DCS Awards celebrate industry success stories

Excellent food and excellent comedy (planned, courtesy of Romesh Ranganathan!) got the evening off to a great start, leading up to the awards ceremony.
There were 23 awards to hand over in total, as follows:

DCS Facilities Awards

Datacentre Power & Cooling Product of the Year
Sponsored by: Datacentre World
Award presented by: John Duggan of CloserStill Media who recently acquired Powering the Cloud from Angel BCL
Runner up: SmartCool CW SD/SN/SR by Airedale International Air Cooling Ltd
WINNER: EnPowered PDU by ENLOGIC

Datacentre Infrastructure Management (DCIM) Product of the Year – title was too long to fit on the slide !!
Sponsored by: Whitespider
Award presented by: Phill Lees, CTO at WhiteSpider
Runner up: DCIM by FieldView Solutions
WINNER: StruxureWare by Schneider Electric

Datacentre Design / Build of the Year
Sponsored by: G4
Award presented by: G4 Managing Director John Grover
Runner up: Host Europe Group
WINNER: Colt Technology Services

Datacentre Hosting/Colocation Supplier of the Year
Sponsored by: Enlogic
Award presented by: Eddie Desouza, Global Marketing & Communications Director at Enlogic who we saw early collecting
An award so he knows the drill.
Runner up: ServerSpace
WINNER: NaviSite

Datacentre Energy Efficiency Product of the Year
Sponsored by Pulsant
Award presented by: John Wordley, Pulsant’s Head of Enterprise Sales
Runner up: Iceotope's liquid cooling system
WINNER: The SmartCool™ by Airedale International Air Conditioning

Datacentre Management Product of the Year
Award presented by: Jason Holloway, Director of IT Publishing at Angel Business Communications
Runner up: Belden® PatchPro® by Belden
WINNER: Sentry Power Manager (SPM) by Server Technology Inc.

Datacentre Fire/Safety/Lighting Product of the Year
Sponsored by: Schneider Electric
Award presented by: Dale Wrangles, VP at Schneider Electric
Runner up: Active Roof by Dataracks
WINNER: 3M Novec™ 1230 Fire Protection Fluid by Kidde Fire Protection

Datacentre Cabling Product of the Year
Sponsored by: Workspace Technology
Award presented by: Adrian Dewick, Senior Technical Sales Manager at Workspace Technology.
Runner up: Cat7A S/FTP by Datwyler (iDaC Solutions Ltd)
WINNER: Corning Pretium EDGE® Advanced Optics (AO) by Corning Optical Communications

Datacentre Cabinets/Racking Product of the Year
Runner up: "Flat-Pack" Systems by Retex UK
WINNER: ECO Rack by Dataracks

Datacentre ICT Awards

Datacentre ICT Application Product of the Year
Award presented by: Bill Dunlop, CEO of Angel Business Communications
Runner up: EndaceVision ™ Network Visibility Software by Emulex
WINNER: ION Accelerator by Fusion-io

Datacentre Server Product of the Year
Award presented by: Jason Holloway, Director of IT Publishing at Angel Business Communications
Runner up: Tormenta MegaCore Bladesystem by Rausch Netzwerktechnik
WINNER: PowerEdge VRTX by Dell

Datacentre Storage Software Product of the Year
Sponsored by Source
Award presented by: Tim Meiklejohn of Source
Runner up: PernixData FVP™ by PernixData
WINNER: 3.0 Purity Operating Environment software by Pure Storage

Datacentre ICT Storage Hardware Product of the Year
Award presented by: Phil Alsop, Editor Data Centre Solutions magazine
Runner up: ISE 700 series hybrid storage arrays by X-IO Technologies
WINNER: BigFoot Storage Object platform by Rausch Netzwerktechnik

Datacenter ICT Security Product of the Year
Sponsored by Touchdown PR
Award presented by: James Carter, Managing Director at Touchdown PR
Runner up: HiCrypt™ by digitronic computersysteme
WINNER: Blancco Data Center Solutions by Blancco UK

Datacentre ICT Management Product of the Year
Sponsored by: Adapt
Award presented by: Steven Alford, Business Development Manager at Adapt
Runner up: Advantage Engine® by Xtravirt
WINNER: What's Up Gold by Ipswitch

Datacentre Networking Product of the Year
Sponsored by Vtesse
Award presented by: Vtesse Chairman Aidan Paul
Runner up: The Traffic Visibility Fabric by Gigamon
WINNER: VNS3 by CohesiveFT

Channel Awards

VAR / Systems Integrator of the Year

Sponsored by Source
Presented by: Source Director Madeline Bard
Runner up: Xtravirt
Winner: S3

Managed Services Provider of the Year
Sponsored by: Dataracks
Presented by: Jeremy Hartley, Managing Director of Dataracks
Runner-up: UKFast
Winner: Claranet

Vendor Channel Program of the Year
Sponsored by: Navisite
Runner up: Outsourcery
Winner: Veeam

Individual Companies Awards

Datacentre Facilities Company of the Year
Sponsored by the Datacentre Alliance
Award presented by: DCA founder and Executive Director Simon Campbell-Whyte
Runner up: Kidde Fire Protection
Winner: Sudlows

Datacentre ICT Company of the Year
Sponsored by: Rausch Netzwerktechnik
Presented by: Sebastian Noelting, CEO of Rausch Netzwerktechnik
Runner-up: Fusion-io
Winner: Virtual Instruments

Data Centre Company of the Year
Sponsored by: Egenera
Runner up: C4L
Winner: WhiteSpider

The DCS 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.
DCS Industry Award – TARMIN

Full details of the DCS Awards, including plenty of pictorial highlights, will appear in the June issue of DCS Europe.