The UK IT Industry Awards: And the winners are...

Computing is proud to announce the winners of this year's prestigious UK IT Industry Awards.

At a glittering event in London last night, Computing, in association with the BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT, presented awards to the winners of 23 fiercely contested categories.

The victors – once they have recovered from the celebrations – will now be able to tell existing and potential customers that, having successfully negotiated the UK's most rigorously judged IT awards process, they truly are at the top of their game.

Adam Gerrard, CTO of LateRooms.com, who saw his organisation win the IT Employer of the Year award, explained that he entered the Awards in order to gain recognition for the work of his team.

"In the past 12 months we have achieved so much at The LateRooms Group that I really wanted the team to have the opportunity for some external recognition of their achievements.

"We have transformed the way the IT team works and the value that it delivers to the business," he added.

If you are interested in sponsoring or entering the UK IT Awards next year, details are available here.

WINNERS OF UK IT INDUSTRY AWARDS 2012

ORGANISATIONAL EXCELLENCE

IT Department of the Year
Hastings Insurance Services (CIO James Fairhurst, below, centre - click to enlarge)
(Hastings Direct)

Best Use of Cloud Services
The Met Office and PA Consulting

Large Supplier or Major VAR of the Year
Softcat

Small Supplier or VAR of the Year
Company85

IT Employer of the Year
The LateRooms Group

IT Project Team of the Year
Northgate Public Services (below)

INDIVIDUAL EXCELLENCE

Young IT Professional of the Year
Alex Healing, BT

IT Manager of the Year – Private Sector
Jonathan Allen (below, centre), Capital One (Europe)

IT Manager of the Year – Public Services
Steve Connell (below, centre), Home Office IT

IT Service and Support Professional of the Year
Mike Aistrop, Liverpool Direct


PROJECT EXCELLENCE

Best Business Project dependent on Mobile Technology
JBW Group
AR-12

Best Not for Profit IT Project
The Pennies Foundation
Pennies & The Entertainer

Big Data Project of the Year
HM Revenue & Customs

Data Centre Project of the Year
ARM
EUHPC (High Performance Compute Data Centre)


IT Project demonstrating most effective use of Collaborative Technology
The Met Office and PA Consulting
Weather Observation Website (WOW)

Network / Infrastructure Project of the Year
AstraZeneca & PA Consulting
IT Infrastructure Transformation


TECHNOLOGY EXCELLENCE

Business IT Innovation of the Year
Deutsche Bank
Horizon

Cloud Provider of the Year
CentraStage
London Grid for Learning

Infrastructure Innovation of the Year
Virtual Instruments
VirtualWisdom and Performance Probe

Innovative Mobile App of the Year
Telefonica UK
Priority Moments

Security Innovation of the Year
Cyber-Ark

UK Innovation and Entrepreneurship Award
Trade Mark Direct


INDIVIDUAL EXCELLENCE

CIO of the Year
Susan Cooklin, Network Rail

OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION

Outstanding Contribution to UK IT
LOCOG

Computing congratulates all the winners and runners-up, and thanks everyone who attended the ceremony for making it such a fabulous event.