Big Data Trailblazers Award
This category is open to all private companies both privately funded or VC backed (Series C or earlier) and younger than five years old.
It is open to product and services Big Data startups offering innovative solutions to enterprises based anywhere around the world.
Buzzwords of what may be considered hot and innovative include: Cassandra, Hadoop, Data Loading, NoSQL.
Don’t see your product or services category listed?
Don’t worry, the list is not exhaustive and all innovative products and services from companies that meets the criteria will be considered.
After all, we are looking for trailblazers so you may be creating a technology or market that we don’t even know about!
Cloud Trailblazers Award
This category is open to all private companies both privately funded and VC backed (Series C or earlier) five years old or younger.
It is open to product and services cloud startups offering innovative solutions to enterprises based anywhere around the world.
Buzzwords of what may be considered hot and innovative include: Orchestration, cloud migration, physical – cloud integration, authentication, security, tools, image management, application packaging, SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, OaaS.
Don’t see your product or services category listed?
Don’t worry, the list is not exhaustive and all innovative products and services from companies that meets the criteria will be considered.
After all, we are looking for trailblazers so you may be creating a technology or market that we don’t even know about!
Emerging Markets Trailblazers Award
This category is open to all private companies both privately funded or VC backed (Series C or earlier) and younger than five years old.
It is open to product and services emerging markets startups offering innovative solutions to enterprises based outside of the following regions:
Middle East
North America
Europe
Saudi Arabia
UAE
Israel
Japan
Singapore
Australia
New Zealand
Your product, service, or innovation should fit within one of the main Tech Trailblazer awards categories (Big Data, Cloud, Mobile, Networking, Security, Sustainable IT, Storage or Virtualization.)
Mobile Trailblazers Award
This category is open to all private companies both privately funded or VC backed (Series C or earlier) and younger than five years old.
It is open to product and services mobile startups offering innovative solutions to enterprises based anywhere around the world.
Buzzwords of what may be considered hot and innovative include: BYOD, smartphone, apps, mobility, productivity, m-payment, personalization, geofencing, M2M, m-coupons, m-advertising, location based services (LBS), telecom expense management, unified communications, usage controls, mobile commerce, LTE, NGN, hetnets, SON.
Don’t see your product or services category listed?
Don’t worry, the list is not exhaustive and all innovative products and services from companies that meets the criteria will be considered.
After all, we are looking for trailblazers so you may be creating a technology or market that we don’t even know about!
This category is all about hot mobile enterprise tech that delivers real business benefits and we’re not fussy whether that’s hardware, software or anything else you can think up. Whether your product is aimed at helping mobile operators support enterprise customers, or at the enterprise customers themselves, we’d like to hear from you.
Networking Trailblazers Award
This category is open to all private companies both privately funded or VC backed (Series C or earlier) and younger than five years old.
It is open to product and services networking startups offering innovative solutions to enterprises based anywhere around the world.
Buzzwords of what may be considered hot and innovative include: software defined networking, network compression and optimization, low latency networks.
Don’t see your product or services category listed?
Don’t worry, the list is not exhaustive and all innovative products and services from companies that meets the criteria will be considered.
After all, we are looking for trailblazers so you may be creating a technology or market that we don’t even know about!
Security Trailblazers Award
This category is open to all private companies both privately funded or VC backed (Series C or earlier) and younger than five years old.
It is open to product and services security startups offering innovative solutions to enterprises based anywhere around the world.
Buzzwords of what may be considered hot and innovative include: APT, proactive defence, whitelist, SEIM, correlation and monitoring.
Don’t see your product or services category listed?
Don’t worry, the list is not exhaustive and all innovative products and services from companies that meets the criteria will be considered.
After all, we are looking for trailblazers so you may be creating a technology or market that we don’t even know about!
Storage Trailblazers Award
This category is open to all private companies both privately funded or VC backed (Series C or earlier) and younger than five years old.
It is open to product and services storage startups offering innovative solutions to enterprises based anywhere around the world.
Buzzwords of what may be considered hot and innovative include: Solid State Disk (SSD), backup, archiving, deduplication, Write Attenuation, Open Source, Storage Software, Storage Switches, Compression
Don’t see your product or services category listed?
Don’t worry, the list is not exhaustive and all innovative products and services from companies that meets the criteria will be considered.
After all, we are looking for trailblazers so you may be creating a technology or market that we don’t even know about!
Sustainable IT Trailblazers Award
This category is open to all private companies both privately funded or VC backed (Series C or earlier) and younger than five years old.
It is open to product and services virtualization startups offering innovative solutions to enterprises based anywhere around the world.
Buzzwords of what may be considered hot and innovative include: Energy management, energy efficiency, cost reduction, cost avoidance, energy, carbon, water, green IT, green ICT, application efficiency, software efficiency, holistic infrastructure management.
Don’t worry, the list is not exhaustive and all innovative products and services from companies that meets the criteria will be considered.
After all, we are looking for trailblazers so you may be creating a technology or market that we don’t even know about!
Virtualization Trailblazers Award
This category is open to all private companies both privately funded or VC backed (Series C or earlier) and younger than five years old.
It is open to product and services virtualization startups offering innovative solutions to enterprises based anywhere around the world.
Buzzwords of what may be considered hot and innovative include: VDI, Application Packaging, Orchestration, Management, Migrations
Don’t see your product or services category listed?
Don’t worry, the list is not exhaustive and all innovative products and services from companies that meets the criteria will be considered.
After all, we are looking for trailblazers so you may be creating a technology or market that we don’t even know about!