Cast your vote by 18th May!
The MicroScope Awards for Channel Excellence (ACEs) celebrate the best of the channel recognising those that have delivered the best service, products and support. The awards, now in their fifth year, have been enhanced with a broader range of categories encouraging those with products and projects they are proud of to step forward and nominate themselves or their suppliers. Awards mean a great deal in the channel and we look forward to highlighting your achievements and publicly recognising best practice.
2012 Microscope ACEs Submissions
2012 Microscope ACEs Reseller Categories
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SME reseller of the year
Entrants to this category will be focused on serving the needs of the small and medium customer base.
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Vertical market reseller of the year
Entrants to this category will have a proven track record selling and developing services to a specific vertical market including: health/finance/education/manufacturing/retail.
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Managed service provider of the year
Entrants to this category can be providing a managed service in the following areas: managed print services/desktop maintenance services/back up and disaster recovery services.
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Innovative reseller of the year
Entrants to this category will be at the cutting edge providing support for some of the emerging technologies and customer problems For example: consumerisation/mobility.
2012 MICROSCOPE ACES TECHNOLOGY CATEGORIES
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Security
This category covers expertise in the following areas:
- Best financial security product/project
- Best cloud security product/project
- Best midmarket security product/project
- Best overall security product/project
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Storage
This category covers expertise in the following areas:
- Best data backup product/project
- Best disaster recovery product/project
- Best SME storage product/project
- Best overall storage product/project
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Networking
This category covers expertise in the following areas:
- Best mobile computing product/project
- Best unified comms product/project
- Best enterprise WAN product/project
- Best overall networking product/project
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Software
This category covers expertise in the following areas:
- Best enterprise desktop product/project
- Best business intelligence product/project
- Best SME software product/project best overall software product/project
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Cloud computing
This category covers expertise in the following areas:
- Best cloud storage product/project
- Best cloud security product/project
- Best cloud networking product/project
- Best overall cloud product/project
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Infrastructure
This category covers expertise in the following areas:
- Best data centre product/project
- Best virtualised server product/project
- Best virtualised desktop product/project
2012 MICROSCOPE ACES DISTRIBUTOR CATEGORIES
Security distributor of the year
Increasingly those at the top of the tree in this market will understand it is not just about
products and training but also about adding value to help resellers through the minefield of
emerging products and the opportunities thrown up by convergence. The winner will have shown that
they have adapted to the changing landscape in the market to provide their resellers with even
greater opportunities.
Storage distributor of the year
Storage continues to develop, with ever quicker and higher capacity products hitting the market,
but those that are valued by resellers and worthy winners of this award will add value and deliver
excellent service and support to both vendors and dealers.
Software distributor of the year
The days of shrink-wrapped products are long gone and a distributor in this space now has to help
resellers maneuver to a world of hosted software and different licensing models. The winner will
have shown leadership in that transition as well as excellence in delivery of software service to
both vendors and resellers.
Networking distributor of the year
The network has become the crucial component of cloud and mobility demands from customers and the
winner of this award will have taken a leading role in convergence as well as understanding and
translating for resellers the current infrastructure opportunities provided by the web.
Hardware distributor of the year
Seen by some as the engine room of distribution, the winner of this award will have not only
developed an unmatched record on product availability and support, but will be guiding resellers
into a world of solutions rather than simply shifting tin.
SPONSORS
JUDGES
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Simon Quicke Site Editor, MicroScopeSimon Quicke has been the Site Editor of MicroScope for 6 years and has covered the channel industry for 15 years. He graduated in Politics and Government, before pursuing a career in Journalism, where he took further study and gained a PG Diploma in Newspaper Journalism and an MA is Historical Research.
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Clive Longbottom Service Director, QuocircaClive is a service director at industry analyst group, Quocirca, specialising in how technology can be used to facilitate business processes. Taking a pragmatic view of technology, he is only interested in what IT can do to provide tangible business benefit, rather than what is just "of the moment". Quocirca's output is freely available at http://www.quocirca.com.
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Jeremy Davies Founder, CONTEXTJeremy Davies founded CONTEXT with his brother Howard in 1983 at the same time that IBM launched the PC in Europe – both brothers sharing a fascination for the emerging PC industry. CONTEXT built one of the first computer reseller databases in the UK, then grew and expanded from Europe into today's global presence and is now the world's largest ICT channel sales and price tracking organisation.
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Keith Warburton CloudPresenceKeith Warburton has spent the majority of his career providing guidance to ICT professional - from sales, to consultancy for national and international clients, to moulding businesses into a national industry association. Among the 18 years spent at The Technology Channels Association, he played a major role in the transition the TCA into becoming the UK Channel Community of CompTIA. He also concluded his 24 year career with Ordermakers as the Managing Director and is now the Publisher and Editor-In-Chief of Telepresence and VideoConferencing Insight News.