Awards celebrate industry success stories

The City of London was a fitting venue for the 2016 edition of the DCS Awards. With London being one of the global data centre industry ‘powerhouse’ locations, what better location to celebrate the achievements of Europe’s data centre community? End users, technology vendors, hosting and cloud providers were all recognised in a highly entertaining evening bookended by some excellent food, courtesy of the Grange St Paul’s Hotel, and music from Betty & the Beats.

 

Regular DCS Awards host Paul Trowbridge kept the evening under tight, but relaxed control, ensuring that there was plenty of time for networking, dancing and thirst-slaking once the formalities of the comedy slot (thanks to musical comedian Rob Deering) and the awards ceremony were completed.

 

As for the awards themselves, many of the winning companies have released their own news stories celebrating their successes, but we’re pleased to publish a full list below.

 

Big thanks go to all our category sponsors for their continued support, and, in particular, Touchdown PR who sponsored the pre-dinner drinks and who are celebrating their 10^th anniversary this year.

 

The awards are all based on online votes received over the last few weeks from across Europe. Congratulations to all the winners:

 

Data Centre Energy Efficiency Project of the Year:

Sponsored by our long-time partners the Data Centre Alliance

Award presented by our good friend Steve Hone, Operations Director and Co-founder of the DCA

 

Runner up:  Sudlows supporting Stockport Council Data Centre

 

WINNER:  Riello UPS + Pure Power Systems supporting eir telecommunications

 

 

Data Centre Consolidation / Upgrade / Refresh Project of the Year –

Sponsored by: ACRONIS

Award presented by: Gill Borniche, Acronis Director of Product Marketing, Cloud & Mobility Solutions

Runner up: Comtec Power supporting Cardiff University

WINNER:     2bm supporting Nottingham City Council

 

 

Data Centre Private Cloud Project of the Year    

Sponsored by: SUSE

Award presented by: Stuart Leigh, Marketing Manager

Runner up:  Six Degrees Group supporting Cintra

WINNER:  Navisite supporting Safeline

 

 

 

New Design/Build Data Centre Project of the Year  Sponsored by:  Riello UPS

Award presented by: Leo Craig – General Manager of Riello UPS

Runner up: Schneider Electric supporting Sagrada Fam?lia

WINNER:  Keysource supporting Jaguar Land Rover

 

 

 

Data Centre Facilities Management Product of the Year:

Sponsored by Emerson Network Power

Award presented by:  Paul Russell, EMEA Marketing Manager

Runner up: Aqua Leak Detection Services

WINNER: En-Technologies

 

 

Data Centre Physical Security & Fire Suppression Product of the year:

Sponsored by Data Centre World owned by CloserStill Media

 

Award presented by: Rabinder Aulakh, Event Director for Data Centre World

Runner up: Secure Technical Rooms

WINNER:  Bryland Fire Protection

 

 

 

Data Centre Cabling Product of the Year

Award presented by: Jason Holloway, Director of IT Publishing at Angel Business Communications

 

Runner up: Excel Networking Solutions

 

WINNER:  Corning Optical Communications

 

 

 

Data Centre Cabinets/Racks Product of the Year

Sponsored by long-time supporters of these awards: Navisite

Award presented by: Sean McAvan, Managing Director

Runner up: Excel Networking Solutions

WINNER:  Enlogic

 

 

 

Data Centre ICT Storage Hardware Product of the Year

Sponsored by: Schneider Electric

Award presented by: Matthew Baynes, Datacentre Strategy & Business Development Director UKI

Runner up: SolidFire

WINNER: DELL

 

 

 

Data Centre ICT Security Product of the Year

Award presented by: Philip Alsop, Editor Angel Suite of IT Publications

 

Runner up: Ipswitch

 

WINNER: Barracuda Networks

 

 

 

 

Data Centre ICT Management Product of the Year

Award presented by Peter Davies, Senior Sales at Angel

Runner up: RF CODE

WINNER: FreeStor by FalconStor

 

 

 

Data Centre Cooling Product of the Year

Award presented by Peter Evans, Sales Executive at Angel

Runner up:  Aqua Cooling Solutions

WINNER: Emerson Network Power

 

 

 

Datacentre Power Product of the Year

Award presented by: Jason Holloway, Director of IT Publishing at Angel Business Communications

Runner up: Socomec

WINNER: Schneider Electric

 

 

 

Datacentre PDU Product of the Year

Award presented by: Philip Alsop, Editor Angel Suite of IT Publications

Runner up:  Integra

WINNER: Server Technology

 

 

 

Data Centre Data Protection, Management & Analysis Product of the Year

Award presented by: Peter Davies, Senior Sales at Angel

Runner up: Barracuda

WINNER: Load DynamiX Enterprise 5.0 from Virtual Instruments

 

 

 

Datacentre Cloud Storage Product of the Year

Award presented by Peter Evans, Sales Executive at Angel

Runner up: SolidFire

WINNER: Acronis

 

 

 

Data Centre Software Defined Storage Product of the Year

Award presented by: Jason Holloway, Director of IT Publishing at Angel Business Communications

Runner up: FreeStor by FalconStor

WINNER: Datacore Software

 

 

 

Datacentre DCIM Product of the Year

Sponsored by Touchdown PR

Runner up:  Schneider Electric

WINNER:  Nlyte Software

 

Data Centre Hosting/Co-location Supplier of the Year

Sponsored by Starline / Universal Electric Corp

Runner up: Volta Data Centres

Winner: Hydro 66