W.Media Cloud & Datacenter Awards is Asia Pacific’s flagship awards programme, recognising achievements and excellence across all mission critical technology sectors.
W.Media云和数据中心行业评奖，是亚太地区的权威奖项，致力于表彰和激励在业内关键技术领域取得卓越成就的项目、团队和个人。
W.Media Cloud & Datacenter Awardsは、アジア太平洋地域の代表的な受賞プログラムであり、全てのミッションクリティカル技術部門で成果と優秀性が認めております。
Since 2018, W.Media’s industry following has grown exponentially across Asia Pacific. IT and Data Center Professionals from established and emerging markets have poured forward in tens of thousands to network and learn through W.Media’s platforms.
W.Media will be presenting 4 Awards, one for each sub-region – Southeast Asia, Northeast Asia, South Asia and Australasia. Each Award will feature 16 categories. With up to 61 winners, this will be the largest Awards series in 2021 for the Cloud & Datacenter Community in Asia Pacific.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 tomake innovations happen.
Nominate your colleagues by sharing their recent (<18 months) success stories.
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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.
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.
| Time (GMT+8) | Programme |
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| 6.00PM | Drinks Reception |
| 6.30PM | Welcome Speech by W.Media |
| 6.35PM | Opening Speech by Judges’ Representative |
| 6.40PM | Speech by Awards Partners |
| 6.50PM | Awards Video Presentation |
| 6.55PM | Award Winners Announcement – ANZ & NEA region |
| 7.20PM | Dinner to be Served |
| 8.20PM | Award Winners Announcement – APAC Technology & Business Leaders |
| 8.45PM | Award Winners Announcement – SEA region |
| 9.25PM | Closing Speech |
| 9.30PM | Drinks Reception |
| 10.00PM | Session Adjourned |
Sponsoring these Awards offers your organisation the opportunity to be centerstage throughout the Awards Season from June through December–not just at the Gala dinners.
Align your brand and offerings with an Award Category that simplifies your marketing message. Throughout your marketing campaign, you’ll have opportunities to deliver premiere digital keynote addresses to curated audiences, featured video at our Awards Digital Summits, editorial content on W.Media Digital Platforms, category branding on Awards night, and much, much more.
Attendance to the Awards Ceremony and Gala is on invite only.
Want to know more?
Sponsorship slots are limited so do get in touch with our organising committee at awards@w.media or fill in this online form to get involved and take advantage of this unique branding opportunity.