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ngel Business Communications, publishers of online and print titles covering these market sectors have enhanced their awards program in 2011 to recognise the achievements of end-users, channel partners and vendors alike, operating in the cloud, virtualization and storage fields.
The SVC Awards will cover the products and solutions themselves as well as the deployment in the real-world and those people who make it happen, and will be made, based solely on the votes of the readership of SNS, Cloud Computing 365 and Virtualization World 365, at a gala evening in London in December. Nominations opened on 22nd August with online voting between 1st November and 21st November 2011. All entry fees will be donated to Mimi’s Mission and Make-a-Wish Foundation details.
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www.svcawards.com for more The SVC awards feature 16 categories:
End-User Awards: Public Cloud Project of the Year: Open to any organisation’s implementation of a public cloud-based project that has tangible benefits to the organisation either in terms of cost savings or efficiency gains.
Private Cloud Project of the Year: Open to any organisation’s implementation of a private cloud-based project that has tangible benefits to the organisation either in terms of cost savings or efficiency gains.
Enterprise Virtualization Project of the Year: Open to any end-user organisation’s implementation of a project centred on desktop/server and/or storage virtualisation technology within a business of any size.
Public Sector Virtualization Project of the Year: Open to a public- sector organisation’s implementation of any desktop/server and/or storage virtualization project.
Enterprise Storage Project of the Year: Open to any data storage project implemented within a large enterprise (>1,000 employees). It can relate to any form of project from new deployments, consolidation of existing platforms or innovative utilisation of technology.
SMB Storage Project of the Year: Open to any data storage project implemented within a SMB small/medium business (<500 employees). It can relate to any form of project from new deployments, consolidation of existing platforms or innovative utilisation of technology.
Product Awards: Cloud Storage Product of the Year: Open to any product/solution that delivers a cloud-based storage solution to organisations large or small. The product or solution must demonstrate competitive advantage and a measurable ROI to the end-users of the service.
Cloud Security Product of the Year: Open to any product/solution that delivers a cloud-based security solution to organisations large or small or achieves high levels of security for users of a cloud-based service.
Virtualization Management Product of the Year: Open to any product/ solution that delivers open management of virtualized environments (desktop, server, storage or a combination thereof).
Channel Awards: Value Added Distributor of the Year: Open to any IT distribution organisation operating in the storage, virtualization and cloud-related technologies market.
Systems Integrator / Reseller of the Year: Open to any IT reseller, value added reseller, or systems integrator supplying IT end-users with products and services in the storage, virtualization and/or cloud- computing sectors.
Managed Services Provider of the Year: Open to any organisation that has seized the market opportunity to transition from a classic IT reseller to that of a recognisable Managed Services Provider that is able to differentiate themselves in the market today.
Key Dates:
Nominations open: 22 August 2011 Nominations close: 26 October 2011 Short List Announcement: 31 October 2011 Voting opens: 1 Novemberber 2011 Voting closes: 21 November 2011
In Association with:
Storage Networking Product of the Year: Open to any product/ solution in the networked storage market (SAN/NAS/iSCSI/FCoE etc) either hardware or software.
Storage Virtualization Product of the Year: Open to any product/ solution in the storage virtualization market sector – can be either hardware or software-based.
Server Virtualization Product of the Year: Open to any product/ solution in the server virtualization market sector.
Desktop Virtualization Product of the Year: Open to any product/ solution in the desktop virtualization market sector.
To discuss nomination & sponsorship opportunities, please contact us at
awards@svcawards.com
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