas, CEO, is excited about the new team and the possibilities it provides for Thomas Duryea.

“By having such a strong new leadership team, covering core business functions, from finance, through to HR, sales, operations and marketing, Thomas Duryea Consulting is in a very strong position to execute on key strategic initiatives and continue our rapid growth.”

Having started in 2000, the company now employs over 100 staff across Melbourne and Sydney and reported a record revenue of A$50 million for the 2009/2010 FY.

Thomas Duryea is the fastest growing IT infrastructure services company in the history of BRW Fast 100 List, achieving Top 20 recognition three years in a row.

The Deloitte Technology Fast 50 is a program that recognises and profiles technology companies that have achieved the fastest rates of annual revenue growth. The program ranks the 50 fastest-growing Australian technology companies, public or private, based on percentage revenue growth, and is part of the global Fast 500 program.

All Australian Technology Fast 50 winners have also made the final Technology Fast 500 Asia Pacific ranking. There are four winners in the Top 50, 10 winners in the Top 100 and 24 winners in the Top 200. Winners will be announced at the awards ceremony, which will take place in Hong Kong on December 10.

2009 – [13th] | 2008 – [2nd]

The Fast 100 represents the pinnacle of achievement for SMBs in Australia. This is our 3rd year on the list and one of only 2 companies within the top 10 to be listed again. Achieving rapid growth in the early stage of a business can be simple, but maintaining the pace over three years is another matter. TD have been able to maintain this growth by offering solutions that help their customers increase revenue, reduce costs, and reinvest in innovation. We simply position our clients to better serve their customers and consistently outperform their competitors.

The BRW Fast 100 ranks companies with up to 200 staff according to their average annual turnover growth over three years. This year we staved off a record number of entries to make it on to the list.

2009 – [7th] | 2008 – [6th] | 2007 – [18th]

• Our team culture
• Our involvement with numerous charities
• Our continual growth, despite the Global Financial Crisis
• A high level of customer service and our pursuit of technical excellence
• Enthusiasm to interact and engage with trusted advisors
• Our strong Vendor partnerships and strategic alliances (with the highest Vendor partner accreditations)

The award winner will be announced at a dinner held at the Sydney Hilton Hotel on Thursday September 24. Last year, 520 leading executives from all segments of the market attended the gala ceremony, making it one of the most significant industry events in 2008. This year, ARN are expecting nearly 600 to attend.

“We are honoured and proud to have won the Symantec Pacific ‘Growth Partner of the Year’ award”, says Andrew Thomas, CEO, Thomas Duryea. “It has been an exciting year for our company, one in which we achieved some significant milestones including a re-invigorated partnership with Symantec, who is a key strategic partner. Our relationship continues to strengthen and we see potential for significant opportunities in the future. We look forward to continuing to build on this partnership and to seeing additional wins in 2010.”

Thomas Duryea Consulting (TD), a leading infrastructure solutions and services company, today announced it has achieved Signature status in EMC Corporation’s Velocity Partner Program, the highest level for EMC channel partners. TD earned this top tier status through outstanding performance in helping customers deploy EMC’s leading information storage systems and software, as well as achieving the top level of EMC Proven Professional training and accreditation requirements for its sales representatives, engineers and managers.

“TD’s commitment to customers is well established and their expertise and success in developing solutions based on EMC’s leading technology has put them in the top tier of our Velocity channel partner program”, said David Henderson, ANZ General Manager, Partner and Alliances at EMC. “As one of our most valued channel partners, TD provides customers with comprehensive solutions that help lower costs and improve productivity by effectively managing information throughout its lifecycle.”

“The commitment we’ve made to our customers is to provide them with the very best data storage, protection and management solutions available today. Our high level of accreditations make us extremely well positioned to serve the requirements of the companies that need to leverage their investments maximising the use of their acquired technologies”, said Andrew Thomas, Chief Executive Officer, Thomas Duryea Consulting. “TD is thrilled to have achieved Velocity Signature status, and we believe this is a testament to the strategic, consultative approach we take with our customers.”

About Thomas Duryea Consulting

Thomas Duryea Consulting design, plan, implement and manage innovative, world class IT infrastructure solutions. We inspire change, enable growth and deliver secure, agile and dependable IT solutions. We help our customers increase revenue, reduce costs, and reinvest in innovation. We simply position our clients to better serve their customers and consistently outperform their competitors. Affectionately known as TD, we are a privately owned and operated Australian company serving customers throughout Asia Pacific.

TD’s specialties include: Data Centre Solutions | Enterprise Information Solutions | Systems Management | Information Worker Solutions | Managed Services | Business Consulting Services.

2008 VMware ‘Partner of the Year’ | 2008 BRW ‘Fast 100′ [6th place] | 2008 Deloitte ‘Technology Fast 50′ [2nd place] | 2008 BRW ANZ ‘Fastest Growing Private Business of the Year’ | 2007 VMware ‘Market Maker’ | 2007 BRW ‘Fast 100′ [18th place]

Now in its eighth year, the Fast 50 programme recognises fresh, innovative and inspiring local companies who have managed to sustain impressive growth during increasingly testing times.

Fast growing companies have constant challenges such as managing growth, retaining good people, avoiding extra compliance burdens and attracting finance to grow. This program will give Thomas Duryea extensive media profile, networking opportunities with other fast growing technology companies and access to industry experts who are shaping the new economy.

As a winner, TD automatically qualify for the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 Asia Pacific 2008 Program and if selected they will be recognised regionally for their excellence in growth.

TD received the award at Ingram Micro’s annual ceremony in Sydney last night. Success in this category is measured against the solution provider’s performance metrics for growth of new business opportunities; engagement with Ingram Micro Solutions specialised support structure; deployment of the wider Ingram Micro Solutions technology set; go-to-market strategy, execution, follow-through and repeated success.

Stuart Ellis, General Manager Enterprise Solutions for Ingram Micro said, “Thomas Duryea emerged in 2008 as a highly skilled partner across multi-vendor platforms. Their consistent engagement with the Ingram Micro Solutions team on a diverse mix of technologies reflects in the outstanding sales growth of 116% YOY and racing into our Top Ten in 2008. Their skill set and capability is ideally complimented by the Ingram Micro technology portfolio and support structure.”

Gartner recently ranked Virtualisation as the No. 1 strategic technology for next year. The interest in Virtualisation was echoed as over 2,000 IT professionals from around Australia and New Zealand attended Australia’s largest virtualisation industry event. The award is a mark of Thomas Duryea’s success as ANZ’s leading VMware Virtualisation Solution Provider.

Paul Harapin, Vice President & Managing Director (ANZ), VMware, noted, “VMware is proud to honour Thomas Duryea with this well deserved accolade. As one of our Premier Partners, Thomas Duryea is embracing VMware’s various Virtualisation solutions to create innovative and transformative solutions for their clients, providing the many benefits of Virtualisation, for both Desktop and Data Centre environments”.

Andrew Thomas, Chief Executive Officer, Thomas Duryea Consulting commented, “Our early adoption of VMware in 2005 transformed our business. By leveraging the functionality of VMware’s server virtualisation technologies, we have delivered to our customers the benefits of faster provisioning, higher availability, and lower cost than would be possible with conventional solutions, whilst also helping the environment by consuming less power and data centre space”.

Thomas Duryea’s VMware virtualisation solutions provide significant reduction in capital and operating expenses, for their customers. Over the past 3 years TD has partnered with hundreds of organisations to implement virtualisation solutions, consolidating approximately 6500 servers down to 650. This reduction has saved 73,125 tonnes of CO2 (which is equal to planting 321,750 trees or offsetting 16,250 car emissions). This has saved their customers
$29.25m in server hardware costs, plus $10m in server related power costs (not to mention additional costs in labour and data centre racks and real estate costs). For example, Wyndham City Council’s servers required upgrading and repair. Thomas Duryea’s solution included implementing a new SAN with VMware technology. After the completion of this project, Wyndham received five times the storage capacity and 30 times the processing power, with savings estimated at over A$800k.

Mr. Thomas continued, “This award from VMware and our other certifications and industry awards, are a great testament to the investments we continue to make in our people and our clients. Time and time again, it proves to differentiate Thomas Duryea and enable us to deliver a quality of service and solutions unmatched in the industry.”

Fresh from winning a place on the BRW fast 100 companies list and hot on the heels of taking out the BRW ANZ “Fastest Growing Private Business Award” Thomas Duryea Consulting today announced their expanded relationship with leading data management software company; CommVault.

Thomas Duryea Consulting (TD) is a privately owned Australian company providing IT infrastructure solutions, witnessing strong growth in their data centre solutions division with virtualisation services.

“CommVault Simpana software is an even more important product to us as we convert more of our customers to a virtualised data centre environment”, said Stan Sotiropoulos, National Practice Manager – Data Centre Solutions at TD.

TD have long partnered with VMware, providing Australian companies with the increased utilisation, consolidation and management of IT resources that virtualisation brings. “Virtualisation however goes hand in hand with the need for more storage, particularly in the form of a shared storage network or SAN that fully extracts the benefits of virtualisation”, said Stan. “We have recently been appointed a Platinum Partner by CommVault in recognition of our strong growth in sales over the last few years. CommVault gives us the full range of data protection tools we need to fully support our virtualisation practice.”

“We are delighted to see TD reach such a high standard of partnership with us”, said CommVault’s Victorian manager Andrew Fifield. “Platinum partnership recognises TD’s huge growth in business with us and their aggressive plans going forward. Platinum level gives TD more access to our support and training programs and a deeper understanding of our future directions.”

Consolidation and business continuance are driving companies like TD and their customers to rapidly adopt some of the hottest virtualisation technologies in the market with no signs of slowdown. Accelerated adoption is expected, as current virtualisation users indicate they plan to double the number of physical servers equipped for virtualisation and increase the number of virtual machines running on those servers by 150% over the next several years, according to Enterprise Strategy Group.

“Because of its Singular Information Management approach, CommVault Simpana software is helping customers of all sizes realise the benefits of virtualisation by enabling them to unify data management across both virtual and physical environments with a single console. Since Simpana software allows for a flexible IT infrastructure, our customers are able to immediately see ROI from the first moment they deploy the software suite”, said Stan.

“By implementing the Simpana software suite, customers today are already experiencing high availability benefits, as well as simplified management and protection of physical and virtual servers, optimised backup storage utilisation and reduced footprint in the backup/archive tier.”

Becoming a Microsoft Voice Specialised Partner enables Thomas Duryea Consulting to confidently deliver the complete spectrum of Microsoft Unified Communications solutions to our clients. TD has demonstrated a proven capability to design and deploy enterprise-class Microsoft voice telephony solutions and will boost our continued drive of the adoption of Microsoft Unified Communications within the mid market. This specialisation also gives Thomas Duryea exclusive access to technical resources within Microsoft and its partners to ensure a smooth and well engineered deployment and a seamless user experience. Enabling us to better serve our customers who are increasingly inquiring about Microsoft Unified Communications and require expert advice on how to realise the business benefits. This means Thomas Duryea becomes your end to end, preferred partner when architecting and deploying Microsoft Unified Communications, enabling better team collaboration and productivity throughout your organisation.

As part of our ‘eating our own dog food’ policy, at the beginning of September we completed our own internal Microsoft Unified Communications deployment. This consists of 10 servers and the full complement of all Office Communications Server 2007 Enterprise Edition roles and Exchange 2007 Unified Messaging. This also includes new hardware like IP and USB VoIP phones, webcams, Bluetooth headsets and includes a Microsoft RoundTable conferencing devices, enabling easier collaboration between teams and sites. We received congratulations from the top tier of Microsoft’s Unified Communications management in Australia, and have been very pleased with our smooth deployment and implementation.

Thomas Duryea is one of the 100 firms that will be listed in the 2008 BRW fast 100 issue (to be published 30th October 2009). The ranking of individual organisations will not be disclosed before the magazine is published. This comes as no surprise as only one week ago Thomas Duryea won the BRW ANZ ‘Fastest Growing Private Business of the Year Award’.

Fairfax’s Business Review Weekly magazine compiles the BRW Fast 100 annually to recognise the fastest-growing public and private small-to-medium enterprises in Australia. The list ranks companies from all sectors of Australian business with up to 200 staff according to the businesses’ average annual growth over the previous three years and looks at the young, dynamic people behind them and the secrets of their success. This list is described as the most comprehensive, engaging, and thought-provoking guide to this critically important sector.

Thomas Duryea was ranked 18th on the 2007 Fast 100.

Thomas Duryea Consulting (TD), an IT infrastructure solutions provider, today announced it has won the BRW ANZ ‘Fastest Growing Private Business of the Year Award’. The BRW Award recognises the major achievements of TD in the past year. TD’s growth stems from customer diversification and interstate expansion. During the last financial year TD acquired 150 new customers who demonstrated confidence in TD’s capabilities, increasing the average size of each opportunity more than eleven times, from $15,000 (for FY2007) to $168,500 (for FY2008).

Founded in Melbourne, TD has opened offices in Sydney and Brisbane while relocating its headquarters to a larger Melbourne office to accommodate its triple staff expansion of more than 80.

TD’s portfolio has grown to specialise in ‘Systems Management’, ‘Enterprise Information Solutions’, ‘Data Centre Solutions’ and ’Business Consulting Services’. In 2008 TD introduced an ‘Information Worker Solutions’ practice, focusing on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server solutions and a ‘Managed Services’ practice.

Andrew Thomas, chief executive officer, Thomas Duryea Consulting, said, “Securing 150 new customers in the past year is testament to the dedication we have at Thomas Duryea to shape solutions that deliver results for our customers.”

“To facilitate our growth we hired 50 people in 40 weeks over the past financial year. The key challenge is to grow without losing our core values of technical excellence.”

“We have been successful because each individual at Thomas Duryea shares our vision, passion and drive for technical excellence. These values have a direct impact on our customers’ success and our customer satisfaction.”

In eight years of operation Thomas Duryea has:

• consolidated approximately 6,500 servers to 650 saving 73,125 tonnes of CO2 (equal to planting 321,750 trees or offsetting 16,250 car emissions)
• saved its customers $29.25m in server hardware costs
• saved its customers $10m in server related power costs
• saved additional costs in labour, data centre racks and real estate.

TD was also a finalist for the BRW ANZ ‘Most Successful Private Business of the Year Award’.

The Thomas Duryea team extends beyond in-house staff to include its vendor partners like VMware, Microsoft, NetApp, EMC and HP who support them.

The BRW ANZ Private Business Awards were open to all private companies operating in Australia.

This new HP Channel Partner accreditation is the highest accolade a HP Channel Partner can receive, and reflects Thomas Duryea’s support and commitment to HP. The HP Premier Business Partner accreditation is an invitation based program. This accolade recognises Thomas Duryea’s expertise and impact in the technology marketplace. As a Premier Business Partner, Thomas Duryea has demonstrated expertise with HP solutions and a proven ability to meet customers’ needs.

HP Premier Business Partners receive a rich set of benefits, including access, training and support, giving them a competitive advantage in the channel.Thomas Duryea Consulting (TD) is an IT infrastructure solutions company, founded in 2000 by Andrew Thomas, Evan Duryea, David Stagg and Micah Smith. TD focuses on 5 practices: ‘Data Centre Solutions’, ‘Systems Management’ and ‘Enterprise Information Solutions’, ‘Business Consulting Services’ and ‘Managed Services’, as well as procurement.

TD has experienced rapid growth, averaging 300% per annum. During this time, TD opened offices in Sydney and Brisbane and relocated their Melbourne office to a larger premise, to accommodate over 70 staff. TD has grown organically, through customer referral; originally spreading through local councils such as Wyndham, Boroondara and Manningham, before their success in the enterprise space. TD was an early adopter of VMware’s virtualisation technology, which has lead to great successes for their clients.

“We are extremely pleased to have attained HP Premier Partner status in the HP Channel Partner Program. This accreditation recognises a successful partnership to date, and paves the way for a closer strategic alignment that will continue to deliver greater value to our clients”, said Andrew Thomas, CEO. “The benefits provided through our Premier Business Partner status will allow us to continue to enhance the service-centric offerings that we provide for customers.”

“The Premier Enterprise level is designed to recognise resellers investing in VMware expertise at the highest levels”, said David Blackman, Director, Partner Organisation, VMware Australia and New Zealand. “It is awarded to Partners who have made a commitment to invest in the VMware virtualization partnership through dedicated technical, sales and support resources, and have demonstrated this consistently over time. Through this association, VMware rewards these Partners with the highest level of support and benefits.”

Last year Thomas Duryea was awarded the title of ‘VMware Market Maker of the Year’ for the ANZ region. “Along with their significant sales achievements, Thomas Duryea’s strong technical understanding of VMware’s virtualization technology and their investment in VMware Certified Professionals Program, positions them as one of the leaders in the provision of virtualization services and solutions in the local market”, Blackman said.

Stan Sotiropoulos, Practice Manager of Data Centre Solutions, Thomas Duryea Consulting, said “To gain this level of recognition, we have maintained a focus on training and certification, and continued to deliver quality VMware engagements throughout Australia. Achieving Premier Partner Status is a welcome acknowledgement of the investment we have made in VMware virtualization products and technologies. Thomas Duryea aims to have the highest level of accreditation possible with selected vendor partners.”

Sotiropoulos said, “The VMware VIP reseller program is different from other programs in that it emphasizes technical qualifications, not quotas. It was well worth the investment, which includes having over one quarter of all Thomas Duryea’s technical staff certified on VMware virtualization products. There are additional marketing opportunities, access to their IP, and the same support tools as the internal technical people at VMware.”

Being recognised as a Premier Partner with VMware in Australia, will provide customers with greater confidence of Thomas Duryea’s technical knowledge and service excellence in the virtualization market.

“When we combine this with our certifications in the storage and data management segments, customers can have an unparalleled degree of confidence in the skills Thomas Duryea bring to help customers create the most appropriate technology solution for their environment”, Sotiropoulos said.

Gartner predicts that the total number of virtual machines deployed globally is expected to grow from 540,000 at the end of 2006 to more than 4 million by 2009. “And VMware’s virtualization technology is the foundation of our virtual practise for services and solution to take advantage of this opportunity. Many of our customers are focussed on delivering virtualized solutions into their organisations, and virtualization continues to be a key growth area for our business”, said Sotiropoulos.

“We are seeing customers who virtualize their IT infrastructure achieve Return on Investment (ROI) in as little as seven months. The savings across both budget and resourcing that virtualization enables, through improved management of servers and IT infrastructure, also complements the growing demand for ‘green’ computing solutions in Australia. Becoming a Premier Partner with VMware will enable Thomas Duryea to meet these market opportunities with the most robust resources and skills available.”

As of December 10 2007, the Thomas Duryea Consulting Melbourne office has relocated to:

79-81 Coppin Street
Richmond VIC 3121

Our phone and fax numbers will not change.

Switch: (03) 8420 0100
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