2012 Introduction and Welcome
Welcome to the 2012 information technology industry's premier excellence awards program honoring achievements in every facet of the IT industry. There is no other industry-wide recognitions program like this. This 7th annual industry and peers program now has the following major sections making this one of the most and only complete IT recognitions and achievements award program in the world:
The previous year's 2011 Hot Companies and Best Products Awards program held in Las Vegas was a tremendous success. Some of the world's largest to the smallest start-up companies won the Hot Companies and Best Products Awards. Here's the complete list of winners. Browse photographs of the awards presentations or watch video clips of the awards presentation.
What's New and Different For The 2012 Awards:
- Guaranteed 1:1 Executive Video Interviews - Exclusive face time with our executive editors
- Pitch Your Product - No PowerPoint decks, no product demos. Just you, a pitch and two minutes of undivided attention from a world-class audience
- Nomination Categories that cover every facet of the security industry
- Sponsorship opportunities - for higher visibility as an industry player
- Heighten Awareness through print and web - integrated communications to spread the message
- Many More New categories - Partners Programs Categories, and Product Management and Engineering Categories.
- PR's Role In the Security Industry - External PR agencies play a vital role in the IT industry. A section totally dedicated to PR agencies that will receive industry recognition through the PR and Marketing Categories.
Timelines of Events:
- December 9, 2011 - First early-bird entry deadline
- February 3, 2012 - Second early-bird deadline
- March 2, 2012 - Final Entry Deadline
- March 9, 2012 - Last Day Entries will be accepted (with late fees)
- March 12, 2012 - Finalists Announced
- May 8, 2012 - 7th Annual Awards Banquet Dinner, Las Vegas
Don't hesitate to contact us directly with your questions about how to prepare and submit entries to the 7th Annual 2012 Hot Companies and Best Products Awards. First spend some time to learn about the categories in each section as there may be several categories in which you may be able to nominate to highlight your achievements.
Sincerely,
Rake Narang, editor-in-chief, Consumer Products Guide
rake [@] consumerproductsguide [dot] com
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“The industry and peer award recognition of Gale Technologies by Consumer Products Guide, along with our 100-plus live cloud installations worldwide, reiterates our role as a trusted leader in the real-world cloud computing market. We were among excellent company with our fellow finalists, and we view this award as another illustration of how powerful our GaleForce technology platform has become and the impact it has had on the cloud industry in successfully helping organizations gain the benefits of the cloud.”
Nariman Teymourian, Chief Executive Officer of Gale Technologies |
"This recognition from Consumer Products Guide is a great honor and reinforces our commitment to providing outstanding privileged identity management and security management solutions to the global enterprise IT community. We’re proud to be acknowledged for the remarkable business expansion we experienced in 2010, much of which stemmed from new sales of our Enterprise Random Password Manager™ (ERPM) solution to customers in all vertical markets throughout the world.”
Philip Lieberman, President and CEO of Lieberman Software |
"It is an honor to be recognized for both 'Executive of the Year' and best 'Social Media and Entertainment, Networking or Collaboration Solution' by Consumer Products Guide. In four short years, we have become the global leader in social innovation software for the enterprise. Spigit provides the tools for interaction, allowing social forces to transform crowd chatter into a cohesive community that delivers results. Social innovation is a new paradigm for finding unexpected business value. Instead of building out centralized innovation teams, you make use of the edge: your employees and customers."
Paul Pluschkell, CEO and Founder, Spigit |
"iCIMS is thrilled to be recognized by the Consumer Products Guide as a Best Products and Services Award Winner within the Solutions for Retail, Small Business, SOHO, Consumers category. Further solidifying our space within this industry, iCIMS' capabilities provide retail organizations with solutions that support their unique challenges and daily needs for long term success. As we continue to further define our portfolio of products and services, we look forward to welcoming additional retail organizations to the iCIMS family."
Susan Vitale, Chief Strategic Officer, iCIMS |
“We are extremely gratified to be selected by Consumer Products Guide for the esteemed industry recognition of the AQ1402. This device has received great acclaim from our customers, the industry’s best, and is moving into volume implementation. The award further emphasizes our position as a leader, successfully solving the challenges of performance, footprint, power efficiency and ease of use in today’s data centers and cloud computing connectivity environments.”
Aquantia CEO Faraj Aalaei |
“We are honored that our industry peers recognized the leadership and success that Pete brought to Abiquo by naming him Entrepreneur of the Year, and to be selected as a 2011 Hot Company. We have seen real momentum around our company and product offerings, and these awards validate that we’re addressing a real enterprise need within the cloud computing community.”
Wendy Perilli, Vice President, Global Marketing for Abiquo
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“This esteemed industry recognition of Scrutinizer NetFlow and sFlow Analyzer by Consumer Products Guide is the IT industry’s greatest honor. This further validates our position as a company poised to successfully overcome the network reliability and performance issues faced by organizations today.”
Scrutinizer Product Manager, Michael Patterson |
“We are extremely pleased to be named a Hot Company by Consumer Products Guide this year. This award validates our dedication to providing an innovative technology that allows enterprises and service providers to easily build, deploy and manage public or private cloud environments at a cost-effective price.”
Peder Ulander, CMO at Cloud.com. |
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