The UK Cloud Awards 2018 judging process has now finished and the shortlist of contenders for the accolades have been unveiled.
The awards, which are designed to recognise talent, achievement and innovation in the UK cloud industry, are now in their fifth year.
Winners will be announced at the awards ceremony, which will take place at County Hall, London on 16 May.
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’s awards calendar.
«Over the past decade we have 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’s 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.»
The shortlist for the UK Cloud Awards 2018 is as follows:
BEST IN CLASS
Security Solution of the Year
Alienvault USM Anywhere by Alienvault
Amazon GuardDuty by AWS
CipherTrust Cloud Key Manager by Thales eSecurity
Darktrace Cloud by Darktrace
Verify by Aspect Software
Storage Solution of the Year
Ceph Storage 3 by Red Hat
FlashBlade by Pure Storage
Rubrik
Scality RING7 by Scality
Collaboration Solution of the Year
BlueJeans with Dolby Voice
Freshdesk
Lifesize App by Lifesize
Business Continuity Solution of the Year
Druva Cloud Platform
iland Secure DRaaS by iland Cloud
SolarWinds Backup by Solarwinds MSP
Most Innovative Enterprise Product
Adaptive Insights Business Planning Cloud
Apttus »Max» by Apttus
Boomi by DELL
Interoute Edge by Interoute
iPortalis Control Portal
New Relic by New Relic
Rubrik
Silver Peak Unity EdgeConnect SD-WAN solution
Most Innovative SMB Product
Advanced Voice Services by Natterbox
CloudMigrator Go by Cloud Technology Solutions
GoSimpleTax by GoSimple Software Limited
Unified Communications Product of the Year
Advanced Voice Services by Natterbox
Global Office by RingCentral
storm DTA by Content Guru
Fintech Solution of the Year
AccountsIQ
Expenses by Selenity
FreeAgent
GoSimple Tax by GoSimple Software Limited
Mambu
Sage Business Cloud Financials (formerly known as Sage Live
Cloud Platform Solution of the Year
Anypoint Platform
Crowd Release by MuleSoft
Boomi by DELL
Cloud Platform Solution by Box
Cloud Protection Manager by N2W Software
OpenShift Container Platform 3.7 by Red Hat
Spotinst
ThousandEyes
BEST DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION PROJECTS
Best Public Sector Project
CityVerve supported by Chime-Tech
Health and Social Care digital meal planning with Kafoodle Kare
Manchester City Council supported by Cloud Technology Solutions
NHS in association with Kahootz
storm® Citizen Engagement Hub with Content Guru
Best Private Sector Project (SMB)
Brother International Europe supported by Ensono
Stephen James Group supported by Charterhouse Voice & Data
Best Private Sector Project(Enterprise)
Big Data European Concept Platform (UK) supported by ANS
Nuffield Health supported by Silver Peak
The Lidl UK Winebot supported by Aspect Software
SYNLAB Laboratory Services and Ancoris
Ubisoft supported by Aspect
Most Innovative Emerging Technology
Project Freq by Amido
Pulse by FinancialForce
CLOUD SERVICE PROVIDER
Best Cloud Managed Service Provider (MSP)
4D Data Centres
CenturyLink
Claranet
Databarracks
Ensono
Best Cloud Service Provider (CSP)
CSI Limited
Content Guru
Ingram Micro Cloud
Interoute
Sesui Ltd
TechQuarters
UKCloud Ltd
Best G-Cloud Public Sector Provider
Kahootz
UKCloud Ltd
ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS
Cloud Visionary of the Year
Apay Obang-Oyway,Ingram Micro
Craig Joseph,intY
Simon Ratcliffe,Ensono
Cloud Entrepreneur of the Year
Geoffroy De Cooman, Proxyclick
Mitchell Feldman, RedPixie
Simon Hansford, UKCloud Ltd