Computing Vendor Excellence Awards shortlist announced

Did your product or service make the cut?

Computing has announced the shortlist for the Computing Vendor Excellence Awards.

The shortlist covers 21 categories, spanning every major area of the industry.

From mobile communications to enterprise storage to the Internet of Things, the competition to the reach the shortlist was intense.

The judging panel, comprised of IT leaders and Computing staff, will now work on drawing up a list of finalists, who'll be announced in the run-up to the Computing Vendor Excellence Awards event at London's Royal Garden Hotel on 10 July 2015.

The shortlist is printed in full below, and can also be viewed at the Awards website. Best of luck to all entrants!

Computing Vendor Excellence Awards 2015 Shortlist

Unified Communications Award

• 3CX Phone System
• xMatters IT Management
• 8x8 Solutions
• London's Air Ambulance - iPad Dispatch app
• BroadSoft
• IPC
• NewVoiceMedia - Contact World for Service
• Salesforce - Salesforce Chatter/ Salesforce1 Community Cloud

Wireless Infrastructure Award

• Aerohive Networks - AP230
• Zebra Technologies' AirDefense Wireless; Zebra WNS; AP 6522; AP8132; MOD8132
• Redcentric Solutions
• MMD Monitors and Displays BV, Philips Displays - Philips Cloud Base (Model Ref: SB4B1927-)

Collaboration Product Award

• Projectplace
• Intralinks - Intralinks VIA
• Egnyte - Adaptive Enterprise File Services
• Genius Inside - Genius Project
• Alfresco - Enterprise Content Management Solution
• LogMeIn - join.me
• TOPdesk - service management software
• Clarizen
• HighQ - Collaborate

Mobile management Award

• Tollring - iC360 - Mobile Management
• Good Technology - The Good Management Suite
• Accellion, Inc. - Kiteworks
• NetMotion Mobility
• Toshiba Portégé Z20t

Mobile Application Development Award

• Zebra Technologies - RhoMobile Suite
• FeedHenry Mobile Application Platform
• Xchanging - ERL - Automatic Fare Collection system
• TAAP Forms Technology for Healthcare Deliveries & Collections
• AltexSoft - Snaptracs
• Amazon Web Services - Mobile Services
• Kony Visualizer
• OutSystems Platform
• BigHand Go

Mobile Security Award

• Wandera - Secure Mobile Gateway
• The Good Mobility Suite
• Webroot Security Intelligence for Mobile Suite
• F5® Enterprise Mobility Gateway Solution
• Kaspersky Security for Mobile (KSM)

Endpoint Security Award

• Nexthink V5.3
• Webroot SecureAnywhereTM Business Endpoint Protection
• Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business

Identity & Access Management Award

• Power Admin LLC - PA File Sight
• SMS PASSCODE Multi-factor Authentication
• HID Global - ActivID® Authentication Appliance and ActivID Soft Token solution
• CyberArk Privileged Account Security Solution
• GlobalSign IAM-Easy
• Ping Identity Next Gen IAM Platform
• OneLogin
• F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM)
• RSA SecurID® Multifactor Authentication Solution

Application Security Award

• Skyhigh for Sanctioned IT
• Certes CryptoFlowTM Solutions
• Qualys Continuous Web Application Security
• F5 BIG-IP® Application Security ManagerTM (ASM)

Network Security Award

• F5 Silverline DDoS Protection Service
• Arbor Networks - Arbor Cloud
• Cegeka - AlienVault Unified Security ManagementTM
(USM)
• Cloudmark Security Platform for DNS

• LogRhythm Security Intelligence Platform
• Masergy - Unified Enterprise Security

• Tenable Network Security - SecurityCenter Continuous View

• Threat2Alert from Nettitude
• F5 BIG-IP® Advanced Firewall ManagerTM (AFM)
• ForeScout CounterACT

Unified Enterprise Security

• Tenable Network Security - SecurityCenter
Continuous View

• Nettitude - Threat2Alert

• F5 BIG-IP® Advanced Firewall ManagerTM (AFM)
• ForeScout CounterACT

Big Data Innovation of the Year

• DTP Group - Solutionpath StREAM service
• SanDisk - InfiniFlash
• Ormsby Street - CreditHQ
• DDN Storage - SFA 12K
• Splunk Enterprise
• Rosslyn Analytics RAPid Cloud Data Platform
• Attunity CloudBeam
• Couchbase Mobile and SmartTrade App
• Couchbase Mobile and Ryanair
• MongoDB 3.0

Data Management & Governance of the Year

• Alfresco enterprise content management solution
• Innometrics' Profile Cloud
• Advantech Europe - WebAcces
• Fonetic SPi Compliance

Data Visualisation of the Year

• Tollring - iC360 - data visualisation
• SecureData GI
• Trimble, Geospatial Division - eCognition Essentials Software
• Nominet - Bumblebee
• Tableau 9.0
• Advantech Europe - WebAccess
• Nexthink V5.3
• AltexSoft Inc - Price Predictor solution

Internet of Things Solution Award

• LogMein - Xively
• RF Code
• DataStax Enterprise
• Twilio
• Jasper IoT Platform

Business Continuity Award

• Codership - Galera Cluster for MySQL
• Comms365 Continuum Solution
• Databarracks Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service
• Veeam Availability Suite V8
• Actifio Copy Data Virtualization
• Severalnines - ClusterControl
• Quorum - onQ

Enterprise Storage Award

• PernixData & CloudHelix
• SanDisk - InfiniFlash
• Actifio Copy Data Virtualization
• Arcserve UDP
• EMC XtremIO 3.0
• Memset Memstore

Networking Infrastructure Award

• Dimension Data - Software-defined Networking Development Model

• Emulex ExpressConfig
• Silver Peak Unity
• Extreme Networks - Purview
• Masergy - Global Cloud Networking
• F5 BIG-IP 12250
• Zayo Group - Tranzact
• AT&T's Domain 2.0

Cloud Data Centre Provider of the Year

• Ark Data Centres
• Node4 N4Cloud
• Six Degrees
• Adapt Habitat
• Zen Internet
• TelecityGroup
• Verne Global 100% carbon neutral data centre
• VIRTUS Data Centres
• Memset
• Redcentric Solutions

Converged Infrastructure Award

• NetSuite SuiteCloud Developer Platform
• Virtustream - xStream
• Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance X5
• Ciena - V-WAN

DevOps Solution Award

• Sogeti - OneShare
• DBmaestro - TeamWork
• Fedr8 Application Modernisation Suite
• Amazon Web Services
• Splunk Enterprise
• Severalnines - ClusterControl
• Mirantis Open Stack
• Chef - DevOps Acceleration Workshop
• Delphix Data as a Service
• Perforce Helix