The Silverlinings editorial team is proud to announce the full list of finalists in our first-ever Cloud Innovation Awards.
Best Cloud Sustainability Initiative
- Cisco Systems: Cisco UCS X-Series Modular System
- Iron Mountain Data Centers: 24/7 Carbon Free Energy
- VMware: VMware’s Telco Sustainability Framework
Best Cloud Artificial Intelligence Solution
- Dynatrace: Dynatrace Davis AI
- EnterpriseWeb: Telco-grade generative AI for intent-based orchestration
- Nutanix: Nutanix GPT-in-a-Box
- VMware: VMware Network Scorecard rApp
Best Cloud Automation Solution
- Console Connect: CloudRouter
- IBM: IBM Hybrid Cloud Mesh
- Itential: Itential Automation Platform
- Microsoft: Azure Operator Service Manager
Best Cloud-Native 5G Solution
- Blue Planet, a division of Ciena: 5G End-to-End Network Slicing Automation Solution
- Huawei: Huawei Full-Series 5.5G Solutions
- Intel: 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable Processor with Intel vRAN Boost
- Marvell: Marvell OCTEON 10 Fusion
- Samsung Networks: vRAN 3.0
Best Cloud Data Center Solution
- Amdocs: Amdocs Executable Cloud-Native Blueprints-In-A-Box
- DriveNets: Network Cloud-AI
- Marvell: Marvell Nova 1.6 Tbps PAM4 electro-optics platform
- Vertiv: Vertiv Liebert XDU
Best Cloud Networking Solution (Public, Private or Hybrid)
- Aviatrix: Aviatrix
- Cloudbrink: The Cloudbrink Service
- Ericsson: Ericsson Cloud Native Infrastructure
- F5: F5 Distributed Cloud Services
- Microsoft: Azure Operator Nexus
Top Cloud Changemakers*
- Jon Abrahamson, Chief Product and Digital Officer, Deutsche Telekom
- Andrew Coward, General Manager of Software Defined Networking, IBM
- Ulf Ewaldsson, President of Technology, T-Mobile
- Will Grannis, CTO, Google Cloud
- Scott Guthrie, Executive Vice President, Cloud and AI Group, Microsoft Azure
- Michael Intrator, CEO, CoreWeave
- Michael Kagan, CTO, Nvidia
- Richard Moulds, General Manager for Quantum Computing Service Amazon Braket, AWS
- Chris Nicholas, Senior Vice President, Cloud Solutions Group, Trace3
- Chris Sambar, President of Network, AT&T
"The editorial team would like to thank everyone for their participation and submissions," said Elizabeth Coyne, managing editor, Silverlinings. "Selecting the finalists was a difficult decision due to the outstanding quality of all of the entries. We congratulate all of our finalists and look forward to announcing the winners at our Cloud Executive Summit in Sonoma, Calif, from Dec. 6-7."
Winners announced on Dec. 7
The Silverlinings editorial team will announce the Cloud Innovation Awards winners in person on December 7 during an awards ceremony and dinner at the Cloud Executive Summit, set for the Fairmont Sonoma Mission Inn & Spa in Sonoma, Ca.
*Read more about the finalists in the Top Cloud Changemaker category here.
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