WHAT’S HOT DCS Awards


Datacentre Storage Software Product of the Year Open to any software product/solution in the IT storage market sector. The product or solution must demonstrate competitive advantage and a measurable ROI to the users of the product.


Datacentre Networking Product of the Year Open to any product/solution in the datacentre networking market either hardware or software. The product or solution must demonstrate competitive advantage and a measurable ROI to the users of the product.


Datacentre IT Security Product of the Year


Open to any product/solution that delivers an IT security solution to datacentre users/operators large or small. The product or solution must demonstrate competitive advantage and a measurable ROI to the end-users of the product.


Datacentre Power & Cooling Product of the Year Open to any product/solution that addresses the power and/or cooling requirements of the modern IT datacentre. The product or solution must demonstrate competitive advantage and a measurable ROI to the users of the product.


Datacentre Facility Product of the Year Open to any product/solution in the datacentre physical security, building and/or cabling market sectors. The product or solution must demonstrate competitive advantage and a measurable ROI to the users of the product.


Key Dates:


Nominations open: 23rd January Nominations close: 16th March


Shortlist announcement: 23rd March Voting opens: 26th March Voting closes: 7th May


Awards Ceremony: 23rd May


Public Sector Datacentre Project of the Year Open to any public-sector organisation’s implementation of a datacentre project (examples include datacentre consolidation, new datacentre developments, specific IT projects within a single or series of data centres, the delivery of new hi-impact services etc).


Innovative Datacentre Project of the Year


Open to any private or public sector organisation’s implementation of a highly innovative datacentre project that has significantly differentiated them from other similar organisations or that has radically changed the way the organisation provides its own products or services to their customers and/or partners.


Green Datacentre Project of the Year End-User Awards


Enterprise Datacentre Project of the Year


Open to any private-sector end-user organisation’s implementation of a datacentre project (examples include datacentre consolidation, new datacentre developments, specific IT projects within a single or series of data centres, the delivery of new hi-impact services etc).


Open to any private or public sector organisation’s implementation of an environmentally beneficial datacentre project that has significantly reduced carbon footprint and/or offers clearly measurable long-term benefits to the environment.


Datacentre Professional of the Year


Open to any individual working within a datacentre team at any public or private sector organisation and who has made a significant contribution to their employers business or to the datacentre community/industry as a whole.


Provider Awards Datacentre Service Provider of the Year


Nominations for any recognised outsourcing organisation’s delivery of innovative and effective services to a wide variety of users that have a tangible benefit either in terms of cost savings or efficiency gains.


Datacentre Hosting Provider of the Year


Nominations for any recognised provider of hosting/co-location services to end-user organisations/service providers that have a tangible benefit either in terms of cost savings or efficiency gains.


DCS Industry Award


This award will be made to any individual, industry group, vendor, integrator or user of IT technology in the datacentre sector that/ who, in the opinion of the publishers of DCS, has made a significant contribution to the industry in the past 12 months or who have played a significant role in helping the industry develop or improve. Note: This category is not open to nominations and public voting, and will be decided upon by the publishers only.


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