Cloud Innovation Awards 2014

• Cloud/Datacenter Solution
• Cloud Security Solution
• Cloud Mobility Solution
• SDN Solution for the Enterprise
• Hottest Cloud Company
• ‘Industry Idol’ – Cloud Innovation
• Cloud Services for the Enterprise
• NFV Solution for Carriers

Cloud/Datacenter Solution
Virtualization has transformed the IT landscape with the benefits of cost savings, dynamic provisioning and centralized management, and a growing number of enterprises and government organizations are migrating at least part of their business to the “Cloud”. New data center start-ups, along with some longer term players, offer to help IT departments handle the challenges posed by virtualized infrastructures and cloud computing. Our judges are looking for the most innovative Cloud/Datacenter solution, providing major business benefits, to have been introduced to the market.

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Cloud Security Solution
What is the single greatest concern that users have about migration to the Cloud? It is security, and the sense that potentially critical data not only lies in other hands but must also pass to and fro without being compromised. It’s perceived as a dangerous game, with experts predicting new types of attack designed to cripple a nation’s IT infrastructure. Secure the Cloud, and the brakes will be off – so the judges will be looking for the most innovative, practical and effective contribution to Cloud security.

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Cloud Mobility Solution
The adoption of smartphones and tablets as productivity devices means a fourfold growth in multi-vendor endpoints, greater network permeability and new security risks to be handled by IT departments. Extending access to the private or public Cloud is vital, but risks opening a further can of worms. Our judges are looking for Cloud mobility solutions that offer useful and seamless service, but without compounding IT headaches.

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SDN Solution for the Enterprise
Within just two short years, SDN has become recognized as the networking technology of the future, and Cloud service providers have been evaluating and now starting to deploy SDN and OpenFlow protocol in some of the world’s largest data centers. But medium to smaller enterprises have been slower to make the move, so our judges are particularly keen to find SDN solutions that offer easy migration, that deliver early ROI, and generally encourage business to take the first steps along the path to tomorrow’s networking.

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Hottest Cloud Company
Go on – surprise us! If we could tell you in advance what it takes to make you “The Hottest Cloud Company”, then you haven’t been innovative enough. Mind you, we’re talking technology not fine art, so your business had better be useful as well as clever in the eyes of our judges.

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‘Industry Idol’ – Cloud Innovation
Has Cloud innovation been happening long enough for us to get a feel for its heroes? We think so. Who would you choose – someone with broad vision for the future of the Cloud, someone with practical ideas that have already shaped the Cloud, or someone with the right balance between forward vision and down to earth practicality? Why not nominate your Cloud Innovation “Industry Idol”?

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Cloud Services for the Enterprise
What sets your enterprise Cloud services apart? SLAs, scalability, adaptability, geographical coverage for low latency, a particularly well-considered business package or whatever? Tell us about it and the judges will tell you what they think. Win the award and the world will know about it.

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NFV Solution for Carriers
With SDN grabbing the headlines, NFV has crept up on us more quietly. But it is pushing ahead in terms of practical solutions for operators – so what are you offering and how can it benefit carriers NOW? Impress the judges and get your solution talked about.

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