Winners of V3 Technology Awards 2013

V3 has announced the winners of its prestigious Technology Awards 2013, as voted for by its readership of IT professionals.

The winners were revealed at an awards ceremony in London on 29 November. As well as a sumptuous meal and champagne reception, guests were treated to a talk from Dave Patten, head of New Media at the Science Museum, who gave attendees a sneak preview of upcoming exhibits showcasing robotics, mathmatics and its forthcoming Information Age gallery.
The awards were hotly contested this year, with more than 450 entries from 150 companies across the 30 categories.

Google swept the board this year, bagging six gongs, including retaining its crown as cloud computing provider 2013. The firm was also selected as best business application for Google Apps for Business, best business social media product for Google+, best business tablet for its Google Nexus 7 (2013) and best cloud storage for Google Drive. Google also beat Microsoft for the first time to be crowned enterprise software firm 2013.

Oracle was also a popular choice with V3 readers, scooping three awards, including the coveted product of the year for its Oracle Database 12c. The firm got the nod again as best business intelligence vendor and took home the inaugural best big data product award for its Exadata X-3 In-Memory machine.

Kaspersky Lab was again the base for our technology hero of the year award, which went to Costin Raiu, director of the firm’s Global Research and Analysis Team, for his leadership in anti-malware, cyber-espionage research and innovation, both internally and externally. V3 readers also chose Kaspersky Lab’s Endpoint Security for Business as the best enterprise security product.

EMC took home a brace of awards as well, receiving the nod for best business storage with EMC Isilon, and for its work with Cancer Research as customer project of the year.

There was also space for some newer contenders to be recognised by V3 readers, with Nutanix taking home the best virtualisation product award for its Virtual Computing Platform.

Congratulations to our winners, and to all the firms and individuals who made it onto the 2013 shortlist.

The full list of winners is published below.

Category: Infrastructure

Best business communications provider
Vodafone UK

Best network equipment firm
Cisco

Best video conferencing product
Cisco TelePresence

Best business storage
EMC Isilon

Category: Business software

Best business application
Google Apps for Business

Best business social media product
Google+

Best big data product
Oracle Exadata X-3 In-Memory machine

Best business intelligence vendor
Oracle
 
Enterprise software firm 2013
Google

Category: Security

Best SMB security product
Trend Micro Worry-Free 8.0

Best enterprise security product
Kaspersky Lab Endpoint Security for Business

Best mobile security product
Good Technology Good Secure Mobility Solution

Best business security provider
McAfee

Category: Business mobility

Best mobile app for business
Box OneCloud

Best mobile management software
BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10

Best business smartphone
Samsung Galaxy Note II

Best business tablet
Google Nexus 7 (2013)

Best business laptop
Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Touch

Category: Cloud computing

Best virtualisation product
Nutanix Virtual Computing Platform

Best software-as-a-service provider
Salesforce.com

Best cloud storage
Google Drive

Best cloud security product
Symantec O3 Cloud Identity and Access Control
 
Cloud computing provider 2013
Google

Category: Movers and shakers

Technology event of the year
CeBIT

Best acquisition
Salesforce.com/ExactTarget

Technology project of the year
BT Global Services London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games

Customer project of the year
EMC/Cancer Research

Technology hero of the year
Costin Raiu, Kaspersky Lab

Technology innovator of the year
Intel for Haswell

Product of the year
Oracle Database 12c