DatacenterDynamics was celebrating the best examples of data center engineering and management across South-East Asia, at a glittering gala dinner at the Marina Bay Sands in Singapore on Wednesday.

The DatacenterDynamics Asia Pacific Awards, taking place during the Singapore Data Center Week, are part of a unique event series that provides worldwide recognition to outstanding individuals, teams and projects. In this complex and competitive market, there are few greater accolades than to be awarded one of these industry ‘Oscars’. And there is no more rigorous judging process: an independent panel of industry experts had carefully considered every contender and decided a winner. Past winners include many of the world’s leading brands, and every shortlisted finalist shares recognition for their exceptional performance and contribution to the industry.

Top quality and unequalled diversity for 2015 awards

“The diversity and quality of this year’s entries has been outstanding,” said chairman of the judges, Ed Ansett. “The majority of the projects that we have had to consider are world-class, which is indicative of a fast-maturing industry sector. Every project or team that has made the next stage is noteworthy.”

Keith Murray, regional vice-president for Data Center Solutions (APAC) at Schneider Electric, headline sponsor of the Awards programme, commented: “We are delighted to again be supporting the DCD Awards. It is programmes such as this that spur data center owners and operators to embrace best practice and innovation, and all the finalists are exemplars to the wider community.”

And the winners are…

 Category nameCATEGORY SPONSORED BYEntry nameCOMPANY

WINNER

[01] The Enterprise Data Center Award

i3 Solutions

Huawei Langfang Cloud Data Center

Huawei

 

WINNER

[02] The Internet Data Center Award

Emerson Network Power

 

China Unicom Guangdong Cloud Data Center Shenzhen Yantian Base

Huawei

 

WINNER

[03] The Service Provider Data Center Award

CBRE

 

Equinix revolutionizes data center services with 3Is - Innovation, interconnected initiatives

Equinix Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX)

 

WINNER

[04] The Modular Deployment Award

CEEDA

 

Shanghai Guofu - Huawei Modular Data Center Project

Huawei

 

WINNER

[05] Data Center Critical Environment Team of the Year

DCProfessional Development

 

Digital Realty -Data Center Critical Environment Team of the Year

Digital Realty

 

WINNER

[06] Critical Environment Future Thinking Award

Schneider Electric

 

Container-type Modularized Data Center with 40 HTA products

NEC & Internet Initiative Japan Inc. 

 

WINNER

[07] The Energy Efficiency Improver’s Award

M+W Group

 

Digital Realty - Energy Efficiency Improver’s Award

Digital Realty

 

WINNER

[08] Data Center Transformation Project of The Year

Panduit

 

Virtualized Layer 1 Network for Software-Defined Data Centers

Telstra

 

WINNER

[09] The “Open” Data Center Project Award

 

Cloud3DView: A Human-Centric 3D-Gamification Platform to De-risk New Technology Adoption in Modular Data Centre Operations

Nanyang Technological University

 

WINNER

[10] Cloud Journey of the Year

 

Equinix Cloud Exchange revolutionizes the cloud marketplace

Equinix Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX)

 

WINNER

[11] The Data Center Evangelist Award

Digital Realty

Ka Vin Wong – Managing Director, 1-Net

WINNER

[12] Outstanding Contribution to the Industry

IO

Tomoo Misaki – Senior Researcher/Manager, NRI

 

 We salute all of the winners and remind all of the nominees that getting that far was an achievement in itself.