The NetEvents 2015 Cloud Innovations Awards were judged by an independent panel of highly respected judges, including IT professionals, industry gurus, the technology investment community including Silicon Valley venture capitalists, as well as leaders in the technology press and industry analysts from around the world.
Marcos Fox, CEO of NetEvents, commented: "These awards offer leading innovators an opportunity to raise their company's profile in front of the world's leading media gatekeepers, as well as build personal relationships with the press worldwide. Furthermore, these awards have also raised over $120,000 for charity to date. We thank all the competitors and judges, and congratulate the winners and runners-up on their incredible innovation and success.".
The awards for Leading Cloud Company and Most Interesting Product or Service of 2015 were presented by Erin Dunne, Director of Research Services, Vertical Systems Group. Amazon Web Services won both awards for its EC2 Container Service. Runners-up were CENX's Cortx orchestration service; Google's Container Engine and Firebase API; and Wedge Networks' Cloud Network Defense. Finalists for Leading Cloud Company were Alibaba, AT&T, and Google.
Judges' comments:
Brad Casemore, Research Director, Datacenter Networks, IDC, "AWS is set to turn IaaS Cloud into a $9.2 billion business in 2016, and appears to be making a modest profit in the process."
From Scott Raynovich, Rayno Media, "Cloud services and infrastructure as an IaaS provider has not stopped innovating, constantly adding new technologies and features to its cloud offering. Recent additions include AWS Marketplace for desktop applications, the EC2 Container service, and cloud machine learning.".
Gildo Campesato, Editor-in-Chief, told Corriere delle Comunicazioni, "Amazon EC2 Container Service is an instant classic."
Wayne Rash, eWEEK columnist, "The EC2 Container Service greatly simplifies the use of advanced cloud services that involve clustering and management."
Alan Zeichick, principal analyst at Camden Associates: "Docker-based containers are taking software development and network world building by storm, and Amazon's deployment of containers through the EC2 service dramatically simplifies container management and offers strong integrations with other Amazon and third-party services.".
The NetEvents Global Cloud Innovation Summit is a two-day event offering a stimulating conference program, along with the opportunity for leading companies in the industry to pre-arrange briefings with press and analysts. These include key technology publications such as Conectrónica magazine and analysts representing more than 30 countries worldwide.
