Jan-Feb-Mar 2021

AWARDS
SD-WAN VENDOR OF THE YEAR
WINNER: Silver Peak
RUNNER UP: Citrix
Silver Peak, recently acquired by Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, helps businesses to realise the true transformational promise
of the cloud, enabling them to shift to a business-first networking model. Powered by a self-driving wide area network (SD-WAN Edge
Platform), companies are liberated from the compromises of router-centric and basic SD-WAN approaches to transform their networks into
a business accelerant.
With Unity EdgeConnect physical, virtual and cloud-based appliances, Silver Peak powers a new business-first networking model where top-down
business intent is the driver, not bottoms-up technology constraints.
CLOUD-DELIVERED SECURITY SOLUTION OF THE YEAR
WINNER: Proficio - Managed SOC
RUNNER UP: iBoss - iBoss Cloud Internet Security
Proficio provides managed detection and response (MDR) services to enable our clients to reduce risk, meet their security and compliance goals,
and maximise their investments in security technology. Since its inception in 2010, Proficio has grown rapidly and today provides 24/7 security
monitoring, investigation and alerting capabilities from our global network of SOCs.
Proficio's team of experienced cyber professionals use AI and cloud technologies to hunt for targeted attacks, rapidly alert clients to critical
threats, and automate containment of attacks before they cause damage. Proficio is recognised in Gartner's Market Guide for MDR Services
four years in a row.
THE RETURN ON INVESTMENT AWARD
WINNER: Pulse Secure - Pulse Access Suite Plus
RUNNER UP: e-bate - e-bate
Pulse Access Suite Plus provides organisations a simplified, modular and integrated approach to secure access. It delivers adaptive identity and
device authentication, protected connectivity, extensive visibility and analytics, threat response and high availability. The integrated platform allows
enterprises to gain easy secure access for users and a single-pane-of-glass to streamline provisioning, management and scalability.
Organisations can centrally orchestrate Zero Trust policy to ensure compliant access to applications, resources and services across their network,
private cloud and public cloud. As a result, enterprises realize lower total cost of ownership while attaining procurement, deployment, expansion and
support advantages.
NEW HARDWARE PRODUCT OF THE YEAR
WINNER: Datacore Software - HCI Flex
RUNNER UP: Allied Telesis - TQ5403 Hybrid AccessPoint
DataCore has a fine reputation in the software-defined storage (SDS) market and has made a bold move into hardware solutions with its HCI-Flex
hyperconverged infrastructure appliances.
Offered in small, medium and large configurations, the HCI-Flex appliances are turnkey solutions combining virtualisation, storage and compute
services, all within a single platform. HCI-Flex aims to reduce support costs and complexity and DataCore offers a single point of contact for all
hardware and software components.
HCI-Flex delivers a versatile and scalable HCI solution and integrates tightly with DataCore's Insight Services (DIS) cloud platform. This presents a
single pane of glass for monitoring the entire storage infrastructure.
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