First Global Awards Ceremony For Data Centre, Cloud And Edge Launched

London/Monaco – 10 December 2018 – The 12th Annual Datacloud Awards ceremony to be held in Monaco, June 4th, 2019 has been announced as a global ceremony for the sector reflecting the event growth, and the increased presence of players from the US and Asia at Datacloud Congress, 4-6 June, 2019, Monaco.

Reflecting the global ceremony for 2019, the Judges have extended several regionally specific award categories including Asia Pacific, Europe, Middle East and Africa and the Americas covering data centre excellence and data centre service provider of the year.

Chairman of the Judging Panel Gerd Simon remarked that "the 2019 Datacloud Awards offer a global platform for players in digital transformation businesses to inspire the markets with their pioneering spirit. Recognizing leadership, excellence and innovation the Awards provide best practice information.”

“We encourage companies worldwide to nominate and wish them all every good luck in the process. We have the largest assembled panel of expert Judges ever, and we look forward to seeing you all in Monaco on 4th June" continued Mr Simon.

The Cloud Service Provider of the Year honours the achievements of a leading company in the highly competitive Cloud Services sector during the previous 18 months.

Innovation in reducing energy use in data centres is a key area of current development and an award recognizing achievement will be provided by the Infrastructure Masons.

A number of new awards for 2019 are also announced and include the cybersecurity sector and the information security market, how data centres contribute to the shaping and enabling of Smart Cities, the 5G Forerunner award recognizing a significant contribution to best practice in 5G deployment and also recognizing innovation of IT architecture, design and data centre construction for Hyperscales.

Focused on customer implementation which has made the greatest impact in data centre and cloud services, 2019 will also see for the first time a Digital Champion award.

The Judges have also launched 3 new Edge awards reflecting its growing importance: Edge Innovation, Edge Leader of the Year, and Telco at the Edge.

Innovation in global connectivity, and a separate category for Fibre are also both announced as open for nomination.

A popular category recognizing data centre location, is open again to development agencies, governments and trade associations. Similarly, an award is sustained for excellence in leading and implementing Corporate Social Responsibility.

Finally, the Judges were keen to emphasise the importance of new people entering the industry and are offering two awards: Young Engineer of the Year, and Young Digital Leader of the Year.

Commenting on the 2019 Awards, Philip Low, chairman of BroadGroup, the event producers, said “As the annual Awards ceremony for the sector, and acknowledged as the industry benchmark for excellence, extending the opportunity to all players and individuals globally places this ceremony in a pivotal position and one that all companies can aspire to, offering definitive recognition of their innovation and achievement.”

“We are very indebted to our extended panel of 30 expert judges from EMEAI, Asia and North America who will assess all the nominations for the only global awards ceremony covering data centre, cloud and Edge.”

Nominations must be received by no later than Tuesday 12th March. Shortlisted companies will be announced during April, and winners announced on the evening of June 4th in Monaco at the black tie ceremony held in the spectacular Le Sporting in Monte Carlo.