Once again, we’re excited to announce the finalists for the 2016 Best of Interop awards. The awards recognize groundbreaking products and services as well as innovative startups from among the ranks of Interop exhibitors.
These finalists are helping to advance the IT industry with products and services that solve new problems, or find better, faster, and cheaper ways to deal with the problems we already have. Finalists were selected based on many factors, including the degree to which the product advances the state of the art, the product’s ability to solve a problem or provide value, and the “wow” factor -- that is, the presence of a feature or function that’s unique, surprising, or simply ingenious.
The Interop team received dozens of submissions in 10 categories, including networking, security, mobility, cloud computing, and SDN. Our Best of Interop judges, who include IT executives and practitioners, analysts, and award-winning technology editors, gave their time and expertise to wade through all the submissions and narrow them down to this list.
Judges will get in-depth briefings and demos from the finalists before choosing their final picks and selecting the best of the best – the Grand Award. Winners will be revealed on the Expo floor on Wednesday, May 4, at 12:00 noon in the Interop Theater. Attendees can see the finalists and winners on the Expo Floor, and are invited to stop by the awards ceremony to celebrate with the winners.
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