{"id":234355,"date":"2025-07-03T09:34:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T09:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/234355\/"},"modified":"2025-07-03T09:34:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T09:34:12","slug":"announcing-the-shortlist-for-the-cloud-excellence-awards-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/234355\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing the shortlist for the Cloud Excellence Awards 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Announcing the shortlist for the Cloud Excellence Awards 2024\" src=\".\/media_1a6179e8ec02a95e78304adcae648943f24500c7f.jpg?width=750&amp;format=jpg&amp;optimize=medium\" width=\"679\" height=\"419\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Image:<\/p>\n<p>Announcing the shortlist for the Cloud Excellence Awards 2025<\/p>\n<p><strong>We are pleased to <a href=\"https:\/\/event.computing.co.uk\/cloudexcellenceawards\/en\/page\/2025-shortlist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announce the shortlist<\/a> for this year&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/event.computing.co.uk\/devops2025\/en\/page\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cloud Excellence Awards<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Computing Cloud Excellence Awards spotlight the absolute best in the UK\u2019s cloud computing industry &#8211; celebrating groundbreaking products, visionary vendors and transformative use cases that are reshaping businesses across the nation.<\/p>\n<p>We will be honouring the finalists&#8217; success at the stunning One Moorgate Place in London on Thursday 18th September. Attendees will enjoy an evening of celebration and networking, with a drinks reception, live entertainment and of course the awards ceremony itself.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/event.computing.co.uk\/cloudexcellenceawards\/en\/page\/finalist-packages\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to book your place at the ceremony<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After careful consideration and rigorous evaluation, our panel of judges has selected the following companies and individuals for their exemplary contributions:<\/p>\n<p>        Company &amp; Individual Categories<br \/>\n        Best Cloud Support Provider<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kascade<\/li>\n<li>OneAdvanced<\/li>\n<li>Payara Services Ltd<\/li>\n<li>RFA<\/li>\n<li>Transputec Ltd<\/li>\n<li>Wavenet<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>        Cloud Professional of the Year<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>George Ralph &#8211; RFA<\/li>\n<li>Sarah Hayward &#8211; Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency<\/li>\n<li>Suvojit Chakraborty &#8211; Aviva UK<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>        Cloud Vendor of the Year<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Exclaimer<\/li>\n<li>IRIS Software Group &#8211; IRIS Elements<\/li>\n<li>PeaSoup Cloud &#8211; PeaSoup managed cloud with immersion-cooled S3 storage<\/li>\n<li>RFA<\/li>\n<li>Tessell &#8211; Oracle-to-Azure migration for UK-based Fortune 100 professional services firm<\/li>\n<li>Xiatech Ltd &#8211; Xiatech accelerates growth with Xfuze &#8211; its innovative cloud integration, data and analytics platform<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>        MSP of the Year<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ANS Group &#8211; Elevate<\/li>\n<li>Art of Cloud &#8211; Maddox Gallery &#8211; how choosing a managed service ensured a smooth digital expansion<\/li>\n<li>Hyve Managed Hosting<\/li>\n<li>LoopUp &#8211; Multinational Teams Telephony<\/li>\n<li>Select Technology<\/li>\n<li>Stripe OLT &#8211; Complete managed IT support<\/li>\n<li>Texaport &#8211; Architecting IT excellence: Texaport&#8217;s transformation for Cooper Cromar<\/li>\n<li>Transputec Ltd &#8211; IT service desk for Woodland Trust<\/li>\n<li>Wavenet &#8211; 25 years of leadership<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>        Product &amp; Solution Categories<br \/>\n        Best Cloud Automation or AI Solution<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Aviva Plc &#8211; Synthesizer synthetic test data generator<\/li>\n<li>Bridgeworks &#8211; Spectra Logic<\/li>\n<li>Drata &#8211; Trust Management Platform<\/li>\n<li>ITC Infotech \u2013 DEVFABRIK<\/li>\n<li>POPX &#8211; POPX MSP Platform<\/li>\n<li>Progress Software &#8211; AI-powered automation and enhanced customer experience<\/li>\n<li>Propeller Studios Ltd &#8211; EasyPQQ AI<\/li>\n<li>UBIO &#8211; UBIO A3<\/li>\n<li>Vanta<\/li>\n<li>Version 1 &#8211; AI for Fraud Detection<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>        Cloud Data Management\/Engineering Solution of the Year<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>dbt Labs<\/li>\n<li>Fivetran<\/li>\n<li>John Snow Labs &#8211; Generative AI Lab<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>        Cloud DR and Continuity Product of the Year<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Crises Control &#8211; Cloud-based disaster recovery and mass notification software<\/li>\n<li>Tata Consultancy Services Ltd &#8211; Resilience engineered intelligent gateway<\/li>\n<li>Tesco Bank &#8211; Ops &amp; service continuity<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>        Cloud Management Solution of the Year<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Confluent Cloud &#8211; Confluent and Booking.com &#8211; building for the future<\/li>\n<li>Epsilon Telecommunications &#8211; Global Cloud Connectivity Portfolio, enhanced by NaaS Platform Infiny<\/li>\n<li>HCLSoftware (HCLTech) \u2013 HCL MyCloud<\/li>\n<li>Payara Services Ltd &#8211; Payara Qube<\/li>\n<li>Tata Consultancy Services Ltd &#8211; Adaptive Cloud Management Suite<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>        Cloud Security Product of the Year<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Aviatrix &#8211; Distributed Cloud Firewall (DCF)<\/li>\n<li>Checkmarx &#8211; Checkmarx One<\/li>\n<li>CyberArk<\/li>\n<li>Darktrace &#8211; Darktrace \/ CLOUD: Next-generation AI-driven security for dynamic hybrid cloud environments<\/li>\n<li>Hornetsecurity GmbH &#8211; Single-platform email security, backup and GRC for M365<\/li>\n<li>Salt Communications<\/li>\n<li>Strand Intelligence<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>        Most Innovative Cloud Product or Service<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Codemakers Ltd &#8211; Metrotech Permit+<\/li>\n<li>Epsilon Telecommunications &#8211; Global cloud connectivity portfolio, enhanced by NaaS Platform Infiny<\/li>\n<li>Exclaimer<\/li>\n<li>Forterro &#8211; Launching Orderwise Cloud to bring all the benefits of cloud ERP to the midmarket<\/li>\n<li>LND Consulting Services &#8211; AI PCaaS\u2122 Partner Campaigns as a Service<\/li>\n<li>PeaSoup Cloud &#8211; PeaSoup liquid cooled S3-compatible storage<\/li>\n<li>RELAYTO<\/li>\n<li>Strand Intelligence<\/li>\n<li>Tata Consultancy Services Ltd &#8211; Enterprise Customer Insight &amp; Response Platform<\/li>\n<li>Totalmobile &#8211; Field First Platform<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>        Multi\/Hybrid Cloud Product of the Year<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>CloudBees &#8211; CloudBees Unify<\/li>\n<li>Epsilon Telecommunications &#8211; Global Cloud Connectivity Portfolio<\/li>\n<li>LoopUp &#8211; Multinational Teams Telephony<\/li>\n<li>Payara Services Ltd &#8211; Payara Cloud<\/li>\n<li>SolarWinds\u00ae &#8211; SolarWinds\u00ae Observability SaaS<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>        Project Categories<br \/>\n        Best Cloud Project<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ANS Group &#8211; PRIME<\/li>\n<li>Finova &#8211; Gatehouse Bank accelerates Sharia-compliant lending with Finova\u2019s Lending platform<\/li>\n<li>Manchester Metropolitan University &#8211; Research Cloud Platform<\/li>\n<li>Pulsant &#8211; Pulsant Private Cloud, delivering resilience, security and scale for Witherslack Group<\/li>\n<li>Tata Consultancy Services Ltd &#8211; Elevating intelligent gateway through cloud adoption<\/li>\n<li>Version 1 &#8211; Cloud transformation for global financial risk management platform<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>        Best use of AI in the Cloud<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Accedia &#8211; OmniPort: AI-powered lending transformation for Castle Trust Bank<\/li>\n<li>Civo &#8211; CivoAI<\/li>\n<li>PodManager \u2013 PodManager.AI<\/li>\n<li>Tyto &#8211; Poundland: Transforming retail ops at scale with Workato<\/li>\n<li>UBIO \u2013 UBIO A3<\/li>\n<li>Version 1 &#8211; AI for Fraud Detection<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Honour these remarkable individuals and businesses and their contributions to technology by <a href=\"https:\/\/event.computing.co.uk\/cloudexcellenceawards\/en\/page\/finalist-packages\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reserving your place at the event<\/a> now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Image: Announcing the shortlist for the Cloud Excellence Awards 2025 We are pleased to announce the shortlist for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234356,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3164],"tags":[51535,3284,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-234355","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-computing","8":"tag-cloud-excellence-awards","9":"tag-computing","10":"tag-technology","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114788622085059277","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}