10th Annual 2015 IT World Awards

10th Annual 2015 IT World Awards

New Products and Services

Gold Winner (11 – 99 Employees)
TaaSera (Cupertino, CA USA – 11 – 99 Employees) for TaaSera NetTrust v2.5
Silver Winner (11 – 99 Employees)
Pwnie Express (Boston, MA, USA – 11 – 99 Employees) for Pwn Pulse
Bronze Winners (11 – 99 Employees)
Apcera (San Francisco, CA USA – 11 – 99 Employees) for Continuum v1
Azuga Fleet (San Jose, California, USA – 11 – 99 Employees) for Azuga Fleet Mobile version v1.0 b279

Gold Winner (100 – 499 Employees)
Code42 (Minneapolis, MN USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for SharePlan v4.1.4
Silver Winner (100 – 499 Employees)
Foxit Software Inc. (Fremont, California, USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for Foxit PhantomPDF Business 7.0
Bronze Winners (100 – 499 Employees)
1E (London, England, United Kingdom – 100-499 employees) for MyWorkNow v1.6
Actiontec Electronics (Sunnyvale, CA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for WiFi Optimizer App
Attensity (Redwood City, California, USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for Attensity Q v1.1
Infinite Convergence Solutions (Arlington Heights, IL USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for NetSfere (SW version 2.0)
Rise Interactive (Chicago, Illinois, USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for Connex v1.0

Gold Winner (500 – 2,499 Employees)
Qlik (Radnor, PA USA – 500 – 2,499 Employees) for Qlik Sense
Silver Winner (500 – 2,499 Employees)
Radware, Inc. (Mahwah, NJ USA – 500 – 2,499 Employees) for Attack Mitigation Service
Bronze Winner (500 – 2,499 Employees)
Radware, Inc. (Mahwah, NJ USA – 500 – 2,499 Employees) for Alteon VA for NFV

Gold Winner (2,500 or more Employees)
Epicor Software Corporation (Austin, TX USA – 2,500 or more Employees) for Epicor® Eagle N Series™

Application Delivery
Gold Winner
XebiaLabs (Boston, MA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for XL Release v4.6.0
Silver Winner
XebiaLabs (Boston, MA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for XL Deploy v5.0.0

Apps
Gold Winner
SAVO (Chicago, IL USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for Sales Onboarding Pro v1.0

Asset Management
Gold Winner
BDNA (Mountain View, CA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for Technopedia
Silver Winner
Verismic Software, Inc. (Aliso Viejo, CA USA – 11 – 99 Employees) for Cloud Management Suite (CMS 4.1)
Bronze Winner
Sylectus (Woodhaven, MI USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for Sylectus Alliance Network

Bandwidth Optimization
Gold Winner
Plixer International, Inc. (Kennebunk, ME USA – 11 – 99 Employees) for Scrutinizer v12

Best IT Hardware (New or Upgrade version)
Gold Winner
Fujitsu Computer Products of America (Sunnyvale, CA USA – 500 – 2,499 Employees) for Fujitsu Image Scanner fi-7160
Silver Winner
Eaton (Cleveland, OH USA – 2,500 or more Employees) for Eaton ePDU® third-generation (G3) platform
Bronze Winners
Broadcom Corporation (Irvine, CA USA – 2,500 or more Employees) for StrataXGS Tomahawk™ Switch Series
Dell Inc. (Round Rock, Texas, USA – 2,500 or more Employees) for Dell SuperMassive 9800
Napatech (Soeborg, Copenhagen, Denmark – 100 – 499 Employees) for 200G Performance Solution

Best IT Services (New or Upgrade version)
Gold Winner
Foreground Security (Herndon, VA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for Virtual Security Operations Center (V-SOC) (V-SOC and Automated Threat Intelligence Platform (ATIP) 3.3.3)
Silver Winner
Cisco Systems, Inc. (San Jose, CA USA – 2,500 or more Employees) for Cisco Moogsoft Implementation v1.0
Bronze Winners
Cisco Systems, Inc. (San Jose, CA USA – 2,500 or more Employees) for Cisco IT Elastic Infrastructure Services (CITEIS)
Cisco Systems, Inc. (San Jose, CA USA – 2,500 or more Employees) for Lightweight Application Environment v2.4.1
Cisco Systems, Inc. (San Jose, CA USA – 2,500 or more Employees) for Privilege Access Control v1.0

Best IT Software (New or Upgrade version) (11 – 99 Employees)
Gold Winner
B2W Software (Portsmouth, NH USA – 11 – 99 Employees) for B2W ONE
Silver Winner
Accellion (Palo Alto, CA USA – 11 – 99 Employees) for Accellion’s mobile content platform
Bronze Winner
Plixer International, Inc. (Kennebunk, ME USA – 11 – 99 Employees) for Scrutinizer v12

Best IT Software (New or Upgrade version) (100 – 499 Employees) – USA
Gold Winner
HEAT Software (formerly FrontRange) (Milpitas, CA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for HEAT SA v2014.3
Silver Winner
ScienceLogic (Reston, VA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for ScienceLogic Hybrid IT Monitoring Platform v7.5.1
Bronze Winners
Courion (Westborough, MA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for Access Insight
eG Innovations (Iselin, NJ USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for eG Enterprise v6
Idera Inc. (Houston, Texas, USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for Idera SQL Suite
Netwrix Corporation (Irvine, California USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for Netwrix Auditor v6.5

Best IT Software (New or Upgrade version) (100 – 499 Employees) – Europe
Gold Winner
IpanemaTechnologies (Paris, France – 100 – 499 Employees) for Dynamic Hybrid Networking
Silver Winner
HOB GmbH & Co. KG (Cadolzburg, Bavaria, Germany – 100 – 499 Employees) for HOB Remote Desktop Virtual Private Network v2.1

Best IT Software (New or Upgrade version) (500 – 2,499 Employees)
Gold Winner
Information Builders (New York, NY USA – 500 – 2,499 Employees) for WebFOCUS 8

Business Transaction Management
Gold Winner
BlueStripe Software (Research Triangle Park, NC USA – 11 – 99 Employees) for BlueStripe FactFinder v8

BYOD (Bring Your Own Device)
Gold Winner
CTERA Networks (New York City, NY USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for CTERA version 4.1
Silver Winner
XRS Corporation (Minnetonka, MN USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for XRS Fleet Management System v3.6
Bronze Winner
Dell Inc. (Round Rock, Texas, USA – 2,500 or more Employees) for Dell Secure Mobile Access (SMA) v11.1
Druva (Sunnyvale, CA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for Druva inSync v5.4
Stoneware, Inc. (Carmel, IN USA – 11 – 99 Employees) for webNetwork 6.3

Cloud Computing/SaaS (11 – 99 Employees)
Gold Winner
GridVision Technologies, Inc. (New York, NY USA – 11 – 99 Employees) for GridVision v1
Silver Winner
Corporate Renaissance Group (Ottawa, ON Canada – 11 to 99 employees) for CRG emPerform v4.5
Bronze Winners
Stoneware, Inc. (Carmel, IN USA – 11 – 99 Employees) for webNetwork 6.3
Teletrac Inc. (Garden Grove, California, USA – 500 – 2,499 Employees) for Teletrac Fleet Director® Software

Cloud Computing/SaaS (100 – 499 Employees)
Gold Winner
Brainshark, Inc. (Waltham, MA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for The Brainshark Sales Accelerator (version 1.0)
Silver Winner
iCIMS, Inc. (Matawan, New Jersey, USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for iCIMS Talent Platform v14.2
Bronze Winners
Code42 (Minneapolis, MN USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for CrashPlan v4.1.4
Druva (Sunnyvale, CA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for Druva inSync v5.4

Cloud Computing/SaaS (500 – 2,499 Employees)
Gold Winner
AppFolio (Santa Barbara, CA USA – 500 – 2,499 Employees) for AppFolio Property Manager
Silver Winner
Teletrac Inc. (Garden Grove, California, USA – 500 – 2,499 Employees) for Teletrac Fleet Director® Software
Bronze Winner
AppFolio (Santa Barbara, CA USA – 500 – 2,499 Employees) for MyCase

Cloud Computing/SaaS (2,500 or more Employees)
Gold Winner
Ceridian (Minneapolis, MN USA – 2,500 or more Employees) for Dayforce ConnectedPay v6.46
Silver Winner
myStaffingPro, a Paychex, Inc. company (Rochester, NY USA – 2,500 or more Employees) for myStaffingPro v15.3

Cloud Security
Gold Winner
Perspecsys (Tysons Corner, VA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for AppProtex Cloud Data Protection Gateway v4
Silver Winner
Dell Inc. (Round Rock, Texas, USA – 2,500 or more Employees) for Dell One Identity Cloud Access Manager 8.0
Bronze Winner
EdgeWave (San Diego, CA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for EdgeWave ePrism Email Security v10.0

Compliance Data Center
Gold Winner
Globalscape, Inc. (San Antonio, Texas, USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for Enhanced File Transfer v7.0
Silver Winner
Dell Inc. (Round Rock, Texas, USA – 2,500 or more Employees) for Change Auditor v6.6

Email, Security and Management (11 – 99 Employees)
Gold Winner
Agari (San Mateo, California, USA – 11 – 99 Employees) for Agari PRO v1
Silver Winner
Knowledge Vault (New York, NY USA – 11 – 99 Employees) for Knowledge Vault v1

Email, Security and Management (100 – 499 Employees)
Gold Winner
EdgeWave (San Diego, CA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for EdgeWave ePrism Email Security v10.0
Silver Winner
Globalscape, Inc. (San Antonio, Texas, USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for Mail Express v4

Email, Security and Management (2,500 or more Employees)
Gold Winner
Dell Inc. (Round Rock, Texas, USA – 2,500 or more Employees) for Dell SonicWALL Hosted Email Security v3.0
Silver Winner
Dell Inc. (Round Rock, Texas, USA – 2,500 or more Employees) for Dell On Demand Migration for Email 1.7

Firewalls
Gold Winner
Cyberom Technologies Pvt Ltd. (Edison, NJ USA – 500 – 2,499 Employees) for Cyberoam CR1000iNG-XP (Firmware Version: CYBEROAMOS 10.6.2)

Governance, Risk and Compliance (1 – 499 Employees)
Gold Winner
Lynx Technology Partners (Indian Trail, NY USA – 11 – 99 Employees) for Lynx Risk Manager v4.5
Silver Winner
TraceSecurity (Baton Rouge, LA USA – 11 – 99 Employees) for TraceCSO
Bronze Winner
AccelOps (Santa Clara, CA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for AccelOps 4 v4.3

Governance, Risk and Compliance (500 – 2,499 Employees)
Gold Winner
Happiest Minds Technologies (Princeton, NJ USA – 500 – 2,499 Employees) for ComplianceVigil v1.2
Silver Winner
Omnitracs LLC (Dallas, Texas, USA – 500 – 2,499 Employees) for Omnitracs Hours of Service (HOS) application v4.0
Bronze Winner
Workiva (Ames, Iowa, USA – 500 – 2,499 Employees) for Wdesk

Governance, Risk and Compliance (2,500 or more Employees)
Gold Winner
Dell Inc. (Round Rock, Texas, USA – 2,500 or more Employees) for Dell One Identity Manager v6.9
Silver Winner
Dell Inc. (Round Rock, Texas, USA – 2,500 or more Employees) for InTrust 11.0
Bronze Winner
Dell Inc. (Round Rock, Texas, USA – 2,500 or more Employees) for Change Auditor v6.6

Information Security and Risk Management (11 – 99 Employees)
Gold Winner
Agiliance, Inc. (Sunnyvale, California, USA – 11 – 99 Employees) for RiskVision 7.5
Silver Winner
TraceSecurity (Baton Rouge, LA USA – 11 – 99 Employees) for TraceCSO
Bronze Winner
iovation (Portland, OR USA – 11 – 99 Employees) for iovation Mobile SDK (The Mobile SDK is part of ReputationManager 360)

Information Security and Risk Management (100 – 499 Employees)
Gold Winner
Gurucul (Los Angeles, CA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for Gurucul Threat Analytics Platform v1.0
Silver Winner
ThreatMetrix (San Jose, CA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for TrustDefender™ Cybercrime Protection Platform
Bronze Winner
Courion (Westborough, MA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for Access Insight

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
Gold Winner
Happiest Minds Technologies (Princeton, NJ USA – 500 – 2,499 Employees) for iTaaS – Infrastructure Transformation as a Service v1.2
Silver Winner
Broadview Networks (Rye Brook, NY USA – 500 – 2,499 Employees) for OfficeSuite® PrivateCloud v1.2

Innovations in IT (Information Technology)
Gold Winner
Cisco Systems, Inc. (San Jose, CA USA – 2,500 or more Employees) for Lightweight Application Environment v2.4.1

Innovations in Mobile and Wireless
Gold Winner
Globoforce (Southborough, MA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for Globoforce Mobile
Silver Winner
Actiontec Electronics (Sunnyvale, CA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for WxB6000Q Family of Wireless Network Extenders

Innovations in Unified Communications
Gold Winner
Dell Inc. (Round Rock, Texas, USA – 2,500 or more Employees) for Dell Unified Communication Command Suite v1.0

Innovations in Video
Gold Winner
Worldnow (Long Island City, NY USA – 11 – 99 Employees) for Studio Gateway v2.1
Silver Winner
Globoforce (Southborough, MA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for Service Timelines v1

Insider Threat Detection and Solutions
Gold Winner
Darktrace (Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England – 11 – 99 Employees) for Enterprise Immune System (EIS) v2.0
Silver Winner
SpectorSoft (Vero Beach, Florida, USA – 11 – 99 Employees) for Spector 360 v8.2
Bronze Winners
Arbor Networks (Burlington, MA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for Pravail Security Analytics v1.0
Dell Inc. (Round Rock, Texas, USA – 2,500 or more Employees) for Dell One Identity Manager v6.9
Gurucul (Los Angeles, CA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for Gurucul Threat Analytics Platform v1.0
Happiest Minds Technologies (Princeton, NJ USA – 500 – 2,499 Employees) for CyberVigil v1.2

Internet of Things (IoT)
Gold Winner
Arxan Technologies (Bethesda, MD USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for Arxan Application Protection for the Internet of Things (IoT) – EIT 6.2
Silver Winner
Sansa Security (Campbell, California, USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for Sansa CLIENT

IT Products and Services for Education
Gold Winner
Stoneware, Inc. (Carmel, IN USA – 11 – 99 Employees) for webNetwork 6.3
Silver Winner
MessageSolution, Inc. (Milpitas, CA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for MessageSolution Hosted Multi-tenant Archiving Platform
Bronze Winner
Actiontec Electronics (Sunnyvale, CA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for ScreenBeam Pro Education Edition

IT Products and Services for Enterprise (Large)
Gold Winner
Infinite Convergence Solutions (Arlington Heights, IL USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for NetSfere (SW version 2.0)
Silver Winner
Netwrix Corporation (Irvine, California USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for Netwrix Auditor v6.5
Bronze Winners
Cisco Systems, Inc. (San Jose, CA USA – 2,500 or more Employees) for Lightweight Application Environment v2.4.1
Violin Memory, Inc. (Santa Clara, CA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for Violin 7300 Flash Storage Platform

IT Products and Services for Enterprise (Medium)
Gold Winner
SIOS Technology (San Mateo, California, USA – 11 to 99 Employees) for SIOS DataKeeper Cluster Edition v8.2.0
Silver Winner
Corero Network Security (Hudson, MA USA – 11 – 99 Employees) for SmartWall ThreatDefense System

IT Products and Services for Finance, Banking and Insurance
Gold Winner
Azul Systems (Sunnyvale, CA USA – 11 – 99 Employees) for ReadyNow! (Zing 14.09)
Silver Winner
Corero Network Security (Hudson, MA USA – 11 – 99 Employees) for SmartWall ThreatDefense System
Bronze Winners
Kaseya (Waltham, MA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for Kaseya Virtual System Administrator (VSA) v9.0
MessageSolution, Inc. (Milpitas, CA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for MessageSolution Hosted Multi-tenant Archiving Platform

IT Products and Services for Government
Gold Winner
Acendre (formerly known as NGA.NET) (Arlington, VA USA – 11 – 99 Employees) for Natural Talent version NT1G

IT Products and Services for Healthcare
Gold Winner
MessageSolution, Inc. (Milpitas, CA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for MessageSolution Hosted Multi-tenant Archiving Platform

IT Products and Services for Service Delivery
Gold Winner
CTERA Networks (New York City, NY USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for CTERA version 4.1

IT Products and Services for Telecommunications
Gold Winner
ERPScan (Palo Alto, California, USA – 11 – 99 Employees) for ERPScan Security Monitoring Suite for SAP v3
Silver Winner
APTelecom (Morristown, NJ USA – 11 – 99 Employees) for New System Pre-Sales

IT Products and Services for Transportation
Gold Winner
Broadcom Corporation (Irvine, CA USA – 2,500 or more Employees) for BCM89811 Automotive PHY
Silver Winner
Geotab (Oakville, Ontario, Canada – 100 – 499 Employees) for Geotab’s End-to-End Telematics Solution (GO7 + MyGeotab)

Mobile and Wireless Solutions
Gold Winner
Qualcomm (San Jose, CA USA – 500 – 2,499 Employees) for Qualcomm® VIVE™ with Multi-User MIMO
Silver Winner
Nextivity Inc. (San Diego, CA USA – 11 – 99 Employees) for Cel-Fi DUO
Bronze Winner
Actiontec Electronics (Sunnyvale, CA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for WxB6000Q Family of Wireless Network Extenders

Monitoring and Testing
Gold Winner
Perfecto Mobile (Woburn, MA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for The Continuous Quality Lab

Most Innovative IT Hardware
Gold Winner
Napatech (Soeborg, Copenhagen, Denmark – 100 – 499 Employees) for 200G Performance Solution

Most Innovative IT Software
Gold Winner
Verismic Software, Inc. (Aliso Viejo, CA USA – 11 – 99 Employees) for Cloud Management Suite (CMS 4.1)
Silver Winner
Catalogic Software (Woodcliff Lake, NJ USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for ECX 2.0
Bronze Winners
AccelOps (Santa Clara, CA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for AccelOps 4 v4.3
HOB GmbH & Co. KG (Cadolzburg, Bavaria, Germany – 100 – 499 Employees) for HOB Remote Desktop Virtual Private Network v2.1
StackIQ, Inc. (San Diego, CA USA – 11 – 99 Employees) for StackIQ Boss 5

Network Intelligence
Gold Winner
Courion (Westborough, MA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for Access Insight
Silver Winner
Accolade Technology (Mansfield, MA USA – Mansfield) for ANIC-200K Series (version ANIC-200K4)

Network Management
Gold Winner
AccelOps (Santa Clara, CA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for AccelOps 4 v4.3
Silver Winner
Fluke Networks (Everett, WA USA – 500 – 2,499 Employees) for Visual TruView + OptiView XG AANPM Solution (Visual TruView 9 +OptiView 11)
Bronze Winner
Plixer International, Inc. (Kennebunk, ME USA – 11 – 99 Employees) for Scrutinizer v12

Networking
Gold Winner
Masergy Communications, Inc. (Plano, Texas, USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for Managed Cloud Networking
Silver Winner
Actiontec Electronics (Sunnyvale, CA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for WxB6000Q Family of Wireless Network Extenders

Performance Optimization
Gold Winner
Idera Inc. (Houston, Texas, USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for up.time v8.X
Silver Winner
Plixer International, Inc. (Kennebunk, ME USA – 11 – 99 Employees) for Scrutinizer v12
Bronze Winner
Napatech (Soeborg, Copenhagen, Denmark – 100 – 499 Employees) for 200G Performance Solution

Platform as a Service (PaaS)
Gold Winner
TrackVia (Denver, CO USA – 11 – 99 Employees) for TrackVia Application Platform
Silver Winner
GridVision Technologies, Inc. (New York, NY USA – 11 – 99 Employees) for GridVision v1
Bronze Winner
ActiveState (Vancouver, BC Canada) for Stackato v3.4
Cisco Systems, Inc. (San Jose, CA USA – 2,500 or more Employees) for Lightweight Application Environment v2.4.1

Policy Management
Gold Winner
Knowledge Vault (New York, NY USA – 11 – 99 Employees) for Knowledge Vault v1

Products and Services for Asia-Pacific
Gold Winner
MessageSolution, Inc. (Milpitas, CA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for MessageSolution Hosted Multi-tenant Archiving Platform

Products and Services for USA
Gold Winner
MessageSolution, Inc. (Milpitas, CA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for MessageSolution Hosted Multi-tenant Archiving Platform

Security Hardware (New or Upgrade version)
Gold Winner
Arbor Networks (Burlington, MA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for Pravail Availability Protection System v5.6
Silver Winner
Cyberom Technologies Pvt Ltd. (Edison, NJ USA – 500 – 2,499 Employees) for Cyberoam CR1000iNG-XP (Firmware Version: CYBEROAMOS 10.6.2)

Security Services (New or Upgrade version)
Gold Winner
EventTracker (Columbia, MD USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for EventTracker 7.6
Silver Winner
Easy Solutions (Sunrise, FL USA – 11 – 99 Employees) for Easy Solutions Total Fraud Protection
Bronze Winner
WatchGuard Technologies (Seattle, WA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for WatchGuard APT Blocker v1.0

Security Software (New or Upgrade version) (11 – 99 Employees)
Gold Winner
Watchful Software (Medford, NJ USA – 11 – 99 Employees) for RightsWATCH 6.2.2
Silver Winner
Thycotic (Washington DC, DC USA – 11 – 99 Employees) for Secret Server v8.8
Bronze Winners
Agiliance, Inc. (Sunnyvale, California, USA – 11 – 99 Employees) for RiskVision 7.5
Darktrace (Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England – 11 – 99 Employees) for Enterprise Immune System (EIS) v2.0

Security Software (New or Upgrade version) (100 – 499 Employees)
Gold Winner
HOB GmbH & Co. KG (Cadolzburg, Bavaria, Germany – 100 – 499 Employees) for HOB Remote Desktop Virtual Private Network v2.1
Silver Winner
Damballa (Atlanta, GA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for Damballa Failsafe 6
Bronze Winners
Arxan Technologies (Bethesda, MD USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for Arxan Application Protection™ Suite (Version 5.0 with enhanced Runtime Application Self Protection (RASP) capabilities)
ThreatMetrix (San Jose, CA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for TrustDefender™ Cybercrime Protection Platform

Security Software (New or Upgrade version) (500 – 2,499 Employees)
Gold Winner
Fluke Networks (Everett, WA USA – 500 – 2,499 Employees) for AirMagnet Enterprise 10.9

Security Software (New or Upgrade version) (2,500 or more Employees)
Gold Winner
Raytheon Cyber Products (Herndon, VA USA – 2,500 or more Employees) for SureView™ Threat Protection v1.5
Silver Winner
Dell, Inc. (Round Rock, Texas, USA – 2,500 or more Employees) for Dell One Identity as a Service v1.0
Bronze Winners
Raytheon Cyber Products (Herndon, VA USA – 2,500 or more Employees) for SureView™ Memory Integrity Solution v4.0
Raytheon Cyber Products (Herndon, VA USA – 2,500 or more Employees) for Trusted Print Delivery™ v1.5

Storage Solutions
Gold Winner
NEC (Santa Clara, CA USA – 2,500 or more Employees) for HYDRAstor HS Series v4.2
Silver Winner
DataDirect Networks (Santa Clara, California, USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for WOS S3
Bronze Winners
Kaminario (Newton, Massachusetts, USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for K2 All-Flash Array v5
NexGen Storage (Louisville, CO USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for N5 Hybrid Flash Array v3

Training, Awareness and Educational Programs (any type of training or awareness)
Gold Winner
Global Learning Systems LLC (Clarksville, MD USA – 11 – 99 Employees) for Security Awareness Training Program

Unified or Integrated Security
Gold Winner
WatchGuard Technologies (Seattle, WA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for WatchGuard Firebox M440 v1.0

Voice over IP and Unified Communications
Gold Winner
PanTerra Networks (Santa Clara, California, USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for WorldSmart/Unified Business Analytics
Silver Winner
Edgewater Networks (San Jose, CA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for EdgeMarc 4750 Enterprise Session Border Controller v1
Bronze Winner
Broadview Networks (Rye Brook, NY USA – 500 – 2,499 Employees) for OfficeSuite® Phone v7.0

Web (Application, Gateway, Security, etc.)
Gold Winner
EdgeWave (San Diego, California, USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for EdgeWave iPrism Web Gateway v8.0

Hot Companies
Gold Winners
Bell Integrator (Mountain View, CA USA – 500 – 2,499 Employees)
Black Lotus Communications (San Franscisco, California USA – 11 – 99 Employees)
Cosentry (Omaha, NE USA – 100 – 499 Employees)
Masergy Communications, Inc. (Plano, Texas, USA – 100 – 499 Employees)
Norse Corporation (San Mateo, California, USA – 11 – 99 Employees)
Plixer International, Inc. (Kennebunk, ME USA – 11 – 99 Employees)
Silobreaker (London, United Kingdom – 11 – 99 Employees)
StackIQ, Inc. (San Diego, CA USA – 11 – 99 Employees)
SYSPRO (Costa Mesa, CA USA – 500 – 2,499 Employees)
Workshare (London, United Kingdom – 100 – 499 Employees)

Startup of the Year
Gold Winner (1 – 10 Employees)
SecBI (Beer-Sheba, Israel – 1 – 10 Employees) August 2014
Silver Winner (1 – 10 Employees)
APImetrics (Seattle, WA USA – 1 – 10 Employees) January 2013
Bronze Winner (1 – 10 Employees)
PremFina (London, United Kingdom – 1 – 10 Employees) May 2014

Gold Winner (11 – 99 Employees)
VeloCloud Networks (Mountain View, CA USA – 11 – 99 Employees) July 2014
Silver Winner (11 – 99 Employees)
Sqrrl (Cambridge, MA USA – 11 – 99 Employees) August 2012
Bronze Winners (11 – 99 Employees)
Apcera (San Francisco, CA USA – 11 – 99 Employees) March 2012
Avi Networks (Sunnyvale, CA USA – 11 – 99 Employees) January 2013
Cognitive Scale (Austin, Texas, USA – 11 – 99 Employees) June 2013
Dealstruck (Carlsbad, California, USA – 11 – 99 Employees) January 2013
NIMBOXX (Austin, Texas, USA – 11 – 99 Employees) June 2014 (exited stealth mode)
Soha Systems (formerly BubblewrApp) (Sunnyvale, CA USA – 11 – 99 Employees) April 2014
vArmour (Mountain View, CA USA – 11 – 99 Employees) January 2011 (Launched September 2014)
Wizeline (San Francisco, CA USA – 11 – 99 Employees) November 2013

Best Overall IT Company of the Year
Gold Winner
Cloudera IPalo Alto, CA USA – 500 – 2,499 Employees)

Best IT Company of the Year (Hardware)
Gold Winner
Arbor Networks (Burlington, MA USA – 100 – 499 Employees)

Best IT Company of the Year (Services)
Gold Winner
NTT DATA, Inc. (Plano, TX USA – 2,500 or more Employees)

Best IT Company of the Year (Software)
Gold Winner
Centrify (Santa Clara, CA USA – 100 – 499 Employees)
Silver Winner
Verismic Software, Inc. (Aliso Viejo, CA USA – 11 – 99 Employees)
Bronze Winners
Darktrace (Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England – 11 – 99 Employees)
Lookingglass Cyber Solutions (Arlington, VA USA – 100 – 499 Employees)

Fastest Growing IT Company of the Year (percentage wise growth)
Gold Winner
Lookingglass Cyber Solutions (Arlington, VA USA – 100 – 499 Employees)
Silver Winner
Actiontec Electronics (Sunnyvale, CA USA – 100 – 499 Employees)

Innovative Company of the Year (Information Technology)
Gold Winner
ThreatMetrix (San Jose, CA USA – 100 – 499 Employees)
Silver Winner
Actiontec Electronics (Sunnyvale, CA USA – 100 – 499 Employees)

PR Agency of the Year (for IT Companies)
Gold Winner
Nadel Phelan, Inc. (Scotts Valley, CA USA – 11 – 99 Employees)

Hot Technologies

Suitable for EMEA (Europe, Middle-East and Africa)
Gold Winner
Silobreaker (London, United Kingdom – 11 – 99 Employees) for Silobreaker Cyber Security & Risk Intelligence

Suitable for USA (11 – 99 Employees)
Gold Winner
Onapsis (Boston, MA USA – 11 – 99 Employees) for The Onapsis Security Platform
Silver Winner
Silobreaker (London, United Kingdom – 11 – 99 Employees) for Silobreaker Cyber Security & Risk Intelligence
Bronze Winners
Apcera (San Francisco, CA USA – 11 – 99 Employees) for Continuum v1
Norse Corporation (San Mateo, California, USA – 11 – 99 Employees) for Norse DarkViking™
Norse Corporation (San Mateo, California, USA – 11 – 99 Employees) for Norse DarkWatch™

Suitable for USA (100 – 499 Employees)
Gold Winner
Wave Systems (Lee, MA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for Wave Virtual Smart Card 2.0
Silver Winner
Akana (Los Angeles, CA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for API Management
Bronze Winner
Skyhigh Networks (Campbell, CA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for Skyhigh Networks Cloud Security Manager

Suitable for USA (500 – 2,499 Employees)
Gold Winner
Broadview Networks (Rye Brook, NY USA – 500 – 2,499 Employees) for MyOfficeSuite™ Portal
Silver Winner
Radware, Inc. (Mahwah, NJ USA – 500 – 2,499 Employees) for Xand Offers DDoS Protection Services for Cloud and Colocation Infrastructure with Attack Mitigation Service
Bronze Winner
SYSPRO (Costa Mesa, California, USA – 500 – 2,499 Employees) for SYSPRO Espresso

Blog of the Year
Gold Winner
Tenable Network Security (Columbia, MD USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for The Tenable Blog (http://www.tenable.com/blog)

Best White-Paper or Report of the Year
Gold Winner
Attendance on Demand (Livonia, MI USA – 11 – 99 Employees) for Cloud-Based Security: How Safe is my Time and Attendance Data?
Silver Winner
JDL Technologies (Fort Lauderdale, FL USA – 11 – 99 Employees) for Healthcare Data Breaches & Vulnerabilties, And What You Can Do
Bronze Winners
Attendance on Demand (Livonia, MI USA – 11 – 99 Employees) for Managing the Challenges of Around-the-Clock Operations
Attendance on Demand (Livonia, MI USA – 11 – 99 Employees) for Why Not Payroll? Benefits of Using Time & Attendance Data for PPACA Compliance

Event of the Year – Partner, Channel, or Reseller Event
Gold Winner
Druva (Sunnyvale, CA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for Druva Bespoke Partner Event Series — “Nothing Fits You Better Than Custom”

Admin Assistant to CEO
Gold Winner
Michelle Trojano, Office Administrator – Pwnie Express (Boston, MA, USA – 11 – 99 Employees)

Executive of the Year (Information Technology Services)
Gold Winner
Brian Henrichs, Chief Business Development Officer – Actiontec Electronics (Sunnyvale, CA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) – Team members include: Daniel Leahr, Curt Hamilton, Michael Gondar, Robert Shaheen

Executive of the Year (Information Technology Hardware)
Gold Winner
Fazel Taslimi, Vice President of Systems Engineering – Actiontec Electronics (Sunnyvale, CA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) – Team members include: Daniel Leahr, Curt Hamilton, Michael Gondar, Robert Shaheen

Product Development/ Management Executive of the Year
Gold Winner
Derek Collison, CEO – Apcera (San Francisco, CA USA – 11 – 99 Employees)

Support and Service Team of the Year
Gold Winner
Mike Telang and Michael Myers of Cisco Systems, Inc. (San Jose, CA USA – 2,500 or more Employees) – Team members include Joseph Silver, Michael Anderson, Jon Woolwine, Manny Garcia, Vick Chan, Khalid Jawaid, Shannon Sharma, Harvinder Kalsi, Erich Latchford, Sharmin Choskey, Prasant Bejjam, Eric Larrivee

Management Team of the Year (Cloud Computing/SaaS)
Gold Winners
Forrest Stocking, Senior Manager – Cisco Systems, Inc. (San Jose, CA USA – 2,500 or more Employees) – Team members include Tiffany Littlefield, Matthew Byward, Melvin Gerold, Norman Kwok, Jane Cofino, Kevin Matthew, Vaibhav Mittal, Sujeeth Kumar, Sri Harsha Parigi, Ganesh Nagendra Prasad, Jayanth C A, Deepa Mallesh
Niroop Gunupati, Manager – Cisco Systems, Inc. (San Jose, CA USA – 2,500 or more Employees) – Team members include Bharath Babu, Shobhit Chaurasia, Venkata Subramoniam G, Vignesh K R, Mahantesh Karadigudda, Mukesh Kumar, Jagadish Nagarajaaiah, Ashish Ranjan, Subathra Ravi, Suman Reddy Vantipenta, Vaibhav Mittal, Greg Puthota, Jayant CA, Sujeeth Kumar, Deepa Mallesh, Sri Harsha Parigi, Ganesh Nagendra Prasad

Management Team of the Year (Information Technology Services)
Gold Winner
Brian Henrichs, Chief Business Development Officer – Actiontec Electronics (Sunnyvale, CA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) – Team members include: Daniel Leahr, Curt Hamilton, Michael Gondar, Robert Shaheen

Management Team of the Year (Internet of Things (IoT)
Gold Winner
Plamen Nedeltchev, Cisco Distinguished IT Engineer – Cisco Systems, Inc. (San Jose, CA USA – 2,500 or more Employees) – Team members include Plamen Nedeltchev, Michael Chang, Neal Novotny, Michele Guel, Emily Dilday, Jyoti Sarin

Most Innovative Person
Gold Winner
Harvinder Kalsi, Distinguished Engineer – Cisco Systems, Inc. (San Jose, CA USA – 2,500 or more Employees) for Enabling the cloud services platform hosting internal “Software as a Service” (SaaS) offerings and building an inter-cloud ecosystem using OpenStack foundation

Best Deployments and Case Studies
Suitable for Canada
Gold Winner
Netformx (San Jose, CA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for Netformx ChannelXpert Enables Canadian Reseller to Take Action

Suitable for EMEA
Gold Winner
Adaptiva (Bellevue, WA USA – 11 – 99 Employees) for TNT Uses Adaptiva OneSite to Eliminate 430 Servers and Save Over £1 Million
Silver Winner
IpanemaTechnologies (Paris, France – 100 – 499 Employees) for European retailer Nature & Découvertes achieves digital transformation with Ipanema Technologies

Suitable for USA
Gold Winner
SolidFire (Boulder, CO USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for SolidFire’s all-flash platform enables Endicia’s performance and growth
Silver Winner
Cisco Systems, Inc. (San Jose, CA USA – 2,500 or more employees) for Cisco Deploys First CEPH Storage Cloud
Bronze Winners
EdgeWave (San Diego, California, USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for Securing the 2014 US Tennis Open
Egnyte (Mountain View, California, USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for Balfour Beatty saves over $5 million using Egnyte on DFW Airport
IQMS (Paso Robles, California, USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for IQMS Software Implementation Saves Mar-Bal A Quarter Million Dollars

IT Project of the Year
Gold Winner
Colin Seward – Cisco Systems, Inc. (San Jose, CA USA – 2,500 or more Employees) for ACI Network Automation on Cisco’s Private Cloud – Team members include Tim Ambrose, Anitha Parimi, Benny Van de Voorde, Jon Woolwine, Jonathan Miranda and Tiffany Littlefield

Technical Professional (non-executive IT professional) of the Year
Gold Winner
Jean-Bernard (JB) Louvet, IT Member of Technical Staff – Cisco Systems, Inc. (San Jose, CA USA – 2,500 or more Employees) Industry: Cloud Computing/SaaS

Product Developer (non-executive product development or management) of the Year
Gold Winner
Hank Lander, Product Manager – ZoomInfo (Waltham, MA USA – 100 – 499 Employees)
Silver Winner
Lalli Flores, IT Engineer – Cisco Systems, Inc. (San Jose, CA USA – 2,500 or more Employees)

Outbound Messaging Campaign of the Year
Gold Winner
Freescale Semiconductor (Austin, TX USA – 2,500 or more Employees) for Engineering Life Hack campaign

Marketing Executive of the Year
Gold Winner
Allan Jones, Chief Marketing Officer – ZipRecruiter (Santa Monica, California, USA – 100 – 499 Employees)

Marketing Team of the Year
Gold Winner
Hila Nir, Vice President of Marketing – ZoomInfo (Waltham, Massachusetts, USA – 100 – 499 Employees – Team includes: Anna Fisher, Jonathan Pace, Lauren Barber, Noelle Mahoney, Dan Benson, Rachel Martinez, Nicole Messier, Robert Yu

Communications Professional of the Year (non-executive Communications, PR or IR professionals)
Gold Winner
Amanda Davis, Communications Manager – Universal Music Group (Woodland Hills, California, USA – 2,500 or more Employees)

Customer Service Team of the Year
Gold Winner
Ed Tobin, Vice President, Client Services – Aternity, Inc. ( (Westborough, MA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) – Team members include: Mike Dube, Michael Wheeler, Sondra Chandler, David Villineau