Assessment
The 2023 DCS Awards feature 32 categories across FOUR groups. The Project awards are open to end user implementations in EMEA of datacentre technologies and services before 28th February 2023. The Innovation awards are open to products and solutions that have been available in EMEA between 1st February 2022 and 31st January 2023 while the company and individual awards nominees must have been present in the EMEA market prior to 31st January 2023. For the Rising Star of the Year award the individual must have been working in the data centre industry for less than 6 years.
Project categories entry criteria: Please answer these questions in the general description of your nominations in these categories:
- What was the driving force behind the project - what business or technology challenge needed to be addressed?
- How did the solution address the challenges and were there any particularly innovative aspects that made it stand out?
- What major challenges were faced during the project and how were they overcome?
- What tangible benefits has the organisation seen as a result of the project's implementation?
All entries must demonstrate tangible benefits either in terms of cost savings or efficiency gains for the end-user concerned. Projects should have been implemented before 28th February 2023 in EMEA.
Open to any organisation's implementation of a set of set of private, public or hybrid cloud services to their internal or external customers that results in a significant business benefit. |
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Open to any project involving the consolidation of several data centres or a notable refresh/upgrade project resulting in significant benefits to the end-user organisation concerned. |
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Open to any data centre project that resulted in significant benefits to the end-user organisation with regard to the energy efficiency and sustainability of the facilities concerned. |
![]() Sponsored by Bridgeworks Ltd |
Open to any specific distributed computing project that brigs computation and data storage closer to the sources of the data improving response times and saving bandwidth implemented in any organisation of any size in EMEA. |
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Open to any organisation's project to migrate to a managed services model or colo-based set of services for the delivery of one or set of key applications in support of their core business. |
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Open to any project involving the design and build of a new data centre anywhere in EMEA. |
![]() Sponsored by EnerSys |
All products/solutions entered must have been shipping in EMEA between 1st February 2022 and 31st January 2023.
Entry Criteria: Please answer these questions in the general description of your nomination:
- What are your product's/solution's key distinguishing features and/or USP?
- What tangible impact has your product/solution had on the market and your customers?
- What are the major differentiators between your product/solution and those of your primary competitors?
- Please supply any supportive quotes and/or case study materials to demonstrate the value of this product/solution to your customers/partners.
Open to any products that are designed to deliver efficient and cost-effective data centre and or infrastructure cooling solutions to end users and/or data centre operators. |
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Open to any products that are designed to deliver comprehensive automation (IOT, AI etc.) or Data Centre Management (DCIM) solutions (i.e. the building and its total contents) to end users and/or data centre operators. |
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Open to any products that deliver effective cabling infrastructure and management in the data centre environment including cabinets and racking solutions for end users and/or data centre operators. |
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Open to any products that are designed to deliver efficient and cost-effective power solutions to end users and/or datacentre operators. |
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Open to any Physical Security and/or Fire/Safety solutions in the datacentre environment for end users and/or data centre operators. |
![]() Sponsored by Schneider Electric |
Open to any product that results in significant benefits to an end-user organisation's energy efficiency or sustainability of all or part of their data centre environment. |
![]() Sponsored by Legrand |
Open to any specific distributed computing innovation that brings computation and data storage closer to the sources of the data improving response times and saving bandwidth for operators services providers and/or end users. |
![]() Sponsored by Power Control Ltd |
Open to any products that enhance the provision of hosted and/or colocation services offered to an operator's clients or business partners. |
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All products/solutions entered must have been shipping in EMEA between 1st February 2022 and 31st January 2023.
Entry Criteria: Please answer these questions in the general description of your nomination:
- What are your product's/solution's key distinguishing features and/or USP?
- What tangible impact has your product/solution had on the market and your customers?
- What are the major differentiators between your product/solution and those of your primary competitors?
- Please supply any supportive quotes and/or case study materials to demonstrate the value of this product/solution to your customers/partners.
Open to any innovative data centre automation/ orchestration service, product or technology. |
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Open to any IT systems-level management solution aimed at effective management of heterogeneous datacentreIT environments including those based around AI. |
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Open to any networking and/or communications platform, appliance or system that provide local, wide area or remote access data centre connectivity. |
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Open to any security products, hardware and/or software based, that deliver specific datacentre focussed security solutions to organisations. |
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Open to any datacentre or cloud-based IT storage hardware and/or software productsthat deliver specific datacentre focussed storage solutions to end-users. |
![]() Sponsored by Spa Communications Ltd |
Entrants must have been present in the EMEA markets prior to 31st January 2023.
Entry Criteria: Please answer these questions in the general description of your nomination:
- What are your company's key distinguishing features and/or USP?
- What tangible impact has your company had on the market and your customers?
- What levels of customer service differentiate you from your competitors.
- What are the major differentiators between your company and your primary competitors?
- Please supply any supportive quotes and/or case study materials to demonstrate the position of your company in the market.
The company which champions some or all of the following aspects of today's workplace: personal development and training inclusivity employee wellbeing social responsibility. |
![]() Sponsored by Huawei Digital Power Technologies Co., Ltd. |
Open to any commercial organisation manufacturing, selling and/or supporting DC Facilities solutions in the EMEA market. |
![]() Sponsored by Bridgeworks Ltd |
Open to any organisation delivering data centre hosting and colocation services to end users or datacentre operators in the EMEA region. |
![]() Sponsored by EkkoSense |
Open to any commercial organisation manufacturing, selling and/or supporting DC ICT system solutions in the EMEA market. |
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Open to any commercial organisation selling and/or supporting DC Cloud products and/or services in the EMEA market. |
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Open to any IT vendor or reseller/business partner delivering end-user customer service in the UK or EMEA data centre markets.  Entries must be accompanied by a minimum of THREE customer testimonials (in English) attesting to the high level of customer service delivered that sets the entrant apart from their competition.  |
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Open to any IT vendor or business partner who has delivered through innovation or integration a measurable and/or tangible solution that delivers improved sustainability or efficiency in the data centre environment.&nbsp |
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Open to individuals employed in the EMEA region prior to 31st January 2023.
Open to any individual recognised to have made a significant contribution to the Data Centre industry in EMEA - they could be working within a data centre environment or for a supplier of data centre services such as a hosting/colocation supplier, a managed services provider, a channel organisation, a datacentre facilities or ICT vendor. |
![]() Sponsored by Huawei Digital Power Technologies Co., Ltd. |
Open for individuals to nominate OR organisations nominating individual employees of merit. This is NOT an age bound award. One submission per applicant.
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