The winners of the DatacenterDynamics EMEA Awards have been announced, at a glittering dinner at London’s Lancaster Hotel.

From a mightily impressive shortlist DCD’s expert judges winnowed a list of the leaders of the datacenter world in EMEA, and the industry showed up to applaud their decision. The task was harder than ever this year, reflecting the pace and competition of a datacenter market which is rapidly growing right across the region.

Without further ado, here are the winners:

Future Thinking & Design Concepts
Moving your applications into the cloud might seem to dissolve distance, but Equinix realised it also means that firms may actually be closer to their partners than they realise. Equinix Cloud Exchange lets customers interconnect their cloud applications and services automatically, creating fast flexible hybrid solutions.

Data Center Blueprints
The UK’s academic network Janet/JISC won the blueprints contest with a design produced by Infinity SDC, for a shared 2.25MW data center supporting academia and medical research. The design includes indirect evaporative cooling which supports densities of 4kW to 30kW in the same hall.