By Prince Osuagwu

PREMIER  connectivity and data center solutions company, MainOne, has won the Microsoft Country Manager’s Partner of the Year (POY) Award for Nigeria, during the Microsoft Partner Network Awards held in Lagos recently.

The company beat other nominees to clinch the award at a Gala Dinner organized to celebrate Microsoft partners that have demonstrated excellence leveraging Microsoft technology over the fiscal year.

The Country Manager POYaward recognizes a Partner that was fully aligned to Microsoft’s priorities during the 2016 financial year and has over achieved in one or more of the transformational pillars of Microsoft: Personal Computing, Intelligent Cloud and Reinventing productivity.

Director, Small Midmarket Solutions & Partners, Microsoft Nigeria, Oluwawemimo Adeniyi  said: “We are pleased to recognize MainOne as this year’s Winner of Microsoft Country Manager’s Partner of the Year award. MainOne is a classic example of the excellent resource we see in our Microsoft partner ecosystem to deliver innovative and transformative solutions to our mutual customers.”

In his comments while receiving the award, MainOne’s Chief Information Security Officer, Chidinma Iwe, said “We’re honoured to be recognized by Microsoft as Country Partner of the Year. Since January 2015, when we launched our Tier III data center, we have worked with Microsoft to provide cloud-based solutions to our customers.

This award cannot have come at a more opportune time than this, as it demonstrates the value we bring to our customers by helping them improve organizational efficiency at competitive costs during these challenging times” she added.