
Australia, Feb 9, 2025
Melbourne, Australia – 10 February 2024: Logicalis Australia, a leading provider of global IT solutions and managed services, has announced that it has joined Red Hat Partner Practice Accelerator, a specialised growth pathway for select partners with validated professional services delivery capabilities. This milestone reinforces Logicalis Australia’s position as a trusted provider capable of delivering comprehensive solutions using Red Hat technologies, particularly in the automation domain through Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. Logicalis Australia’s elevated status highlights years of dedication and collaboration with Red Hat to enhance professional services capabilities for Australian businesses.
Red Hat Partner Practice Accelerator is a focused growth route that enables partners with proven professional services skills to play a leading role at each stage of the customer journey and provide impactful results for customers using industry-leading solutions, like Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and Red Hat OpenShift. Red Hat assesses participating partners’ readiness to deliver critical services and solutions related to automation and application modernisation, validating that partners are able to successfully architect, implement, and configure tailored solutions for commercial customers.
Baden Graco, head of transformation services, Logicalis Australia, said, “Joining Red Hat Partner Practice Accelerator is a proud moment for Logicalis Australia. This achievement reflects the company’s ongoing commitment to empowering businesses with advanced automation solutions that address their operational challenges and enhance their efficiency. Logicalis Australia’s ongoing collaboration with Red Hat builds on a mutual dedication to delivering exceptional outcomes for customers, leveraging the strengths of industry-leading technologies.”
Logicalis Australia has shared a working relationship with Red Hat for over four years, having previously been recognised by the business with its 2023 Commercial Partner of the Year and 2023 Advanced Partner of the Year awards as part of the 2023 Red Hat Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) Partner Awards. Logicalis Australia’s recognition within Red Hat Partner Practice Accelerator is the culmination of a multi-year effort involving extensive upskilling, solution-building, and the successful implementation of automation solutions with customers.
Garry Gray, senior director and head of ecosystem, ANZ, Red Hat, said, “Red Hat Partner Practice Accelerator focuses on identifying, enabling, validating, and incentivising partners within the commercial segment to support mid-market and small and medium business (SMB) customers. Logicalis Australia has demonstrated highly advanced professional services capabilities and customer success, reflecting their unwavering commitment to driving automation and efficiency across industries using Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. Red Hat is pleased to collaborate with Logicalis Australia as part of Red Hat Partner Practice Accelerator to help customers achieve better business outcomes through automation.”
A significant contributing factor to this milestone has been the support of Logicalis Australia’s Asia Pacific (APAC) merger, which integrates expertise from iZeno, a Logicalis-owned company with a strong presence in Singapore. This collaboration has accelerated Logicalis Australia’s journey to join Red Hat Partner Practice Accelerator, providing the local market with access to proven expertise and capabilities on a global and regional level.
Baden Graco said, “Logicalis Australia’s collaboration with Red Hat has grown from strength to strength over the years. Joining Red Hat Partner Practice Accelerator positions Logicalis Australia to deliver tailored professional services for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, as well as continue to deliver services more broadly across APAC through its Singapore-based subsidiary, iZeno. Customers can now rely on Logicalis Australia as a trusted local provider, backed by global expertise, to achieve a more seamless path to operational excellence. This achievement represents the next phase of a working relationship committed to empowering businesses to succeed in a digital-first world.”
This milestone reflects Logicalis Australia’s long-term investment in team training, certification, and innovation. Logicalis Australia is now positioned to deliver end-to-end Red Hat professional services for automation, reinforcing its role as a provider of IT solutions and managed services.
About Logicalis:
We are Architects of Change™. We help organisations succeed in a digital-first world. At Logicalis, we harness our collective technology expertise to help our clients build a blueprint for success, so they can deliver sustainable outcomes that matter.
Our lifecycle services across cloud, connectivity, collaboration and security are designed to help optimise operations, reduce risk and empower employees.
As a global technology service provider, we deliver next-generation digital managed services, to provide our clients with real-time visibility and actionable insights across the performance of their digital ecosystem including; reliability, user experience, security, economic performance, and sustainability.
Our 7000+ ‘Architects of Change’ are based in 30 territories around the globe, helping our 10,000+ clients across a range of industry sectors, create sustainable outcomes through technology.
Logicalis has annualised revenues of $1.8 billion, from operations in Europe, North America, Latin America, Asia Pacific, and Africa. It is a division of Datatec Limited, listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, with revenues of over $5.5 billion.