Around 100 top managers met at the "Service Provider Summit" in Frankfurt on August 27 and 28 - naturally in accordance with the current security requirements. Under the motto "THE NEXT LEVEL OF SERVICE PROVIDING.", the participants from the cloud and managed services industry discussed how to make their business models secure and sustainable. The focus was particularly on how they are accompanying their customers on the path to the future with DevOps and agile IT and cooperating with hyperscalers.
Keynotes on the edge, cloud-native and Kubernetes as well as cyber threats and security services provided insights into how the requirements of service providers are changing more and more.
The think tanks, roundtables and the "Under pressure - the crisis as an opportunity" format were particularly popular with participants. Here, Patrick Menne (ITgration) and Daniel Hagemeier (Dogado) reported on their most difficult challenges. During the panel discussion, managing directors Klaus Bürg (amazon Web Services) and Thorsten Herrmann (Microsoft) answered Daniel Hagemeier's questions on how they are redefining cloud partnerships as hyperscalers. In addition, the accompanying exhibition with 18 top providers invited participants to one-on-one meetings for an intensive exchange of experiences and opinions.
The highlight of the summit was the presentation of the "Service Provider Awards 2020". The winners were determined in a large reader survey in cooperation with the IT portals of Vogel IT-Medien.
The winners of the "Service Provider Awards" 2020 at a glance:
Category "Cloud Hosting"
Platinum: IONOS
Gold: Dogado
Silver: GoDaddy
Category "Application Hosting"
Platinum: QualityHosting
Gold: Mittwald CM Service
Silver: DomainFactory
Category "Cloud Server"
Platinum: Hetzner Online
Gold: netcup
Silver: Host Europe
Category "Colocation / Data center"
Platinum: TERRA CLOUD
Gold: Heidelberg iT
Silver: SpaceNet
Category "Colocation / Data Center XXL"
Platinum: datacenter.de / Noris Network
Gold: Equinix
Silver: Interxion
Managed Security" category
Platinum: T-Systems
Gold: Atos
Silver: NTT
Category "Managed Service Provider"
Platinum: Bechtle
Gold: DATAGROUP
Silver: All for One
Category "Managed Public Cloud Provider"
Platinum: Arvato Systems
Gold: Rackspace
Silver: Computacenter
Category "Cloud Service Provider"
Platinum: Telekom Germany
Gold: IBM Cloud
Silver: QSC
Category "Hyperscaler"
Platinum: Microsoft Azure
Gold: Amazon Web Service
Silver: Google Cloud Platform
You can also find the list of winners including photos here: https://www.sp-summit.de/award.html
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