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Judy Gray
Chris Ching

hris Ching has been recognised for the
ecently the winners of the HPE Women’s Cimplementation of the newest non-stop system
RExcellence Award were announced. into Paymark Auckland.

Nominations had to show how the nominee:
Chris came fresh from training and worked alongside
• has demonstrated the ability to build partnerships the customer (literally, as the customer went to the
inside and outside of HPE by demonstrating training as well) to get this implemented.
leadership in their organization and also as an
Employee Recognition active contributor in the community through A great demonstration of collaboration with our
customer.
volunteer work or other activities.

• is a person who looks for opportunities to think
Visit MyRecognition@hpe to show • ahead, stay agile and look for daily achievements.

has implemented a visionary concept that
appreciation for a colleague inspired others to reach new levels of

achievements by creating a work environment
where everybody wants to do their best. Joe Berger

Judy Gray from SP GSD was nominated for her work Celebrating Service:
with the TSMC and her volunteering work in the
community, and was a finalist in the awards. Joe Berger, NZ Field Engineer
celebrating 30 years of service on
Shayna Bryers | Atsushi Hasegawa | John Edwards Congratulations Judy! 1 June 2017.

ietmar Goetz, NSW Field Delivery Manager, recognized the excellent collaboration and team work of Shayna
DBryers, Atsushi Hasegawa and John Edwards.
Atsushi noticed that Vodafone had cases where the tape cartridge stuck on the tape drive. He noticed that someone
at the customer site was putting the sticker on top of the tape cartridge and despite reporting it to the tape librarian Anthony Martin | Jason Lee | Jeong-Ki Kim
he continued to get cases with this situation. So he escalated to his manager as he felt it was unsupported.
John Edwards was able to find the advisory note which gave clear evidence of a documented issue. nthony Martin and Jason Lee (New Zealand Field Services) recently worked with Jeong-Ki Kim (Tech Consultant,
AAustralia) on the first Synergy implementation in New Zealand for cloud infrastructure and applications solution
Shayna, as ADM for Vodafone, raised the issue with the customer. This collaboration and teamwork has clear benefits:
vGRID. The team worked long hours over the week and weekend to ensure the solution was up and running on time
1. Less field cases required, decreasing the load on both backline and frontline teams for the customer launch.
2. Better service to other customers, who may be impacted by additional workload caused at VHA
3. VHA who will experience improved reliability of their tape backups due a reduction of dropped or stuck tapes. Read more about it here
HPE Synergy Outpaces Cisco UCS
When we work and collaborate as one team we all win.
1. Vodafone In a competitive evaluation, HPE Synergy comes out on top of Cisco UCS with notable advantages: enhanced speed,
2. Other customers - as freed up resource can support other customers better efficiency, and a unified management experience.
3. The CE’s, more meaningful work, and fewer call out in the middle of the night to a “failed tape library” Read the White Paper
4. The ADM as trusted and valuable advisor
5. HPE by achieving more for our customers with less investment of valuable resources