CNME once again honoured the region’s top networking talents from both vendors and end-users at the annual Network World Middle East (NWME) Awards.
Celebrating its ninth edition, this year’s NWME Awards was held last night at the Habtoor Grand Resort and Spa, Dubai.
Having established itself as the major event that recognises and celebrates networking excellence the event placed the spotlight on organisations who have implemented technology innovations that produced measurable results in enabling the success of their businesses.
This year, the CNME team has enlisted a selection of proven technology experts as its judging panel, who know just what it means to deliver excellence as an end-user.
Kumar Prasoon, CIO of Al Safeer Group, has been a proven regional expert in the retail industry, and has worked to enable the firm’s networks to accommodate a sophisticated applications suite that is helping the firm gain a unique understanding of its customers.
Aliasgar Bohari, director of IT at Zulekha Hospitals, has been tasked with delivering a network that can help to support the needs of patients in life-or-death situations, while Ashith Piriyattiath has consistenty proven himself to be a regional digital leader as IT director at Al Masah Capital.
Here’s the full list of winners:
Vendor awards
| Enterprise Collaboration Vendor of the Year | Gigamon |
| Network Management & Monitoring Vendor of the Year | ManageEngine |
| Wireless Vendor of the Year | Bits Secure I.T Infrastructure LLC |
| Cabling Vendor of the Year | Nexans |
| Network Security Vendor of the Year | Infoblox |
| Network Training Provider of the Year | Cisco |
| Data Centre Networking Vendor of the Year | Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company |
| Network Services Provider of the Year | Juniper Networks |
| Surveillance System Provider of the Year | Norden Communications |
| Hyperconverged Infrastructure Vendor of the Year | Dell EMC |
| Network Visibility Provider of the Year | Fortinet |
| Networking VAD of the Year | FVC |
| Networking Vendor of the Year | Huawei |
End-user awards:
| Collaboration Project of the Year | Abu Dhabi Ports |
| Network Cabling Project of the Year | Bahrain Institute of Banking and Finance |
| Data Centre Project of the Year | Gulftainer Company Ltd |
| Virtualisation Project of the Year | AM Bank |
| Network Security Project of the Year | RAKBANK |
| Networking Project of the Year – Private | Gulftainer Company Ltd |
| Storage Project of the Year | Abu Dhabi Ports |
| Network Transformation of the Year | Dubai Municipality |
| Best Network Experience of the Year | Dubai World Trade Centre |
