And the winners are…

The gala evening featured a hilarious session from comedian Romesh Ranganathan and music from Eye Candy. The awards, supported by headline sponsor Source, drinks reception sponsors Adapt along with Dataracks, the Datacentre Alliance, Data Centre World, Egenera , Enlogic, G4, Navisite, Pulsant, Rausch Netzwerktechnik, Schneider Electric, Touchdown PR, Vtesse Networks, WhiteSpider and Workspace were hosted by Paul Trowbridge from Angel’s sister company EVITO, and a total of 23 awards were made to the Winners voted for by the readership of the Angel stable of print and online publications.

 

The DCS Awards recognise the products, projects and services as well as honour companies and teams operating in data centre market space. They encompass the achievements channel partners as well as vendors. A judging panel validated all the entries and approved those that went forward to the voting process.

 

The Winners announced on the night were:

 

 

DCS FACILITIES AWARDS

 

 

 

Datacentre Power & Cooling Product of the Year

 

Sponsored by: Datacentre World

 

Presented by: Sophie Baker of CloserStill Media

 

Winner: EnPowered PDU by ENLOGIC

Runner up: SmartCool CW SD/SN/SR by Airedale International Air Conditioning Ltd.

 

Collecting: Eddie Desouza, Global Marketing & Communications Director

 

Enlogic has developed the world’s first EnPowered PDU. The first truly upgradeable PDU will give data centre managers the opportunity for the first time to benefit from all the features open to them on a proven and trusted Enlogic PDU, apart from the intelligence which can be fully upgraded at a later stage.

 

 

 

 

Datacentre Infrastructure Management (DCIM)
Product of the Year

 

Sponsored by: Whitespider

 

Presented by: Phill Lees, CTO of WhiteSpider

 

Winner: StruxureWare by Schneider Electric

Runner up: DCIM by FieldView Solutions

 

Collecting: Dale Wrangles, VP

 

StruxureWare for Data Centers is an integrated DCIM suite comprising comprehensive nodules for data centre operations, control and management. Schneider Electric DCIM software applications enable businesses to prosper by managing their data centres across multiple domains, providing actionable intelligence for an ideal balance of high availability and peak efficiency throughout the entire data centre life cycle.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Datacentre Design / Build of the Year

 

Sponsored by: G4

 

Presented by: John Grover, Managing Director

 

Winner: Colt Technology Services

Runner up: Host Europe Group

 

Collecting: Victor Smith, Director Product Development

 

Colt has a 20-year track record in datacentre engineering and operations enabling the creation and delivery of exceptional datacentres that exceed industry standards for security, reliability and environmental sustainability. The company’s datacentre services provide businesses with agile innovation focusing not only on the current needs of the consumer but also enable our customers to future-proof their investment. Colt’s customers can plan in line with business needs rather than long term datacentre timelines. Using Colt ftec, Colt can offer the customer a repeatable, reliable and scalable datacentre that is guaranteed to be delivered on-time, on budget and at a high quality.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Datacentre Hosting/Colocation

Supplier of the Year

 

Sponsored by: Enlogic

 

Presented by: Eddie Desouza, Global Marketing & Communications Director

 

Winner: NaviSite

Runner up: ServerSpace

 

Collecting: Brooks Borcherding, Senior Vice President

 

NaviSite, a wholly owned subsidiary of NaviSite, Inc., a Time Warner Cable Company, provides enterprise-class, cloud-enabled hosting, managed applications and services around the world. Each of NaviSite’s products has been developed with flexibility and scalability in mind to service a wide range of customers and their individual needs. From those looking for a single rack to those requiring multiple pods, as well as customers interested in entire suites, each solution is entirely customisable and able to be tailored to suit the needs of the business at hand.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Datacentre Energy Efficiency Product of the Year

 

Sponsored by: Pulsant

 

Presented by: John Wordley, Head of Enterprise Sales

 

Winner: The SmartCool™ by Airedale International Air Conditioning

Runner up: Iceotope’s liquid cooling system

 

Collecting: George Hannah, New Product Development Director and Shahram Rezapour, External Sales Engineer

The SmartCool™ CW SD/SN/SR was developed to meet demand for a more energy-efficient, dedicated chilled water (CW) precision air conditioning (PAC) system that provides extremely quiet and accurate climate control for critical applications.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Datacentre Management Product

of the Year Award

 

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

 

Winner: Sentry Power Manager (SPM) by Server Technology Inc.

Runner up: Belden® PatchPro® by Belden

 

Collecting: James Giblette, Regional Sales Manager

 

Sentry Power Manager (SPM) provides critical information for growth planning. With rackable IT equipment being responsible for the bulk of data center power usage, intelligent PDUs have become standard fare in almost all data center deployments for the purpose of measuring that power usage. Sentry Power Manager (SPM) is an ideal, cost-effective way to aggregate all of those measurement points for purposes of maximizing uptime, improving efficiency, and analyzing capacity.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Datacentre Fire/Safety/Lighting Product of the Year

 

Sponsored by: Schneider Electric

 

Presented by: Dale Wrangles, VP at Schneider Electric

 

Winner: 3M Novec™ 1230 Fire Protection Fluid by Kidde Fire Protection

Runner up: Active Roof by Dataracks

 

Collecting: John Simpson, General Manager.

 

3M Novec™ 1230 Fire Protection Fluid is a fast responding fire suppression agent which aids protection against the loss of critical data. 3M Novec™ 1230 fluid discharges as a colourless, electrically non-conductive and non-corrosive gas that does not damage sensitive equipment.

 

There is no post-discharge residue, no costly clean-up operations are required, and down-time is kept to a minimum. The fluid is safe for live electronics, preserving continuity of operation in the process of protecting against a fire threat.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Datacentre Cabling Product

of the Year

 

Sponsored by: Workspace

 

Presented by: Adrian Dewick, Senior Technical Sales Manager at Workspace.

 

Winner: Corning Pretium EDGE®

Advanced Optics (AO) by Corning Optical Communications

Runner up: Cat7A S/FTP by Datwyler (iDaC Solutions Ltd)

 

Collecting: Anthony Robinson, EMEA Datacentre Market Manager

 

The Corning Pretium EDGE® Advanced Optics (AO) structured optical cabling solution is designed to address the concerns of datacentre owners and operators, helping them increase revenue, reduce costs and minimise risk. Such solutions need to be designed to provide cost-effective flexible capacity to accommodate rapid and efficient scalability to meet the business needs and data growth, facilitating easy and cost-effective migration to higher speeds with minimal disruption and at the same time improve DCIM.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Datacentre Cabinets/Racks Product of the Year

 

Presented by: Phil Alsop, Editor Data Centre Solutions magazine

 

Winner: ECO Rack by Dataracks

Runner up: “Flat-Pack” Systems by Retex UK

 

Collecting: Jeremy Hartley, Managing Director

 

The Dataracks ECO server rack designed around the needs of the Data Centre Industry. Supplied fully built or flatpacked. The feature rich ECO rack includes: Airflow management designed and built in, racks come inclusive of Side infills (Baffles) to ensure that hot and cold air do not mix.

 

Choice of solid or 1-2U vertical cut outs; Full set of blanking panels included; Weight loading of 1500kg and Toolless adjustable mounting angles.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

DATACENTRE ICT

(Technology) AWARDS

 

 

 

Datacentre ICT Application

Product of the Year

 

Presented by: Bill Dunlop, CEO of Angel Business Communications

 

Winner: ION Accelerator by Fusion-io

Runner up: EndaceVision ™ Network Visibility Software by Emulex

 

Collecting: Marcos Burnett, UK Sales Director

 

The Fusion ION Accelerator appliance has been developed to address growing data demands by maximising business critical application performance for data-intensive workloads, such as virtualisation, VDI and

big data solutions.

 

The ION Accelerator is an all-flash shared storage solution built on the Fusion ioMemory platform. With broad high availability (HA), increased performance
and scalability, as well as simplified sharing and manageability, ION Accelerator is an ideal flash-based storage consolidation solution for enterprises seeking to add flash memory acceleration to their databases and other mission critical applications.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Datacentre Storage Software Product of the Year

 

Sponsored by: Source

 

Presented by: Tim Meiklejohn of Source

 

Winner: 3.0 Purity Operating Environment software by Pure Storage

Runner up: PernixData FVP™ by PernixData

 

Collecting: Chris Russell, Channel Sales Manager UK&I

 

In May 2013, Pure Storage, the all-flash enterprise storage company, introduced its third generation all-flash enterprise storage array, the FlashArray 400 Series, and 3.0 Purity Operating Environment software. With its FA 400-series release, Pure Storage effectively doubled FlashArray’s useable storage capacity and performance, and introduced a powerful new version of its award-winning Purity Operating Environment software, as well as an exceptional breakthrough in customer support.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Datacentre ICT Storage Hardware Product of the Year

 

Presented by: Phil Alsop, Editor Data Centre Solutions magazine

 

Winner: BigFoot Storage Object platform by Rausch Netzwerktechnik

Runner up: ISE 700 series hybrid storage arrays by X-IO Technologies

 

Collecting: Sebastian Noelting, CEO

 

Are your storage systems reaching their limit? Forget CPUs, mainboards and controllers and simply select the appropriate interface instead. With its BigFoot Storage Object platform, available with immediate effect, Rausch Netzwerktechnik is the first European manufacturer to offer a storage platform featuring two 1Gb/s Ethernet interfaces integrated in each HDD. Get an incredible packing density of 72 HDDs with a total of 288 TB in a single 4U chassis. In this way you can increase your storage volume to an impressive 2.8 petabyte per rack. And, what is more, each HDD has its own IP address to enable direct communication with the device.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Datacenter ICT Security Product of the Year

 

Sponsored by: Touchdown PR

 

Presented by: James Carter, Managing Director at Touchdown PR

 

Winner: Blancco Data Center Solutions by Blancco UK

Runner up: HiCrypt™ by digitronic computersysteme

 

Collecting: Ben Jones , Business Development Manager

 

Blancco offers a complete solution package for Data Centers, to help provide their end users with certified data erasure on all technical levels. Blancco’s unique data center solutions also enable customers to maintain their existing IT security policy when moving their physical infrastructure into a data center.

 

The data is often characterized as ‘in the cloud’, which sparks questions and concerns from both industry regulators and the media over its privacy and security. Today, current solutions to this security problem focus almost solely on physical destruction of assets at their end of life, meaning that
loose drives, servers, and SAN hardware,
are completely destroyed to ensure that
there are no data leaks. Blancco will enable the data center to define and guarantee secure data erasure at end of life, at all times.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Datacentre ICT Management Product of the Year

 

Sponsored by: Adapt

 

Presented by: Steven Alford, Business Development Manager at Adapt

 

Winner: What’s Up Gold by Ipswitch

Runner up: Advantage Engine® by Xtravirt

 

Collecting: Stephen Demianyk, UK Channel Manager

 

WhatsUp Gold is an affordable IT management solution that monitors networks, applications and services through a unified console. WhatsUp Gold lets IT administrators and network managers identify and isolate the exact root cause of issues that effect the performance of business applications, wireless bandwidth, and overall network uptime.

 

WhatsUp Gold also supplies hundreds of out-of-the-box reports to help with trend analysis, planning and communicating IT’s effectiveness to stakeholders.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Datacentre Networking

Product of the Year

 

Sponsored by: Vtesse

 

Presented by: Aidan Paul, Chairman, Vtesse

 

Winner: VNS3 by CohesiveFT

Runner up: The Traffic Visibility Fabric by Gigamon

 

Collecting: on behalf of CohesiveFT by Jason Holloway of Angel BCL

 

Overlay networking has begun disrupting traditional approaches to networking, both inside data centres and as a connection across clouds. By defining the networks in software, network designers can now operate, control, and configure networks without physical access to the hardware. Effectively, software-defined networks free enterprises from the underlying hardware and geography.

 

With CohesiveFT’s VNS3 product, one of our customers created a partner connectivity network to bridge a segmented telco marketplace. The customer, an SMS integrator based in Lagos, Nigeria, saw the opportunity to build a better network and connect millions of end users with advertisers and mobile technologies.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

DCS CHANNEL AWARDS

 

 

 

VAR/Systems Integrator of

the Year

 

Sponsored by: Source

 

Presented by: Madeline Bard, Director, Source

 

Winner: S3

Runner up: Xtravirt

 

Collecting: Simon Ragg and Mark Smith

 

Formed in 1988 as a Value Added Integrator of Data Storage and Storage Management Systems, Solid State Solutions (S3), are specialists in identifying and providing data storage solutions for today’s demanding and diverse business environments.

 

Together with the provision of data centre services including co-location, managed or cloud backup facilities and other bespoke services.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Managed Services Provider
of the Year

 

Sponsored by: Dataracks

 

Presented by: Jeremy Hartley, Managing Director of Dataracks

 

Winner: Claranet

Runner-up: UKFast

 

Collecting: Wiebe Nauta, Operations Director

 

Founded in 1996, Claranet has evolved from pioneering consumer ISP into Western Europe’s leading independent MSP for mid-sized companies, with annual revenues of £130 million and over 4,500 customers. Claranet’s comprehensive portfolio encompasses integrated network, hosting, and communications solutions.

 

Claranet achieves competitive advantage through delivering high-quality customer service. This is particularly important in managed services, where solutions are largely custom-built and the investments made in new technology platforms and solutions are significant.

 

Claranet delivers the best ‘fit’ for customers’ specific IT and business needs.

 

 

 

 

Vendor Channel Program

of the Year

 

Sponsored by: Navisite

 

Presented by: Brooks Borcherding, Senior Vice President at Navisite

 

Winner: Veeam

Runner up: Outsourcery

 

Collecting: Taisha Betz, Channel Manager for UK&I

 

Veeam®’s strategy is simple. Since it launched in the UK in 2008 Veeam has operated 100% via the channel: giving its 1,700 UK and Ireland partners access to products and services that allow them to drive new business and revenue streams in virtualisation and data protection. This has shown strong success for both Veeam and its partners. In 2013, Veeam recorded 58% growth in annual bookings revenue, reaching $275 million: all through the channel. Members of Veeam’s Cloud Provider (VCP) Program alone increased their rental business by 280%, while Veeam is shortly set to welcome its 100,000th customer To continue this growth, Veeam is supporting the channel to the fullest; constantly searching for new revenue streams that it can pass on to its partners.

 

 

DCS COMPANIES AWARDS

 

 

 

Datacentre Facilities Company

of the Year

 

Sponsored by: The Datacentre Alliance

 

Presented by: Simon Campbell-Whyte ,
DCA founder and Executive Director

 

Winner: Sudlows

Runner up: Kidde Fire Protection

 

Collecting: Andy Hirst, Global Director

 

Sudlows is a multi-award winning datacentre specialist, dedicated to designing and building robust critical IT environments. We combine unparalleled experience and engineering capabilities across many business sectors and have progressed to exporting datacentre consultancy services internationally. Sudlows provide the full scope of professional services including auditing, consultancy, design, project management, installation, commissioning and maintenance for innovative and cost effective design and build projects. We are also one of the few UK companies able to design, build and maintain datacentres using a complete in-house capability covering consultancy, design, install, commission and management.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Datacentre ICT Company

of the Year

 

Sponsored by: Rausch Netzwerktechnik

 

Presented by: Sebastian Noelting, CEO of Rausch Netzwerktechnik

 

Winner: Virtual Instruments

Runner-up: Fusion-io

 

Collecting: Paul Martin, RSM @ Virtual Instruments accompanied by Alex Manning, VP Operations at significant VI customer Monitise whose installation formed the basis of the winning VI entry

 

Virtual Instruments is a leader in Infrastructure Performance Management for physical, virtual and cloud computing environments. The award-winning VirtualWisdom© platform provides visibility into real-time performance and health of the entire open systems stack along with metrics that assess utilisation. Virtual Instruments improves the performance and availability of mission-critical applications while lowering the cost of the supporting infrastructure. Forbes Magazine listed the company third on its annual ranking of America’s Most Promising Companies. The company was founded in June 2008 with headquarters in San Jose, Calif. and sales and engineering offices throughout the US, EMEA and Asia Pacific.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Datacentre Company of the Year

 

Sponsored by: Egenera

 

Presented by: Gerry Murray, Senior Vice President EMEA

 

Winner: WhiteSpider

Runner up: C4L

 

Collecting: Phil Lees, Chief Technical Officer and Dave Chadwick Chief Operating Officer

 

WhiteSpider specialises in providing consultancy, strategic advice, and practical support in enterprise service architectures, using industry-recognised specialists who are qualified to the highest levels and with extensive real-world experience. The company helps organisations to standardise their IT and communications infrastructures by using a unique new service framework - ea4 - developed specifically with the needs of global enterprises in mind.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

INDUSTRY AWARD

 

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

 

Winner: Tarmin

 

Collected by: Shabaz Ali, President and CEO

 

The Datacentre Solutions 2014 Industry Award was made to Tarmin for its pioneering Data Defined Storage technologies that transforms the way organisations manage, scale, search and gain value from unstructured data by uniting application, information and storage tiers into a single, integrated data centric management architecture.

 

Tarmin’s Data Defined Storage delivers a massively scalable, transparent and unified approach for consistent data retention, search, policy and security across cloud and traditional storage infrastructure. Tarmin delivers its proprietary GridBank Data Management Platform, the industry’s first purpose built data management architecture with a comprehensive data management capability. Tarmin’s vision delivers the benefits of enterprise class storage systems with the efficiency and flexibility of scale out storage.