The 2014 edition of the SVC (Storage, Virtualization and Cloud) Awards took place in late November in London. The awards recognise the achievements of end-users, channel partners and vendors alike, operating in the cloud, virtualization and storage sectors. The awards cover the products and solutions themselves as well as the deployment in the real-world and those people who make it happen, and are made, based solely on the votes of the readership of the Angel stable of print and online .
This year’s SVC Awards sponsors included Pulsant, X-IO and Touchdown PR, who contributed significantly to the success of the event, seeing the value in being associated with one of the IT industry’s leading, specialist awards events. Indeed, the pedigree of the SVC Awards is such that the list of previous winners reads like a Who’s Who of the Storage, Virtualization and Cloud industries, and Angel Business Communications is proud to continue to recognise the established players and the newer market entrants in these key IT industry sectors that contribute so much to the technology developments crucial to help enterprise customers not just survive, but thrive in today’s tough economic climate.
Angel Business Communications’ MD, Bill Dunlop, explains: “Angel Business Communications has a rich history of launching magazines and events ‘ahead of the curve’ in the fast-moving IT industry. We focused on the storage networking market in Europe long before anyone else, added a virtualisation focus as this technology was in its infancy and, more recently, we were one of the first media organisations to recognise the unstoppable momentum of the Cloud. I’m delighted that the SVC Awards continue to receive such strong industry support, as an important part of our DCS Europe publication and events portfolio, and I look forward to celebrating with the successful companies at the awards evening.”
Attendees at the gala award evening, which took place at London’s prestigious Montcalm Hotel, were treated to a great evening, courtesy of some high quality food, equally high quality entertainment provided throughout the evening (featuring an interactive drumming session and an ‘after hours’ dance band) and, of course, the awards ceremony itself.
Details of the award winners follows, as well as a plenty of photographic ‘evidence’ of the memorable evening.
STORAGE PROJECT OF THE YEAR
This award is sponsored by: X-IO
Award presented by: Steve Ashurst, XIO’s Director of Sales
Runner up: Morecombe Bay NHS Trust supported by NexStor
WINNER: College of North West London supported by Dell
Collecting: Garod Barker, Head of IT, College of NW London and Leigh Huntridge from Dell Storage
VIRTUALISATION PROJECT OF THE YEAR
Sponsored by: Axess Systems
Award presented by: Ed Morton, Axcess Systems Founder and CEO
Runner up: Symphony Group supported by Silver Peak
WINNER: NATS supported by Point to Point
Collecting: Gareth Robins, Head of Information Solution at NATS
CLOUD PROJECT OF THE YEAR
Award presented by: Jason Holloway, Director of IT Publishing at Angel
Runner up: Global IT Datacentre of the addidas Group
WINNER: BESTIVAL supported by Six Degrees Group
Collecting: Brian Packer, Technical Director of Six Degrees Group
COLOCATION SERVICES OFFERING OF THE YEAR
Presented by: Agnes Kucharska, Business Development Executive on Datacentre Solutions
Runner up: LDeX Group
Winner: Pulsant
Collecting: Chris Shields, Regional Sales Director for Scotland
CHANNEL PROVIDER OF THE YEAR
Presented by: Peter Davies, Business Development Executive, Datacentre Solutions
Runner-up: Axess Systems
Winner: Databarracks
Collecting: James Watts, Head of Marketing
VENDOR RESELLER CHANNEL PROGRAM OF THE YEAR
Presenting: Bill Dunlop, CEO of Angel BCL
Runner up: Cohesive FT
Winner: Quantum
Collecting: Chris Bowring, Channel Director Northern Europe
BACKUP & RECOVERY / ARCHIVE Product of the Year
Award presented by: Phil Alsop, Editor of Datacentre Solutions
Runner up: CommVault
WINNER: Veeam
Collecting: Tim Malin, Sales Manager
SSD/Flash Storage Product of the Year
Sponsored by Touchdown PR
Award presented by: James Carter Managing Director at Touchdown
Runner up: Nimble Storage
WINNER: Violin Memory
Collecting: Michael Bradley, Managing Director EMEA
STORAGE MANAGEMENT Product of the Year
Award presented by: Jason Holloway from Angel
Runner up: SanDisk
WINNER: Nexenta Systems
Collecting: Mark Jordan, VP and GM EMEA together with Neil Stobart EMEA SE Director and SE Gijsbert Jansesen Van Doorn
BIG DATA STORAGE PRODUCT OF THE YEAR
Sponsored by: Pulsant
Award presented by: Ben Tuckwell, Director of Client Management from Pulsant
Runner up: Joyent
WINNER: Tarmin
Collecting: Shabaz Ali, President and CEO
CLOUD STORAGE PRODUCT OF THE YEAR
Award presented by: Mr William Dunlop-Uprichard aka Bill Dunlop
Runner up: AirWatch by VMware
WINNER: CTERA
Collecting: Terry Schoen, Sales Director UK & Ireland
STORAGE COMPANY OF THE YEAR
Sponsored by Scale Computing
Award presented by: Simon Marion, EMEA Sales Manager
Runner up: Nexenta
WINNER: Tegile Systems
Collecting: Paul Silver, Vice President EMEA
Virtualisation Desktop Infrastructure AKA VDI Product of the Year
Sponsored by: Point to Point
Award presented by: Jason Holloway representing PTP
Runner up: Apsense
WINNER: X-IO
Collecting: Gavin McLaughlin, VP Worldwide Marketing
STORAGE VIRTUALISATION Product of the Year
Sponsored by: Exagrid Systems
Award presented by: Graham Woods, VP of Systems Engineering
Runner up: StarWind Software
WINNER: ZERTO
Collecting: Peter Godden, VP EMEA
NETWORK VIRTUALISATION Product of the Year
Award presented by: Peter Davis joins us once more form Angel to announce the winner
Winner: Anuta Networks
Runner up: Pluribus Networks
Collecting: (on Pluribus’ behalf) Peter Davies, Business Development Executive, Datacentre Solutions
VIRTUALISATION MANAGEMENT Product of the Year
Presented by: Philip Alsop
Runner-up: Solarwinds
Winner: GIGAMON
Collecting: Trevor Dearing, EMEA Marketing Director
VIRTUALISATION COMPANY Product of the Year
Award presented by: The person most responsible for getting you all to part with your precious company funds in order to be here tonight Agnes Kucharska ka ka ka
Runner up: X-IO
WINNER: Scale Computing
Collecting: Back this time to receive rather than to give please welcome Simon Marion EMEA Sales Manager who is joined by Ian Smith, EMEA Technical Manager and Luke Howard, Account Executive
Infrastructure as a Service Solution of the Year
Award presented by: Once more please welcome Peter Davies from Angel BCL
Runner up: CloudSigma
WINNER: Google
Collecting: Peter it must be something you have said or the aftershave you are wearing as Google are not here to collect so add it to your collection and we’ll move on to the next award
Software as a Service Solution of the Year
Sponsored by Navisite.
Award presented by: Sean McAvan, Managing Director
Runner up: Silver Peak
WINNER: Outsourcery
Collecting: Rob Pope, Head of Business Development
Platform as a Service Solution of the Year
Award presented by: Mr. Philip Alsop
Runner up: Fujitsu
WINNER: Carrenza
Collecting: Dan Sutherland, CEO
CLOUD SECURITY Product of the Year
Award presented by: Mr Jason Holloway
Runner up: Cohesive FT
WINNER: Blancco UK
Collecting: Ben Jones, Business Development Manager
CLOUD COMPANY OF THE YEAR
Award presented by: back for the last time tonight please welcome Phil Alsop of Angel to tell us who the winner is
Runner up: Nutanix
WINNER: NaviSite Europe
Collecting: to receive the award please welcome Liz Harding, Marketing Director at Navisite
SVC Industry Award
Each year Angel likes to recognise a significant contribution to or outstanding achievement in the industry – this award is not voted for by the readers of the publications but based on the publisher’s and editorial staff’s opinions.
Here to announce the 2014 winner for the last time tonight –welcome back Jason Holloway, Director of IT Publishing at Angel Business Communications.
DCS Industry Award – DOT HILL
Here to collect the award is: Warren Reid, Marketing Director, EMEA
Angel Business Communications Ltd would like to recognise Dot Hill’s achievement of celebrating THIRTY YEARS at the heart of the storage industry and having deployed more than 500,000 storage systems worldwide storing, sharing, protecting and managing data for organisations around the globe – Angel and the SVC team are proud to make them the recipient of this year’s SVC industry award.
