Awards
Compete with APAC’s Most Outstanding in One of Four Regional Awards
“Phenomenal! Four regional Industry Awards. I’ll be looking out for projects in the emerging Asian markets. ” – Group CIO, Conglomerate.
Nominations
Why Enter?
Hundreds of nominations are expected across all 4 regional Awards, the awards offers you and your company a unique opportunity to be recognised, network and celebrate with Asia Pacific’s finest.
The Awards Season comprises of both Digital and Live engagements to maximise audience reach and awareness. And to top it all off, the final black-tie gala event is a must-attend for anyone in the technology world.
Judging Process
The Awards Judges have come from around the globe to participate on our esteemed jury panels. Judging is carried out independently by each regional panel of judges made up of reputable industry experts. The majority of our Awards Judges will be anonymous as they hold procurement responsibilities and are strategic influencers in our industry. It is essential that the evaluation is focused on the submissions themselves to ensure a fair and equitable assessment process.
Outstanding Data Center Projects
Sponsored by: W.Media
Hyperscale is not simply about size but also the ability to scale rapidly and in huge multiples on-demand.
IDC classifies any data center with at least 5,000 servers and 10,000 square feet of available space as hyperscale.
Innovation includes maximising cooling and power efficiency, modular electrical power distribution, power availability, IT load balancing and last but not least, facility automation that includes control and monitoring.
This category is open to data center owners or operators with a recent (<18 months) green or brown field project.
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Join the Awards Summit as Enterprise Users and Industry Experts get together for a virtual conversation on this topic. They will be sharing their excitement and opinions leading up the Shortlist Announcement.
Sponsored by: W.Media
Hyperscale is not simply about size but also the ability to scale rapidly and in huge multiples on-demand.
IDC classifies any data center with at least 5,000 servers and 10,000 square feet of available space as hyperscale.
Innovation includes maximising cooling and power efficiency, modular electrical power distribution, power availability, IT load balancing and last but not least, facility automation that includes control and monitoring.
This category is open to data center owners or operators with a recent (<18 months) green or brown field project.
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Join the Awards Summit as Enterprise Users and Industry Experts get together for a virtual conversation on this topic. They will be sharing their excitement and opinions leading up the Shortlist Announcement.
Sponsored by: W.Media
Data center equipment and servers produce a lot of heat, which means a large portion of expenditures come from cooling. IT equipment must remain at a safe temperature, which calls for proper ventilation and cooling in the data center. Power consumption can be lessened by optimizing or innovating not just the cooling operations, but also the technology adoption.
This category is open to any recent (<18 months) data center project that resulted in significant benefits to the data center owner where the energy efficiency of the facilities concerned.
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Join the Awards Summit as Enterprise Users and Industry Experts get together for a virtual conversation on this topic. They will be sharing their excitement and expert opinions leading up the Shortlist Announcement.
Sponsored by: W.Media
Sustainable design is about building the future, not just a structure. Sustainability is as much about process as it is about product. Seeing sustainable design as a process empowers “green” designers and constructors to better evaluate and anticipate the environmental, economical and social impacts and costs. Many data centers have made a commitment to sustainable energy solutions by turning to sources of renewable power.
This category is open to any recent (<18 months) project involving the design and build of a new data center anywhere in the region.
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Join the Awards Summit as Enterprise Users and Industry Experts get together for a virtual conversation on this topic. They will be sharing their excitement and opinions leading up the Shortlist Announcement.
Sponsored by: W.Media
Building a successful IXP is not just a technical engineering job – time and effort needs to be invested in developing trust, common understanding and mutual agreements in the local community. IXPs attract a range of local and international operators because they provide them with a more cost-effective way to access potential local Internet users. This spurs innovation and creates business opportunities – it encourages local people to produce more relevant local content and applications.
This category is open to any recent (<18 months) project involving the expansion or innovation of connectivity anywhere in the region.
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Join the Awards Summit as Enterprise Users and Industry Experts get together for a virtual conversation on this topic. They will be sharing their excitement and opinions leading up the Shortlist Announcement.
Outstanding IT and Cloud Projects
Sponsored by: W.Media
PaaS provider hosts everything from servers, networks, storage, operating system software, databases at their data center. Faster time to market, less-risky adoption, cost-effective scalability and overall lower costs enable content developers to focus on their core business capabilities.
This category is for recent (<18 months) projects involving OTT platforms (Internet, Media, E-Commerce etc).
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Join the Awards Summit as Enterprise Users and Industry Experts get together for a virtual conversation on this topic. They will be sharing their excitement and opinions leading up the Shortlist Announcement.
Sponsored by: W.Media
Rising number of enterprises rely on technology to drive their business operations. Managed Service and Hosting providers are valuable partners in ensuring Controlled IT Cost, Experienced and Qualified Expertise, Increase Efficiency and Competitiveness, Compliance and Security for example. They offer valuable past project experiences and advisory to support new project decision-making. Enterprises should not view MSPs as a replacement of their IT staff or responsibilities but in a synergistic approach.
Open to any organisation’s project to migrate to a managed services model for the delivery of one or set of key applications in support of their core business.
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Join the Awards Summit as Enterprise Users and Industry Experts get together for a virtual conversation on this topic. They will be sharing their excitement and opinions leading up the Shortlist Announcement.
Sponsored by: W.Media
A combination of factors contributes to the success of digital transformation in enterprises. This category evaluates the following aspects to determine a successful digital transformation project: digitizing core processes and systems; building resilient operations, applications, and infrastructure; driving data-driven decision-making and culture; and cybersecurity.
This category is open to any recent (<18 months) digital transformation project.
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Join the Awards Summit as Enterprise Users and Industry Experts get together for a virtual conversation on this topic. They will be sharing their excitement and opinions leading up the Shortlist Announcement.
Sponsored by: W.Media
How security threats are managed will have an impact on everything from operations to reputation. It should go without saying that protecting employees and client data should be a top priority.
This category reviews cybersecurity plans in organizations from a holistic approach including but not limited to network security, security culture, governance, optimization of cybersecurity budget and spend, and your IT team.
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Join the Awards Summit as Enterprise Users and Industry Experts get together for a virtual conversation on this topic. They will be sharing their excitement and opinions leading up the Shortlist Announcement.
Sponsored by: W.Media
With increasing public cloud outages, cloud customers began to realize that a single-cloud strategy can be risky and expensive. Adopting a multicloud management strategy that allows companies to spread out where their data lives so that an outage on one infrastructure doesn’t completely cripple the business.
This category is open to any project relevant to a recent (<18 months) multi cloud management strategy either for their organisation or external customers that result in a significant business benefit.
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Join the Awards Summit as Enterprise Users and Industry Experts get together for a virtual conversation on this topic. They will be sharing their excitement and opinions leading up the Shortlist Announcement.
Sponsored by: W.Media
Many organizations still rely on so-called legacy systems – software developed over the lifetime of an organization housed on traditional IT infrastructure. Despite maintainability issues, on-premise legacy systems are still crucial as they support core business processes that cannot simply be replaced.
Fast growing organisations are also experiencing far greater application and infrastructure density.
Scalability, reliability and interoperability of IT infrastructure environments are some of the key reasons for enterprises to move their business-critical systems to the cloud.
Open to any recent (<18 months) project involving the consolidation of several data centres or enterprise IT infrastructure resulting in migration to the Cloud.
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Join the Awards Summit as Enterprise Users and Industry Experts get together for a virtual conversation on this topic. They will be sharing their excitement and opinions leading up the Shortlist Announcement.
Outstanding Accolades
Sponsored by: W.Media
Excellence in Safety, Security, Availability, Scaling and Efficiency are hallmarks of a world class data center operations team.
This category is open to any data center teams who recently (<18 months) established or transformed their operations team to achieve the highest level of operational excellence, drive best practices and/or benchmarking of operations between regions to ensure world class operations in all countries or multiple data center sites.
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Join the Awards Summit as Enterprise Users and Industry Experts get together for a virtual conversation on this topic. They will be sharing their excitement and opinions leading up the Shortlist Announcement.
Sponsored by: W.Media
Probably one of the least recognised teams in a data center establishment, a high performing service and maintenance team offers data center owners and operators a peace of mind. It is not unusual for the service and maintenance team to be the recipient of night-time calls, long hours and the feeling of never making any progress. Every service engineering, preventive and corrective maintenance member faces the same daily pressures around uptime, production, budget, skills, people and compliance.
This category is open to Service Providers or Data Center Owners who wish to recognise their supporting teams in a recent (<18 months) project or incident.
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Join the Awards Summit as Enterprise Users and Industry Experts get together for a virtual conversation on this topic. They will be sharing their excitement and opinions leading up the Shortlist Announcement.
Sponsored by: W.Media
The first and original accolade curated by W.Media. ‘Nanyang’ is a sinocentric Chinese term for the warmer and fertile geographical region along the southern coastal regions of China and beyond, otherwise known as the ‘South Sea’ or Southeast Asia. This award recognises astute international investment teams for their foreign direct investments (FDI) in Southeast Asia, projected to be the fastest-growing region in the world for data centers. Aside from establishing a valuable asset, the overall investment has benefited Southeast Asia countries through employment and economic boost, development of resources, resource transfer, increased productivity, improved infrastructure and committed to a sustainability approach.
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Join the Awards Summit as Enterprise Users and Industry Experts get together for a virtual conversation on this topic. They will be sharing their excitement and opinions leading up the Shortlist Announcement.
Sponsored by: W.Media
In the face of pandemic, technology and leadership are exceedingly important as we are plagued with uncertainty, difficulties arising from remote work, and more. The Technology Leader award aims to recognise outstanding achievements and leadership qualities of technology professionals who have gone above and beyond their call of duties to make innovations happen.
Nominate your colleagues by sharing their recent (<18 months) success stories.
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Join the Awards Summit as Enterprise Users and Industry Experts get together for a virtual conversation on this topic. They will be sharing their excitement and opinions leading up the Shortlist Announcement.
Sponsored by: W.Media
Business landscapes are constantly changing and increasingly competitive. It takes strong business acumen and leadership to navigate through complex challenges, inspire innovation and build an excellent team. The Business Leader award aims to recognise outstanding achievements and leadership qualities of business professionals in the technology sector who have gone above and beyond their call of duties to steer a direction of success.
Nominate your colleagues by sharing their recent (<18 months) success stories.
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Join the Awards Summit as Enterprise Users and Industry Experts get together for a virtual conversation on this topic. They will be sharing their excitement and opinions leading up the Shortlist Announcement.
Data Center Projects of the Year
Sponsored by: W.Media
Excellence in Safety, Security, Availability, Scaling and Efficiency are hallmarks of a world class data center operations team.
This category is open to any data center teams who recently (<18 months) established or transformed their operations team to achieve the highest level of operational excellence, drive best practices and/or benchmarking of operations between regions to ensure world class operations in all countries or multiple data center sites.
Sponsored by: W.Media
Probably one of the least recognised teams in a data center establishment, a high performing service and maintenance team offers data center owners and operators a peace of mind. It is not unusual for the service and maintenance team to be the recipient of night-time calls, long hours and the feeling of never making any progress. Every service engineering, preventive and corrective maintenance member faces the same daily pressures around uptime, production, budget, skills, people and compliance.
This category is open to Service Providers or Data Center Owners who wish to recognise their supporting teams in a recent (<18 months) project or incident.
Sponsored by: W.Media
What makes a large facility hyperscale is not just its size, but also how its design enables its tenants or users to make optimum use of its resources within that size. Innovation includes maximising cooling and power efficiency, modular electrical power distribution, power availability, IT load balancing and last but not least, facility automation that includes control and monitoring.
This category is open to data center owners or operators with a recent (<18 months) green or brown field project.
Sponsored by: W.Media
What makes a large facility hyperscale is not just its size, but also how its design enables its tenants or users to make optimum use of its resources within that size. Innovation includes maximising cooling and power efficiency, modular electrical power distribution, power availability, IT load balancing and last but not least, facility automation that includes control and monitoring.
This category is open to data center owners or operators with a recent (<18 months) green or brown field project.
Sponsored by: W.Media
Data center equipment and servers produce a lot of heat, which means a large portion of expenditures come from cooling. IT equipment must remain at a safe temperature, which calls for proper ventilation and cooling in the data center. Power consumption can be lessened by optimizing or innovating not just the cooling operations, but also the technology adoption.
This category is open to any recent (<18 months) data center project that resulted in significant benefits to the data center owner where the energy efficiency of the facilities concerned.
Sponsored by: W.Media
Sustainable design is about building the future, not just a structure. Sustainability is as much about process as it is about product. Seeing sustainable design as a process empowers “green” designers and constructors to better evaluate and anticipate the environmental, economical and social impacts and costs. Many data centers have made a commitment to sustainable energy solutions by turning to sources of renewable power.
This category is open to any recent (<18 months) project involving the design and build of a new data center anywhere in the region.
Sponsored by: W.Media
Building a successful IXP is not just a technical engineering job – time and effort needs to be invested in developing trust, common understanding and mutual agreements in the local community. IXPs attract a range of local and international operators because they provide them with a more cost-effective way to access potential local Internet users. This spurs innovation and creates business opportunities – it encourages local people to produce more relevant local content and applications.
This category is open to any recent (<18 months) project involving the expansion or innovation of connectivity anywhere in the region.
IT and Cloud Projects of the Year
Sponsored by: W.Media
PaaS provider hosts everything from servers, networks, storage, operating system software, databases at their data center. Faster time to market, less-risky adoption, cost-effective scalability and overall lower costs enable content developers to focus on their core business capabilities.
This category is for recent (<18 months) projects involving OTT platforms (Internet, Media, E-Commerce etc).
Sponsored by: W.Media
Rising number of enterprises rely on technology to drive their business operations. Managed Service and Hosting providers are valuable partners in ensuring Controlled IT Cost, Experienced and Qualified Expertise, Increase Efficiency and Competitiveness, Compliance and Security for example. They offer valuable past project experiences and advisory to support new project decision-making. Enterprises should not view MSPs as a replacement of their IT staff or responsibilities but in a synergistic approach.
Open to any organisation’s project to migrate to a managed services model for the delivery of one or set of key applications in support of their core business.
Sponsored by: W.Media
A combination of factors contributes to the success of digital transformation in enterprises. This category evaluates the following aspects to determine a successful digital transformation project: digitizing core processes and systems; building resilient operations, applications, and infrastructure; driving data-driven decision-making and culture; and cybersecurity.
This category is open to any recent (<18 months) digital transformation project.
Sponsored by: W.Media
How security threats are managed will have an impact on everything from operations to reputation. It should go without saying that protecting employees and client data should be a top priority.
This category reviews cybersecurity plans in organizations from a holistic approach including but not limited to network security, security culture, governance, optimization of cybersecurity budget and spend, and your IT team.
Sponsored by: W.Media
With increasing public cloud outages, cloud customers began to realize that a single-cloud strategy can be risky and expensive. Adopting a multicloud management strategy that allows companies to spread out where their data lives so that an outage on one infrastructure doesn’t completely cripple the business.
This category is open to any project relevant to a recent (<18 months) multi cloud management strategy either for their organisation or external customers that result in a significant business benefit.
Sponsored by: W.Media
Many organizations still rely on so-called legacy systems – software developed over the lifetime of an organization housed on traditional IT infrastructure. Despite maintainability issues, on-premise legacy systems are still crucial as they support core business processes that cannot simply be replaced.
Fast growing organisations are also experiencing far greater application and infrastructure density.
Scalability, reliability and interoperability of IT infrastructure environments are some of the key reasons for enterprises to move their business-critical systems to the cloud.
Open to any recent (<18 months) project involving the consolidation of several data centres or enterprise IT infrastructure resulting in migration to the Cloud.
Outstanding Achievement of the Year
Sponsored by: W.Media
In the face of pandemic, technology and leadership are exceedingly important as we are plagued with uncertainty, difficulties arising from remote work, and more. The Technology Leader award aims to recognise outstanding achievements and leadership qualities of technology professionals who have gone above and beyond their call of duties to make innovations happen.
Nominate your colleagues by sharing their recent (<18 months) success stories.
Sponsored by: W.Media
Business landscapes are constantly changing and increasingly competitive. It takes strong business acumen and leadership to navigate through complex challenges, inspire innovation and build an excellent team. The Business Leader award aims to recognise outstanding achievements and leadership qualities of business professionals in the technology sector who have gone above and beyond their call of duties to steer a direction of success.
Nominate your colleagues by sharing their recent (<18 months) success stories.
Sponsored by: W.Media
The first and original accolade curated by W.Media. ‘Nanyang’ is a sinocentric Chinese term for the warmer and fertile geographical region along the southern coastal regions of China and beyond, otherwise known as the ‘South Sea’ or Southeast Asia. This award recognises astute international investment teams for their foreign direct investments (FDI) in Southeast Asia, projected to be the fastest-growing region in the world for data centers. Aside from establishing a valuable asset, the overall investment has benefited Southeast Asia countries through employment and economic boost, development of resources, resource transfer, increased productivity, improved infrastructure and committed to a sustainability approach.
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