Meet the CIO Choice 2018 winners who have earned the bragging rights to say they are CIOs’ most preferred brand.
The 6th edition of CIO Choice was a star-studded affair with India’s top ICT business leaders and ICT brands all under one roof at the Red Carpet Night. This year 25 ICT brands were felicitated across 48 categories. There was stiff competition with over 200 companies competing for the CIO Choice recognitions. Take a look below to see who won the top spot!
CIO CHOICE 2018 RECOGNITION; CATEGORY: MANAGED NETWORK SERVICES; WINNER: DIMENSION DATA INDIA PVT LTD (LARGE ENT)
Shailendra Badoni, COO, Dimension Data India Pvt Ltd, receives the recognition trophy from Mayur Danait, CIO, Lupin Ltd, & Monika Phartyal, Head IT, 3M India Ltd.
CIO CHOICE 2018 RECOGNITION; CATEGORY: DATA CENTRE COOLING;
WINNER: VERTIV ENERGY PVT LTD (LARGE ENT)
Raghuveer Singh, Director, Vertiv Energy Pvt Ltd, receives the recognition trophy from Mayur Danait, CIO, Lupin Ltd, & Monika Phartyal, Head IT, 3M India Ltd.
CIO CHOICE 2018 RECOGNITION; CATEGORY: ROBOTIC PROCESS AUTOMATION; WINNER: PERPETUUITI TECHNOSOFT SERVICES PVT LTD (SME)
Abhay Bagde, India Sales Head, Perpetuuiti Technosoft Services Pvt Ltd, receives the recognition trophy from Mayur Danait, CIO, Lupin Ltd, & Monika Phartyal, Head IT, 3M India Ltd.
CIO CHOICE 2018 RECOGNITION; CATEGORY: DESKTOPS; WINNER: DELL EMC (LARGE ENT)
Srihari Palangala, Director & Head of Marketing, Dell EMC, receives the recognition trophy from Mayur Danait, CIO, Lupin Ltd, & Monika Phartyal, Head IT, 3M India Ltd.
CIO CHOICE 2018 RECOGNITION; CATEGORY: IoT; WINNER: VODAFONE INDIA LTD
(LARGE ENT)
Team Vodafone receives the recognition trophy from Pankaj Bhargava, CIO, Pidilite Industries Ltd, & Rahul Mahajan, VP IT, Lodha Group.
CIO CHOICE 2018 RECOGNITION; CATEGORY: DATA CENTRE MANAGED SERVICES; WINNER: NETMAGIC IT SERVICES PVT LTD (LARGE ENT)
Prasenjit Ghosh Roy, SVP & Chief Marketing Officer, Netmagic IT Services Pvt Ltd, receives the recognition trophy from Pankaj Bhargava, CIO, Pidilite Industries Ltd, & Rahul Mahajan, VP IT, Lodha Group.
CIO CHOICE 2018 RECOGNITION; CATEGORY: DATA CENTRE TRANSFORMATION; WINNER: SIFY TECHNOLOGIES LTD (LARGE ENT)
Arvind Saxena, Group Marketing Head & Surajit Chatterjee, CoO West, & Bhavesh Mathur, Head DC Services, Sify Technologies Ltd, receive the recognition trophy from Pankaj Bhargava, CIO, Pidilite Industries Ltd, & Rahul Mahajan, VP IT, Lodha Group.
CIO CHOICE 2018 RECOGNITION; CATEGORY: HYPER CONVERGED INFRASTRUCTURE; WINNER: DELL EMC (LARGE ENT)
Srihari Palangala, Director & Head of Marketing, & Prasanna Ranade, Enterprise Head- West, Dell EMC, receive the recognition trophy from Pankaj Bhargava, CIO, Pidilite Industries Ltd, & Rahul Mahajan, VP IT, Lodha Group.
CIO CHOICE 2018 RECOGNITION; CATEGORY: DOCUMENT SCANNERS;
WINNER: CANON INDIA PVT LTD (LARGE ENT)
Mohammad Imran Siddique, Regional Manager, Enterprise - West Region, Canon India Pvt Ltd, receives the recognition trophy from Pankaj Bhargava, CIO, Pidilite Industries Ltd, & Rahul Mahajan, VP IT, Lodha Group.
CIO CHOICE 2018 RECOGNITION; CATEGORY: DATA CENTRE IT MANAGEMENT; WINNER: VERTIV ENERGY PVT LTD (LARGE ENT)
Smrutiranjan Das, Director, Vertiv Energy Pvt Ltd, receives the recognition trophy from Ajay Bakshi, Sr VP Business Transformation, Aegis Ltd & GS Ravikumar, CIO, Gati Ltd.
CIO CHOICE 2018 RECOGNITION; CATEGORY: DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT; WINNER: DATAMATICS GLOBAL SERVICES LTD (LARGE ENT)
Hitendra Shinde, VP Sales, & Navin Gupta, Global Head, BPO Delivery, Datamatics Global Services Ltd, receive the recognition trophy from Ajay Bakshi, SVP Business Transformation, Aegis Ltd, & GS Ravikumar, CIO, Gati Ltd.
CIO CHOICE 2018 RECOGNITION; CATEGORY: HYBRID CLOUD; WINNER: NETMAGIC IT SERVICES PVT LTD (LARGE ENT)
Prasenjit Ghosh Roy, SVP & Chief Marketing Officer, Netmagic IT Services Pvt Ltd, receives the recognition trophy from Ajay Bakshi, SVP Business Transformation, Aegis Ltd, & GS Ravikumar, CIO, Gati Ltd.
CIO CHOICE 2018 RECOGNITION; CATEGORY: DISPLAY MONITORS;
WINNER: DELL EMC (LARGE ENT)
Srihari Palangala, Director & Head of Marketing, Dell EMC, receive the recognition trophy from Ajay Bakshi, SVP Business Transformation, Aegis Ltd, & GS Ravikumar, CIO, Gati Ltd.
CIO CHOICE 2018 RECOGNITION; CATEGORY: DATA PROTECTION SOLUTIONS; WINNER: SECLORE TECHNOLOGY PVT LTD (SME)
Ajit Pillai, VP Sales – India, Seclore Technology Pvt Ltd, receives the recognition trophy from Ajay Bakshi, SVP Business Transformation, Aegis Ltd, & GS Ravikumar, CIO, Gati Ltd.
CIO CHOICE 2018 RECOGNITION; CATEGORY: TELECOM CARRIER (INTERNATIONAL ACCESS); WINNER: VODAFONE INDIA LTD (LARGE ENT)
Deepak Rampal, GM-Carrier Business, Vodafone Business Services, receives the recognition trophy from Ajay Kumar Meher, SVP, Head IT- Sony Pictures Networks India, & Jai Thomas, Head IT Infra & Operations, Daily Hunt.
CIO CHOICE 2018 RECOGNITION; CATEGORY: MANAGED SECURITY SERVICES; WINNER: DIMENSION DATA INDIA PVT LTD (LARGE ENT)
KN Murali, Director- Solutions, Dimension Data India Pvt Ltd, receives the recognition trophy from Ajay Kumar Meher, SVP, Head IT- Sony Pictures Networks India, & Jai Thomas, Head IT Infra & Operations, Daily Hunt.
CIO CHOICE 2018 RECOGNITION; CATEGORY: LAPTOPS; WINNER: DELL EMC (LARGE ENT)
Prasanna Ranade, Enterprise Head- West, Dell EMC, receives the recognition trophy from Ajay Kumar Meher, SVP, Head IT- Sony Pictures Networks India, & Jai Thomas, Head IT Infra & Operations, Daily Hunt.
CIO CHOICE 2018 RECOGNITION; CATEGORY: BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE; WINNER: DATAMATICS GLOBAL SERVICES LTD (LARGE ENT)
Vikram Kole, VP Sales, & Shashi Bhargava, Global Head, Solutions Group, Datamatics Global Service Ltd, receive the recognition trophy from Ajay Kumar Meher, SVP, Head IT- Sony Pictures Networks India, & Jai Thomas, Head IT Infra & Operations, Daily Hunt.
CIO CHOICE 2018 RECOGNITION; CATEGORY: ENDPOINT COMPRESSION; WINNER: ADSTRINGO SOFTWARE PVT LTD (SME)
Dr. Mohan Chandrasekaran, Founder & CEO, AdStringO Software Pvt Ltd, receives the recognition trophy from Ajay Kumar Meher, SVP, Head IT- Sony Pictures Networks India, & Jai Thomas, Head IT Infra & Operations, Daily Hunt.
CIO CHOICE 2018 RECOGNITION; CATEGORY: ENTERPRISE AI ASSISTANT; WINNER: APPLICATE IT SOLUTIONS PVT LTD (SME)
Ranjeet Kumar, Co-founder & CEO, & Madhusudan Atmakuri, Co-founder & CTO, Applicate IT Solutions Pvt Ltd, receive the recognition trophy from Venkat Iyer, Global CIO, Wockhardt, & Bhavin Purohit, Group CIO, Welspun Group.
CIO CHOICE 2018 RECOGNITION; CATEGORY: ENTERPRISE EMAIL; WINNER: ICEWARP TECHNOLOGIES PVT LTD (SME)
Pramod Sharda, CEO, Anita Kukreja, Head Marketing, Moin Saimoula, Senior Manager Sales West, & Vinod V, Senior Manager Sales South, IceWarp Technologies Pvt Ltd, receive the recognition trophy from Venkat Iyer, Global CIO, Wockhardt, & Bhavin Purohit, Group CIO, Welspun Group.
CIO CHOICE 2018 RECOGNITION; CATEGORY: HOSPITAL INFORMATION SOFTWARE; WINNER: INCARNUS TECHNOLOGIES INDIA PVT LTD (SME)
Seetharam Malur, CEO, & Prabhakar Annaswamy, CTO, Incarnus Technologies India Pvt Ltd, receive the recognition trophy from Venkat Iyer, Global CIO, Wockhardt, & Bhavin Purohit, Group CIO, Welspun Group.
CIO CHOICE 2018 RECOGNITION; CATEGORY: STORAGE - HARDWARE;
WINNER: DELL EMC (LARGE ENT)
Srihari Palanga, Director & Head of Marketing & Communications, & Rupesh Gupta, Regional Head West – GCN, Dell EMC, receive the recognition trophy from Venkat Iyer, Global CIO, Wockhardt, & Bhavin Purohit, Group CIO, Welspun Group.
CIO CHOICE 2018 RECOGNITION; CATEGORY: TELECOM CARRIER (LEASED LINES); WINNER: VODAFONE INDIA LTD (LARGE ENT)
Team Vodafone Business Services receives the recognition trophy from Venkat Iyer, Global CIO, Wockhardt, & Bhavin Purohit, Group CIO, Welspun Group.
CIO CHOICE 2018 RECOGNITION; CATEGORY: INFORMATION SECURITY;
WINNER: ARCON TECHSOLUTIONS PVT LTD (SME)
Anil Bhandari, CEO, Vinod Govindan, SVP Global Sales & Technology, Sunil Dhaka, COO, & Vivek Ranka, CTO, Arcon TechSolutions Pvt Ltd, receive the recognition trophy from Subodh Dubey, Group CIO, Shapoorji Pallonji Group, & Thomson Thomas, SVP Business System Technology, HDFC Standard Life Insurance Co Ltd.
CIO CHOICE 2018 RECOGNITION; CATEGORY: INTEGRATED DATA CENTRE SOLUTION; WINNER: VERTIV ENERGY PVT LTD (LARGE ENT)
Shrirang Deshpande, Country Head, Santosh Kulkarni, Country Manager, & Nitin Gavade, Manager, Vertiv Energy Pvt Ltd, receive the recognition trophy from from Subodh Dubey, Group CIO, Shapoorji Pallonji Group, & Thomson Thomas, SVP Business System Technology, HDFC Standard Life Insurance Co Ltd.
CIO CHOICE 2018 RECOGNITION; CATEGORY: MULTIFUNCTION DEVICE;
WINNER: CANON INDIA PVT LTD (LARGE ENT)
Mohammad Imran Siddique, Regional Manager, Enterprise-West Region, Canon India Pvt Ltd, receives the recognition trophy from Subodh Dubey, Group CIO, Shapoorji Pallonji Group, &Thomson Thomas, SVP Business System Technology, HDFC Standard Life Insurance Co Ltd.
CIO CHOICE 2018 RECOGNITION; CATEGORY: IT OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT; WINNER: SUMMIT IT SOLUTIONS PVT LTD (SME)
Satyen Vyas, CEO, & Vijay Shanker, CTO, Summit IT Solutions Pvt Ltd, receive the recognition trophy from Subodh Dubey, Group CIO, Shapoorji Pallonji Group, & Thomson Thomas, SVP Business System Technology, HDFC Standard Life Insurance Co Ltd.
CIO CHOICE 2018 RECOGNITION; CATEGORY: DATA CENTRE POWER;
WINNER: VERTIV ENERGY PVT LTD (LARGE ENT)
Manish Sawant, Director, Vertiv Energy Pvt Ltd, receives the recognition trophy from Subodh Dubey, Group CIO, Shapoorji Pallonji Group, & Thomson Thomas, SVP Business System Technology, HDFC Standard Life Insurance Co Ltd.
CIO CHOICE 2018 RECOGNITION; CATEGORY: MANAGED DOCUMENT SERVICES; WINNER: CANON INDIA PVT LTD (LARGE ENT)
Mohammad Imran Siddique, Regional Manager Enterprise-West Region, Canon India Pvt Ltd, receives the recognition trophy from Milind Khamkar, Group CIO, Super Max, & Jagdish Belwal, CIO - International, GE Transportation.
CIO CHOICE 2018 RECOGNITION; CATEGORY: MANAGED IT SERVICES;
WINNER: OM SAI CORPORATION (SME)
Anil Tiwari, Director, & Dhanashree Chachad, CMO, Om Sai Corporation, receive the recognition trophy from Milind Khamkar, Group CIO, Super Max, & Jagdish Belwal, CIO International, GE Transportation.
CIO CHOICE 2018 RECOGNITION; CATEGORY: COLOCATION; WINNER: NXTRA DATA LTD (SME)
Vidya K Sagar, Business Head, Nxtra Data Ltd, receives the recognition trophy from Milind Khamkar, Group CIO, Super Max, & Jagdish Belwal, CIO International, GE Transportation.
CIO CHOICE 2018 RECOGNITION; CATEGORY: COMMUNITY CLOUD;
WINNER: CTRLS DATACENTERS LTD (LARGE ENT)
Mayur Gautam, Regional Leader-Enterprise Sales, Priya Patil, Regional Leader-Enterprise Sales, Girish Solanki, AVP Alliance Sales, & Virendra Singh, Senior Manager Sales, CtrlS Datacenters Ltd, receive the recognition trophy from Milind Khamkar, Group CIO, Super Max, & Jagdish Belwal, CIO International, GE Transportation.
CIO CHOICE 2018 RECOGNITION; CATEGORY: CLOUD BACKUP SERVICES;
WINNER: ACE DATA DEVICES PVT LTD (SME)
Neeraj Mediratta, MD & CEO, & Anuj Mediratta, Founder & Director Technology, Ace Data Devices Pvt Ltd, receive the recognition trophy from Milind Khamkar, Group CIO, Super Max, & Jagdish Belwal, CIO International, GE Transportation.
CIO CHOICE 2018 RECOGNITION; CATEGORY: MULTI CLOUD; WINNER: NETMAGIC IT SERVICES PVT LTD (LARGE ENT)
Nitin Mishra, SVP & Chief Product Officer, Prasenjit Roy, SVP & Chief Marketing Officer, & Saandeep V Dandekarr, Chief Procurement Officer, Netmagic IT Services Pvt Ltd, receive the recognition trophy from Shailesh Joshi, CIO, Birla Estate, and Sanjay Narkar, CTO, IDFC Bank.
CIO CHOICE 2018 RECOGNITION; CATEGORY: NETWORK SECURITY;
WINNER: SOPHOS TECHNOLOGIES PVT LTD (LARGE ENT)
Shamshad Ahmed, Director - ESG Business (SAARC), & Ashish Sud, Head-West Zone, Sophos Technologies Pvt Ltd, receive the recognition trophy from Shailesh Joshi, CIO, Birla Estate, & Sanjay Narkar, CTO, IDFC Bank.
CIO CHOICE 2018 RECOGNITION; CATEGORY: NETWORK TRANSFORMATION;
WINNER: SIFY TECHNOLOGIES LTD (LARGE ENT)
Arvind Saxena, Group Marketing Head, & Surajit Chatterjee, CoO West, & Arif Khan, Regional Head-Telecom Services, Sify Technologies Ltd, receive the recognition trophy from Shailesh Joshi, CIO, Birla Estate, & Sanjay Narkar, CTO, IDFC Bank.
CIO CHOICE 2018 RECOGNITION; CATEGORY: NETWORKING - ACTIVE;
WINNER: DELL EMC (LARGE ENT)
Rupesh Gupta, Regional Head-West GCN, Dell EMC, receives the recognition trophy from Shailesh Joshi, CIO, Birla Estate, & Sanjay Narkar, CTO, IDFC Bank.
CIO CHOICE 2018 RECOGNITION; CATEGORY: PUBLIC CLOUD; WINNER: ESDS SOFTWARE SOLUTION PVT LTD (SME)
Sanjeev Kumar, National Sales Head, & Dr Rajeev Papneja, EVP & COO, ESDS Software Solution Pvt Ltd, receive the recognition trophy from Shailesh Joshi, CIO, Birla Estate, & Sanjay Narkar, CTO, IDFC Bank.
CIO CHOICE 2018 RECOGNITION; CATEGORY: BUSINESS SERVICE CONTINUITY & TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT; WINNER: PERPETUUITI TECHNOSOFT SERVICES PVT LTD (SME)
Abhay Bagde, India Sales Head, & Amol Bisarya, Manager Sales, Perpetuuiti Technosoft Services Pvt Ltd, receive the recognition trophy from V Sendil Kumar, VP IT, Shriram Value Service Ltd, & KRC Murty, VP - Chief Technology Office, Deutsche Bank.
CIO CHOICE 2018 RECOGNITION; CATEGORY: SERVERS; WINNER: DELL EMC (LARGE ENT)
Rupesh Gupta, Regional Head West-GCN, Dell EMC, receives the recognition trophy from V Sendil Kumar, VP IT, Shriram Value Service Ltd, & KRC Murty, VP - Chief Technology Office, Deutsche Bank.
CIO CHOICE 2018 RECOGNITION; CATEGORY: CLOUD SECURITY;
WINNER: INSTASAFE TECHNOLOGIES PVT LTD (SME)
Sandip Kumar Panda, CEO & Co-founder, InstaSafe Technologies Pvt Ltd, receives the recognition trophy from V Sendil Kumar, VP IT, Shriram Value Service Ltd, & KRC Murty, VP - Chief Technology Office, Deutsche Bank.
CIO CHOICE 2018 RECOGNITION; CATEGORY: SYSTEM INTEGRATOR;
WINNER: DIMENSION DATA INDIA PVT LTD (LARGE ENT)
Raghuveer HR, Director Sales, Dimension Data India Pvt Ltd, receives the recognition trophy from V Sendil Kumar, VP IT, Shriram Value Service Ltd, & KRC Murty, VP - Chief Technology Office, Deutsche Bank.
CIO CHOICE 2018 RECOGNITION; CATEGORY: BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH & CONSULTING; WINNER: FORRESTER RESEARCH INDIA PVT LTD (SME)
Chintan Shah, Account Manager – Western Region, Forrester Research India Pvt Ltd, receives the recognition trophy from V Sendil Kumar, VP IT, Shriram Value Service Ltd, & KRC Murty, VP - Chief Technology Office, Deutsche Bank.
CIO CHOICE 2018 RECOGNITION; CATEGORY: SECONDARY SALES DATA ANALYSIS; WINNER: NOWAPPS TECHNOLOGIES PVT LTD (SME)
Nitin Shankar, COO, NowApps Technologies Pvt Ltd, receives the recognition trophy from Joydeep Dutta, Executive Director & Group CTO, Central Depository Services India Ltd, & Veneeth Purushotaman, CIO, Fortis Healthcare.
CIO CHOICE 2018 RECOGNITION; CATEGORY: TELECOM CARRIER (MOBILE ACCESS); WINNER: VODAFONE INDIA LTD (LARGE ENT)
Anil Philip, SVP Enterprise Product, & Farhana Haque, VP IoT Business, Vodafone Business Services, receive the recognition trophy from Joydeep Dutta, Executive Director & Group CTO, Central Depository Services India Ltd, & Veneeth Purushotaman, CIO, Fortis Healthcare.
