Shortlist confirmed for 2013 DCS Awards

With a record number of entries, this year’s Datacentre Solutions (DCS) awards are going to be closely fought indeed. Online voting opened on 8th April so if you want to influence the results or vote for your favourite supplier please visit the website before 9th May at www.dcsawards.com

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The DCS Awards are designed to recognise the products, projects and services as well as honour companies and teams operating in data centre arena. The awards reflect the achievements of end-users, channel partners, hosting companies and vendors alike and the range of categories provided many options for organisations involved in the IT industry to participate. At the end of March a judging panel from Angel Business Communications validated all the entries and have announced those that have been forwarded for the online voting. After reviewing the record number of entries the judges have increased the number of categories in the 2013 awards to 19 categories across three main groups. The technology awards were open to products and solutions that have been available since 1st September 2012 while the end-user projects entered must have been implemented between 1st January and 31st December 2012.

For the end-user awards, prizes will be made to the end-user themselves and either the nominating vendor or supplier instrumental in delivering the project. The winners will be announced at a gala evening event on the 23rd May at the Millennium Gloucester Hotel in central London.

SHORTLIST
Get your votes in before 9th May at www.dcsawards.com

END USER AWARDS
Green Datacentre Project of the Year
£ Bellevue Datacentre supported by Sudlows
£ ViaWest supported by Swanson Rink
£ LHC Docklands Data Centre supported by Telstra Global
£ Corke Internet Exchange supported by ICS Cool Energy Ltd

Private Cloud Project of the Year
£ KM Group supported by Britannic Technologies
£ Garwyn Group supported by EMC Group
£ Freestyle Interactive supported by Six Degrees Group
£ Lush Fresh Handmade Cosmetics supported by Memset
£ Advantive supported by Interoute
£ Thompson & Brown supported by Rise
£ Greenbyte.ch supported by CloudSigma

Public Cloud Project of the Year
Sponsored by

£ Energy Savings Trust supported by CohesiveFT
£ Berenschot supported by Zerto
£ Gobierno de Extremadura supported by Telefónica
£ Tastecrd supported by Memset
£ G-Cloud Programme supported by Skyscape

Private Sector Project of the Year
£ Bellevue Datacentre supported by Sudlows
£ United Drug supported by Silver Peak Systems
£ iomart Group supported by Geo Networks
£ AIMES Grid Services supported by Keysource

Public Sector Project of the Year
£ NHS Airdale Bradford and Leeds supported by Schneider Electric
£ Surrey County Council supported by Comms Room Services
£ Department of HM Government supported by Norland Managed
Services
£ Partick Housing Association supported by Castle Computer
Services
TECHNOLOGY AWARDS
Datacentre Appliance Product of the Year
£ IO Offload Engine by GreenBytes
£ Exadata Database Machine X3-2 by Oracle
£ Catalog Engine by Index Engines
£ Syncro Shared Storage Architecture by LSI
£ Bridgeworks products
£ STAC VDI by Pivot3
£ Visual TruView by Fluke Networks
£ Copy Data Storage Solutions by Actifio

Datacentre Energy & Efficiency Product of the Year

Sponsored by

£ Power IQ Energy Management Software by Raritan
£ The Boston Viridis by Boston Ltd
£ AegisSAN 500 Series by Qsan Technologies
£ Energy Efficient Data Centre Architecture solution by NextiraOne
£ Trinergy by Emerson Network Power
£ MultiSensor-RACK by Kentix GmbH
£ EnergySwitch PDU by Racktivity
£ FabricCache by QLogic
£ Premium DataCentre Solutions by RF Code

Datacentre Facility Product of the Year
£ The Boston Viridis by Boston Ltd
£ Extended Power System EPS-10 by PnuPower
£ Reduction Fire Prevention System by Isolcell Italia
£ Power and Cooling Facility Modules by Schneider Electric
£ AC² Sensor by Racktivity
£ The Corning Pretium EDGE by Corning Cable Systems
£ Wi-Fi data center solution by Raritan
£ Green Modular Datacentre Solutions by Automation NV and on365

Datacentre Storage Software Product of the Year
£ iSCSI SAN & NAS by StarWind Software
£ DSS v7 by Open-E
£ NovaBACKUP DataCenter by NovaStor
£ GridBank by Tarmin
£ Nytro XD Application by LSI
£ Recover Trac 2.6 by FalconStor Software
£ Backup & Replication by Veeam Software
£ Ceph Unified Distributed Storage System by Inktank
£ Caringo products
£ RING by Scality
£ Cloud Backup v12 by Asigra
£ Backup 6.2 CloudHook™ technology by PHD Virtual
£ EVault 7 by EVault
£ Heartbeat Failover Engine by Neverfail Group
£ SANsymphony-V by DataCore Software

Datacentre Management Product of the Year
£ Net-Gate by iTAnalyzer
£ Cloud/SaaS SRM by Sentinel Navigator CSP
£ DeeCee by yandree GmbH
£ StorageConsole by APTARE
£ 7th generation of datacentre solutions by Nlyte Software
£ StruxureWare Data Center Operation for Co-location by
Schneider Electric
£ Wizards Storage Portal by Debriefing Software
£ Virtual Data Centre Management Platform by Abiquo
£ OneCommand Vision by Emulex
£ WhatsUp Gold/WhatsUp Application Performance Monitor by
Ipswitch Network Management Division
£ Cellwatch Battery Monitoring by NDSL Group Ltd
£ IPcenter V3 by IPsoft

SSD/Flash Product of the Year
£ INVICTA all-Flash storage array by WHIPTAIL
£ Skyhawk Enterprise Solid-State Storage System by Skyera
£ 2TB s840 SAS SSD and 2TB s1120 PCIe Accelerator SSD by sTec
£ 6000 Series Memory Arrays by Violin Memory
£ Gemini Flash Memory Arrays by Nimbus Data Systems
£ Hyper-ISE by X-IO

Datacentre Networking Product of the Year
£ LightPulse LPe16000B-series 16Gb Fibre Channel Host Bus
Adapter by Emulex
£ Velocity Replication Acceleration by Silver Peak Systems
£ GS-Series switch products by Gnodal
£ NetXtreme Ethernet Solutions by Broadcom Corporation
£ Visibility Fabric by Gigamon
£ SDN Orchestration by Ecode Networks
£ VirtualWisdom platform by Virtual Instruments
£ Transmode’s TM series by Transmode Systems
£ FabricCache by QLogic
£ ROADM network by Vtesse
£ VDX Switch family with VCS Fabric Technology by Brocade
£ ARM Datacentre Build out by Network Instruments

Datacentre Power & Cooling Product of the Year
£ Compressed Air UPS System by PnuPower
£ Diesel Defence Systems by IPU Group
£ Sentry Power Manager by Server Technology
£ IEC C13 and C19 power receptacles by Burland Technology
Solutions
£ Liebert® PCW by Emerson Network Power
£ Facility Power Module by Schneider Electric
£ The InRak™ by Airedale International Air Conditioning Ltd
£ 300kW VDC-XE with High Capacity (HC) option by VYCON
£ Data Centre Cooling Unit by Excool
£ PDU by Enlogic

Datacentre Software Product of the Year
£ DocAve Connector by AvePoint
£ Entando Platform by Entando
£ Stratus® Avance® Software by Stratus Avance Technologies GmbH
£ Operations Manager by VMTurbo
£ Cloud Orchestrator by Flexiant
£ Database Virtualisation by Delphix
£ xStream 2.0 by Virtustream
£ UNIQUE Business for SaaS by PCS AG
£ Streamworks by arvato Systems
£ Puppet Enterprise by Puppet Labs
£ OnApp Cloud v3.0 by OnApp

Datacentre Hardware Product of the Year
£ FXT Series Edge filers by Avere Systems
£ FabricCache by QLogic
£ PowerEdge R820 by Dell
£ SnapScale x2 by Overland Storage
£ AssuredSANTM Pro 5000 Series by Dot Hill
£ VM-aware storage platform by Tintri
£ ActiveStor 14 by Panasas
£ ioScale by Fusion –io
£ Intelligent Storage Element by X-IO
£ Marvell® DragonFly™ Accelerators by Marvell Semiconductor
£ Spectra® T-Finity by Spectra Logic

CHANNEL AWARDS
Reseller of the Year
Sponsored by

£ Source
£ S3
£ Britannic Technologies
£ Rise

Service/Hosting Provider of the Year