Organisations playing a pivotal role in the development of the ICT sector in the Middle East came together to attend the iconic Intelligent CIO Technology Excellence Awards 2016, hosted by Lynchpin Media and sponsored by CNet Training, Fortinet, ITSec, Citrix and Equinix. This ceremony, being the first of its kind in the region, marked the beginning of celebrating industry experts and companies who work tirelessly to push the margins of excellence and implement best practices across the technology spectrum.<\/p>\n
The award ceremony took place at the Westin Hotel in Al Habtoor City, Dubai, on May 11, 2016, and honoured companies and end-user individuals that have shown outstanding examples of IT implementation excellence and pioneering spirit in their chosen field of specialisation in the past year.\u00a0A nomination process was put into place to identify candidates\u00a0for various categories, thereafter, a prestigious panel of judges convened to select winners. The panel consisted of Eliot Beer, a regional industry expert who has worked across some of the region\u2019s most respected IT publications; Ivan Kraemer, former regional leader of HP and Potential and Chris Moore, former consultant and regional expert for numerous companies (including Trend Micro).<\/p>\n
A total of 22 awards were presented at the event, the details of which are as follows:<\/p>\n
Vendor awards:<\/strong><\/p>\n Intelligent Cabling Vendor of the Year<\/strong><\/p>\n Excel Networking Solutions<\/p>\n Intelligent Cloud Vendor of the Year<\/strong><\/p>\n Dell<\/p>\n Intelligent Data Centre Vendor of the Year<\/strong><\/p>\n Datamena<\/p>\n Intelligent Green Technology Vendor of the Year<\/strong><\/p>\n Cisco<\/p>\n Intelligent Mobile Technology Vendor of the Year<\/strong><\/p>\n Nokia<\/p>\n Intelligent Networking Vendor of the Year<\/strong><\/p>\n Riverbed Technologies<\/p>\n Intelligent Enterprise Security Vendor of the Year<\/strong><\/p>\n Fortinet<\/p>\n Intelligent Software for Businesses Vendor of the Year<\/strong><\/p>\n Veeam Software<\/p>\n Service Provider Product Awards:<\/strong><\/p>\n Intelligent Training Provider of the Year<\/strong><\/p>\n CNet Training<\/p>\n Intelligent Security Integrator of the Year<\/strong><\/p>\n Help AG<\/p>\n Intelligent System Integrator of the Year<\/strong><\/p>\n EMW Middle East<\/p>\n Intelligent Managed Service Provider of the Year<\/strong><\/p>\n eHDF<\/p>\n Intelligent Cabling Project of the Year<\/strong><\/p>\n Oman Data Park (ODP)<\/p>\n Intelligent Cloud Project of the Year<\/strong><\/p>\n Abu Dhabi Marine Operating Company<\/p>\n Intelligent Data Centre Project of the Year<\/strong><\/p>\n UAE Exchange<\/p>\n Intelligent Green Technology Project of the Year<\/strong><\/p>\n Etisalat<\/p>\n Intelligent Mobile Technology Project of the Year<\/strong><\/p>\n GCAA<\/p>\n Intelligent Networking Project of the Year<\/strong><\/p>\n Dubai World Trade Centre<\/p>\n Intelligent Enterprise Security Project of the Year<\/strong><\/p>\n BMTC<\/p>\n Intelligent Software for Businesses Project of the Year<\/strong><\/p>\n The Electronic Government (EGA) of Ras Al-Khaimah<\/p>\n End-user Awards:<\/strong><\/p>\n Intelligent IT Team of the Year<\/strong><\/p>\n Gulf Air<\/p>\n Intelligent CIO of the Year<\/strong><\/p>\n Ali Abdul Aziz Al Ali at ADNOC \t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Organisations playing a pivotal role in the development of the ICT sector in the Middle East came together to attend the iconic Intelligent CIO Technology Excellence Awards 2016, hosted by Lynchpin Media and sponsored by CNet Training, Fortinet, ITSec, Citrix and Equinix. This ceremony, being the first of its kind in the region, marked the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,16,13,185],"tags":[1588,155,420,1589,369,184],"class_list":["post-8470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intelligent-technology","category-regional-news","category-top-stories","category-uae","tag-awards","tag-cio","tag-dubai","tag-intelligentcio","tag-technology","tag-uae"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}