Press Release: Winners of the NetEvents Cloud Innovation Awards 2014

Eight category winners announced at NetEvents Cloud Innovation Summit 2014

Los Gatos, California 28th March 2014: Winners of the NetEvents Cloud Innovation Awards 2014 were announced today at the NetEvents Cloud Innovation Summit celebration dinner in Los Gatos, California, USA. These annual Industry Innovation Awards celebrate organizations and individuals that lead the world by innovation and performance in the networking and telecommunications sector. This year all profits from the dinner and awards are going to the America Cancer Society and the Prostate Project Foundation.

This year’s awards included a “Cloud Industry Idol” category, won by Martin Casado, CTO Networking, VMware. This was a tough choice for the judges – against fellow finalists Jeff Bezos, Chairman and CEO, Amazon, and Marc Benioff, Chairman and CEO, Salesforce – but it was Casado’s pioneering work on SDN that won the day. According to NetEvents CEO, Mark Fox: “Martin’s vision and innovations have helped ignite a vibrant SDN research community with potential to bring about one of the most radical transformations the networking industry has witnessed in the past 20+ years”.

Other categories were awarded as follows:

Cloud Security Solution – for the most innovative, practical and effective contribution to cloud security – was won by HyTrust DataControl™ encryption and key management for its ability to give the data owner control of the keys to their cloud based data encryption solution. The other finalists were Juniper Networks & Wedge Networks (joint solution submission) and F-Secure.

SDN Solution for the Enterprise – for SDN solutions that offer easy migration, that deliver early ROI, and generally encourage businesses to take the first steps to tomorrow’s networking. The result was a shared win for Nuage Networks’ Virtualized Services Platform (VSP) and HP’s Network Optimizer SDN application.

Hottest Cloud Company – this award was open to wide interpretation and was a difficult choice between AirWatch, NetSuite and one year old Nuage Networks. “NetSuite’s one integrated offering allows companies of any size to move seamlessly move through most business operations” according to the judges, who awarded it also on the strength of its easy set-up and operation.

NFV Solution for Carriers. From a finalist line-up of Cyan, Gigamon and a joint submission from Juniper Networks & Wedge Networks, the judges picked out Cyan Blue Planet, notably for its support of an open cloud environment “whether Cyan hardware products are involved or not.”

Cloud/Datacenter Solution – for the most innovative Cloud/Datacenter solution, providing major business benefits – was won by Citrix’s CloudPlatform unified cloud management. The other finalists were CoreSite and RedHat

Cloud Mobility Solution – for cloud mobility solutions that offer useful and seamless service, but without compounding IT headaches. The judges decided that AirWatch’s superb security solution, and the choice of ways to implement their solutions added up to a winning formula – over fellow finalists Aerohive and AdaptiveMobile

Cloud Services for the Enterprise – won by Comcast over finalists Basho and RedHat, notably on the strength of its superb friendly service to smaller business customers, including the Cloud Desk “concierge service” for hosted applications and the simplified customer support and billing.

According to Mark Fox, CEO NetEvents: “These awards offer a rare opportunity to raise a company’s profile in front of the world’s leading media gatekeepers – reaching a massive global audience of high-level decision makers. What’s more, these awards have also raised over $100K for charities to-date.”

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NetEvents PR contact:                                                             

Helen Whitworth

NetEvents International

helenw@netevents.org 

+44 (0) 870 760 6464

 

 

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