In the three categories "Application Services", "Infrastructure Services" and "Platform Services", the submitted solutions and service offerings were judged on the basis of concept, implementation and market opportunities. After representatives of the top nominees had presented their offerings to the Hosting & Service Provider Summit audience and the jury in a short presentation, the winners were announced on Friday, May 22, 2015.



This year, more than 30 applications reached the jury, consisting of Daniel Hagemeier (Advisor, Deutsche Börse Cloud Exchange), Gerd J. Simon (Senior Consultant, Digital Hub FrankfurtRheinMain e.V.), Werner Nieberle (Managing Director, Vogel IT-Medien) and Dr. Carlo Velten (Managing Director, Crisp Research).



The winners of the Hosting & Service Provider Awards 2015:

Application Services

1. PKN Datenkommunikations GmbH with "realWorkplace - The workplace of the future"

2. ASCAMSO GmbH with "ASCAMSO Rating Services"



Infrastructure Services

1. STRATO AG with "STRATO Business Solutions"

2. ProfitBricks GmbH with "ProfitBricks - The IaaS Company"

3. 1&1 Internet AG with "1&1 Cloud Server"



Platform Services

1. ANEXIA Internetdienstleistungs GmbH with "ANEXIA World Wide Cloud"

2. GreenBee Solutions GmbH with "Dynamic Database Plaftorm for Oracle - DynDB"

3. Vision Solutions GmbH with "Double-Take CLOUD MIGRATION CENTER and Double-Take MOVE/AVAILABILITY"



Further information can be found at www.hspsummit.de/award/



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