Cloud Excellence Awards 2017 - and the winners are...

An exciting evening saw some of the best companies in the cloud industry awarded for their achievements

The Cloud Excellence Awards 2017 went off with a bang last night, at a glittering evening in Central London following Computing's annual Cloud and Infrastructure Summit.

With 16 categories covering every area of the cloud, and awards going to organisations, teams, projects, products and individuals, the evening covered every part of the industry.

With some lively support from comedian Zoe Lyons, everyone attending had a fantastic evening, whether or not they walked away with an award.

But the awards themselves were central point of the evening, so who were the winners?

Cloud Security Product of the Year

Winner: Pirean - Pirean Access: One

Cloud DR and Continuity Product of the Year

Winner: Databarracks - Databarracks Cyber-DRaaS

Unified Communications Product of the Year

Winner: Microsoft - Skype for Business

Cloud Analytics Product of the Year

Winner: iFusion Analytics - Intelligent Collection and Edge Analytics

Most Innovative Cloud Product or Service

Winner: Logical Glue - Effortless Intelligence

Highly commended: Transputec - SHIELDIntelefile

Cloud Integration Product of the Year

Winner: Interoute Enterprise Digital Platform

Best Software-Defined Product

Winner: Interoute - Interoute Enterprise Digital Platform

Cloud Management Solution of the Year

Winner: Skyhigh Networks - Skyhigh Networks' Cloud Access Security Broker

Highly commended: CenturyLink - CenturyLink Cloud Application Manager

Cloud Telephony Product of the Year

Winner: Sesui - i-Platform Cloud-based telephony

Best Cloud Product

Winner: Arbor Networks - Arbor Cloud

Highly commended: Acronis - Acronis Cloud

Best Cloud Support Provider

Winner: Arcus Global - Arcus Cloud Support

Highly commended: BrightGen - Salesforce Implementation and Projects

Cloud Entrepreneur of the Year

Winner: Jacyn Heavens - Epos Now

Best Cloud Project

Winner: IBM - Royal Bank of Scotland Assist

Highly commended: Radius Payment Solutions - Kinesis Telematics

Best Overall use of Cloud

Winner: Home Office - Immigration Technology Cloud Transformation

Highly commended: Cogeco Peer 1 - Cogeco Peer 1 - Bang & Olufsen

Most Innovative Cloud Vendor of the Year

Winner: Ancoris

Cloud Vendor of the Year

Winner: FinancialForce