12th Annual 2017 IT World Awards

12th Annual 2017 IT World Awards

New Products and Services

New Products and Services – 1 – 10 Employees
Gold Winner
LUCY Security (Thalwil, Zurich, Switzerland – 1 – 10 Employees) for LUCY Server v3.4

New Products and Services – 11 – 99 Employees
Gold Winner
StrategyBlocks (Auckland, New Zealand – 11 – 99 Employees) for StrategyBlocks 4.0
Silver Winner
Trivalent (Annapolis, MD USA – 11 – 99 Employees) for Trivalent Protect™ v1
Bronze Winner
Impartner Software, Inc. (South Jordan, UT USA – 11 – 99 Employees) for Impartner PRM
Sapho (San Bruno, CA USA – 11 – 99 Employees) for Sapho Micro App Platform v3.4

New Products and Services – 100 – 499 Employees
Gold Winner
Intacct (San Jose, CA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for Intacct Contract and Revenue Management v1
Netronome (Santa Clara, CA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for Agilio CX SmartNIC Family
Securonix (Dallas, TX USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for SNYPR™ Security Analytics for Hadoop v1
Silver Winners
Anomali (Redwood City, CA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) STAXX v1.3
Netformx (San Jose, CA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for Netformx ChannelXpert – BOM Analyzer v1.0
Nextivity Inc. (San Diego, CA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for Cel-Fi GO v1.0
Bronze Winners
Attunity Inc. (Burlington, MA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for Attunity Compose for Redshift v2.0
CTERA Networks (New York, NY USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for Zero Minute Disaster Recovery (functionality for CTERA Enterprise File Services Platform)
eG Innovations, Inc. (Iselin, NJ USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for eG Enterprise 6.2
FreeWave Technologies, Inc. (Boulder, CO USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for ZumLink IPR
IDERA, Inc. (Houston, TX USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for IDERA SQL Performance Suite
NetMotion, Inc. (Seattle, WA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for Mobile IQ
VIPRE (Clearwater, FL USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for VIPRE Endpoint Security v9.3
VirtualPBX (San Jose, CA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for Dash

New Products and Services – 500 – 2,499 Employees
Gold Winner
Arbor Networks (Burlington, MA USA – 500 – 2,499 Employees) for Arbor Networks SP Insight v1.0
Silver Winners
Alert Logic (Houston, TX USA – 500 – 2,499 Employees) for Alert Logic Cloud Defender
Arbor Networks (Burlington, MA USA – 500 – 2,499 Employees) for Arbor Spectrum v2.2
ReachLocal, Inc. (Woodland Hills, CA USA – 500 – 2,499 Employees) for ReachEdge v3.0
Bronze Winner
Arbor Networks (Burlington, MA USA – 500 – 2,499 Employees) for Arbor APS v5.10

New Products and Services – 2,500 or more Employees
Gold Winner
Cisco Systems, Inc. (San Jose, CA USA – 2,500 or more Employees – Industry: Information Technology Hardware) for Catena v1
Dell, Inc. (Round Rock, TX USA – 2,500 or more Employees) for Dell Data Guardian v1.0
Ultimate Software (Weston, FL USA – 2,500 or more Employees) for UltiPro Perception v1
Silver Winner
Bloomberg BNA (Arlington, VA USA – 2,500 or more Employees) for BNA Fixed Assets Web v2017.0
Ceridian (Minneapolis, MN USA – 2,500 or more Employees) for Dayforce Onboarding
Bronze Winners
Epicor Software Corporation (Austin, TX USA – 2,500 or more Employees) for Epicor Scheduling+™ v1
Orange & SoftAtHome (Chatillon, Ile de France, France – 2,500 or more Employees) for TVLIGHTS v1
Ultimate Software (Weston, FL USA – 2,500 or more Employees) for UltiPro Leadership Actions
Veritas Technologies (Mountain View, CA USA – 2,500 or more Employees) for NetBackup 8.0

Best Products and Services

Access Solutions & Management
Gold Winner
HOB GmbH & Co. KG (Cadolzburg, Bavaria, Germany – 100 – 499 Employees) for HOB RD VPN v2.2

Apps
Gold Winner
Sapho (San Bruno, CA USA – 11 – 99 Employees) for Sapho Micro App Platform v3.4

Best IT Services (New or Upgrade version)
Gold Winner
Infinite Computer Solutions (Rockville, MD USA – 2,500 or more Employees) for Zyter v1
Silver Winner
Viettel Group (Ha Noi, Nam Tu Liem, Viet Nam – 2,500 or more Employees) for National Immunization Information System (NIIS) v2.0

Best IT Software (New or Upgrade version) – 11 – 99 Employees
Gold Winner
ThreatQuotient (Reston, VA USA – 11 – 99 Employees) for ThreatQ v3
Silver Winner
Attivo Networks (Fremont, CA USA – 11 – 99 Employees) for Attivo Threat Matrix™ (ThreatMatrix is a platform and elements are on multiple versions. The core BOTsink engagement server software is 4.0)

Best IT Software (New or Upgrade version) – 100 – 499 Employees
Gold Winner
Fujitsu Computer Products of America, Inc. (Sunnyvale, CA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for PaperStream Server v1.5
Silver Winner
HOB GmbH & Co. KG (Cadolzburg, Bavaria, Germany – 100 – 499 Employees) for HOB RD VPN v2.2

Best IT Software (New or Upgrade version) – 500 – 2,499 Employees
Gold Winner
Acronis (Schaffhausen, Northern Switzerland – 500 – 2,499 Employees) for Acronis Backup 12

Best IT Software (New or Upgrade version) – 2,500 or more Employees
Gold Winner
Eaton (Raleigh, NC USA – 2,500 or more Employees) for Visual Power Manager software
Silver Winner
Veritas Technologies (Mountain View, CA USA – 2,500 or more Employees) for NetBackup 8.0

Business Intelligence and Analytics
Gold Winner
Xavient Information Systems (Simi Valley, CA USA – 2,500 or more Employees) for Real Time Deep Learning Customer Interaction Engine v2.035

Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASB)
Gold Winner
Managed Methods, Inc. (Boulder, CO USA – 11 – 99 Employees) for Cloud Access Monitor
Silver Winner
Saviynt, Inc. (Los Angeles, CA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for Saviynt Security Manager v5.0

Cloud Computing/SaaS – 11 – 99 Employees
Gold Winner
Virtru (Washington, DC USA – 11 – 99 Employees) for Virtru
Silver Winner
Impartner (South Jordan, UT USA – 11 – 99 Employees) for Impartner PRM

Cloud Computing/SaaS – 100 – 499 Employees
Gold Winner
AppFolio, Inc. (Goleta, CA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for AppFolio Property Manager
Silver Winners
PagerDuty (San Francisco, CA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for PagerDuty Incident Management Platform
Seismic (San Diego, CA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for Seismic WorkSpace v1.0

Cloud Computing/SaaS – 2,500 or more Employees
Gold Winner
Kronos Incorporated (Chelmsford, MA USA – 2,500 or more Employees) for Kronos Workforce Ready HCM suite (Workforce Ready V47, released October 2016)

Cloud Infrastructure as a Service
Gold Winner
CloudHealth Technologies (Boston, MA USA – 100 – 499 Employee) for CloudHealth platform

Cloud Security – 11 – 99 Employees
Gold Winner
GuardiCore (Tel Aviv, Israel – 11 – 99 Employees) for GuardiCore Centra Security Platform v2.0
Silver Winner
Cavirin Systems, Inc. (Santa Clara, CA USA – 11 – 99 Employees) for Cavirin Continuous Security for Hybrid Cloud

Cloud Security – 100 – 499 Employee
Gold Winner
Bitglass (Campbell, CA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for Cloud Security
Silver Winner
GlobalSCAPE, Inc. (San Antonio, TX USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for Enhanced File Transfer (EFT) Cloud Services v1.0
Bronze Winner
Nuspire Networks (Commerce, MI USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for nuSIEM v2.12

Cloud Security – 500 – 2,499 Employees
Gold Winner
Hillstone Networks (Sunnyvale, CA USA – 500 – 2,499 Employees) for Hillstone CloudHive v2.4
Silver Winner
Alert Logic (Houston, TX USA – 500 – 2,499 Employees) for Alert Logic Cloud Defender
Bronze Winners
Arbor Networks (Burlington, MA USA – 500 – 2,499 Employees) for Arbor Cloud
Radware, Inc. (Mahwah, NJ USA – 500 – 2,499 Employees) for Cloud Security Services

Communications Solutions (voice, data and video)
Gold Winner
VirtualPBX (San Jose, CA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for Dash

Disaster Recovery as a Service
Gold Winner
Druva (Sunnyvale, CA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for Druva Phoenix

Email, Security and Management
Gold Winner
SonicWall (Santa Clara, CA USA – 500 – 2,499 Employees) for SonicWall Email Security 9.0 with Capture Advanced Threat Protection v9.0
Silver Winner
Virtru (Washington, DC USA – 11 – 99 Employees) for Virtru
Bronze Winner
EdgeWave (La Jolla, CA USA – 11 – 99 Employees) for ePrism Email Security v10.5

Endpoint Security
Gold Winner
Nyotron (Santa Clara, CA USA – 11 – 99 Employees) for Nyotron PARANOID v1.0
Silver Winner
Digital Guardian (Waltham, MA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for Advanced Threat Protection as a Managed Security Program
Bronze Winner
Cylance Inc. (Irvine, CA USA – 500 – 2,499 Employees) for CylanceOPTICS v2

Enterprise Data Loss Prevention
Gold Winner
Digital Guardian (Waltham, MA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for Digital Guardian for Data Loss Prevention v7.3

Enterprise Network Firewalls
Gold Winner
Hillstone Networks (Sunnyvale, CA USA – 500 – 2,499 Employees) for T-Series intelligent Next-Generation Firewall (iNGFW) v5.5R4

Firewalls
Gold Winner
WatchGuard Technologies (Seattle, WA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for WatchGuard Firebox T70 with Fireware version 11.12

Governance, Risk and Compliance
Gold Winner
GlobalSCAPE, Inc. (San Antonio, TX USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for Enhanced File Transfer (EFT) v7.3.3
Silver Winner
RiskSense, Inc. (Sunnyvale, CA USA – 11 – 99 Employees) for RiskSense Platform v7.0

Human Capital Management (HCM)
Gold Winner
SwipeClock (South Jordan, UT USA – 11 – 99 Employees) for Worforce Management suite

Identity Governance and Administration
Gold Winner
Micro Focus (Rockville, MD USA – 2,500 or more Employees) for NetIQ Identity Governance v2.5
Silver Winner
Saviynt, Inc. (Los Angeles, CA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for Saviynt Security Manager v5.0

Information Security and Risk Management
Gold Winner
Denim Group (San Antonio, TX USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for ThreadFix 2.5
Silver Winners
NSS Labs (Austin, TX USA – 11 – 99 Employees) for CAWS Cyber Threat Protection Platform v2.2
Optiv Security (Denver, CO USA – 500 – 2,499 Employees) for Evantix v5.0
Bronze Winners
LUCY Security (Thalwil, Zurich, Switzerland – 1 – 10 Employees) for LUCY Server v3.4
RiskSense, Inc. (Sunnyvale, CA USA – 11 – 99 Employees) for RiskSense Platform v7.0

Innovations in IT (Information Technology)
Gold Winner
Wipro Limited (East Brunswick, NJ USA – 2,500 or more Employees) for Wipro’s Integrated Security Assurance Services(iSAS) for Enterprises v2.0
Silver Winner
Viettel Group (Ha Noi, Nam Tu Liem, Viet Nam – 2,500 or more Employees) for Viettel Customer Insight – VCI v1.0
Bronze Winner
Viettel Group (Ha Noi, Nam Tu Liem, Viet Nam – 2,500 or more Employees) for Telecom Security Solution (TSS) version TSS 2017

Innovations in Unified Communications
Gold Winner
Nectar Services Corp. (Jericho, NY USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for Nectar Evolution

Insider Threat Detection and Solutions
Gold Winner
Sqrrl (Cambridge, MA USA – 11 – 99 Employees) for Sqrrl v2.7
Silver Winner
Varonis Systems, Inc. (New York, NY USA – 500 – 2,499 Employees) for Varonis DatAlert v6.3.150
Bronze Winner
Attivo Networks (Fremont, CA USA – 11 – 99 Employees) for ThreatMatrix for Continuous Threat Management (ThreatMatrix is a platform and elements are on multiple versions. The core BOTsink engagement server software is 4.0)
Darktrace (San Francisco, CA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for Enterprise Immune System v2.7
Digital Guardian (Waltham, MA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for Digital Guardian for Data Loss Prevention v7.3
Securonix (Dallas, TX USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for SNYPR™ Security Analytics for Hadoop v1

Internet of Things (IoT)
Gold Winner
GridGain Systems (Foster City, CA USA – 11 – 99 Employees) for GridGain Enterprise Edition v7.8
Silver Winner
Arxan Technologies (San Francisco, CA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for Arxan Application Protection Solution v6.0 to 9.0
Bronze Winners
MapR Technologies (San Jose, CA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for MapR Edge
Orange & SoftAtHome (Chatillon, Ile de France, France – 2,500 or more Employees) for TVLIGHTS v1

IT Products and Services for Critical Infrastructure
Gold Winner
NextNine (New York, NY USA – 11 – 99 Employees) for ICS Shield

IT Products and Services for Education – 11 – 99 Employees
Gold Winner
Circadence Corporation (Boulder, CO USA – 11 – 99 Employees) for Project Ares 2.0

IT Products and Services for Education – 500 – 2,499 Employees
Gold Winner
Arizona Department of Education (Phoenix, AZ USA – 500 – 2,499 Employees) for Arizona Education Data Standards (AzEDS) v1.0

IT Products and Services for Education – 2,500 or more Employees
Gold Winner
Dubai Police (Dubai, UAE – 2,500 or more Employees) for Crime Scene Investigation (CSI) virtual training

IT Products and Services for Enterprise (Large)
Gold Winner
LookingGlass Cyber Solutions, Inc. (Reston, VA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for ScoutPrime v1.2
Silver Winner
Code42 (Minneapolis, MN USA – 500 – 2,499 Employees) for Code42 v6.0
Bronze Winner
Kinetica (San Francisco, CA USA – 11 – 99 Employees) for Kinetica Advanced Analytics Database v6.0

IT Products and Services for Enterprise (Medium)
Gold Winner
Tikal Networks (Petach Tikva, Israel – 11 – 99 Employees) for Tikal Contact Center

IT Products and Services for Finance, Banking and Insurance
Gold Winner
Orange (Chatillon, Ile de France, France – 2,500 or more Employees) for Check&Go v1
Silver Winner
GridGain Systems (Foster City, CA USA – 11 – 99 Employees) for GridGain Enterprise Edition v7.8
Bronze Winner
Digital Guardian (Waltham, MA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for Digital Guardian for Data Loss Prevention v7.3

IT Products and Services for Government
Gold Winner
Netwrix Corporation (Irvine, CA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for Netwrix Auditor v8.5
Silver Winner
Ntrepid (Herndon, VA USA – 11 – 99 Employees) for Passages v2.0

IT Products and Services for Healthcare
Gold Winner
Viettel Group (Ha Noi, Nam Tu Liem, Viet Nam – 2,500 or more Employees) for Viettel Ecosystem For Primary Care v1.0

IT Products and Services for Manufacturing
Gold Winner
Digital Guardian (Waltham, MA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for Digital Guardian for Data Loss Prevention v7.3

IT Products and Services for Retail
Gold Winner
Attivo Networks (Fremont, CA USA – 11 – 99 Employees) for The Attivo ThreatMatrix Deception and Response Platform for Retail POS
Silver Winner
WatchGuard Technologies (Seattle, WA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for WatchGuard Wi-Fi Cloud v1

IT Products and Services for Small Business, SOHO and Consumers
Gold Winner
Orange & SoftAtHome (Chatillon, Ile de France, France – 2,500 or more Employees) for TVLIGHTS v1

IT Products and Services for Telecommunications
Gold Winner
Oculeus (Frankfurt, Germany – 11 – 99 Employees) for Oculeus Anti-Fraud v5.0
Silver Winner
Genie Networks (Taipei, Taiwan – 11 – 99 Employees) for GenieATM 6000 series (GenieATM) Version 6.3.2

IT Products and Services for Transportation
Gold Winner
ERM Advanced Telematics (Rishon Letzion, Israel – 100 – 499 Employees) for eSafe

IT Products and Services for Utilities
Gold Winner
LogNet Billing (Warwickshire, United Kingdom – 100 – 499 Employees) for MaxBill

IT Service Management
Gold Winner
Samanage (Cary, NC USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for Samanage Service Desk

Managed Security Services
Gold Winner
SonicWall (Santa Clara, CA USA – 500 – 2,499 Employees) for SonicWall Cloud Global Management System v1
Silver Winner
Nuspire Networks (Commerce, MI USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for Cyber Threat Monitoring (CTM) v2.0

Mobile and Wireless Solutions
Gold Winner
Zimperium, Inc. (San Francisco, CA USA – 11 – 99 Employees) for Zimperium Mobile Threat Defense v4.0
Silver Winner
Actiontec Electronics, Inc. (Sunnyvale, CA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for Optim Managed WiFi & Smart Steering

Mobile App Development Solutions
Gold Winner
Viettel Group (Ha Noi, Nam Tu Liem, Viet Nam – 2,500 or more Employees) for Mocha Application (Version 2.9.3 (Android OS); Version 3.8 (iOS); Version 1.1.9.1 (Windows Phone OS))

Monitoring and Testing
Gold Winner
Nehemiah Security (Tysons, VA USA – 11 – 99 Employees) for AtomicEye RQ

Most Innovative IT Service
Gold Winner
Nuspire Networks (Commerce, MI USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for Cyber Threat Monitoring (CTM) v2.0
Silver Winner
Viettel Group (Ha Noi, Nam Tu Liem, Viet Nam – 2,500 or more Employees) for Viettel Online Charging System (vOCS) v3.0

Most Innovative IT Software – 1 – 10 Employees
Gold Winner
LUCY Security (Thalwil, Zurich, Switzerland – 1 – 10 Employees) for LUCY Server v3.4

Most Innovative IT Software – 11 – 99 Employees
Gold Winner
ScaleArc (Santa Clara, CA USA – 11 – 99 Employees) for ScaleArc for MySQL for Amazon Aurora v3.11
Silver Winner
DarkLight (Santa Monica, CA USA – 11 – 99 Employees) for DarkLight v3.0
DriveScale (Sunnyvale, CA USA – 11 – 99 Employees) for DriveScale System v1.1
Bronze Winners
Cypherpath (Mountain View, CA USA – 11 – 99 Employees) for Cypherpath Infrastructure Container System
Nehemiah Security (Tysons, VA USA – 11 – 99 Employees) for AtomicEye RQ
ThreatQuotient (Reston, VA USA – 11 – 99 Employees) for ThreatQ v3

Most Innovative IT Software – 100 – 499 Employees
Gold Winner
HOB GmbH & Co. KG (Cadolzburg, Bavaria, Germany – 100 – 499 Employees) for HOB RD VPN v2.2

Network Functions Virtualization (NFV)
Gold Winner
Telco Systems (Mansfield, MA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for NFVTime

Network Intelligence
Gold Winner
Ixia (Calabasa, CA USA – 500 – 2,499 Employees) for Vision ONE

Network Management
Gold Winner
NetBrain Technologies (Burlington, MA USA – 100 – 499 employees) for NetBrain Integrated Edition v7.0
Gold Winner
Xavient Information Systems (Simi Valley, CA USA – 2,500 or more Employees) for Network Configuration management Platform XNCM v3.75

Network Performance Monitoring and Diagnostics
Gold Winner
Kentik (San Francisco, CA USA – 11 – 99 Employees) for Kentik Detect
Silver Winner
Actiontec Electronics, Inc. (Sunnyvale, CA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for Optic Managed WiFi & Smart Steering
Bronze Winner
NetBrain Technologies (Burlington, MA USA – 100 – 499 employees) for NetBrain Integrated Edition v7.0

Networking
Gold Winner
AppViewX (Seattle, WA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for ADC+ v11.4

Platform as a Service (PaaS)
Gold Winner
RiskSense, Inc. (Sunnyvale, CA USA – 11 – 99 Employees) for RiskSense Platform v7.0

Products and Services for USA
Gold Winner
Fasetto LLC (Superior, WI USA – 11 – 99 Employees) for LINK by Fasetto v1.4

Secure Web Gateways
Gold Winner
EdgeWave (La Jolla, CA USA – 11 – 99 Employees) for iPrism Secure Web Gateway v8.1

Security Awareness Computer-Based Training
Gold Winner
Inspired eLearning, LLC (San Antonio, TX USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for Security Awareness Training Platform v4.7
Silver Winner
LUCY Security (Thalwil, Zurich, Switzerland – 1 – 10 Employees) for LUCY Server v3.4

Security Hardware (New or Upgrade version)
Gold Winner
WatchGuard Technologies (Seattle, WA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for WatchGuard Firebox T70 with Fireware version 11.12
Silver Winner
Attivo Networks (Fremont, CA USA – 11 – 99 Employees) for ThreatMatrix Deception and Response Platform v4.0

Security Information and Event Management
Gold Winner
Wipro Limited (East Brunswick, NJ USA – 2,500 or more Employees) for Security Intelligence as a Service v3.0

Security Services (New or Upgrade version)
Gold Winner
Demisto (Cupertino, CA USA – 11 – 99 Employees) for Demisto Enterprise v2.0
Silver Winner
Wipro Limited (East Brunswick, NJ USA – 2,500 or more Employees) for Integrated Threat Management v1.0
Bronze Winner
WatchGuard Technologies (Seattle, WA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for WatchGuard Threat Detection and Response v1

Security Software (New or Upgrade version) – 11 – 99 Employees
Gold Winner
Lastline, Inc. (Redwood City, CA USA – 11 – 99 Employees) for Lastline Enterprise v7.11
Silver Winner
ProtectWise (Denver, Colorado CA – 11 – 99 Employees) for The ProtectWise Grid v1.0
Bronze Winner
RiskSense, Inc. (Sunnyvale, CA USA – 11 – 99 Employees) for RiskSense Platform v7.0

Security Software (New or Upgrade version) – 100 – 499 Employees
Gold Winner
Arxan Technologies (San Francisco, CA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for Arxan Application Protection Solution v6.0 to 9.0
Silver Winners
Psafe(San Francisco, CA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for PSafe DFNDR v3.12
Thycotic (Washington, DC USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for Thycotic Secret Server v10.1
Bronze Winners
Darktrace (San Francisco, CA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for Enterprise Immune System v2.7
Denim Group (San Antonio, TX USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for ThreadFix 2.5
HOB GmbH & Co. KG (Cadolzburg, Bavaria, Germany – 100 – 499 Employees) for HOB RD VPN v2.2
LookingGlass Cyber Solutions, Inc. (Reston, VA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for ScoutPrime v1.2

Security Software (New or Upgrade version) – 500 – 2,499 Employees
Gold Winner
Ixia (Calabasa, CA USA – 500 – 2,499 Employees) for Ixia Developer v1.0
Silver Winner
Acronis (Schaffhausen, Northern Switzerland – 500 – 2,499 Employees) for Acronis Backup 12

Social Media, Networking or Collaboration Solutions
Gold Winner
Prysm, Inc. (San Jose, CA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for Prysm Displays with Prysm Application Suite

Software Defined Networking (SDN)
Gold Winner
VeloCloud Networks, Inc. (Mountain View, CA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for VeloCloud Cloud Delivered SD WAN v2
Silver Winner
ADTRAN, Inc. (Huntsville, AL USA – 500 – 2,499 Employees) for ADTRAN Mosaic

Storage Solutions
Gold Winners
Samsung Electronics America, Inc. (Ridgefield Park, NJ USA – 2,500 or more Employees) for PM863a
Samsung Electronics America, Inc. (Ridgefield Park, NJ USA – 2,500 or more Employees) for SM863a
Silver Winners
Acronis (Schaffhausen, Northern Switzerland – 500 – 2,499 Employees) for Acronis Storage 2.0
Avere Systems, Inc. (Pittsburgh, PA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for Avere Systems Cloud-Core NAS (C2N) System
Bronze Winners
Cohesity (Santa Clara, CA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for Cohesity DataPlatform v3.1
NetApp, Inc. (Sunnyvale, CA USA – 2,500 or more Employees) for NetApp SolidFire SF-Series 19210 Node v1

Training, Awareness and Educational Programs (any type of training or awareness)
Gold Winner
Circadence Corporation (Boulder, CO USA – 11 – 99 Employees) for Project Ares 2.0
Silver Winner
Inspired eLearning, LLC (San Antonio, TX USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for Security Awareness Training Platform v4.7

Unified or Integrated Security
Gold Winner
Everbridge, Inc. (Burlington, MA USA – 500 – 2,499 Employees) for Everbridge Safety Connection® v1
Silver Winner
WatchGuard Technologies (Seattle, WA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for WatchGuard Threat Detection and Response v1
Bronze Winner
Broadview Networks (Rye Brook, NY USA – 500 – 2,499 Employees) for OfficeSuite UC™ v7.3

Vendor Risk Management
Gold Winner
Prevalent, Inc. (Warren, NJ USA – 11 – 99 Employees) for Prevalent Synapse Exchange v4.0

Video Solutions and Video Conferencing
Gold Winner
Epson America, Inc. (Long Beach, CA USA – 2,500 or more Employees) for Epson BrightLink Pro 1460Ui Full HD Interactive Display (Third Generation)
Silver Winner
Broadview Networks (Rye Brook, NY USA – 500 – 2,499 Employees) for OfficeSuite HD Meeting®

Virtualization
Gold Winner
Dell, Inc. (Round Rock, TX USA – 2,500 or more Employees) for Dell Latitude E7270 Mobile Thin Client

Web Application Firewalls
Gold Winner
Radware, Inc. (Mahwah, NJ USA – 500 – 2,499 Employees) for AppWall

Wired and Wireless LAN Access Infrastructure
Gold Winner
Actiontec Electronics, Inc. (Sunnyvale, CA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for Optim WiFi Network Extenders

Hot Companies
Gold Winners
Aqua Security (Ramat Gan, Tel Aviv, Israel – 11 – 99 Employees – Founded: 2015)
Armor (Richardson, TX USA – 100 – 499 Employees – Founded: 2009)
Cavirin Systems, Inc. (Santa Clara, CA USA – 11 – 99 Employees – Founded: 2012)
LECMPA (Southfield, MI USA – 11 – 99 Employees – Founded: 1910)
Nehemiah Security (Tysons, VA USA – 11 – 99 Employees – Founded: 2015)
Osprey Security (Palo Alto, CA USA – 11 – 99 Employees – Founded: 2015)
Radware, Inc. (Mahwah, NJ USA – 500 – 2,499 Employees – Founded: 1997)
SYSPRO (Costa Mesa, CA USA – 100 – 499 Employees – Founded: 1978)
ThreatQuotient (Reston, VA USA – 11 – 99 Employees – Founded: 2013)
Virtru (Washington, DC USA – 11 – 99 Employees – Founded 2011)
Xevo Inc. (Kirkland, WA USA – 100 – 499 Employees – Founded: 2000)

Best IT Company of the Year (Services)
Gold Winner
Infinite Computer Solutions (Rockville, MD USA – 2,500 or more Employees)

Best IT Company of the Year (Software)
Gold Winner
Darktrace (San Francisco, CA USA – 100 – 499 Employees)
Silver Winner
BioIQ (Santa Barbara, CA USA – 100 – 499 Employees)
Bronze Winners
Samanage (Cary, NC USA – 100 – 499 Employees)
ThreatQuotient (Reston, VA USA – 11 – 99 Employees)

Best Overall IT Company of the Year
Gold Winner
Securonix (Dallas, TX USA – 100 – 499 Employees)
Silver Winner
Cloudera, Inc. (Palo Alto, CA USA – 500 – 2,499 Employees)

Business Expansion of the Year (e.g. new markets, new partners, etc.)
Gold Winner
SparkCognition (Austin, TX USA – 100 – 499 Employees)

Company Growth of the Year (e.g. new products, new offices, new employees, etc.)
Gold Winner
SparkCognition (Austin, TX USA – 100 – 499 Employees)

Corporate Social Responsibility Company of the Year
Gold Winner
Khalifa Empowerment Program for Students (Aqdar) (Abu Dhabi, UAE – 100 – 499 Employees) for Innovative and engaging delivery methods for awareness messages to the community

Innovative Company of the Year (IT)
Gold Winner
DarkLight (Santa Monica, CA USA – 11 – 99 Employees)
Silver Winner
Apcera (San Francisco, CA, USA – 11 – 99 Employees)
Bronze Winners
Arbor Networks (Burlington, MA USA – 500 – 2,499 Employees)
Circadence Corporation (Boulder, CO USA – 11 – 99 Employees)

Startup of the Year – 2012
Gold Winner
Konstruktor (Redwood City, CA USA – 11 – 99 Employees) February 2012
Silver Winner
Highfive (Redwood City, CA USA – 11 – 99 Employees) February 2012

Startup of the Year – 2013
Gold Winners
Cypherpath (Mountain View, CA USA – 11 – 99 Employees) June 2013
DriveScale (Sunnyvale, CA USA – 11 – 99 Employees) February 2013
Silver Winners
CloudGenix, Inc. (San Jose, CA USA – 11 – 99 Employees) February 2013
Ostendio (Arlington, VA USA – 11 – 99 Employees) August 2013
ProActeye (Orlando, FL USA – 11 – 99 Employees) December 2013
Bronze Winners
CheckRecipient (Hammersmith And Fulham, London, UK – 11 – 99 Employees) January 2013
GuardiCore (Tel Aviv, Israel – 11 – 99 Employees) August 2013
Managed Methods, Inc. (Boulder, CO USA – 11 – 99 Employees) December 2013
SparkCognition (Austin, TX USA – 100 – 499 Employees) June 2013

Startup of the Year – 2014
Gold Winners
Deep Instinct (Tel Aviv, Israel – 11 – 99 Employees) December 2014
Rubrik (Palo Alto, CA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) January 2014
Silver Winners
Behavox Ltd (London, United Kingdom – 11 – 99 Employees) June 2014
Menlo Security (Menlo Park, CA USA – 11 – 99 Employees) April 2014
Sapho (San Bruno, CA USA – 11 – 99 Employees) April 2014
Bronze Winners
FlixAcademy, Inc. (Rochester, NY USA – 1 – 10 Employees) June 2014
Hexadite, Inc. (Boston, MA USA – 11 – 99 Employees) April 2014
Javelin Networks (Austin, TX USA – 1 – 10 Employees) January 2014
MUVI LLC (Albany, NY USA – 100 – 499 Employees) January 2014
SecureMySocial (New York, NY USA – 1 – 10 Employees) April 2014
Syncurity (Arlington, VA USA – 1 – 10 Employees) August 2014
Waggl (Sausalito, CA USA – 11 – 99 Employees) January 2014

Startup of the Year – 2015
Gold Winner
Cohesity (Santa Clara, CA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) June 2015
Silver Winners
Aqua Security (Ramat Gan, Tel Aviv, Israel – 11 – 99 Employees) October 2015
RiskSense, Inc. (Sunnyvale, CA USA – 11 – 99 Employees) May 2015
Bronze Winners
Osprey Security (Palo Alto, CA USA – 11 – 99 Employees) – October 2015
Rozo Systems Inc. (San Mateo, CA USA – 1 – 10 Employees) February 2015

Hot Technologies and Products suitable for Asia-Pacific
Gold Winner
CloudPoint Technology Co., Ltd (Guangzhou, Guangdong, China – 11 – 99 Employees) for Zero Client Computing Solution
Silver Winner
Aryaka Networks, Inc. (Milpitas, CA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for Global SD-WAN

Hot Technologies and products suitable for EMEA (Europe, Middle-East and Africa)
Gold Winner
Aryaka Networks, Inc. (Milpitas, CA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for Global SD-WAN

Hot Technologies and Products suitable for U.S.A. – 11 – 99 Employees
Gold Winner
Lastline, Inc. (Redwood City, CA USA – 11 – 99 Employees) for Lastline Enterprise v7.11
Silver Winner
Attivo Networks (Fremont, CA USA – 11 – 99 Employees) for Attivo Networks ThreatMatrix Deception and Response Platform
Bronze Winner
StrategyBlocks (Auckland, New Zealand – 11 – 99 Employees) for StrategyBlocks 4.0

Hot Technologies and Products suitable for U.S.A. – 100 – 499 Employees
Gold Winner
Silver Peak (Santa Clara, CA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for Silver Peak Unity EdgeConnect SD-WAN Solution
Silver Winners
Azuga Fleet (San Jose, CA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for Azuga Insight
ZL Technologies, Inc. (Milpitas, CA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for ZL Unified Archive
Bronze Winners
Aryaka Networks, Inc. (Milpitas, CA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for Global SD-WAN
Rubrik (Palo Alto, CA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for Rubrik Cloud Data Management
Xevo Inc. (Kirkland, WA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for Xevo Cloud

Hot Technologies and Products suitable for U.S.A. – 500 – 2,499 Employees
Gold Winner
FinancialForce (San Francisco, CA USA – 500 – 2,499 Employees) for FinancialForce Financial Management

CEO of the Year (Chief Executive Officer) – 11 – 99 Employees
Gold Winner
Joe Wang, CEO – Impartner (South Jordan, UT USA – 11 – 99 Employees)

CEO of the Year (Chief Executive Officer) – 100 – 499 Employees
Gold Winner
Sachin Nayyar, CEO – Securonix (Dallas, TX USA – 100 – 499 Employees)
Silver Winner
Dr. David Hughes, Founder & CEO – Silver Peak (Santa Clara, CA USA – 100 – 499 Employees)
Bronze Winner
Ron Bianchini, President and CEO – Avere Systems, Inc. (Pittsburgh, PA USA – 100 – 499 Employees)

CEO of the Year (Chief Executive Officer) – 500 – 2,499 Employees
Gold Winner
Stuart McClure, Co-Founder and CEO – Cylance Inc. (Irvine, CA USA – 500 – 2,499 Employees)

CTO of the Year (Chief Technology Officer) – 100 – 499 Employees
Gold Winner
Atul Vij, CTO – Saviynt, Inc. (Los Angeles, CA USA – 100 – 499 Employees)
Silver Winners
Aaron Harris, CTO – Intacct (San Jose, CA USA – 100 – 499 Employees)
Tanuj Gulati, CTO – Securonix (Dallas, TX USA – 100 – 499 Employees)

CTO of the Year (Chief Technology Officer) – 500 – 2,499 Employees
Gold Winner
Darren Anstee, Chief Technology Officer – Arbor Networks (Bracknell, Berkshire UK – 500 – 2,499 Employees)

Executive of the Year (C-Level, Vice-President, or Director level) – 500 – 2,499 Employees
Gold Winner
Marie Hattar, Chief Marketing Officer – Ixia (Calabasa, CA USA – 500 – 2,499 Employees)
Silver Winner
Ryan Permeh, Co-Founder and Chief Scientist – Cylance Inc. (Irvine, CA USA – 500 – 2,499 Employees)

Executive of the Year (C-Level, Vice-President, or Director level) – 2,500 or more Employee
Gold Winner
Ravinder Reddy Amanaganti, Vice President, Engineering – Cisco Systems, Inc. (San Ramon, CA USA – 2,500 or more Employees – Industry: Information Technology Hardware)

Best Deployments in Latin America
Gold Winner
Arbor Networks (Burlington, MA USA – 500 – 2,499 Employees) for Protecting a worldwide sporting event from DDoS Disaster
Silver Winner
LogNet Billing (Warwickshire, United Kingdom – 100 – 499 Employees) for MaxBill supports multi-layered billing for microgrid electricity supply in Chile

Best Deployments in U.S.A.
Gold Winner
OpenMarket Inc. (Seattle, WA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for OpenMarket’s Global SMS API Provides Innovative Solution for Philips Healthcare
Silver Winners
Attivo Networks (Fremont, CA USA – 11 – 99 Employees) for Aflac, Inc. Uses Deception for Zero-False-Positives Threat Detection
VAI (Ronkonkoma, NY USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for VAI Unlimited User Licensing and S2K ERP Delivers 100% ROI to Imperial Bag & Paper, with Payback in 1.1 Years

Product Development/ Management Team of the Year
Gold Winner
Scott Chasin, CEO and co-Founder – ProtectWise (Denver, Colorado CA – 11 – 99 Employees) Team members include: Scott Chasin, Gene Stevens

CIO/ITExecutive of the Year
Gold Winner
Abdalla Ahmed Mohamed Al Ali – DMCC (Dubai, United Arab Emirates – 100 – 499 Employees)
Silver Winner
Corey Nachreiner, Chief Technology Officer – WatchGuard Technologies (Seattle, WA USA – 100 – 499 Employees)

IT Project of the Year
Gold Winner
Chuck Churchill, Director Infra Delivery and Operations – Cisco Systems, Inc. (Research Triangle Park, NC USA – 2,500 or more Employees) for Undercloud Software Lifecycle Management and Compliance – Team members include: Karunakaran Duraikannu, Mukundan Parthasarythy, Jason Stevens, A V Bala, Murali Krishnan, Jeffrey Liu

IT Department of the Year
Gold Winner
Shaw-Jen Chang, Vice President of Information Technology – Cisco Systems, Inc. (San Jose, CA USA – 2,500 or more Employees) Department includes: Chuck Churchill, Harinath Nagarajan, Matt Hardcastle, Ashish Nanjiani, Kirti Thakkar, Gopinath Rao; Benoit Mendy, Arun Nale, Anand Sengar, Vishal Soni, Warren Rigney, S Venky Sadagopan
Silver Winner
Chuck Churchill, Director Infra Delivery and Operations – Cisco Systems, Inc. (Research Triangle Park, NC USA – 2,500 or more Employees) – Team members include: Shaila Dembi, Jeff Kidd, Karunakaran Duraikannu, Chris Taylor
Bronze Winner
Yatin Wadhavkar, IT Manager – Cisco Systems, Inc. (San Jose, CA USA – 2,500 or more Employees) Department includes: Ramona Jackson , Yatin Wadhavkar, Seshagirirao Surapaneni , Clement Joseph , Karina Chan , Prashanth Mounachar , Sreedhar Dulla , Rashmi Hongunti

IT Marketing Professional of the Year
Gold Winner
Maria Sotra, Vice President Marketing – Geotab Inc. (Oakville, Ontario, Canada)

IT Public Relations Team of the Year (In-house or Agency)
Gold Winner
Cara Sloman, Vice President – Nadel Phelan Inc. (Scotts Valley, CA USA – 11 – 99 Employees) Team members include Cara Sloman, Peggy Tierney Galvin, Adriana Saldaña, Sean Wood, Shannon Tierney, Jessica Pasko, Shannon Shamoon, Laura Schaub, Heath Havlick, Lisa Christensen

Apps
Gold Winner
Broadview Networks (Rye Brook, NY USA – 500 – 2,499 Employees) for MyOfficeSuite
Silver Winners
Orange (Chatillon, Ile de France, France – 2,500 or more Employees) for TV Clipping
Radware, Inc. (Mahwah, NJ USA – 500 – 2,499 Employees) for Radware Connect
Bronze Winner
Tata Consultancy Services (New York, NY USA – 2,500 or more Employees) for TCS New York City Marathon Mobile App – Creative and production includes: Ramaswamy Raman, Project Manager, TCS; Sneha Khadatare, Module Lead & Android Developer, TCS; Gaurav Gholap, Module Lead & iOS Developer, TCS; Manisha Yadav, Server Developer, TCS; Aishwarya Patil, QA Engineer, TCS; Arvind Kadu, Delivery Manager for DESS Mobility Sports team

Live Events – Brand Experience Event
Gold Winner
Tata Consultancy Services (New York, NY USA – 2,500 or more Employees) for TCS New York City Marathon

Live Events – Internal Company Event
Gold Winner
Tata Consultancy Services (New York, NY USA – 2,500 or more Employees) for TCS Summit 2016

Live Events – Training or Educational Event
Gold Winner
Alert Logic (Houston, TX USA – 500 – 2,499 Employees) for Alert Logic Cloud Security Summit Series

Websites – Best Overall Web Design
Gold Winner
Actiontec Electronics, Inc. (Sunnyvale, CA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for Optim Managed WiFi & Smart Steering

Websites – Best Web Writing/Content
Gold Winner
Actiontec Electronics, Inc. (Sunnyvale, CA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) for Optim Managed WiFi & Smart Steering

Websites – Best Web Writing/Content
Gold Winner
Radware, Inc. (Mahwah, NJ USA – 500 – 2,499 Employees)

White Paper or Research Report
Gold Winner
Alert Logic (Houston, TX USA – 500 – 2,499 Employees) for Custom Technology Adoption Profile: Evolve Security Operations Strategy For Cloud

IT Customer Service Team of the Year
Gold Winner
Matt Stone, Director, Global Support – Samanage (Cary, NC USA – 100 – 499 Employees) Team members include Chris Walls, Tye Graham, Donald Norman, Devin Janus, Ramon Geertjens, Justin Jeffries, Chris Greer

IT Customer Service Department of the Year
Gold Winner
Joey Benadretti, President – SYSPRO (Costa Mesa, CA USA – 100 – 499 Employees)
Silver Winners
Daniel Ortolani, Senior Vice President of World Wide Customer Service – Information Builders (New York, NY USA – 500 – 2,499 Employees) Key members include: Sarah Buccellato, Nancy Silva, Tomasz Boguszewski, Mary Casull, Stefan Kostial, Frances Gambino
Glenn Wood, Vice President of Service Operations and Logistics – Fujitsu Computer Products of America, Inc. (Sunnyvale, CA USA – 100 – 499 Employees)

IT Support Team of the Year
Gold Winner
Siew Tiew Quah, Enterprise Applications Maintenance & Support Manager – Keysight Technologies Inc. (Malaysia, India, Singapore, Spain and US – 2,500 or more Employees) Team members include: Cheow Yeong Thor, Deepak Damodaran, Erny Crossen, Sravan Vashista, Siew Mooi Yong, Lee Huan Lim, Nai Koon Ong
Gold Winner
Pete Robie, Senior Vice President, CustomerCare – Vision Solutions (Irvine, CA USA – 100 – 499 Employees) Team members include: Jeff Neumeister, Mimi Jubran, Jon Anderson, Edwin Scheider, and Desmond Lam

IT Support Achievement of the Year
Gold Winner
Bonnie K. Lee, IT Program Manager – Cisco Systems, Inc. (San Jose, CA USA – 2,500 or more Employees) for Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) Migration Automation

Milestone of the Year
Gold Winner
Veritas Technologies (Mountain View, CA USA – 2,500 or more Employees) for Veritas Redefines Information Management
Silver Winner
Alert Logic (Houston, TX USA – 500 – 2,499 Employees) for Alert Logic Ranked Top Cloud Security Vendor for Second Year