{"id":34195,"date":"2018-04-09T09:08:36","date_gmt":"2018-04-09T09:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/?guid=0d771f94ebc5eb3bdd86800ba3d4b550"},"modified":"2018-04-09T09:08:36","modified_gmt":"2018-04-09T09:08:36","slug":"uk-cloud-awards-2018-shortlist-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/uk-cloud-awards-2018-shortlist-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Cloud Awards 2018 shortlist announced"},"content":{"rendered":"


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The UK Cloud Awards 2018 judging process has now finished and the shortlist of contenders for the accolades have been unveiled.<\/p>\n

The awards, which are designed to recognise talent, achievement and innovation in the UK cloud industry, are now in their fifth year.<\/p>\n

Winners will be announced at the awards ceremony, which will take place at County Hall, London on 16 May.<\/p>\n

Alex Hilton, CEO of CIF, said: “This is the fifth year we have run the UK Cloud Awards and we are delighted to announce that we had a record number of entries this year, confirming our belief that the UK Cloud Awards are now a recognised feature of the technology industry\u2019s awards calendar.<\/p>\n

“Over the past decade we\u00a0have witnessed phenomenal innovation and the truly transformational use of cloud services. The depth, strength and maturity of the cloud industry in the UK is apparent. It\u2019s going to be extremely difficult to pick the winners in each and every category and we would like to congratulate everyone that has got this far. I would like to take the opportunity to wish everyone that has made the cut the best of luck on the night.”<\/p>\n

The shortlist for the UK Cloud Awards 2018 is as follows:<\/p>\n

BEST IN CLASS<\/strong><\/p>\n

Security Solution of the Year<\/strong><\/p>\n

Alienvault USM Anywhere by Alienvault
\nAmazon GuardDuty by AWS
\nCipherTrust Cloud Key Manager by Thales eSecurity
\nDarktrace Cloud by Darktrace
\nVerify by Aspect Software<\/p>\n

Storage Solution of the Year<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ceph Storage 3 by Red Hat
\nFlashBlade by Pure Storage
\nRubrik
\nScality RING7 by Scality<\/p>\n

Collaboration Solution of the Year<\/strong><\/p>\n

BlueJeans with Dolby Voice
\nFreshdesk
\nLifesize App by Lifesize<\/p>\n

Business Continuity Solution of the Year<\/strong><\/p>\n

Druva Cloud Platform
\niland Secure DRaaS by iland Cloud
\nSolarWinds Backup by Solarwinds MSP<\/p>\n

Most Innovative Enterprise Product<\/strong><\/p>\n

Adaptive Insights Business Planning Cloud
\nApttus ”Max” by Apttus
\nBoomi by DELL
\nInteroute Edge by Interoute
\niPortalis Control Portal
\nNew Relic by New Relic
\nRubrik
\nSilver Peak Unity EdgeConnect SD-WAN solution<\/p>\n

Most Innovative SMB Product<\/strong><\/p>\n

Advanced Voice Services by Natterbox
\nCloudMigrator Go by Cloud Technology Solutions
\nGoSimpleTax by GoSimple Software Limited<\/p>\n

Unified Communications Product\u00a0of the Year<\/strong><\/p>\n

Advanced Voice Services by Natterbox
\nGlobal Office by RingCentral
\nstorm DTA by Content Guru<\/p>\n

Fintech Solution\u00a0of the Year<\/strong><\/p>\n

AccountsIQ
\nExpenses by Selenity
\nFreeAgent
\nGoSimple Tax by GoSimple Software Limited
\nMambu
\nSage Business Cloud Financials (formerly known as Sage Live<\/p>\n

Cloud Platform Solution of the Year<\/strong><\/p>\n

Anypoint Platform
\nCrowd Release by MuleSoft
\nBoomi by DELL
\nCloud Platform Solution by Box
\nCloud Protection Manager by N2W Software
\nOpenShift Container Platform 3.7 by Red Hat
\nSpotinst
\nThousandEyes<\/p>\n

BEST DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION PROJECTS<\/strong><\/p>\n

Best\u00a0Public Sector Project<\/strong><\/p>\n

CityVerve supported by Chime-Tech
\nHealth and Social Care digital meal planning with Kafoodle Kare
\nManchester City Council supported by Cloud Technology Solutions
\nNHS in association with Kahootz
\nstorm\u00ae Citizen Engagement Hub with Content Guru<\/p>\n

Best Private Sector Project\u00a0(SMB)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Brother International Europe supported by Ensono
\nStephen James Group\u00a0supported by Charterhouse Voice & Data<\/p>\n

Best\u00a0Private Sector Project(Enterprise)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Big Data European Concept Platform (UK) supported by ANS
\nNuffield Health supported by Silver Peak
\nThe Lidl UK Winebot supported by Aspect Software
\nSYNLAB Laboratory Services and Ancoris
\nUbisoft supported by Aspect<\/p>\n

Most Innovative Emerging Technology<\/strong><\/p>\n

Project Freq by Amido
\nPulse by FinancialForce<\/p>\n

CLOUD SERVICE PROVIDER<\/strong><\/p>\n

Best Cloud Managed Service Provider (MSP)<\/strong><\/p>\n

4D Data Centres
\nCenturyLink
\nClaranet
\nDatabarracks
\nEnsono<\/p>\n

Best Cloud Service Provider (CSP)<\/strong><\/p>\n

CSI Limited
\nContent Guru
\nIngram Micro Cloud
\nInteroute
\nSesui Ltd
\nTechQuarters
\nUKCloud Ltd<\/p>\n

Best G-Cloud Public Sector Provider<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kahootz
\nUKCloud Ltd<\/p>\n

ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cloud Visionary of the Year<\/strong><\/p>\n

Apay Obang-Oyway,Ingram Micro
\nCraig Joseph,intY
\nSimon Ratcliffe,Ensono<\/p>\n

Cloud Entrepreneur of the Year<\/strong><\/p>\n

Geoffroy De Cooman, Proxyclick
\nMitchell Feldman, RedPixie
\nSimon Hansford, UKCloud Ltd <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cloud Pro<\/p>\n

9 Apr, 2018 <\/p>\n

The UK Cloud Awards 2018 judging process has now finished and the shortlist of contenders for the accolades have been unveiled.
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